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Farsley Community Festival 2009: Monkey business on the cards

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Published Date: 22 June 2009
Leave your bananas in the fruit dish if you're planning to enjoy Farsley Community Festival 2009 or you might get unwanted attention from a bunch inquisitive gorillas!
Expect plenty of monkey business as Creature Features release their mountain gorillas on an unsuspecting public.

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The Festival is being held on Hainsworth Park on Saturday, July 4, from 1pm until 5pm.

Don't tell the gorillas but there will also be 700 free banana splits provided by local church groups to anyone not wearing a gorilla suit!

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You might also find yourself bottle-feeding cauliflowers with the help of the Vegetable Nannies, eating popcorn in the world's smallest cinema or climbing aboard the double-decker bus karaoke machine.

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This year Festival organisers, award-winning Farsley Youth Development Project, have joined forces with I Love West Leeds Festival to catapult the celebrations to another level.

Other attractions will include:

PLUNGE BOOM PRESENT 'VEGETABLE NANNIES' - wheeling an ancient Victorian pram laden with a prized collection of vegetables, the Nannies are out for the day, showing off their allotment cherubs and telling many a tale, like every proud parent would. Audiences are invited to befriend, cuddle, feed and comfort all manner of vegetable matter. Come along and meet Magnus the downhill-racing watermelon, Jessica the award-winning sweet potato beauty queen and David, the talented little marrow whose ambition is to become a stage actor.

FAIRPLAY COMEDY – 'RAMBLING ON' – If life is a journey, then these characters are just passing through. Carrying rucksacks that swing open to reveal small puppet sets and many other surprises, our wanderers will amuse all with the general buffoonery of being lost, overloaded and without a clue and then amaze and enthral with their innovative and unexpected puppetry, physical theatre and storytelling. They have a map, but it doesn't make much sense. They are trying to get somewhere important, but they are not entirely sure where that is. Along the way, however, they have seen some incredibly tall tales to tell and tricks to show...

SHEDOPOLIS - Explore 15 quirky garden sheds which have each been given a make-over by local artists. Look out for the smallest cinema in the world (room for two!); the miniature disco shed, the print-making shed, story-telling shed, colour-by-numbers shed; and the Pyramid of Arts shed decorated by adults with learning difficulties.

TEEPEE WORLD - Enter Teepee world and immerse yourself in a range of activities including circus skills and drum workshops, face-painting, arts and crafts. Make your own hanging basket in the allotment teepee or experience the perfection of the pamper tent - all organized by the Farsley Youth Development Project and involving members of the local community and local schools.

YURTS – no not some term of abuse (as in 'geraway with you, yer great yurt') but two rather beautiful portable, nomadic tents which will reveal a host of of unexpected surprises. Step into the Music Yurt for a rolling programme of live local music or relax in the Tea Dance Yurt with your hostesses with the mostest, Angie and Donna.

Other events include street theatre, a camper van radio station run by the young people of Farsley, giant inflatables, food, facepainting, music, loads of games and sports, and the return of Farsley's famous beach resort complete with a beach, Tiki Bar and full sized boat.

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  • Last Updated: 23 July 2009 11:31 AM
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  • Location: Leeds
 
 
 


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