GREEN FAIR 2005 – Music and Shopping on an autumn day
This year’s Green Fair, which takes place at Bury’s Corn Exchange on Saturday, 19 November (doors open 10.00, entry a donation) has music at its heart. Shoppers are to be entertained by Bury’s all woman folk band, The Floozies, the Suffolk Punch Jazz Band and Al Lindsay, all playing during the morning. First off in the afternoon Green Dragon Morris provide traditional entertainment; then exciting newcomer, Gus Beamish, followed by Battle of the Bands contestants Savannah, wind up the day.
Risbygate Art’s wonderful Yurt will again be the centre of children’s activities and the inner person is well catered for with delicious hot and cold food and drink.
But it is for the stalls that people return to the Green Fair year after year. Saturday will see the usual eclectic range of stalls, from those selling with a green theme such as wildlife, recycling or organic gardening, to alternative therapies such as shiatsu, crystal therapy and yoga, to cards, clothes, jewellery, paintings and other craft gifts, many made locally.
The Green Fair aims to do more than just solve the problem of what to buy for Christmas; it also wants to raise awareness of the wider world. So local and national charities are well represented, Save the Children, The Suffolk Wildlife Trust and Compassion in World Farming among them. Organisations such as the Waste Resources Action Programme, Education Otherwise, Greenpeace, Suffolk 4 Peace and the Green Party are also given the opportunity to present their message to the town.
Organiser John Matthissen said, “The mix of stalls, the music and the children’s activities all make the Green Fair a fun and thought provoking experience. We are looking forward to another lovely day”
For further information email John Matthissen at john@matthissen.net
The Green Fair
Saturday 19 November 2005. The Corn Exchange Bury St Edmunds
Doors open 10.00 am
This year’s Green Fair, which takes place at Bury’s Corn Exchange on Saturday, 19 November (doors open 10.00, entry a donation) has music at its heart. Shoppers are to be entertained by Bury’s all woman folk band, The Floozies, the Suffolk Punch Jazz Band and Al Lindsay, all playing during the morning. First off in the afternoon Green Dragon Morris provide traditional entertainment; then exciting newcomer, Gus Beamish, followed by Battle of the Bands contestants Savannah, wind up the day.
Risbygate Art’s wonderful Yurt will again be the centre of children’s activities and the inner person is well catered for with delicious hot and cold food and drink.
But it is for the stalls that people return to the Green Fair year after year. Saturday will see the usual eclectic range of stalls, from those selling with a green theme such as wildlife, recycling or organic gardening, to alternative therapies such as shiatsu, crystal therapy and yoga, to cards, clothes, jewellery, paintings and other craft gifts, many made locally.
The Green Fair aims to do more than just solve the problem of what to buy for Christmas; it also wants to raise awareness of the wider world. So local and national charities are well represented, Save the Children, The Suffolk Wildlife Trust and Compassion in World Farming among them. Organisations such as the Waste Resources Action Programme, Education Otherwise, Greenpeace, Suffolk 4 Peace and the Green Party are also given the opportunity to present their message to the town.
Organiser John Matthissen said, “The mix of stalls, the music and the children’s activities all make the Green Fair a fun and thought provoking experience. We are looking forward to another lovely day”
For further information email John Matthissen at john@matthissen.net
The Green Fair
Saturday 19 November 2005. The Corn Exchange Bury St Edmunds
Doors open 10.00 am