Lord Mayor's Celebration

Lord Mayor's Celebration Norwich city centre
From Thursday 3rd July  to Sunday 6th July

Four days of celebrations including a street procession, entertainers, fireworks, outdoor stages with music, dance and theatre, a funfair, craft and food markets, street fayre, duck races and lots more. The city's biggest community celebration.

Thursday 3 July
7pm - Norwich School charity fashion show (Open)


Friday 4 July
9am to 8pm - The World Bazaar (Chantry car park, Theatre Street)
7.30pm to 9pm - Crude Apache Theatre (Heigham Park)
7.30 to 9pm - Somewhereto_ (Castle Gardens


Saturday 5 July
9am to 11pm - The World Bazaar (Chantry car park, Theatre Street)
11am to 5pm - Playtime (Chapelfield Gardens)
11am to 10pm - Funfair (Chapelfield Gardens)
11am to 10pm - Disco Shed DJs & The White Rabbit Bar  (Chapelfield Gardens)
12noon to 10.15pm - The Walk Stage (Gentleman's Walk)
12noon to 10.15pm - Bo Nananfafa Social Club Stage (Brigg Street)
12noon to 10.15 & 6pm to 10.15pm - Forum stage (Millennium Plain)
3pm to 10pm - BBC Voices (Chapelfield Gardens)
4.50pm - Lord Mayor's Street 5Km road race (starts on Agricultural Hall Plain)
5pm - The Lord Mayor's Street Procession (starts at St Stephens Road)
1pm to 4pm & 6pm to 10pm - Street entertainers
10.30pm - Fireworks (Norwich Castle)
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Sunday 6 July
10am to 5pm - The World Bazaar (Chapelfield Gardens)
11am to 6pm - Norwich Lanes Summer Fayre (Norwich Lanes)
12noon - The Great Nowich Duck Race (from Lady Julian Bridge, Riverside)
12noon to 4pm - Picnic and Play (St Georges Green)
12noon to 5pm - Playtime  (Chapelfield Gardens)
12noon to 7pm - BBC Voices (Chapelfield Gardens)
12noon to 5pm - The Walk Stage (Gentleman's Walk)
12noon to 7pm - Disco Shed DJs & The White Rabbit Bar  (Chapelfield Gardens)
12noon to 7pm - Funfair (Chapelfield Gardens)
1pm to 4.30pm - The Bishop of Norwoch Open Gardens (access via Bishopgate)
2pm - A Firm of Poets (St Gregory's Green)
12noon & 3pm - Bandstand concerts
3pm & 4.30pm - Crude Apache Theatre (Castle Gardens)

More info

The Big Lunch

On Sunday Grapes Hill Community Garden are hosting a bring-and-share meal as part of The Big Lunch, a national event that brings neighbours together.

Bring your own food or something to share (and a table and chairs or rug if you have them and can carry them – if not some will be provided).


Facebook event
More about Grapes Hill Community Garden

Free Courses with Trade School Norwich

Trade School is an open learning space that runs on barter. Anyone can teach something they are skilled at, or passionate about. Pay for class with a barter item (like food, supplies, or advice) that your teacher requests.

The next Trade School sessions will on 15th, 22nd and 29th March 2014 at St Laurence's Church, St Benedicts Street, Norwich NR2 4PG. Email: tradeschoolnorwich@gmail.com

On the 15th there are currently slots available on "Starting Shorthand" and "Learning Greek"

Watch this space!

http://tradeschool.coop/norwich/ 

How Trade School works

Trade School is a non-traditional learning space where students barter with teachers.

After you submit your class idea, when you'd like to teach, and what you want in exchange for teaching, Trade School organizers will review your submission. If your submission is approved, it will be posted on the website for students to sign up. On the day of class, you will meet your students at Trade School, receive your barter items, and enjoy the class.

Jobs Fair Wed 25 Sep 2013

The Jobs Fair at The Forum is packed with local companies looking for active jobseekers who are motivated and keen to learn.

Meet potential employers, get some CV advice and take the first steps to a new career.

PLUS: Lotus will be at the Jobs Fair with a Formula 1 car - just like this one! The car will be on display inside the Atrium. Don't miss it!

