Rain showers didn’t stop hundreds of people enjoy the procession with music, workshops and performances on offer at last weekend’s Newtown Spring Fayre.
With more than 600 people attending the day’s festivities in the town centre, organisers Open Newtown and Oriel Davies Gallery said the event was a success.
“Another totally fab family friendly event,” said one fairgoer. “So much to see, do, hear, and enjoy all day. Many thanks to all involved.”
Ffynci Jync, who travelled down from Eryri in north Wales for the day, ran workshops making percussion instruments out of recycled materials for a procession with their new drum, parading around the festival site.
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The Hafren Nature Adventures team led the springtime celebrations with a May Pole dance and children fighting off Old Man Winter with wooden swords, as well as learning about the significance of spring in years gone by and how people would celebrate surviving another long, harsh winter.
People who took part in the 'Guess the Carbon Footprint of the Cake' competition the Spring Fayre were asked to guess how many grams of carbon dioxide were needed to make the fruit cake, adding up the carbon footprint of all the ingredients and the energy used to bake it. Some clues were given but this was not an easy task.
The cake weighed 1.6kg and the actual carbon footprint calculated was 5.29kg of carbon dioxide. In the end it was a family effort from Joseph and Elyse and their daughters Evie and Gwen that won the cake.
The day was rounded off with performances from Welsh folk dancers Qwerin and NPTC Performing Arts students who sang songs from their upcoming performance of American Idiot.
The event was run by Open Events, a collaboration between Open Newtown and Oriel Davies Gallery, made possible by funding from the Welsh Government’s Rural Development Programme.
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