09 September 2024
Thanks to sunny weather and hard work by organisers, volunteers and stallholders, the 2024 PG Festival was a splendid success, attracting a large number of well behaved visitors who clearly were enjoying themselves. If you were one of them, the Friends of Broomfield Park would like to know what you liked about the Festival and what ideas you have for future improvements.
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04 September 2023
Congratulations to David Williamson (Friends of Broomfield Park), Clare Donovan (Cooking Champions), Cara McDonald (Tatty Bits) and the very many more people who worked hard to make the 2023 Palmers Green Festival such a success.
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30 August 2023
What delights can we look forward to at the first Palmers Green Festival since 2019, which will be held on Sunday coming, when the forecast is warm but not too hot, sunny but with some cloud, and not too windy?
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30 August 2023
As always, there will be live music and a DJ at the Bandstand during Sunday's Palmers Green Festival. This year the music stage is being organised by Clare Donovan of the wonderful food charity Cooking Champions that is doing so much to feed hungry residents and to revive the once widespread art of home cooking.
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21 June 2023
I hope all readers have the first Sunday in September ringed in red on their calendar and are eagerly awaiting the return of the Palmers Green Festival.
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03 May 2023
One month until the festivals season starts in Broomfield Park. This year's Summer Festival follows the same successful formula as last year's - something for all ages and tastes: a mixture of live music, open-air theatre and musicals and fine dining under the apple trees. Then on 3rd September - the return of the Big One - the Palmers Green Festival itself!
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04 January 2023
In celebration of their 23rd birthday, join Enfield Poets for an afternoon-long literary party of poetry, performance and film on 13th January at the newly reopened (and rechristened) Dugdale Arts Centre.
Special guests will be celebrated poet and author Maggie Brookes-Butt, and winner of the Costa Poetry Award and Costa Book of the Year 2021, Hannah Lowe.
The festival commences at 11.30 with a free two-hour "poemathon" before moving into the theatre for the rest of the afternoon. Audiences.......
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13 April 2022
The Friends of Broomfield Park are creating another summer to remember with a kaleidoscope of events featuring music, theatre, family events, a food festival and much more - something for everyone. Broomfield Summer Festival runs from June to September, using the 'Broomfield Bowl' - a former bowling green repurposed for live outdoor events.
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02 February 2022
A five-week festival of light is coming to Enfield's town centres this week.
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16 November 2021
The latest newsletter from Southgate District Civic Voice has some brief information about Christmas events in the borough's town centres and a Christmas Fair in Southgate
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01 September 2021
The summer (?) weather has not cooperated quite as well as it could have with this year's Broomfield Summer Festival, but the forecast is looking good for this weekend, when the final two theatrical events will be staged in the Broomfield Bowl. Prepare to be amused...and moved.
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28 August 2021
Details of the gastronomic delights that we'll be able to partake of at the Palmers Green Food Festival next month are being gradually revealed. One of the highlights will be a London-themed pie baking competition.
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and forum comments
20 May 2021
Broomfield Blues this year will take place on five August Sunday afternoons as part of the Broomfield Summer Festival. The programme has now been announced and tickets are on sale already.
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19 August 2019
An online interview where you can find out about the history of the Palmers Green Festival - including its rather unusual origin - and what we can expect this year, with particular emphasis on the Speakers' Corner that was introduced last year and was highly successful.
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30 June 2019
Karl Brown, one of the team behind this year's Palmers Green Festival, updates readers on preparations for the big day on 1st September, but warns that there's a possibility that it may not be able to go ahead
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and forum comments
30 August 2018
At the Palmers Green Festival Speakers Corner Clare Richmond will be talking about her successful project to regenerate the high street in Crouch End.
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29 August 2018
An innovation at this year's Palmers Green Festival will be Speakers Corner, held on the former bowling green.
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21 August 2018
An innovation at this year's Palmers Green Festival will be Speakers Corner, held on the former bowling green.
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