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This year's Waterloo Carnival will take place on Friday 10th July from 12pm-9pm on and around Lower Marsh and the Millennium Green.
A Pupil from Johanna School performs at the 2008 Carnival. This year the event will have an Alien theme, with over 300 people aged 2 to 82 taking part in a community Carnival procession at 1.30pm along Lower Marsh. Please come and show your support for these local performers, who have been working hard on their costumes ready for the big day. Activities will continue into the evening, with live music outside Cubana and a cabaret stage at the Walrus Social from 6pm. There are lots of opportunities for businesses to get involved, ranging from encouraging your staff to volunteer to help steward the procession to theming your shop window or office for the week around the event in a suitably extra-terrestrial way. A giant UFO made by local school children will be landing in the window of the Waterloo library on Thursday 1st July and we would like to encourage other businesses to get into the spirit of the day. There are also opportunities for local businesses to sponsor a class group at the local school taking part in the procession. Please contact the carnival co-ordinator Sarah Cretch sarahcretch@hotmail.co.uk for further information.
The event is run and managed by the Friends of Waterloo Carnival, a group of local organisations and individuals including Johanna Primary School, community and business organisations, and will engage over 500 local residents in creative activity in the area. Waterloo is a vibrant community, with a unique character, which is reflected in the wide range of organisations and individuals that have come together to make the event happen. Waterloo Quarter is happy to be sponsoring this year's event.
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