THE ALBANY CLUB

**MisterBridger** · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject: Fade to Grey Festival 2008

Fade To Grey 2008

With the success of the first Fade to Grey festival in October 2007. The residents and Albany Club members raised over £4000 pounds of which went to maintain Activities at the Gilbert Richards Centre in Earlsdon. Special Thanks would like to be expressed by Debbie from the GRC to the Albany Club for their fantastic support and to the organisers of the event. With the money raised new cupboards for the pottery room were purchased, classrooms were decorated and the kiln has now been successfully saved. The centre is a vital asset to many local residents in and around Earlsdon and provides social support and educational classes too many older people in the area.
Due to the great success and the support received. The festival will this year be a two day bash. We are bringing back the “Earlsdon Fun Run” and hope to have some top celebs handing out prizes. The Saturday will see lots of fantastic performances on 3 stages, both days will see Street Entertainers, Samba drumming, Face painting and lots of stalls.
The organisation and band booking for the event is taking place as we speak and anyone with any ideas or who would like to have a stall could they contact Marianne via email Marianne.caine@barclays.com or through the Albany club. We are looking for multi cultural stalls, craft stalls, organic veg stalls, etc .
A MySpace for the Festival is being setup at present, with clips of the bands and links to the artists own MySpace.

The festivals aims are to provide a bridge of common interest and meaningful interchange between different age, race, ability and economic groups and different cultures in our area and to provide an opportunity for people to engage in community
activity.
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MisterBridger
The Self Preservation Society
Coventry UK