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Caldmore Village Festival 2011

A multicultural festival right in the heart of Walsall’s community.

The first Caldmore Village Festival was held on 29th-31st May 2010 to an incredibly positive local response. The 10,000 people who attended over the three days of the festival experienced a colourful multicultural kaliedescope of music and dance performances, Asian sports events and carnival and music workshops.

This year’s Festival promises to be even bigger and better. On the 22nd of May we are holding a sports Mela on Walsall Rugby Club which will include such traditional Asian sports as Kibaddi, Stone Lifting and Beeni (arm wrestling) along with some of the more traditional British field and pub events as tug-of-war and darts. The following weekend (28th to the 30th of May) the bank holiday, we have three days of performance and participatory arts taking place on the playing field of Caldmore Primary School. The Saturday will kick off with the Caldmore Village Festival 6-a-side football challenge, along with the Caldmore Primary school’s fate. Attention will then shift to the spectacular main stage with its stunning sound system which will play host to an array of stunning multicultural acts, from Bollywood to Bhangra, from Memphis blues to jumping jive. Coupled with these three days of amazing music and dance, there will be a range of arts workshops for all ages on the main field culminating in the carnival procession on the Monday afternoon. The Festival will be topped off on Monday Evening by some of the country’s finest Asian music acts.

Festival Background
Caldmore is a multicultural area on the edge of Walsall town Centre. For many years it has been the natural home of Walsall’s artists and artisans from many cultures around the world, but it is also one of the most economically deprived neighbourhoods in Walsall.

The Festival committee has involved a wide number of community groups in planning for the festival and local groups are pledging to organise a range of community cultural events leading up to the festival weekend and during the weekend itself. Additional projects have included regular community clean ups, combined music and food events called ‘ A Taste of Caldmore’ and the group has just taken over responsibility for a community garden in the heart of Caldmore.
Want to get involved?

If you are able to volunteer during the festival this year, we would love to hear from you. We still need people who can help out with stewarding on the days of the festival, so if you have a few hours to spare on the days of the festival please get in touch, its great fun to be part of the team.

Contact:
Glen Buglass. Email: buglassg@walsall.gov.uk. Phone: 01922 653114

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