Greetings and welcome to the 2015 Highfields Summer Festival

Thank you for coming year’s event as a sponsor, performer or today and we are organiser, please similarly pass on your confident this year’s details. event will be bigger When you register at the main gate and better than last today, you will be given a Festival year’s Festival! programme, with a detachable and free raffle ticket – please keep this with Highfields Centre has yet again taken you, as there will be raffle draws with the lead in bringing together the many competitions throughout the day. different partners to put on this major Festival and we would like to thank We’re delighted to continue putting on them for their support. We would also this year’s Festival but Highfields is like to acknowledge the funding from not just about ‘party time’, much as we the , and love those occasions! The Highfields Wycliffe Ward meetings. Business Association, Talent Match Leicestershire, Highfields Our Place Thanks are also due to Jon Ashworth and the soon to be introduced (MP, Leicester South) who continues to be Ageing Together services for the elderly an ardent supporter of this festival but is all evidence our commitment to improve unfortunately abroad at this time. We’d the lives and opportunities for all our also like to thank our local Councillors local residents, businesses and voluntary for their attendance and continued and community sector agencies – for support. more information on any of these new Please try and get round to all the areas initiatives, please contact Highfields of the Festival and take part in any Centre. tasters and activities on offer. We’d We hope you have a fun and informative love your feedback on this year’s event, day! so please talk to the Festival team members on the day, the latter clearly Priya Thamotheram recognisable by their pink t-shirts! on behalf of the Highfields Festival team

If as an individual or as a group, you would like to get involved in next Highfields Summer Festival Messages

Jon Ashworth, MP Leicester South

“I welcome everyone to the Highfields Festival, which brings the different communities of Highfields together.”

Cllrs Lucy Chaplin, Kirk Master & Aminur Thalukdar (Stoneygate Ward)

“We wish all the success for the Highfields Festival. It’s an excellent event to bring the community together.”

Cllr Patrick Kitterick (Castle Ward & Local Resident)

“Congratulations on organising another Highfields Festival and as a Highfields resident, it is a good day that brings people in Highfields together and welcoming visitors from other places.”

Cllrs Mustafa Malik & Shofiqul Chowdhury (Spinney Hills Ward)

“The Highfields Festival, an important annual event is in its 5th year now. We strongly feel that it has become a people’s event, offering opportunities for engagement and social cohesion. We recognise the organisers’ hard work and congratulate them for making it a continued success.”

Cllrs Hanif Aqbany & Mohammed Dawood (Wycliffe Ward)

“Another year of the Highfields Festival, this event inspires, empowers and brings communities together”

Cllr Abdul Razak Osman, North Ward, Assistant City Mayor (Public Health) and HCA Governing Body member

“Highfields Festival has fast become an annual festival for the local and wider communities of Leicester and I commend the Festival organizers for putting on the event again this year and my best wishes to everyone attending.” Highfields Summer Festival 2015 Programme

Times Item Artist/Guest Compère

12 noon Festival Welcome Priya Thamotheram

Assistant Mayor Cllr 12.05 Festival Opening Abdul Osman

Rap/Bhangra Drums Efaz 12.10 Lakki C Crew Ahmed & 12.20 Poetic Music/Singing Rayn Lianne Murray Singing/Keyboard/ 12.30 Ayolah Hanley Guitar

12.40 Reggae Artist/Singer Tanni Browne

13.00 Drumming/Rap Rezzolutionary Nyah

13.10 Rap Danhi Houghton

13.20 Singers Judgemeadow Girls Tariq Zampaladus 13.30 Poetry/Rap Regimental & Lianne 13.40 Rap Big Fro Murray

Guest Speaker(s)/ 13.50 Local councillors Raffle Draw Times Item Artist/Guest Compère

13.55 Motown Singers Dreamettes Aisha & Humaira 14.15 Singers Khalifa Darbouka 14.25 Kevin Cerqueira Performance Ayolah 14.35 Bhangra Singer Singing Policeman Hanley, Deano 14.50 Belly Dancing Golden Eagle Presto & 14.55 Singer Lydia Unsudimi Markel 15.05 Zumba Demo Zee Nasser Hyman

Luke Phillips 15.20 Break/Street Dance (Monstrous Martians)

15.30 Indo-Fusion Band Durgesh Parmar

15.55 Singer Athan Martin

16.05 Rap Loaneski

16.15 Clown Nasser Alarakhia

Homeless 16.25 Rap Shakespeare Zee 16.35 Rap Markel Hyman Nasser & 16.45 Singers Zimbabwean Choir Fishhead 17.10 Singing Harmony Caines Sensational Vibes Caribbean Dance 17.20 Kadesha, Bradley, Crew Kamea Wisdom 17.30 Reggae Band Red Stripe

18.00 Festival Close

Highfields Summer Festival 2015

Highfields Library Children’s Activities

ENTRANCE St Peter’s car park Stalls

STOUGHTON ST

Uplands car park ENTRANCE

MELBOURNE ROAD Outdoor Show and Stalls

Highfields Centre Under 5’s & Sports

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Stalls lnfomation stalls Food stalls Boutiques Leicester Print University of Parvin Akhtar Food Crafts & Workshop Leicester Shenaz Jussab Food Sweets Shama Women’s Ansaar Shafila Nawab Food Jewellery Centre Advice Leicester Ice Cream Vendor Toys Highfields Children, Pakistan Youth Beauty Young People & Zainab Hassan Cakes and Community Mehndi Family Centre Association Highfields Youth Group Barbeque Scarves Health Promotion St Johns Highfields Food Ambulance Fiona Hutchinson African Clothes Bank First Aid Caribbean Food Health Business 2 Business Highfields Centre: Products Mammas Health Business Support, Information Advice, Adult Learning, Elders, Mendhi Talent Match, Youth Human Appeal & Sports Services. Printed by : Macklow Brown Printers [email protected]

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