Announcing: Wray Crescent Festival, July 25
We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Wray Crescent Festival in Wray Crescent Park on July 25. The fun start at noon and ends at 6pm, and we’ve got even more great entertainment, stalls, and more to bring you this year – all we ask is that everyone make a small donation to help pay for it all!
Check back here regularly to learn more as we’ll be sharing fresh information about acts, diversions, and entertainment almost every day before the event takes place.
What you can look forward to
Live at the N19 Stage and Bar: Brilliant local musicians and a chance to buy a drink to enjoy while the kids race around the festival. Sit down, chill out, relax and enjoy the sounds.
African drum and dance workshops with Amberleigh.
Storytelling with the amazing Emily from Dragonfly Tales – you really, really must listen to her incredible storytelling podcast, we think you – and your kids – will love it.
Stilts and circus performances.
Dance with Dance Stables.
Sports and games with Sports School.
Punch & Judy.
Coconut Shy.
and a Bouncy Castle.
Also featuring
Food
West Indian, Vegan and Spanish foods from Pickle Pockle, Masters Home, and Warm Regards.
Fabulous coffee from Antonio.
Loads of lovely gift stalls including fabulous art, crafts, honey and much, much more from local makers and artists. There are so many unique items, we think you’ll want them all.
WIN FANTASTIC PRIZES
We’re thrilled that Pretty Shiny Shop and so many local traders are once again supporting us with the truly amazing Trader’s Raffle, with so many awesome prizes up for grabs.
We’re also thrilled that our local football team has donated an incredibly collectible used Arsenal training kit as worn by Riccardo Calafiori (33), which fans will have a chance to win in our raffle.
We’re so grateful to all the local businesses who help with raffle prizes. The raffle quite literally keeps the festival going, and it’s nice to think that our local businesses quite literally support our local events. We just can’t thank them all enough.
Thanks again to everyone who contributed prizes last year, including, Common Ground, Osteria Tufo, Pretty Shiny Shop, Tollington’s, F45, Bud Flowers, Mento Flowers and Coffee, HIDEN, Eva, Top Secret Comedy Club, Butlers, Sadlers Wells, Hello Yoga Studio, Fair-Well, N4 Coffee Fruit, Sandscape Kids Play & Cafe, Waggy Den, Ivory Boutique, Finsbury Bites, Oak N4, Astral Eternal, Clapton Craft, Deli at 80, Stephen Alexander, FS8 Finsbury Park and The Front Room.
You can only get tickets to win this year’s fantastic prices at the festival on the day. Winners will be announced at about 5pm.
It’s quite a raffle – but we’re not done yet…
We have even more to tell you about
But that’s not all – we have so much more.
We have amazing face painting from the hardest-working facial creatives we know.
The wonderful people from Cycle Islington will be there with Doctor Bike who will help you fix, maintain, and safely ride your bike.
We welcome Bobby Bubbles who will delight us all with his amazing bubble performances.
Find out more about the local area with the Wray Crescent History Exhibition
Want more? Yes, there’s even more
Islington’s Income Maximisation Team will be on site to help you with your questions, along with many other council teams from housing, social care, and neighbourhood safety departments.
We’ll be hosting lots of community groups, including people from Manor Gardens and other local parks.
We have even more great entertainers we can’t wait to tell you about – we seriously cannot wait.
So, please make space in your diaries to visit this year’s festival, made for you by volunteers from the Friends of Wray Crescent. Every year we try to make the festival better and better, but we depend on your donations to make it happen.
Please, please, dig deep and donate to help pay for the event.
Please, please also help promote the festival- share this webpage with your friends, or make use of some of the images below.
And please, if you’d like to entertain us all, host a stall, help distribute leaflets or just help out on the day, do get in touch – we need all the help we can get!
We can’t wait to see you at the show on July 25
With Love
Friends of Wray Crescent
Here’s the poster:
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