Sydenham Arts Festival

It’s back! – The festival they said couldn’t be done is happening all over again. And this time it’s even bigger!

After the huge success of last year’s inaugural Sydenham Arts Festival, which ran for ten days in July, the next step was always going to prove a challenge. Smaller? Bigger? Shorter? Longer? More events? Fewer? With funds harder to come by this year, our initial idea was to lie fallow, like a certain field in Glastonbury, and come back with a vengeance in 2011.

But the people of Sydenham don’t do things by halves, oh no! So, instead, here’s Sydenham Arts Festival’s Summer Season 2010, with over seventy events during the three summer months (and a little bit of September!) - diverse music, dance, drama, comedy, film, poetry, visual arts, children’s events and workshops – again utilising a variety of local venues and parks.

Our festival programme lists every event in date order. A few highlights: Sydenham’s Got Talent makes a welcome return, as does London Bubble in Wells Park, Balalaika at the Dolphin and the Free Film Show and Family Fun Day in Home Park. Then there’s also Sydenham Sings, Sydenham Unsigned, Kirk dale Bookshop’s Alice in Wonderland Tea-Party, The Three Musketeers in The Dolphin Pub’s garden and two concerts by Alexandra Carter to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Blitz…

And don’t miss the two Visual Arts Trail weekends in July: again, artists will be opening their homes and studios and there’ll be exhibitions in shops, cafes, pubs, libraries and more. Look out for the Visual Arts broadsheet, available from mid-June and listing all the artists taking part.

Dates:Sunday the 6th Jun 2010 to
Saturday the 11th Sep 2010
venue: Various locations within Sydenham SE26