Wrexham Town Centre Forum
Monday 19 September 2016
Live music and more for September Street Festival
Saturday’s Wrexham Street Festival promises a bumper day of fun with song, dance, tasty treats, arts and crafts, sport, play and a little history too throughout the town centre from 10 am – 4.30 pm.
The Street Festival includes Wrexham’s first ever choir festival, Singing Streets, which will see 25 choirs and hundreds of people bring the streets alive with singing. Choirs will be singing on Hope Street; Eagles’ Meadow; Chester Street; Queen’s Square; and at Wrexham Museum on Regent Street with different choirs at each location through the day. It’s a fantastic opportunity to enjoy wonderful live music. Between 3 and 4 pm all the choirs will join together for a mass sing-along on Queen’s Square, which you can join – workshops and tuition are provided!
Ian Lucas, MP for Wrexham,who has organised Singing Streets with Wrexham Community Choir commented: “The Street Festivals including Singing Streets are all about supporting our town centre. We would love to see as many local people as possible come along on Saturday to enjoy the free musical entertainment and try some of the great products we have in town.”
Alongside Singing Streets, here’s a flavour of some of the other things on offer to enjoy on Saturday:
OnRegent Street and Hope Streetyou’ll find stalls offering a fantastic range of gifts, promotions and artisan foods and in the Butchers’ Market there are three fantastic butchers and many more stalls. Wrexham Home Instead Senior Care will also be at the Street Festival to promote its new Memory Café at St Giles Church.
On Bank Street, a narrow street off Hope Street, you’ll find lots of hidden gems including Alun Hughes Film, Music and Nostalgia; PW Hale Jewellers; RS Williams & Son Butchers; Marubbi’s Café and more.
TheChester StreetArts Zone includesthe new Wrexham Independent Gallery with an outdoor exhibition offering a flavor of their permanent gallery in the People’s Market and some fun arty activities for all ages. Emz Cakes is hosting free bunting flag making – all decorated flags will be sewn up after the festival to create community bunting which will be put up across town for future street festivals. Piccolos Crafts Stall has a wide range of handmade local crafts and Sharon Jones from Mini Art Buds at Wrexham Warehouse Project will be offering fun art activities for children.
There’s also a free Roald Dahl inspired treasure hunt -the Roald Dahl Mischief March. Everybody is encouraged to come dressed as a Roald Dahl character and will receive a free tote-bag to fill with the goodies on the trail. Children (suitable for age 5+) must be accompanied by an adult. The trail starts at Oriel Wrexham at 1pm and is limited to 100 children, so arrive early to ensure your golden ticket.
Henblas Street will host fun join in activities including Wrexham’s own ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ duo - Diana and Mario from Turbo Dance – leading free fun ballroom dancing; Pure Gym will be holding a group exercise demonstration; and Hoola Nation will be running hoola hooping for all ages and promoting the Wrexham Fitness Festival which takes place at Glyndwr on Saturday 1 October. Local wood carver, Simon O’Rourke is bringing a giant friend to visit the Street Festival, which we know you will love when you see it and Simon will be on hand to explain his craft. You’ll also find the entrance to the General Market off Henblas Street. And Wrexham’s newest café, Dot 2 Dot will be open all day, offering tasty snacks and drinks.
Queen Street will have small fairground rides, football skills with Brickfield Rangers coaches and you can even try bowling with local Bradley Park Bowling Club.
And whilst in town, why not make time to climb the tower of the beautiful St Giles Church. The tower climb needs to be pre-booked through the TouristInformation Centre on 01978 292015or . For younger visitors there’s also a new children’s playground at Eagles’ Meadow to explore.
For those driving into town - Waterworld and Crown Buildings have all day parking on Saturday for £2 and St Mark’s multi-storey car park off Regent Street is £2 for up to 4 hours and £3 all day.
For up-to-date information, visit Wrexham Street Festival on Facebook. On the day pick up a programme from the Wrexham Savers gazebo at top of Bank Street.
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