Press Notice:
The Harlow Festival 2012 is a celebration of arts, culture, heritage and music across Harlow featuring almost 40 events organised by local community groups and professional artists, offering drama, music, dance, visual art and film productions or activities.
The festival has also enabled local groups to work collaboratively together, including Harlow Ballet and the de Merc Chamber Choir, and the Efua Sey Cultural Academy with Hare Street Primary School.
Harlow Festival ends on Sunday, May 27, with Sparks Will Fly, a day of activities in Market Square to celebrate the approach of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
This is an amazing festival and it celebrates everything that is good about Harlow.
It is incredibly exciting to have the festival in the run-up to the Olympics. It is no wonder that Harlow is becoming the Cultural Capital of the East of England and I congratulate everyone who is involved with this fantastic project.
The festival also features Make a Bug workshops at Science Alive bringing arts and science together while an African Film Festival at St John's ARC brings memorable Africana documentary film-making to the town for the first time.
A dramatic retelling of the heritage of the town can be seen at the Playhouse through the eyes of theatre company Razed Roof, and to celebrate the town's Sculpture Town status there are tours throughout the month by minibus, bicycle and foot!
Jazz favourites Head South visit Marigolds Jazz Club whilst the Harlow Writers Workshop launches its latest anthology.
There are also jubilee celebrations, art exhibitions including 'Harlow through the eyes of the artist' at the Gibberd Gallery, and drama and dance including the music of Walt Disney from New Edition and the Karen Chapman School of Dance.
Harlow Arts Council with the support of sponsors Harlow Health Centres Trust and Attwaters Solicitors, and Essex County Council, has awarded grants and support to participants of the Festival and the grand finale Sparks will Fly in Harlow.
Festival brochures are available from Harlow Playhouse, Harlow libraries and arts venues across the town, or by visiting www.playhouseharlow.com.
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