Brick Lane Festival

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The Brick Lane Festival
is a free event and is organised by the Ethnic Minority Enterprise Project.

For more info contact:
020 7655 0906
info@emep.co.uk

Brick LaneFestival 2006
Sunday, From 12noon 6.30pm (Show continues at selected venues after 6.30pm) Brick Lane/Hanbury Street and Allen Gardens, London E1

Once again London’s most famous Lane is set to embrace itself for the most happening event on the London’s calendar. More than 60,000 visitors are expected to decend upon London’s Brick Lane on Sunday, 10th September for the highly acclaimed global mix of music, food, history and culture that make up the Brick Lane Festival. Hailed as one of the biggest and most exciting cross cultural street parties, this year’s Brick Lane Festival promises to be even bigger with a fantastic line up of events including:

The stage is set for EMEP’s ‘I Love Brick Lane’ Fashion Show. Sew-East is one of EMEP’s unique one stop programme catering for and supporting the clothing sector in London through the provision of extensive business advice, guidance and counselling, not to mention the specialist networking events and workshops. At the ‘I Love Brick Lane’ fashion show there will be a stylish display of cutting edge ethnic fashion from the east end’s leading designers, presenting their collection from Urban wear from ‘Born in 72 to ‘Junky Styling’.

For more information please contact Jennifer Williams-Baffoe, Sew-East Programme Manager at EMEP on 020 7655 0906 email:jennifer@emep.co.uk

FOOD

Good food has always been one of the lynch-pins of the Brick lane festival and this year is no exception. The Lane’s numerous curry houses will be showcasing their wares with personal food stalls to give passing visitors a taste of the diverse mouth watering curries. For those that don’t like curry, take heart, the ‘Festival Food Village’ in Dray Walk will be providing a range of foods to suit every taste, and ofcourse there is always Brick Lane's famous beigels.

KIDS STUFF

Fun fair rides, kids workshops, make up stands, stilt walking workshops, a climbing wall, Spitalfields City Farm, clowns and jugglers all welcome you to this year’s festival.

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

Off stage, the festival aims to have something to suit everyone. Check out the delightful range of street entertainers, dhol players, string bands and theatre, music, stilt walkers, slap stick comedy, open historic houses and lastly not to mention Club Mum; a chill-out Zone for mums and kids. All these will all ensure that every visitor leaves the festival with a smile on their face.

The main stage show finishes at 6.30pm but visitors are welcome to carry on enjoying themselves at selected local venues including the renowned Vibe Bar, 93 Feet East and Rhythm Factory until late into the night. Follow the coloured signs to the venue of your choice.

This year’s festival is supported by: Mayor of London, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Others TBC.

NOTES TO EDITORS

- Electronic Images are available for publishing. For more details contact EMEP on 020 7655 0906

- For more Information about the ‘I Love Brick Lane’ fashion show contact Jennifer Williams-Baffoe at EMEP on 020 7655 0906 email Jennifer@emep.co.uk

- The Brick Lane Festival is organised by Ethnic Minority Enterprise Project (EMEP) a business support agency. EMEP can be contacted on 020 7655 0906 email musleh@emep.co.uk or check out www.emep.co.uk

- For Brick Lane Festival Sponsorship contact Rimon Rahman, iMediaLondon 020 7247 0600 email bricklanefestival@imedialondon.com or check out www.imedialondon.com

- For more information about local markets check out www.eastlondonmarkets.com or www.spitalfields.org.uk

The Ethnic Minority Enterprise Project Ltd (EMEP) The Business Development Centre, 7-15 Greatorex Street, London E1 5NF Tel: 020 7655 0906 Fax: 020 7247 1086 www.emep.co.uk

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