PREPARATIONS are hotting up for Saturday's Horsham town centre English Festival, combining traditional dance and music with a medieval produce market, a hog roast from mid-day, historical exhibitions, children's entertainments and promotions around the town.
The action kicks off with the Broadwood Morris leading a procession from the Shelley Fountain in the Bishopric to the Carfax Bandstand at 10.30am followed by dancing and music, stalls and entertainments around the town continuing through the after
noon.
Programmes for the event have been widely distributed and copies are downloadable in pdf format from the festival website www.englishfestival.co.uk
Several local businesses are offering free samples of English produce including, M&S, The AGA Shop and the Bear Public House. The Lynd Cross is running a one day English Beer festival featuring local breweries and Thorntons, Swan Walk have a promotion featuring English Toffee on production of an event programme.
Beales Department Store and its partners have assembled a massive competition with a single prize for one couple valued at over £1,000. Full details are given in the event programme with entries having to be handed in to special competition boxes in store on May 10/11. Beales is located in Horsham's Forum.
A further incentive for returning to Horsham is Deep Blue's Fish and Chips offer, available mid-week in the two weeks following the Festival, again details in-programme
Displays and activities for all the family include:
Ye Olde Local Produce Market – Saturday's market goes all medieval with additional stalls featuring local brewers and cider makers, a hogroast and traditional cockles and whelks. The Carfax stocks may also be brought into use, so beware!
A Juggling Workshop – a chance for everyone to try their hand at developing some 'circus skills' under the expert eye of Abby from Pelotas Productions.
For children of all ages there will be a circus skills workshop and there will be a Kidz Stuff magical experience and balloon making.
'Not many people know that' is the title of a new fun and free to enter trail around Horsham Museum that explores fascinating facts and artefacts that bring the Englishness of Horsham's past to life - you could even win an 'Old Horsham' Gift Set.
Also in the museum that that day, there is a chance to meet the man who sculpts for Wedgewood and Steyning Camera Club are running a 'Digital Surgery' for those that would like to improve their own picture taking.
Horsham's most famous (forgotten) son is also celebrated in the Museum exhibition, 'Percy Bysshe Shelley, Family and Friends is a rare chance to see unique objects relating to our internationally renowned poet.
Who would you like to see pictured in the Town Stocks? A donation to British Heart Foundation will secure an opportunity for visitors to photograph their friends and family.
Check the special website www.englishfestival.co.uk for more details as they are confirmed.
This event is organised by Town Centres Management, Horsham District Council in partnership with Broadwood Morris, Beales Department Store, Marks & Spencer and Deep Blue Fish & Chips.
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