About Us
The Telegraph Hill Festival aims to celebrate the community and offer opportunities for involvement and participation to all. Now in its eighteenth year there are over 70 events packed into the Festival week and spilling over into a second one – come along as audience, pick up tips in the workshops or create your own masterpiece with a scarecrow for display, an animal for the Ark in the Park or in the cake competition..
All the events are organised by local volunteers, and most of the performers are local, and they all contribute their time and their skills for free. So take a look at this programme, find something you like, and come out to celebrate and join in to make this year’s Festival the best yet.
The Festival does not receive any public funding. We depend on income from sponsorship, ticket and bar sales and on the generosity of all the participants in donating their time and their talents. Any surplus income is reinvested in the Festival or related activities.
If anyone wants to organise an event they are able to do so under the umbrella of the Festival and are given practical assistance in realising their ideas and publicity in the programme, but responsibility and control remains with them.
Acknowledgements
The Festival is organised by the Festival Group which is open to everyone. The core team consists of Vanessa Lloyd (Chair), Tamsin Bacchus (Vice-Chair and regulatory matters), Jules Hewett (Treasurer), Lucia Graves (Vice-treasurer and Box Office Manager) and Stephen Carrick-Davies (Communications). Sara Scott, Philippa Beagley and Sue Lanzon are sharing the job of Bar Manager this year. You can contact Vanessa here
We are grateful to all of the local venues who work with us to accommodate so many events. In particular, the Vicar and Churchwardens who allow us the use of St Catherine’s Church during the Festival itself and in the months leading up to it. Jane Hartley, the Centre manager, assists with the Box Office and she and the regular users of the Centre have their activities disrupted for the duration of the Festival. Our local pubs, Skehans and The Telegraph, are both hosting events. Please show your support for them by arriving in good time to purchase refreshments beforehand! Thanks too to Bold Vision and Ian Convery at The Hill Station for hosting so many of this year’s events in the expanded community cafe space.
We are very grateful to our sponsors who generously and regularly support the Festival. If you use any of the services publicised in this programme please let them know that this is appreciated.
Thanks also to Kuba Budzynsky, Anna Wojtczak and Stephen Carrick-Davies for design of the programme and website.
Finally, thank you to all the volunteers who have make the Festival possible. This includes not only the organisers and performers but those helping behind the bar, with ticket sales and stewarding, distributing the programme, prop making and technical skills.
Wash-Up Meeting
There will be a public meeting on Thursday 19 April at 8pm in the Hill Station to discuss this year’s Festival. Please let us know what you thought about it, either in writing or by attending the meeting. If you want to get involved next year this is your first opportunity to make contact with us. We are keen to provide something for everyone but that does rely on people coming forward to suggest and organise events. Please email or phone Vanessa (details below) if you wish to be included on the Festival email list or have any issues to raise.
The Festival is created each year by an informal group of local people passionate about building a vibrant and inclusive community in their local neighbourhood. A public meeting is held each year at which volunteers offer to arrange events. Some events are long term features of the Festival, others happen just for one year.
A core group of people provide central organisation to attempt to ensure the smooth running of the Festival as a whole.
The Festival Wash Up meeting for the 2012 festival will be held on Thursday 19th April at 8pm at the Hill Station Cafe, Kito Road
CONTACT
Vanessa Lloyd is the Chair of the Festival co-ordinating group. To contact her please click here.
If you have information about festival or events or photos that you would like to include on this Festival website please e-mail them to the the website editor Stephen Carrick-Davies here
Perhaps the best way to find out about the festival is to watch this short promotional film
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