Elder Stubbs
Festival
Promoting
Mental Health Awareness - Bringing
People Together and Creating a Community
The
Elder Stubbs Festival is a highlight of the Cowley
calendar, bringing together allotment holders, members of the Elder
Stubbs Garden Group, artists, musicians craftspeople and the public at
large from all over the local area in a celebration of our work and
talents.
Two
stages allow for musical and poetic expression, and many stalls
throughout the site represent local
organisations involved in social and environmental work. Fresh
vegetables, plants and homemade jams and pickles are available if you
get there fast enough, and refreshments are also sold on site.
Highlights
of the 2004 festival included the exceptionally cute piglets in the
woods, who
attracted a large following among the under-fives but also a
significant one among our older guests, a gurning contest, fresh, sweet
and melting greengages on the ESGG stall, and the auctioning of the
winning vegetables from the Vegetable Show. Elder Stubbs Garden Group
proudly carried off the Best in Show prize for five remarkable yellow
carrots.
Huw Lloyd-Langton (formerly of Hawkwind) kindly donated his time again
on the main stage, and Some Dogs made the trek, over sized cowboy hats
and all, down from London to wrap up the day with some very loud
Country Punk.
The Elder Stubbs Festival began as a small event (we have 2000+
visitors each year now) thirteen years ago as a joint venture between
Elder Stubbs and RESTORE as an attempt to generate community support
for our projects. This proved a great success, and the large amounts of
publicity generated have meant it has become a fixture in local life,
raising money for RESTORE and the profile of both organisations. There
is now strong competition to play on both stages!
If you would like to get involved in this year's festival, please email
ESGG at elder.stubbs@restore.org.uk