We're excited to announce an exciting new event for St Albans. Taking place on Sunday 18 May from 11am to 5pm, delivered by St Albans City and District Council. Featuring market stalls with street food from around the world, a brilliant learning space, musical performances, sports, arts and crafts, and much, much more.
Free entertainment and interactive activities for all
Main Stage
11:00 The St Albans Allstar Choir
11:45 St Albans Musical Theatre Company
12:20 Ryan Prazer
13:05 The Papersnakes
13:50 Many Bats
14:40 Kat Evans
15:30 Dhol Drummers
16:20 All That Soul
Create & Play Zones
STEM activities, coding and game development provided by CodeNinjas
Upcycled friendship bracelets and garlands
Pressed flower lanterns
Willow weaving
Soil Squad’s pop-up food waste hub
Windchimes
Mindful colouring with the Scouts
Art exhibition from students of Samuel Ryder Academy
Traditional wooden games
Toddler soft play
Chalk pavement drawing
Challenge Arena
Inflatable football darts provided by St Albans City Football Club
Rodeo sheep
Giant buzz wire
Sideshow games
Carrom
Dominos
Experience zone (timings to be confirmed)
Whizz Bang science show, Mad Science Lab
Drum workshops, Masai Cultural Performance Arts
Sustainable food, Danielle Durant
Bokashi composting - how you can do composting at home, Soil Squad
Towards a plastic-free lifestyle, Marianne Jordan
Plus facepainting, henna tattoos at extra cost.
British Sign Language
BSL interpreters will be present at the following times (subject to change:)
11:00 – 17:00: Museum & Gallery triangle for Experience Zone
11:00 – 12:00: St Peter’s Street North (Dulcie’s News & Off Licence) for STEM, coding & video game design and Samuel Ryder Art Exhibition
12:00 – 13:00: St Peter’s Street North (Nationwide) for Pressed flower lanterns, Windchimes and Mindful colouring
13:00 – 13:30: Barclays Bank for Willow weaving and Traditional wooden games
13:30 – 14:30: Civic Close for Challenge Arena including Rodeo, Inflatable football darts, Sideshow games, Dominos, Connect4 and Carrom
14:30 – 15:15: High Street for Toddler soft play, diddycars, Chalk pavement drawing and bubbles
15:15 – 16:00: St Peter’s Street Middle (Museum Triangle) for Pop up food waste hub and composting
16:00 – 17:00: St Peter’s Street (Halifax) for Facepainting and Henna tattoos
11:00 – 17:00: Safe Zone Civic Close for roving interpreter .
Sighted Guides
Sighted Guides will be available to support you to access the event if you have a visual impairment. If you, or someone you know, require a Sighted Guide, you can book a time and place to meet a guide by contacting St Albans Council on 01727 866100 or online.
The Sight Guides will also be available during the event at the following locations (look out for their pink high vis vests):
* At the Safe Zone during the whole event
* At the Clocktower at 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00 and 16:00
Community Safe Zone and Accessibility
The Community Safe Zone by the Civic Centre is a great place to go if the event gets a bit overwhelming! There’s somewhere to sit and a place to breastfeed, and you can take the opportunity to learn about services available to support residents from our partner organisation, Communities 1st.
We’ve also put a few things in place to try and help everyone to be able to access the event including:
British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters across the event (schedule to be confirmed shortly)
Sighted Guides for the visually impaired.
Accessible viewing zones in front of the stages
Priority reserved seating across the site for those less able to stand
Ramps on the kerbs to enable greater wheelchair access,
Accessible toilets, baby change, baby feeding and changing places toilet are available – ask at the safe zone for details.
Is there something else we could be doing to make the event more accessible for you? Let us know as we are always trying to improve the accessibility of our events.
Getting Here!
The event is being held in St Albans City Centre. There will be road closures in place in St Peter’s Street, High Street, Chequer Street, Victoria Street and Civic Close 6am – 9pm. Please try to walk, cycle or use public transport where you can.
St Albans City train station is a 12 minute walk.
St Albans Abbey train station is a 16 minute walk.
Train times can be found at National Rail.
Local bus routes, timetables and diversion information can be found at Intalink.
If you do need to drive, please try to car share and allow plenty of time as it is likely to be busy. Parking information can be found on the St Albans City & District Council website.
10% discount from Corker Taxis
Use Corker Taxis on the day of the event and quote “Spring Festival” for a 10% discount on your fare.
Sponsors and Supporters
This event is organised by St Albans City and District Council.
Part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund #UKSPF
Sponsors
Thanks to CodeNinjas St Albans for providing the STEM and coding activity.
Thanks to Corker Taxis for providing free and discounted rides to the event.
Also check out other Arts events in Saint Albans, Sports events in Saint Albans, Festivals in Saint Albans.
