Kendal Unity Festival ©
Introduction
The Kendal Unity Festival celebrates the strengths and diversity of the people of Kendal by building community cohesion, celebrating diversity, fostering good relations and promoting understanding between and within its diverse communities.
The Festival is aimed at advancing equality and challenging prejudice and discrimination through voluntary action and active citizenship. The Festival provides opportunities for formal and informal community groups, networks, public, private and third sector organisations to showcase a range of activities on offer within the community that local people can get involved in. It will raise awareness of shared issues and create opportunities for learning new skills, including tasting cuisines and cultures from around the world.
Kendal Unity Festival 2018
The first Kendal Unity Festival will take place on June 23rd 2018 coinciding with National Refugee Week and the Great Get Together activities marking the death of Jo Cox, MP.
The main programme will take place between 10am and 4pm in and around Kendal town centre with complementary world music performances and entertainment taking place in the nearby Brewery Arts Centre and other venues.
The Kendal Town Council, South Lakeland District Council and Cumbria County Council members and staff agreed in principle to support the organising committee of the Festival.
Kendal Unity Festival Offers
The Key Benefits of the Kendal Unity Festival
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Kendal Unity Festival Outcomes
The outcomes will include the following:
Background
AWAZ has been working in partnership with local organisations and groups in Kendal for many years and they are keen to bring the positive model of the Unity Festival to Kendal, building on the proven success of the similar Unity Festivals in Carlisle in 2016 and 2017; For further details please visit https://equalitycumbria.org/awaz-cumbria/carlisle-unity-festival Please read News: https://goo.gl/eT3FXe and watch Video: https://goo.gl/3cbSV9 or see photos at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/sets/72157683916752130 .
Recognising the community resilience and unity demonstrated in Kendal and the surrounding areas following the December 2015 floods, the South Lakeland Equality and Diversity Partnership entrusted AWAZ Cumbria to lead on organising Kendal Unity Festival by working in partnership with local groups and organisations.
The first group of Syrian refugees through the Vulnerable People Resettlement scheme will have arrived in Kendal in the spring 2018. One of the aims of the day will be to welcome and introduce these families to wider community networks in Kendal and support them in their social integration locally.
If you have any questions, comments/suggestions or need further information, please contact;
Aftab Khan – Development Officer, AWAZ Cumbria; Coordinator, Kendal Unity Festival
E-mail: Aftab@awaz.info Tel: 01228-511115, 07530193935
Dated: 12th January 2018
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