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2016 Festival Programme
2016 Festival Programme sent to print
We are extremely happy to let you know that we have now finalised information about the 80 events that will be featured in our 2016 printed programme.
Please note that we will use it also to promote all other, newly registered events so do spread the word and encourage your friends to continue registering their events with us.
Our event registrations are open until 11 June 2016 so please keep sending your new events to us.
In the meantime you can download the electronic version of our printed programme here.
We are fundraising with Waitrose – please support us!
You might have seen us in the title of the middle box of green tokens at Wantage Waitrose.
We are extremely happy that our fundraising application was approved and we are spending all May collecting little green tokens – please, if you are shopping or grabbing your morning coffee there, do leave your green tockens in our box.
This will help us help you all run your amazing events!
Thank you to Waitrose and to all of you who already supported us this way!
Keep them coming!
Thank you to Oxford Mail for supporting us!
One of our major challenges is communication – we aim to reach as many local residents as possible to promote the wonderful events registered this year. So we are extremely happy to see that our local media outlets are reading our newsletters and share our calls to the public.
Please check out this recent Oxford Mail article for example.
Thank you to Oxford Mail and all other local media outlets for all their support!
Volunteer for us!
We are all volunteers and we would love you all to join us. Our event organisers will need help during the festival and we will need a bit of your help too. It’s a great opportunity to move out, socialise a bit and have fun during our Festival events.
To find out more please join us at 19.00 on Thursday 26 May at the Vale and Downland Museum.
This briefing meeting is open to the public and you don’t have to RSVP – just join us then and there. Thank you!
We would like to use this opportunity to say thank you to KA Academy, Sue Cronin and to our digital volunteers who are doing great job preparing for the Festival.
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Wantage Summer Festival Events
Here is the list of our Wantage Summer Festival events and ticketing pages:
- Minecraft Literature – Grove Library June 27, 2016 at 5pm – 6pm – tickets here
- Minecraft Literature – Wantage Library June 17, 2016 at 6pm – 7pm – tickets here
- Wantage in Minecraft – Grove Library June 13, 2016 at 4pm – 5pm – tickets here
- Wantage in Minecraft – Wantage Library June 20, 2016 at 4pm – 5pm – tickets here
- Wantage LEGO® Exhibition – Vale & Downland Museum – tickets here
- Minecraft Day – Toy Planet Collectors – just join us on the day
Join us!
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Join this super cool exhibition! :)
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Please support us at Waitrose
Waitrose Wantage team have been extremely supportive by featuring us as one of the May fundraising causes. Please if you have a green token, do donate it to us! Thank you once again to Waitrose for their support and thank you for every single donation!
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Thank you for media support
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Our printed programme is here
..and we will distribute it around Wantage and the area in the next two weeks.
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Celebrate with us and with the Town Team
We invite you to the opening of our Festival:
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Join us!
We really want you all to be involved so please join our open planning meeting:
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You are invited to join our final 2016 briefing meeting
2016 Festival Programme sent to print
We are extremely happy to let you know that we have now finalised information about the 80 events that will be featured in our 2016 printed programme.
Please note that we will use it also to promote all other, newly registered events so do spread the word and encourage your friends to continue registering their events with us.
Our event registrations are open until 11 June 2016.
You are invited to join our final 2016 briefing meeting
WSF Committee would like to invite all event organisers, volunteers, digital journalists, media and all other local community members to the final briefing meeting to discuss preparations to 2016 Wantage Summer Festival.
Please join us at 19.00 on Thursday 26 May at the Vale and Downland Museum.
This briefing meeting is open to the public and you don’t have to RSVP – just join us then and there. Thank you!
Would you like to have a stall at the Festival Opening Weekend?
If you are interested in running a stall during our Opening Weekend (11-12 June) combined with #WantageQ90 celebrations please email Katie at wantagedeputy@btconnect.com.
Please note that stalls need to follow the Royal theme and tombola stalls are not allowed.
You have the opportunity to book a stall for Saturday 11 June in the Manor Park and/or for Sunday 12 June in the Market Place.
Please don’t respond to this newsletter email. Email wantagedeputy@btconnect.com directly. Thank you.
Volunteers welcome to join our team
We have spent over 200 hours on community engagement and planning of 2016 Festival and now we feel we might need your help too. Would you like to volunteer?
You can help us in many ways:
1. Donate your time in preparations and during the Festival events – even if you just have an hour, you can help.
2. Donate your expertise – we need help in many areas of our preparatory work (research, design, online coverage, ticket sales) but we also need advice and new ideas! Just get in touch!
3. Be part of our organising team in summer 2016.It really does not matter how much time you can offer us – we appreciate all support!
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Getting old together
I think about getting older a lot these days. Sometimes I feel I have lived a million years and many lives already. But then I think it’s not just my life I feel…I spent a few days in Warsaw watching and talking to other women. Women who love and women who loved. Women who are loved and who were loved once. Women who make really difficult choices – all of which are necessary for survival, but something more than that: for living their life fully. Some stories are good, others sad, but they are all connected by one theme: the underlying love not for men but for life itself. Whether it is there or missing they all measure their personal happiness in terms of their own ability to fulfil their own potential to live, provide, plan but also feel the life fully. It’s a grounding exercise to go back to Poland. Each time I go I become more of myself. I see the life sharper, clearer which is not to say I become more practical or pragmatic. Quite the opposite – I find the need to connect with other women who dare. Dare to feel, to seek, to dream more. I hope that as I grow older I will find my way back to those benches where we sit down and share the passion for love – reminding ourselves that life is more than just a great label, a smooth style or a great job. It’s so much more than that.
