New Far Away Land Festival roars into Victoria Park in Southport this July
VICTORIA Park
in Southport will be transformed into a magical
fairytale village as the Far Away Land family
festival rolls into town! The event takes place on
Saturday, 2 July 2022 and Sunday, 3 July 2022 with a
huge array of entertainment for children (and
adults!) of all ages.
Visitors can enjoy:-
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Live
music from CBeebies favourites Andy and The
Oddsocks.
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Yolanda's Band Jam.
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Horrible
Histories Live.
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Jurassic
Live Dinosaur Show.
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Shlomo's
Beatbox Adventure.
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Roald
Dahl Imagination Seekers.
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Live
high flying wrestling.
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Assault
course.
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Graffiti
workshop, with a huge graffiti wall.
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A
kids comedy show.
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Plus
a huge immersive Lego City!
Not only that, but Far Away Land has teamed up with
autism charity Autism In Motion, to create a huge
Calm and Sensory Zone for children who might become
overwhelmed and need a little respite from the
festival fun.
There will also be a Food and Market Village, with
tons of independent stalls from delicious donuts to
lip licking Lebanese treats.
This year's fancy dress theme is to come as your
favourite characters from books or TV.
Fancy dress shop Smiffys is giving out vouchers to
its favourites; with a fancy dress catwalk to be
held each day too!
The whole Far Away Land family festival runs from
11am til 6pm on both Saturday and Sunday, and both
days' entertainment are the same; so it doesn't
matter which day you go, you'll still get to enjoy
all the fun!
Far Away Land
Festival organiser Andy Scott said:- "We have
been working on bringing this event to Southport
for the past 3 years - we are really excited to
open it! This is going to be a brilliant new
event for Southport. We are looking forward to
making this an annual event. We have: Andy and
the Oddsocks; Yolanda's Band Jam; Horrible
Histories; the Jurassic Live Dinosaur Show, with
a 7-metre tall Tyrannosaurus Rex roaming the
park; wrestling, which is really popular; a 100
metre long graffiti wall, which children will be
able to add to throughout the weekend; a huge
LEGO City that they will be able to help build;
there is so much stuff happening! We have got
lots of great food and drink stalls coming too,
supporting our Region's local independent
businesses, with the UK Independents Day taking
place that weekend. Victoria Park is a great
place to sit back and enjoy some food and we
will have a variety of vendors, including:-
vegan and gluten free options. We are turning
Victoria Park into a Far Away Land, which will
make visitors feel they are walking into a
fairytale land when they walk in - they are
really going to enjoy the weekend!"
The Far Away Land Festival takes place on Saturday,
2 July 2022 and Sunday, 3 July 2022, at Victoria
Park, Southport. Tickets are:- £15 each, or £10 for
NHS / Emergency Services / Universal Credit.
Southport Comedy Festival announces a new associate sponsor Halliwell Jones BMW for 2022
THE Southport
Comedy Festival are delighted to announce that
Halliwell Jones BMW will be the associate sponsor
for this year's festival. Now in its 11th year this
exciting event brings some of the best stand up
comedians from the world of comedy. Taking place
from the:- 30 September to 16 October 2022 line up
will be jam packed with a host of festival
favourites and household names from the world of
comedy. These include:- Ed Byrne, Reginald D Hunter,
Al Murray and many more.
Brendan Riley, Festival Director:- "Southport
Comedy Festival are delighted to partner
with Halliwell Jones BMW
as our main associate Sponsor for
2022. The support of all of our
sponsors, large and small, is vital to
keeping live events and the arts alive in our
area."
The entire festival will be staged once again in a
giant luxury heated and seated marquee courtesy of
Elite Marquees in Victoria Park. This multi purpose
event space which also hosts the annual Southport
Flower Show is only a short distance from the Town
centre and promenade making it the perfect venue for
such an event
Yvonne Watton, Head of Business at Halliwell Jones
Southport added:- "As a family run business we
love the opportunity to get involved with events
in the local community. The Southport Comedy
Festival is a perfect example of this as the
event brings together people from Southport and
beyond. We're delighted to be associate partner
for this year's festival and hope it is the
beginning of a long, successful partnership."
In addition to their associate partnership Halliwell
Jones MINI and Premium Trade Cars Southport will
also feature as regular sponsors.
During the event Halliwell Jones BMW and MINI will
have the very latest models from the range on
display. They invite anyone attending the festival
to visit them in their dedicated marquee next to the
main event space.
To find out more or to book tickets visit the
Southport Comedy Festival website.
