Little Stoke Park has been a hive of activity in recent days as the compound for the 2023 Bristol Foodies Festival has taken shape. The three-day food and drink extravaganza kicks off tomorrow (Friday 12th May) and includes demonstrations by celebrity chefs and a funfair. Headline music acts due to perform at the festival are Blue, on Saturday evening, and Scouting for Girls, on Sunday evening.
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The Bristol Foodies Festival will go ahead next month in Little Stoke Park after councillors granted permission despite police and environmental health objections. South Gloucestershire Council’s Licensing Sub-Committee heard the organisers have run the event 128 times across the country since 2005 without a single serious issue and that parking for 600 cars had been found in a nearby field…
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Residents of Stoke Gifford and surrounding areas are invited to take part in a number of free art workshops to have a go at building sculptures that will be installed in the grounds of UWE Frenchay Campus. The workshops, which take place in April and May, are part of a public art project with Arnolfini, UWE Bristol and artists Juneau Projects.
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Celebrity chefs and chart-topping musicians, including Scouting For Girls and Blue, will be appearing at an event taking place in Little Stoke Park over the weekend of 12th, 13th & 14th May. Around 3,000 people are expected to attend each day of the Bristol Foodies Festival, which has previously been held on The Downs in Bristol.
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Students at Stoke Gifford School of Dance have performed their latest show ‘A Night at the Movies’ to an audience of family and friends. The cast, which consisted of 60 dancers aged between 3 and 17 years old, showcased their wonderful talents in ballet, modern, tap, contemporary and singing.
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Stoke Gifford’s popular Village Fête returns on Bank Holiday Friday 3rd June, following a two-year break due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The event takes place between 2pm and 5pm at the Trust Grounds, North Road. There will be music, entertainment, donkey rides, bouncy castles, teacup rides, stalls, sideshows, games and refreshments.
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The Stoke Gifford Trust Committee has announced that the 2022 Village Fête will take place on Friday 3rd June. This is the Friday of the extended Spring Bank Holiday and Platinum Jubilee weekend. The event will take place from 2pm to 5pm at the Trust Grounds, North Road BS34 8PE.
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“How about coming to our choir?” asks Emma Smallwood. We are the Stoke Gifford Gospel choir, part of the Bristol choir Gospel Generation Community Choir (GGCC). We meet fortnightly on Tuesday evenings from 7.30pm to 9pm in the St Michael’s Centre, North Road.
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It has been such a joy to have the Stoke Gifford Gospel Choir back rehearsing… in person! (writes Emma Smallwood of Gospel Generation Community Choir). A number of Christmas performances are planned for the coming weeks, including in Broadmead and The Galleries on Saturday 4th December.
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Members of Gospel Generation Community Choir (GGCC) kept singing through lockdown by holding rehearsals through the Zoom videoconferencing app. They have also done a recording as a choir in which they were joined by members of three other choirs in the GGCC national network.
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