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Free entertainment and interactive activities for all.Returning for the second year, join us in the city centre for a celebration of food, well-being, community spirit and sustainability with activities and entertainment for all.
Organised by St Albans City & District Council and sponsored by Code Ninjas and Specsavers St Albans, this event features market stalls with street food from around the world, a brilliant learning space, musical performances, sports, arts and crafts, and much, much more.
Main Stage
Programme to follow
Create & Play Zones
STEM activities, coding and game development provided by CodeNinjas
Spring flower head garland making
Sustainable community art project
Bracelet making
Toddler soft play
Chalk pavement drawing
Experience Zone (timings to be confirmed)
Salsa demo class
Bollywood taster
Circus skills
Gardening for biodiversity
Sensory story telling
Seated FitSteps
Taster tennis sessions
Challenge Arena
Inflatable football darts provided by St Albans City Football Club
Fitness challenges – rowing machine and skierg provided by Everyone Active
Rodeo sheep
Foosball table
Giant buzz wire
Sideshow games
Connect4
Jenga
Traditional wooden games
Earth Zone
Pond dipping, St Albans Cathedral
Being waste aware
Ocean and whale activity, St Albans Greenpeace
Fixing workshop, St Albans Fixers, bring along your small items for fixing (12noon – 2pm only)
Mindful trees, Youth Talk
Hedgehog crafts
Street entertainers
Morris dancers in front of the Clock Tower at 3pm and 4pm
Live DJ in front of Studio 10 in Chequer Street
Puddle Ducks playing jokes
Butterfly stiltwalker
Community Zone
Emmaus, mosaic making using recycled materials
Neighbourhood Watch and the Police (sit in a police car!)
Herts Inclusive Theatre
St Albans Musical Theatre Company
The Abbey Theatre
Bowls Club
Art exhibition from Samuel Ryder Academy
Plus facepainting, henna tattoos and fairground rides at extra cost.
British Sign Language
BSL interpreters will be present throughout the event. Timetable to follow.
Sighted Guides
Sighted Guides will be available to support you to access the event if you have a visual impairment. If you, or someone you know, require a Sighted Guide, you can book a time and place to meet a guide by contacting St Albans Council on 01727 866100 or online.
Community Safe Zone and Accessibility
The Community Safe Zone by the Civic Centre is a great place to go if the event gets a bit overwhelming! There’s somewhere to sit and a place to breastfeed, and you can take the opportunity to learn about services available to support residents from our partner organisation, Communities 1st.
We also have other things in place to try and help everyone to be able to access the event including:
Accessible viewing zones in front of the stages
Priority reserved seating across the site for those less able to stand
Ramps on the kerbs to enable greater wheelchair access,
Accessible toilets, baby change, baby feeding and changing places toilet are available – ask at the safe zone for details.
Is there something else we could be doing to make the event more accessible for you? Let us know as we are always trying to improve the accessibility of our events.
Getting Here!
The event is being held in St Albans City Centre. There will be road closures in place in St Peter’s Street, High Street, Chequer Street, Victoria Street and Civic Close 6am – 9pm. Please try to walk, cycle or use public transport where you can.
St Albans City train station is a 12 minute walk.
St Albans Abbey train station is a 16 minute walk.
Train times can be found at National Rail.
Local bus routes, timetables and diversion information can be found at Intalink.
If you do need to drive, please try to car share and allow plenty of time as it is likely to be busy. Parking information can be found on the St Albans City & District Council website.
Sponsors and Supporters
This event is organised by St Albans City and District Council.
Sponsors
Thanks to CodeNinjas St Albans for providing the STEM and coding activity.
Thanks to Specsavers for their activity and support.
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Event Venue
St Peter's Street, St Albans, United Kingdom
Tickets
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