Celebrate festival – Getting involved

Hello All 

Thanks in advance 

Also – if anyone is interested in hosting a community stall to promote your local group or pay a small fee to run a stall selling craft items etc – let me know and I’ll pass your details on to Lotte, the coordinator. 

Chris 

Link to the Celebrate Report 2022

CELEBRATE FESTIVAL REPORT 2022 (1)

Scroll down further for the history of Celebrate…

The Celebrate festival date is getting closer! Here’s a preview of our poster – and watch this space for details of some of the amazing festival attractions and performance coming up to Celebrate 25 years!

Celebrate Life on 11th June 2022 from 12-6pm in Manley Park!

The theme this year will be ‘Celebrate Life’ at our community event for everyone – older people, younger people and everyone in between!

Live music and performance, displays, arts and crafts, health & wellbeing, age-friendly, stalls, workshops, information, local organisations, food and drink – and so much more!

Contact celebratewhalleyrange@gmail.com to get involved 

The aims of the group are to:-

– Celebrate the talent, diversity and resources of Whalley Range

– Promote a positive image of the area and improve the quality of life

– Encourage participation of the different communities within the area,

– Work in an anti-discriminatory and inclusive way (i.e. be low cost and barrier free).

The event is held in partnership between Whalley Range Youth Opportunities Association and the Whalley Range Community Forum.

We are committed to working with  everyone in the community – especially newly established groups who have been supported to develop by the Forum and that all groups are represented to celebrate our diversity and showcase our local talent, building and maintaining links across the community.

We strive to challenge any negative perceptions people may have with regard to Whalley Range by encouraging active cross cultural community involvement in our age-friendly festival events, workshops and activities,strengthening community cohesion and encouraging participation from residents from all of the diverse cultures that exist within our ward.

A consultation was circulated about Celebrate: some of the responses are below.

Q1: How does the Celebrate Festival bring the Whalley Range community together?

Q2: Why is an event that brings members of a very diverse community together important?

• An event which caters for all ages, young, old and in-between! One that has activities that are attractive to a wide range of cultures and interest groups.
• Something for everybody. One of the highlights of the Whalley Range year.
• Whalley Range has a diverse society, lots of religions and cultures and Celebrate Festival reflects this.
• it brings rich, poor, middle-class, working-class, young and old together and those from other ethnic minorities besides English.
• This is an opportunity for the vast number of small voluntary and community groups to showcase what they are involved in and promote their activities.
• It a chance for neighbours to get together in an informal way. With so many people leading busy lives, it really wonderful to see everyone from across the community in the same place enjoying the activities, information sharing and each other company.
• Community cohesion and integration must be encouraged to avoid people feeling isolated, abandoned and rejected. Events like this promote community cohesion.
• In diverse communities like Whalley Range it is often not the case that people from the diverse range all get along. Often the different groups are isolated from each other and never really mix. Events like this are a good way to get people from the wide range of groups to talk to each other and share commonalities as well as celebrate difference.
• It inclusive, everyone has a chance to get involved and it a chance to participate in free workshops
• Because we are all human beings and Celebrate brings human beings regardless of their shape or colour together to have fun and learn. In full: www.whalleyrange.org/communityforum/celebrate-survey-what-did-people-say-about-the-festival/

Celebrate is an ideal platform for local community groups to host a stall to promote themselves and get people involved in having a say in their community

Celebrate Report 2011

Celebrate_Report 2012_CR

Celebrate_Report 2013FINAL

Celebrate_Festival_Report 2015

http://wryoa.org/category/celebrate/

https://www.facebook.com/pg/CelebrateFestivalWhalleyRange/about/?ref=page_internal

Read the latest Celebrate Report from 2018 here:

 CELEBRATE REPORT 2018 FINAL SMALL (1)

The Celebrate Festival 2018

Celebrate 2018 in pictures!

Photos and videos from Celebrate 2019…

Celebrate – the annual Whalley Range volunteer-led community festival

Read the 2019 Celebrate Report by Festival Coordinator Sam Sterkin here:

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Some photos of Celebrate 2019 by Anthony Morris

Celebrate 2018 in pictures!

Celebrate Festival Photos 2017

Photographs from our volunteer photographers who captured the fantastic atmosphere of the 20th Whalley Range Celebrate festival. Our theme this year: The Heart of Whalley Range. Photographs from the New Rose Garden Photographs from Anthony MorrisRead More…

A short video capture and photos of the Whalley Range Celebrate Festival by Andrew Thompson

Filmed by Andrew Thompson Celebrate 2017 snapshot¦Read More…