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 loads of great entertainment, stalls, and more to bring you this year – all we ask is that people make a 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, and enjoy the sounds.
African drum and dance workshops with Amberliegh, a community-based charity dedicated to empowering children and young people through creative arts and cultural programmes.
They’ll host drum workshops from 12:30pm culminating in a fantastic, high-energy drum and dance show, followed by a simply fantastic aerial performance at 1:45pm we think you’ll love.
On-stage at the N19 bar look forward to the welcome return of Hell’s Bees – as seen at the Big Buzz! Hell’s Bees promise a rich mix of pop, soul, and Americana: expect cult cuts, familiar hits, and long-lost classics.
Telling stories
There is more. During the day you’ll find our super, amazing, mesmerising storyteller, Emily from Dragonfly Tales – you really, really must listen to her incredible storytelling podcast, we think you – and your kids – will love it. She’ll tell stories during the show.
Stilts circus, and dance
Yes, our wonderful stilt walker is back to walk tall among us. She’s bought along her friend, Jemma, the amazing lollipop aerialist, one of the best performers in the country.
Expect gravity-defying acrobatics, elegant aerial performances and a whole lot of fun, alongside our vibrant stilt walker who’ll be roaming the event, meeting guests, posing for photos and spreading smiles wherever they go. We can’t wait to be back and help make this summer’s celebrations even bigger and better!
You can also look forward to fantastic clowning during the day with Nutmeg the clown and our wonderful Nick Putz racing around the show to share fab, fun, clown-vibes!
We know you wanted more, and we have more – you can also get into wonderful dance with Dance Stables.
Sports and games with Sports School.
Punch & Judy – there will be three performances during the day.
Coconut Shy – pay your money, win a prize, and buy one of our classic N4 mugs! You’ll find lots of other classic and fairground games across the site.
and a Bouncy Castle – the Wray Crescent festival always has a bouncy castle your kids can enjoy, so don’t miss out.
Also featuring
Food
You want to eat? We know you do, and we’ve got you covered, we’re offering delicious Vegan and West Indian foods from Pickle Pockle and Masters Home Touch and fabulous coffee from Antonio.
Want to go shopping?
Be ready to explore out splendid collection of lovely gift stalls including fabulous art, crafts, honey, aromatherapy and much, much, more from local makers and artisans. There are so many unique items, we think you’ll want them all, and if the whole event simply gets too much for you there’s even a meditation zone!
You want more? We’ve got even more – look out for random live acoustic performances from our very own Ukulele Orchestra and fabulous Ceilidh band, The Occasionals.
Win Big in our Fantastic Raffle
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 also have a super £50 voucher from brilliant Crouch End baker, Dunns.
We’re so grateful to all the local businesses who help keep our event alive with their raffle prizes. Their contribution can’t be underestimated, as with your donations and their contributions the raffle quite literally keeps the festival going. It’s so, so nice to think that our local businesses are ready to step up support our local event. We 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. Tollington’s neighbourhood safety team will also be there and can register your bike for extra security.
We welcome Bobby Bubbles once again, 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 other council teams..
We’ll be hosting lots of community groups, including people from Manor Gardens, pensioner’s forum and other local parks.
We have even more great entertainers we can’t wait to tell you about – we seriously cannot wait.
So, do 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, 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
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