The Bedford Park Festival: June 13th-28th 2009
Green Days Fête and Craft Fair
Saturday 13 June & Sunday 14 June
On Acton Green Common opposite
St Michael & All Angels Church and Turnham Green tube station.
See below for this year's Programme
Our traditional village Green Days Fete has attractions for all the family, with dodgems, fairground rides and a bandstand - the focus for live music and many events. Children can take part in or watch three junior 5-a-side football tournaments (under-8s and under-11s on Saturday, under-14s on Sunday), the fancy dress parade (above right) and Bedford Park’s Got Talent (find out how to enter from the Parish Office or this website (when updated). And spot the Wild West characters in the Turnham Green Terrace Treasure Hunt (under-12s, pick up an entry form from Trotters nearer the time).
Activities include skittles, coconut shy, and children’s corner, and for the less active, a champagne lottery. The Craft Fair has a wide selection, including works to buy or commission. Other stalls sell plants, cakes, toys, books, bric-a-brac, second-hand children's clothing etc. Tickets will be on sale for the Win-a-Meal contest (supported by many local restaurants), the Festival Raffle and the High Roller Tombola. There’s a beer tent serving Fuller’s and Pimm’s; a refreshment tent serving lunches, strawberries and cream teas; and a barbecue, with burgers and hot dogs from Mackens. Plus bacon butties, pasta, crepes, Oriental food and international food. At the St Michael & All Angels stand, you can find information; learn about the Festival charities; and buy Fairtrade goods, Festival t-shirts and other merchandise.
Green Days 2008 Review (see right)
As part of Love London weeks, we aim to recycle all waste on the Green and improve the environment in Chiswick. Visit the stall run by Eco Age.
Programme for 2009
Saturday 13 June
Stalls open 11am-6pm
Children’s Fancy Dress Parade & Celebrity Opening* 11.00am
Theme: Wild West 4!
Meet in the Parish Hall at 10.30. A prize for every entrant.
The BJO 11.30am
Big sound jazz band, with hits from Duke Ellington to Woody Herman.
Twyford School Gospel Choir 2pm
2009 BBC Songs of Praise School Choir of the Year
Jessie Grace 3.15pm
“Some of the lushest, most beguiling music in the past half a decade”
The Barnets 5pm
Young rock/indie/punk band
www.myspace.com/thebarnets
*Watch chiswickw4.com and the Chiswick Times for announcement
Sunday 14 June
Stalls open 11.30am-5.30pm
Open Air Mass 10.30am
Morning service on the Green with music by Off-Beat Brass (right).
World Busk at Noon for Musequality
Gather at 11.45am
Inviting musicians and singers, of all ages and abilities, to join in a busking world record attempt with David Juritz!
www.worldbusk.org for further information.
Arts Educational Schools London 1.15pm
Music and dance from UK’s premier performing arts institution
Bedford Park's Got Talent 2.00-2.45pm and 3.15-4.00pm
Under-17s talent show.
Entry forms from Parish Office. NB: Places limited - must be
booked by 12 noon Saturday 13 June (at Parish Office or Bacon Butties stall on Green Days).
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Prize-Giving – Green Dad Competition 4pm
Sponsored by Turnham-Green.co.uk
Bedford Park's Got Talent - Winners perform 4.15pm
Introducing young bands 4.45pm
The Dead Falsettos
Eskimo Sunday
If you would like to help the Festival in any way, contact St Michael’s Parish Office: parishoffice@smaaa.org.uk. 
Photos by David Beresford and Torin Douglas