Towersey festival
A massive thank you to Towersey Village Festival, the best place for music and dancing last weekend!
As well as putting on an incredible five day event, Towersey offered the African Workshop space to set up shop. We built a towering scaffolding stall and hung it with instruments and clothes made by the kids in Bamako, played the Groupe Africa Son CD and strung up Malian fans, shopping bags and t-shirts.
The response was fantastic – hundreds of people dropped by to watch the film about the project, listen to the tunes and to donate. And once I worked out that it only rained if I went up the ladder to fix the roof the weather was beautiful!
A huge, huge thank you to everyone who helped us raise an incredible £1,885.67!
It’s a massive step towards our £5,000 target needed to buy land and set up a bigger, better, purpose-built centre.
Special thanks have to go to Bryony of the Demon Barbers, whose fan-tastic demonstration of the power of out fans lead to a rush! And to Edward II, Eliza Carthy and the Imagined Village for plugging us, supporting us and popping over to say hello.
And, of course, to Pete Coe for generously donating the money from his CD sales to the African Workshop, as well as the amazing amount of work he does for us through out the year.
Towersey is an amazing place – thanks to Steve Heap, Alan Bearman and the rest of the crew for inviting us to be part of it. Hopefully see you all next year!
Don’t forget to check the rest of the site for other ways to get involved..!
Ben
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