Riverside Festival  2007/08/09
Riverside Festival 2010 - Saturday 5th June 2010
Gainsborough Riverside Festival 2010                             
Friends of the Riverside Festival Updates
Site Updated: June 2010
Click the image above for the
Riverside Festival 2010 Program
Which gives you all the information about the day itself (pdf file)
The Festival Committee and its Friends
Web Link: www.gainsboroughtowncouncil.co.uk
The Festival is now managed completely by the community, but has a Festival
Co-ordinator to undertake the logistics/bookings/planning etc of the weekend, the
salary for the this part time post comes from contributions from Gainsborough Town
Council, West Lindsey District Council and local sponsorship.  The
creativity/ideas/involvement all come from local people many of whom have key roles
on the committee which meets monthly, and also from the Friends of the Festival
which meets approximately every two months.  There is always room for more
community involvement - would you like to come on board and help plan this
weekend extravaganza?  

Here are some of the sub committees we have:-
marketing/IT and the website/fundraising and sponsorship/workshops and
parade/market stalls/health and safety and stewarding/performance/artistic
input/youth activities/sport and physical activities/environmental issues/fireworks and
music input plus fairground activities/water activities  - is there one there that you
would like to help out with?  
The theme for our 2010 festival is Water Wind and Willows.  Linking in to the Trent
Vale and RSPB's first year of the Beckingham Marshes development plan. Over the
next three to five years they are involved in developing the  Beckingham Marshes
into a wildlife haven and conservation area. It is also to raise awareness of the
River Trents heritage  from its days as a busy port up to the end of the Industrial
Revolution and where we are today.
Once again it is promising to be a fantastic day out for all the family,  with Arts and
Crafts, local business, community groups and live performances with a stunning  
light show at the end of the event.
In the w/c 31st May there are workshops being held at Richmond Park to support
the parade at the Riverside Festival

Update 8th June
Link to Riverside Festival Video Clip:
 You Tube Video Festival Day
Supplied by kind permission and sincere thanks to the
Lincolnshire Young Journalist Academy, their website:
 www.lyja.co.uk

The festival has been running for nine years in Gainsborough  — an event that was
born from the Riverside redevelopments and which is now seen as the highlight of
the year within the local community. From year two until 2006 and Neil's untimely
death, the Festival was run by the popular Arts Officer for West Lindsey District
Council – Neil Rogers, with support from his wife, Julie Willoughby.  Attendance
grows each year, highlighting the fact that a great proportion of the local residents
choose to attend, often inviting relatives who live further a field to join with them.   It
is also attracting growing numbers of visitors from surrounding catchments areas
along with tourists to the Town.  

2007 was the first year that the Festival was held over two days, with a focus on the
heritage aspect of the years Seaside theme on the Sunday, with the lead partner
being Gainsborough Old Hall, along with considerable participation from
Gainsborough Town Council and the Town Councillors.   Activities took place in
and around the Old Hall, Gainsborough House and on Parish Church grounds.

The Saturday Festival has historically had a strong art content, this was maintained
in 2007 with 11 free workshops held during the half term week open to anyone, of
any age, these covered costume making; flags; banners and structures, a music
workshop and a windmill workshop with Children's Links to compliment the giant
sandcastle play area held over the two days.  Richmond Park hosted workshops
throughout the week, St John's church hall was a new site and workshops were
held in Gainsborough Old Hall.  GAPA also offered workshops for those
representing GAPA in the parade.  At some of the workshops sections of a giant
windbreak were created, which was continued on the day with festivalgoers invited
to join in with their own creativity.  Street theatre is also a key part of the festival
provided by professional companies, or local theatre groups.

The performance stage always has a full programme of dance/keep fit
display/music/theatre from local groups and organisations, starting from the
opening of the festival at the new time of 12.00 noon until approximately 5.30 p.m.,

The theme for the 2009 festival was the English Civil War incorporating the battle of
Gainsborough in 1643 which  took place where Foxby Hill is now (there is a
monument on the grass on the right hand side going up the hill)
With the Civil War Re-enactment society bringing history alive through displays,
workshops and related activities.
Festival History





















Links to groups and bands
performing at the festival
this year

Revolver
www.myspace.com/rivolver1234


Richard Langridge
www.richardlangridge.com


Ploughmens Bunch

myspace.com/ploughmensbunch


Led Zep Too

www.ledzeptoo.co.uk  


Cara

www.carasmusic.com


Patterns in Static
www.myspace.com/patternsinstatic


Color Code
      
www.flickr.com/photos/tedder13/sets
E-Mail Addresses:
Our 2010 Festival sponsors links..

Gainsborough Old Hall
Environment Agency
Birse Construction
Marshalls Yard
Everyone Active
Acis
Smiffys
Trent Vale
Racetorations
Edf Energy
Lincolnshire Co-operative
Harmony Lincs

Another amazing group that support
our Festival year on year are the
Earthbound Misfiits their link:

Earthbound Misfits