FOLK FESTIVALBARKING

FREE event

Saturday 9 JuneSunday 10 June11am to 9.30pm

Abbey Green and Abbey Ruins

www.lbbd.gov.uk/barkingfolkfestivalGet your free and VIP tickets to Abbey Ruins Live via Eventbrite

Saturday

Ferocious DogSkinny Lister | Kerri Watt

Beans on Toast | Doozer McDooze

Sunday

The UnthanksStick in the Wheel | Lucy Ward

Grace Petrie | Nancy Kerr Barking and Dagenham’s

Women’s Anthem

Saturday 9 June – 11am to 4pmAbbey Green, Abbey Road, IG11 7AP

Flying the Nest (family open air theatre) 12.15pm and 2.30pm Mr Alexander’s Travelling Show 11.45am, 1.30pm and 2.45pm

The YurtsStorytelling 11.30am, 1.10pm, 2pm and 3.10pmSpoken Not Stirred (open mic poetry) 12.45pm, 2pm and 3.15pm

The HubBug Bling Craft WorkshopPercussion Instrument Making Workshop with Studio 3 ArtsThe Rig Music WorkshopCrochet WorkshopPlay all day with face painting, rides, inflatables and under 5s play den

St Margaret’s ChurchPop into the café or join the church tours 11am to 4pm

Sunday 10 June – 11am to 4pmAbbey Green, Abbey Road, IG11 7AP

Flying the Nest (family open air theatre) 12.15pm and 2.30pm Mr Alexander’s Travelling Show 11.45am, 1.10pm and 2.45pm

The YurtsStorytelling 11.30am, 1.30pm, 2pm and 3.10pmSpoken Not Stirred (open mic poetry) 12.45pm, 2pm and 3.15pm

The HubFairy Flowers Craft WorkshopPlayful Protest Workshop with Studio 3 ArtsThe Rig Music WorkshopPlay all day with face painting, rides, inflatables and under 5s play den

St Margaret’s ChurchPop into the café or join the church tours 2pm to 4pm

GATHERING ON THE GREENFestival fun

GATHERING ON THE GREENFestival fun

FAMILY ACTIVITIES

MR ALEXANDER’S TRAVELING SHOW

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FEROCIOUSDOG

ABBEY RUINS LIVE Rebels in the Ruins

ABBEY RUINS LIVE The Art of Protest

THE UNTHANKS

Saturday 9 June – 3pm to 9.30pmAbbey Green, Abbey Road, IG11 7AP

Festival Parade led by Solid Steel 3.50pm

Doozer McDoooze 4.05pm

Kerri Watt 4.55pm

Beans on Toast 5.50pm

Skinny Lister 6.55pm

Ferocious Dog 8.15pm

Free tickets required for entry via Eventbrite. If the venue reaches capacity ticketholders will access on a first come first serve basis.

Sunday 10 June – 3pm to 9.30pmAbbey Green, Abbey Road, IG11 7AP

Playful Protest Parade 3.50pm

The Barking and Dagenham’s Women’s 4pmAnthem sung by our community choirwritten by Lucy Ward and led by Kirsty Martin

Nancy Kerr 4.15pm

Grace Petrie 5.05pm

Lucy Ward 6.05pm

Stick in the Wheel (trio) 7.10pm

The Unthanks 8.30pm

Today we celebrate the

legends of music that stand for

change!

Today we celebrate the centenary of the women’s

vote!

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Notting Hill Genesis proudly sponsors the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Festival

www.nhggroup.org.uk

Saturday 9 June

HaverFolk 11.25am

The Boxwood Chessmen 12pm

Tina Ruby 12.35pm

Nemolo 1pm

Ellie Rees 1.35pm

Solid Steel 1.55pm

Pilgrims Dream 2.10pm

Lit 5 2.30pm

HaverFolk 2.45pm

Solid Steel and the 3.20pmFestival Parade

All programmes subject to change.

Sunday 10 June

Slovac Traditional Dancing 11.30amand Songs

Ukrainian Dance 12pm

D Style Dance 12.15pm

Leaping Toads 12.35pm

HaverFolk 1pm

VP Bhangra Juniors 1.35pm

Jordan Academy of Irish Dancing 1.55pm

The Circle of Protest 2.10pmfeaturing Lucy Ward, Stick in the Wheel, Grace Petrie and Nancy Kerr

Emily Mae Winters 3pm

Playful Protest Parade 3.30pm

GATHERING ON THE GREENStage - 11am to 4pm

PLAYFUL PROTESTPARADE

1 summer

Over 10 free events

Have the time of your life!

Roundhouse Music Festival

Steam and Cider Fair

Youth Parade

One Borough Festival

For information on all events visit:

lbbd.gov.uk/summeroffestivals

Summeroffest @Summeroffest

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The Knitting Project

THE THREE LAMPS

The Ageing Well Programme is a fantastic group that meets weekly enjoying social activities such as bingo and crafts. Little did they know their weekly sessions were about to become even more exciting when The Knitting Project was born!

The idea initially was to create dressing for one or two trees in the venue for the Barking Folk Festival, but as time ticked on more knitters joined the party and more trees got a makeover.

To mark the 100th anniversary of suffrage the group decided it would be fitting to dress the Three Lamps, the infamous meeting place for suffragettes in East London. The lamps have been crocheted in the suffragette colours and each ‘granny square’ has been created with love for their grandmothers that won them the vote!

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Thank you to all the knitters and artists for their

time, their art and their passion!

Saturday 30 June11am to 6pm

Old Dagenham Park, Dagenham

Steam and Cider Fair

www.lbbd.gov.uk/steamandcider

Steam engines and machineryClassic cars and vehicles

Country and rock ‘n’ roll actsBar serving ciders and real ale

Come along and enjoy some traditional entertainmentand attractions to reflect the borough’s rural

and industrial heritage.

FREE eventCar park £3.50

Barking and Dagenham Women’s Anthem

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To mark the centenary year of the women’s vote this anthem written by the talented folk singer Lucy Ward is for the great women of our borough past, present and future.

The anthem salutes the past both the suffragettes who fought for the vote as well as the Fords machinists that protested for equal pay. It stands for everyday women from Barking and Dagenham now and in the future together as one shared voice.

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Thank you to our community choir, Lucy Ward, Kirsty Martin, Barking Enterprise Centre and

Studio 3 Arts.

Chorus So meet me by the three lamps

and raise your banners high. Sing for your sisters standing

by your side. For the Abbess and for Annie

all the women who’ve gone by. They stood for change in this

old town and now so am I.

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The company’s portfolio of homes for private sale include apartments, penthouses, townhouses and executive residences as well as establishing a pedigree for undertaking complex restoration and conversion projects for important Victorian and Edwardian buildings, often listed by English Heritage.

Weston Homes are proud to work with the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham on Rivermill Lofts at Abbey Road, as well as providing a further 1200+ new homes as part of the redevelopment of the former Abbey Retail Park.

COMING SOON TO ABBEY RETAIL PARK, BARKING 1200+ NEW HOMES

Internal image of a current Weston Homes development and CGI of Rivermill Lofts (below).

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Rivermill Lofts, Barking 118 new homes

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