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Swusd wide
Swindon gets into city mood
Saturday 29th July Acrobatics, clowns, dance, theatre and music will burst upon the town
Wiring y ur
centre on 29 and 30 July in a spectacular cavalcade of fun and frolics
families Sunday 30th July to celebrate year 2000 and Swindon past, present and future.
Swindo Organised by Swindon Council
and
Town Centre with sponsorship from Reckitt
friends to Benckiser, there will be profes-
Saturday 10.30am - 3.30pm sional street artistes from around
Swindon's Sunday 11.30am - 3.30pm the world roaming the streets, com-
munity groups and schools in pro-
FREE City cession and entertainment for all.
Central to the festival will be the
Festival outcome of workshops run by Bris-
Un tol based circus company Cirque
Bijou who are running festival work-
shops in June and July involving
Danseconnect, Drove Primary
School, REACH (disability arts),
Sponsored by Open Door, CAOS, the community
forest, Plus One Youth Group and
RECK ITT
Greendown Community School.
ENCKISER They will be learning junk drum-
ming, carnival costume making,
Come and experience a
stilt walking, street theatre to pre-
communal celebration of Is the town ready forAvanti Display?
pare for a procession through the
street theatre and music
for Swindon's Millennium. town centre on the morning of 29 The Barracudas, the Natural Thea-
July. It will end outside Debenhams tre, and the ten piece acapella
An exciting carnival procession will
weave its way through Swindon Town with a 40 minute spectacular in- group Imbizo Performing Arts from
Centre at 10.30am on Saturday 29 July, volving professional performers, Zimbabwe.
culminating in a Street Spectacular at aerialists, pyrotechnicians and ac-
11.30am of 18 professional performers robats as well as some of the com- Views of Swindon wanted
outside Debenhams. munity groups. Cirque Bijou want your views on
Street entertainment will continue into The professional acts include Swindon's past, present and fu-
the afternoon and on Sunday. trash can drummers Weapons of ture to help them develop work-
Sound, juggling comedians The shops. Questionnaires can be
Hotline number: (01793) 530328
Chipolatas, Brazilian acrobats Da picked up in libraries and the tour-
Ramos, the 25 piece carnival group ist information centre.