The Atrium 10am-3pm

More info thejobfairs.co.uk/

Save a life ♥ give blood ♥

National Blood Service – Do Something Amazing – Give Blood

Urgently need more O- and B- donations at the moment as stocks have fallen.
Two of the various venues around the city, with upcoming dates:

Norwich City Football Club
Carrow Road
13:00 to 15:30 and 17:00 to 19:00
     Wednesday 17 Apr 2013
     Wednesday 24 Apr
     Thursday 09 May ...

Mercure (Ramada) Norwich
Boundary Road
13:00 to 15:15 and 16:30 to 19:00
     Monday 15 Apr 2013
     Thursday 25 Apr
     Tuesday 07 May ...

 

To
 – find other venues or dates
 – register if it's your first time
 – make an appointment to donate:

Online Give Blood
or ☎ 0300 123 23 23

Do you ♥ washing up ?

Or, what about cycling around the city on a Friday afternoon collecting donated food at pre-arranged locations – a bike with trailer supplied?

Or washing/chopping/mashing/slicing/dicing/peeling vegetables and fruit – cooking – arranging the furniture – meeting & greeting – making tea or coffee – serving food – clearing away – cleaning – re-arranging the furniture – vacuuming the carpet – washing the linoleum?

Then check-out FoodCycle Norwich on facebook.

FOOD CYCLE NORWICH / Foodcycle

A shared vegetarian meal.
Every Friday (including Good Friday) at 7pm.
Quaker Meeting House in Upper Goat Lane.
Free.
Donations to cover costs are appreciated.

Use entrance in the Friends' car park on the left

Free skill share with NorLETS

Norlets is starting up again, and looking for people to take get involved.  

NorLETS (Norwich Local Exchange Trading Scheme) is a scheme which allows the people of Norwich, and surrounding areas, to trade goods and services with each other without the need for any kind of real currency.  Instead transactions are paid for using the scheme's own virtual currency, 

http://www.norlets.org.uk/index.php

I'm going to give it a go and let you know how I get on with it.

Interesting Volunteering Opportunities in Norwich and beyond

Ever thought about volunteering?  Not just for 'do-gooders', the unemployed, and the retired! - the rest of us can get a lot out of it too, including free training, meeting new people, gaining skills, and generally having a good laugh.  

And it's not just working in a charity shop, y'know!  A quick look at the Do-it.org website has a range of opportunities including: Helper For Toddler Dance Classes, Beached Bird Surveyor, First Aid Volunteer, and Treasurer.

The best place to look would be www.do-it.org.uk, and you can also visit Voluntary Norfolk on Pottergate to pick up leaflets and speak to someone who can match you to your perfect volunteering role.

Allotment Growing

Want to learn how to grow your own veg?  Thinking about getting an allotment?   Come down to Norwich Community Green Gym's allotment at Sycamore Crescent on a Sunday afternoon and 
find out and get involved in maintaining and planting.

If you're lucky enough to be doing one of the tasks where they dig up the veg, then you get loads of free veg too!



http://norwichcommunitygreengym.blogspot.co.uk/

Join the freeconomy! - Free-Shop and Picnic

Norwich has it's own emerging 'freeconomy'.  We have meet ups (usually at Cow Tower, but we may move to Foodcycle on a Friday evening as it gets colder/wetter).  We bring food, entertainment and stuff to share / give away.

Visit http://www.norwichfreeconomy.org/ to find out when the next meet-up is.

Foodcycle Norwich

Free food and company for everyone at Foodcycle Norwich on a Friday evening.  Not just for the vulnerable; frequented by students and people interest in sustainability

Great vegan and vegetarian food

It's also really easy to volunteer, either serving, preparing, cooking or washing up!

http://foodcycle.org.uk/location/norwich/

Most Fridays - please check on their facebook page 

Sew Gay group - Saturday 21 July 2012

Enjoy sewing and crafts?  The Sew Gay group are a bunch creative people who love to sew, knit, glue, stitch - whatever we need to do to make banners, bunting, scarves and patchworks to support Norwich Pride in their vision to turn Norwich into a rainbow. We meet monthly on the big table upstairs in the Millennium Library in the Forum. We are an inclusive group - whilst many of us are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Trans (LGBT), we welcome everyone

Meet upstairs in the Millennium Library in the Forum from 12-2pm Saturday 21 July 2012 to make decorations for Norwich Pride. 

www.sewgaynorwich.shutterfly.com