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Carnival workshops

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** Update – the workshops and parade were a great success! Thanks to all who came along and especially to Simone Chalkley for organising and Lynne Martin from Elitian Printers for her amazing crocheted flowers and leaves. **

** The Cooperative membership community fund for Cambridge & East Anglia generously supported the PACT/Norfolk Summer Event carnival parade. **

** Photos of the workshops are in a gallery below. **

Cooperative funding

We are holding a Carnival parade at the end of this years’ PACT/Norfolk Street Summer Event on 22nd June – great fun for children and adults alike! The theme is the Millennium Garden, created by PACT and the City Council in 2002: think flowers, trees, insects, birds and the lovely mosaics.

2013-05-18 15.43.42 Millennium Garden mosaics

Simone is holding workshops to make carnival costumes (and she is already enthusiastically knitting bunting with plarn): the workshops will be in the Man on the Moon community room on the Saturday and Sunday afternoons for the two weeks before the Summer Event. A flyer for the workshops is here. The dates and times are:

  • Sat 8th & 15th June from 1.30-4.30 pm
  • Sun 9th & 16th June from 1.30-5.00 pm

The workshops will cost £3 per person or £5 per family of four; this will cover the cost of one or all of the sessions, including the cost of materials and equipment. Materials will be provided. All ages are welcome, though under 16s must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Spaces are limited, so book early! You can turn up on the day but there is no guarantee that there will be a place if you haven’t booked.

To book, please email carnivalworkshop-bookings@outlook.com

For the Summer Event parade on the day, the road will be closed to traffic. Meet at 4:15pm by the Millennium Garden on Norfolk St and the parade starts at 4:45pm. Don’t worry if you are unable to attend the workshops as you are very welcome to join the carnival parade on the day!

Community art with the Cambridge Map Project

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Local artists Hugh Chapman & Sa’adiah Khan have created the Cambridge Map Project, a community art project to collaboratively create an imaginative and creative map of local people’s perceptions of east Cambridge – Romsey, Coleridge, Abbey, and Petersfield.

Taking inspiration from A.A. Milne and a 16th century painting of Dutch proverbs, they will take people’s depictions of places, things, and people to create collages to represent these areas. They are holding workshops, first to create the elements of the map, and then to put them together.

You can learn more on their website, Facebook, Twitter, or by emailing them.

Anglia Ruskin consult on New Street / St Matthew’s Street junction

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The local university, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), is building on the site between Young Street and New Street – formerly the site of the Ragged School and CRC – for their Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education. The designs of the Young Street campus can be seen here and here.

Young Street, Cambridge

View down Young Street, with the ARU development on the right with the Crown Court behind

As part of the development, ARU need to make improvements to New Street and the junction with St Matthew’s Street (next to the Crown Court). A map of the plans is here (pdf). They plan to:

  • Replace the existing mini-roundabout with a raised T-junction, from June until September 2013
  • Introduce planting and upgrade the parking bays, in early 2015 after the Young Street campus is complete

They are holding a consultation with local residents and businesses on these plans on Saturday 18 May 2013, 2-4 pm, at St Matthew’s Church Hall on St Matthew’s Street. Plans are also on display in ARU’s Helmore Building, East Road, until 31 May. They will then finalise plans with the County Council.

More details are on their website, and you can comment by emailing newspaces@anglia.ac.uk or phoning Paula Langton of ARU’s Estates and Facilities Services on 0845 196 4666.