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THE FESTIVAL WEB SITE:

QPR Holiday Soccer School
Easter Fun Stories and Craft
Music, Movement and Art Morning
Rock 'n Pop Songwriting Workshop
Photographic competition : Look Around You
Pavani Vijay Paintings - Exhibition
St Paul 's Luncthime Concerts - If We Be But A Little Quiet
Performance: The Story Seller
Performance: The Japanese Garden
Exhibition: Artspace and West London Community Team
Oily Cart Present Jumpin' Beans
Drama, Music and Dance Workshop
Exhibition - The Fantastic Burns and Small Retainable Reclaimable Show
Laugh Comedy Club
Performance: Dangerous
Performance: Majnoun 'Iran: Fundamentalists, Terror and the Axis of Evil'
The Counterfeit Stones in Get Yer Doo Dahs Out
Discover the Gardens of Fulham Palace
Reading: All Hell Breaking Loose
Upstairs at the Rutland Festival Party
Exhibition: Memories of a Golden City: Baghdad
The Big Gig’s Little Brother
Alec Dankworth at the Bluejay Jazz Lounge
Ruki Vverh plus Jimmy G
Best Comes to the West 2004!
Hammersmith Farmers Market
Performance: Shockheaded Peter
Charlie Simpson and Fightstar
QPR v Grimsby Town
Glitch
Guided Tour of Fulham Palace
Funkstylers UK Popping Class
Local history displays
Competitions, offers and prizes
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Festival 2004 started on Saturday 3rd April with a range of entertainment and activities for all the family.

The fortnight-long annual festival offers music, sports, arts, cultural and children's events for residents and visitors to the borough. Highlights from Saturday 3 April- Saturday 10 April include:

" Here Comes Everyone! - a continuous programme of free performances and installations at the Lyric theatre (3 - 4 April)

" Big Gig's Little Brother - local acoustic musicians, poets and performers strut their stuff with comments from a 'Pop Idol' style panel (7 April)

" The Best Comes to the West - performances from comics Geoff Schumann (BBC London 94.9FM presenter), Felicity Ethnic and Donna Spence and musicians Mica Paris and Roachford (8 April)

" Middle Eastern food walking tour - exploration of little-known food shops, bazaars and eateries of Uxbridge Road (3 April)

" QPR holiday soccer school - football training for children from Queen's Park Rangers (5 April- 8 April)

" St Paul's Church evening concert - music by candlelight in an historic building in the centre of Hammersmith (3 April)

The Hammersmith & Fulham Festival 2004 runs from Saturday, 3 April until Sunday, April 18. For more details or a festival programme, call the festival hotline on 020 8753 6567, email festival2004@lbhf.gov.uk, or visit the interactive festival website at www.lbhf.gov.uk/festival


April 02, 2004

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The Festival 2004 gives you the chance to get noticed. You can participate of The Big Gig, The Big Gig's Online poetry contest or the online photography and arts contest.

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