BEDFORD PARK FESTIVAL
BEDFORD PARK
Festival
Torin Douglas celebrates the return of Green Days Green Days weekend is back on June 11th and 12th - and people in Bedford Park can’t wait for its return, as a highlight of the Chiswick calendar and its longest-established community event. After two years’ absence because of COVID, an array of marquees, gazebos, funfair rides and refreshments stalls will spring up opposite St Michael & All Angels Church and Turnham Green tube station for two days of fun, food and friendship – supported by local people and businesses, in aid of charities. The Green (called Acton Green, confusingly, not Turnham Green), will be taken over by families, musicians, young footballers and children in fancy dress, for the opening weekend of ‘Chiswick’s favourite fortnight’,
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the Bedford Park Festival. The Green Days Fete & Craft Fair attracts thousands of people with its stalls, children’s corner, 5-a-side football and skittles - not to mention the music performances, refreshments and beer tents, Win-A-Meal competition, tombola, books, bric-a-brac, cakes and an open air church service. Green Days is just the start of a fortnight of arts and community events held in and around St Michael & All Angels Church, which runs the Festival in the world’s first garden suburb. On Friday June 10th there’s an Organ Recital in the church and the Preview Party for the Bedford Park Summer Art Exhibition and the Photography Exhibition, which continue across the opening weekend. On Monday
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June 13th, the birthday of WB Yeats, it’s the annual poetry evening with Cahal Dallat, leader of the artwork project to celebrate Yeats’ formative years in Bedford Park, hosted by AnneMarie Fyfe, former chair of the Poetry Society. On Wednesday June 15th, Theo Fennell, the celebrated jeweller (and father of Oscar-winner Emerald Fennell) will talk about his hilarious new memoir, I Fear for This Boy: Some Chapters of Accidents, in conversation with writer Kathy Lette. And on Friday 17th, Gerard Logan will perform Hauntings, an evening of three tales of the supernatural from the great ghost-story writers, EF Benson and MR James. In the second week, there is a range of concerts and other www.outaboutmagazine.co.uk
