Summer and more Festivals!

Summer is here! Longer daylight hours with sunrise at around 4.45am and sunset after 9pm. BBQ, shopping, relaxing on the grass, suntanning, beaches etc are just the things that you need to do during this summer season.

Annual Summer Sales has already begun with bargains up to 20-30% off beginning the first week of June! More bargains are coming up as the month goes on with the biggest bargains during Mid-June till Mid-July. It is the time of the year to SHOP!!

Festivals are ongoing no matter what season we are in! Summer Festivals are one of the biggest festivals throughout the year. We have just ended the Norfolk and Norwich Festival a couple of days ago but there are more events coming!

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrates 60 years of the Queen’s reign. Celebrations will be held across the UK during the first week of June in 2012. Many people have a day off work or school to celebrate the bank holiday on June 5, 2012. Other planned events for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee include:

  

• A Diamond Jubilee Medal to be commissioned.
• A UK-wide competition, planned to be launched in spring 2010, for towns to bid for city status.
• Royal Borough status to be granted to Greenwich, which has a long-standing association with the Windsor family.

The bank holiday for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee will be a day off for most people in the UK on Tuesday, June 5, in 2012. Moreover, the late May bank holiday (spring bank holiday), which is usually held on last Monday of May, will be moved to Monday, June 4, 2012, to form a four-day weekend. Buckingham Palace is organizing many events centered on the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, while the UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is coordinating government-led activities in celebrating this special occasion. The department is working with the Scottish government to help ensure that a single date for a bank holiday across the UK can be held to allow for communities to join in celebrating the jubilee. Further details can be found here:

http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/uk/queen-diamond-jubilee

 

Norwich Flower Festival in conjuction with The Queen's Diamond Jubilee, Norwich Cathedral celebrates 60 years of Norfolk from Friday 1 June to Monday 4 June. There will be floral displays in the Nave, and a Craft and Food market arranged by Produced in Norfolk in the Cloisters. Entry will be £7.50 per person (children under 14 free). Proceeds to Norwich Cathedral, The Big C and Norfolk & Norwich Familes House. Further details can be found below (see link):

http://www.cathedral.org.uk/visitorinfo/exxhibitions-festival-of-flowers-2012.aspx

 





Festival of Transition, which is a nationwide festival, coordinated by nef (the new economics foundation) and the Transition Network, has begun, running until 20th June, the first day of the 20th UN Earth Summit in Rio. The Festival gives people the opportunity to do something positive about climate change and the economic crisis in their own communities. The Festival is a unique mixture of walks, talks and a DIY day of action on 20th June. It combines a series of organised events at festivals, museums and institutions around the country with an open invitation to schools, workplaces and community groups to stage their own ‘real-life experiments’ in living differently on 20th June. More details can be found below:

http://transitionnorwich.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/announcing-festival-of-transition-20.html

 

The World Literature Festival is taking place from the 18th- 22nd June in venues across Norwich. Writers will be flying in from across the world to enjoy inspiring discussion and debate. There will be some fantastic author events open to the public, including a series of free Afternoon Readings. Jeanette Winterson, Nobel Laureate JM Coetzee and Michael Ondaatje are just a few of the world-renowned authors who will be visiting Norwich and featuring in our Worlds events. Look up more through this link below for further details:

http://www.writerscentrenorwich.org.uk/worldsliteraturefestival.aspx


Other events lined up at the Norwich Arts Centre can be found here:


http://www.grapevinelive.co.uk/Views/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=348b7947-b162-4b50-9cdf-916dffb17ded

 

 

More events are lined up for this year's summer!! I hope that everyone has a great summer and exams are soon to be out of the way!! Enjoy the SUN, SHOPS, FESTIVALS and many more!!! 

 

 

Till Next Time,

 

Samantha

UEA International Ambassador Brunei