It has been a hectic few of months, what with work, uni, opening a vintage unit, settling in to our new home and looking after a husband!
Piling more on to my plate isn't going to make that much of a difference... is it?
Anyway, it's an opportunity not to be missed!
Anyway, it's an opportunity not to be missed!
On Sunday 3rd June 2012, over one thousand boats will muster on the River Thames in preparation for Her Majesty The Queen to take part in the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant
The Diamond Jubilee Festival, Battersea Park, which will celebrate design, music, art, film, fashion and food from the past 60 years and provide an ideal vantage point to watch the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant
Drum roll please...
We are taking part in the Diamond Jubilee Festival classic car boot sale...
Excited is an understatement!
Co-curated by the Wayne Hemingway and Hemingwaydesign with Clare Patey, it will not only provide the perfect place to watch the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant and celebrate 60 years of the Queen's reign; it is celebrating 60 years of British culture with line up events that will excite everyone!
These are the amazing things going on! It's only £5 to get in too! BARGAIN!
The park will be divided into zones to include:
- The Diamond Geezer pop up pub - with Pearly Kings and Queens, sing-a-longs and traditional pub games
- Pageant Viewing + Thames bars - watch the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant and toast The Queen and 1,000 magnificent vessels from here.
- A Coronation bandstand tea dance - with live big bands swing, jive and lindyhop open dance classes, 1952-themed bars and the food flavours of the Coronation Year.
- The Crowning Glory - The Main Stage. Six concerts for six decades of The Queen’s reign.
- A Tea Garden - featuring; Cake in the Clouds – world renowned engineers and architects including Arups and AECON will team up with bakers to construct towers of confectionary with prizes for the tallest cake and most daring creation. A Portrait of The Queen. Bakers Konditor and Cook will construct a three metre high portrait of The Queen out of 3,120 cakes, one for each week of her reign.
- The WI. The Women’s Institute - will present more than 500 specially designed Jubilee cakes to be displayed on a giant diamond encrusted cake stand and eaten throughout the afternoon.
- The Salons - Hair & Beauty Booths – from 50s and 60s makeovers to 70s Summer of Love flower
- headpieces, an 80s blow dry bar and a 00s nail art salon.
- The Style Spotter's Best Dressed Catwalk
- Public Toasting - a mobile toasting trolley complete with regal hats and drinks giving people the chance to publically toast whoever or whatever deserves it!
- Mass Kazoo play along - God Save The Queen played by 1,000 plus festival goers and led by a marching kazoo band, followed by a mass toast to The Queen.
- Souvenir Making - crown making, knitting, customised headscarves, medals – a chance to make and wear a souvenir, complete with knitted crown jewels.
- Once upon a Time there was a Queen … featuring authors, storytellers and singers telling tales of Queens including myths, fairytales, historic stories and contemporary writing commissioned for the day and performed by White Rabbit.
- Home live art's Alternative Village Fete - a sideways look at the traditional family day out with a jamboree of artists’ stalls, craft, dance and performance that everyone can join in with.
- The Village Green ,- showcasing British folk traditions at their finest, curated by Sam Lee, new folk pioneer and founder of London’s Magpies Nest collective.
- The Royalty Picture House - an outdoor cinema, showing Pathé footage from the Coronation and other significant televised royal events plus live footage of The Thames Diamond Jubilee River Pageant.
- A mini-museum and public memory bank - exhibiting royal memorabilia collected by the public through the decades, curated by Josh Knowles. This will be a month long exhibition at Battersea Park’s Pump House Gallery.
- The Classic Car Boot Sale - vintage royal memorabilia and more all sold from classic cars from the last 60 years
- The Great British Seaside Craft Workshops - with The Seaside Sisters and a fancy dress flotilla on the boating lake.
- Carter’s Steam Fair - a collection of nostalgic fairground rides, carousels, swing boats, chair'o' planes and dodgems.
- A themed festival market - with food and drink celebrating all things British as well as food and drink from across the Commonwealth.
- A Right Royal Department Store - presented by Anita’s Vintage Fashion Fair and bursting full of vintage clothing and accessories.
- The Etsy Marketplace - a veritable cornucopia of royal collectibles and handmade memorabilia.
- A Right Royal Art School - - your chance to paint a ‘poortrait’ of The Queen
- The Good Times Bus - have a boogie with one of the world’s finest DJs, Norman Jay MBE.
All this info was taken for the official Thames Diamond Jubilee website.
So my husband and I will be selling items that people remember from the last 60 years!
How exciting to be a part of this! Selling vintage, showing off our little Mini and joining in the celebrations!
We hope to see you there!
For more information on all the events over the Jubilee weekend check out this website!
Dawn xx :D
