Art, Craft & Photography exhibitors, this is the last week for handing in your entries for the Crosspool Festival exhibition/competition. There are two categories for each: – under 16yrs & over 16yrs. Enter up to two creations in one or more of the Art, Craft & Photography sections. You have until this Friday 24th June to drop off your entries at Cocker & Carr Estate Agents.
Cake Baking and Cup Cake Decorating, entries can be handed in at St Columba’s Church on Tuesday 28th June from 6pm to 7 pm or on Wednesday 29th June from 9am to 10am. Cake Baking has two categories: – under 16yrs & over 16yrs. Cup Cake decorating has two categories:- Under-fives &  Five to eleven yrs.
As part of their contribution to the Crosspool Festival, the Tapton Hill Congregational Church will be showing two short Buster Keaton films, on Tuesday, June 28th at 7pm
Jonny Best, a lively piano player who regularly plays for the Yorkshire Silent Film Festival, will accompany these very funny and popular silent films. Remember the days when we used to talk and laugh with our best friends? Pop along to the Tapton Church for a good night out with new & old friends. Popcorn will be available. All donations will benefit the Festival charities.
This year, to give plenty of scope for entrants to let their imaginations run wild, the popular annual Crosspool Scarecrow festival has a Royal theme with designs based on historical moments and occasions from the past 70yrs of the Queen’s reign. We hope local residents will get creative and have some fun with the theme and create some amusing scarecrows.
Judging for the best scarecrows will take place during the Crosspool festival week and the winners will be announced at the Crosspool Summer Fayre, Saturday 2nd July. (Volunteers are also required to help at the Crosspool Summer Fayre,so if you can spare a few hours to help or supervise a stall, please don't hesitate to get in touch with one of the committee members or leave a message at crosspoolforum@gmail.com )
In this, the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Year don’t miss the chance to showcase your creativity. Enter the Crosspool Festival Art, Craft, Photography, Cake Baking, and Cup Cake Decorating Competitions.
Anyone who lives works, or goes to school in the Crosspool area can enter, All exhibited creations will have the chance of winning a prize, sponsored by the Crosspool Estate Agent Cocker & Carr.
There is no theme to follow, just show us what you can create. You can enter as many of the categories as you want, but no more than two entries per category.
All competition entries will be displayed and judged at St Columba’s Church on Wednesday 29th June, after which some of the entries in the art, craft, and photography categories will go to be displayed in Cocker & Carr’s window.
How to enter:
Cup Cake Decorating Under-fives & five to eleven years can enter a maximum of two cupcakes. They don’t have to make the cupcakes, just decorate them using their imagination. Cake baking Under 16s & everyone over 16 years; you can submit up to two cakes that you have made. Hand both cupcakes & cakes in with a card that gives details of Name, Age, an email address, and phone number (that of parents or guardians for children)  at St Columba’s Church on Tuesday 28th June, 6 -7 pm or Wednesday 29th June, 9-10 am
Art and Craft Creations  Under 16s & everyone over 16 years. you can submit up to two creations that you have made. Photography Under 16s & everyone over 16 years: you can submit a maximum of two images in either A5 or A4. On the back print, a caption so the judges can clearly understand your description of what is happening in the photo, Name; Age; Category, and your contact email and phone number. Drop off your entries at the Crosspool Estate Agents Cocker & Carr, from Wednesday, June 1st. The closing date is midday on Friday 24th June.
For further information on all the categories, contact crosspoolfestivalphotos@alexanderhaguepersonal
Last year’s well dressing helpers are being asked to check their garages and garden huts as we are not sure where they were stored after the 2017 festival.
If you have any information please get in touch with Crosspool Forum using crosspoolforum@gmail.com or 07713 687 955.
Do you have any unwanted books, prizes, gifts or bric-a-brac that might be suitable for the Crosspool Forum Summer Fayre tombola or one of the stalls?
If so, please get in touch with Gillian on g.m.drinkwater@btinternet.com or 0114 229 5670. We can collect if necessary, or they can be dropped off locally.
Selborne Road street market, one of the Crosspool Festival events
Do you have any ideas for Crosspool Festival? Would you consider getting involved or helping out in some capacity?
The Crosspool Festival team are meeting in The Sportsman pub, Benty Lane, on Wednesday 8 November at 8pm. They’d welcome anyone interested to join them. Please come along to share your thoughts and ideas and have a drink.
Next year’s Crosspool Festival is due to take place between Friday 29 June to Sunday 8 July 2018.
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