Saturday
  19th June 2010

Longhill Park, Bracknell, Berkshire

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ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
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Saturday June 19th sees the inaugural Headspace Youth, Disability and Community Festival taking place in Longhill Park, Bracknell.

Headspace, the local community arts and disability awareness organisation have been looking to put together an all day event for some time. An event that will not only be an enjoyable day for the local community, but also to raise much needed awareness of disabled and disadvantaged people in the area, and their social inclusion in the arts as a whole.

The event, which will be donation on the gate, will have a huge array of different arts projects and workshops going on involving many youth and adult organisations, with the underlying theme to much of it that of disability awareness.

Their will also be 2 stages of live music. A main stage mixing many different styles and age ranges from local young bands to more seasoned and professional performers. There is also an acoustic café which will have more chilled out singer/songwriter performances, again from both youth performers and more established acts.

The skate park area of the site will have skate and BMX performances throughout the day, along with local DJ’s providing the sounds.

As well as this, it will also have all the things you would expect from any outdoor event, including refreshment tent, food stalls and local arts and crafts.

The site will have a small amount of car-parking, however a shuttle bus service (using environmentally friendly buses) will be in operation with a number of designated pick-up points around the area – and then a single drop-off at the festival site.

The Glamsters

Rory Ellis   Heights   Newrising

All Things Considered

The Nomads     Polly Rocket

Streetfight Silence

Scattered Few     Ben & The No Names

Acoustic Café
Andy Raven * Scattered Few * Quiet Quiet Band * Richard Lee
Stephen Long * Lou Brown * Jaime Regan * Phoebe Wright
Vic Cracknell * Anthea Neads * Chris Ricketts & Mark Willshire
Jack, and Gill’s Daughter * Rob Himself * Andrew Prince * Clea Knight

Come and join in the fun at this fantastic
Community Festival.
Enjoy music, theatre, story telling, kids activities, DJ’s, skate and BMX performance, as well as arts & crafts, clothing and food stalls.

There’s also a fully licenced Bar!

www.headspacefestival.co.uk

For more info contact: marc.box@bracknell-forest.gov.uk
or info@headspacefestival.co.uk

FESTIVAL NEWS
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A Big Thanks!
A big thank you to everyone who attended and took part in the festival.

Also, if anyone has any photos or vids of the Headspace Festival we would love to see them and like to feature them on our website.

Please send them to: photos@headspacefestival.co.uk

Many Thanks

The Headspace Festival Team

Thanks

The Headspace Festival Team

Buses to the festival
First bus service 191 runs from Bracknell Bus Station and surrounding areas all day on saturday. Please click this link for more details - First Bus 

You will pass the Running Horse Pub on the roundabout and then continue down London Road. The stop is near the traffic lights just before the next roundabout.

Once off the bus please walk towards the roundabout and head up Long Hill Road where you will find the Festival site on the left.

There will be signs and stewards to assist you.

Thank you and see you all there!


Volunteers Wanted!
Would you like to help us make the event a great day by volunteering?

We need car park attendants, stewards, litter pickers, fundraisers with a love of fancy dress, traffic attendants and messengers to make sure that everyone has a lovely time and Longhill Park is left as we all found it.

We're also working at lots of other festivals this year like Reading, V, Bestival, Big Chill, Taste London and Rage Factor at Finsbury Park so if you'd like to get involved please get in touch.

Fliss Roberts: 07786 171704
fliss.roberts@bracknell-forest.gov.uk


Comperes Needed!
Calling all comperes - We need you for the Acoustic Café and Main Stage.

Think you've got what it takes?
Contact: Marc Box - marc.box@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

Workshops
Missed Out help provide workshops and entertainment for young ones.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53

Joy Dance join the day with their blend of dance tai bo ,tai chi and dance. Join them for open workshops throughout the day.

More info at - www.joydance.info

Artree & Friday Night Project help relax you!
Friday Night Project & Artree join in the party and will help make your visit to the acoustic cafe a relaxing one.

The Friday Night Project was set up to provide people of all ages in the Wokingham and Bracknell area of Berkshire with a Learning Disability to access to a place where they can socialise, make friends and enjoy new opportunities.

Info - www.artree.org.uk and www.fridaynightproject05.com


Dimensions support Headspace
We welcome Dimensions to the day who are kindly sponsoring the Acoustic Café.

Dimensions supports people with learing disabilities and autism across England and Wales to live the lives they want.

Dimensions support over 50 people with learning difficulties throughout Bracknell. Our purpose is to help the people we support to live the lives they want, and we believe that people with learning difficulties should be respected, have the same opportunities in life as everyone else, and make their own choices and decisions.

For more info visit -  www.dimensions-uk.org/bracknell