Moretonhampstead's first Flag Festival!
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February 19 2011
Moretonhampstead's first Flag Festival!
The Flag Festival will run from 19th February to 5th March 2011
Moretonhampstead will be ablaze with colour from 19th February as the town's first ever flag festival transforms the streets. 47 stunning flags have been designed and made by residents of the town as part of a community project. The Flag Festival will coincide with half term week, culminating in the town's third Food, Drink and Arts Festival on 5th March.
The unique flags are made even more special by the fact that they are made from recycled fabric; discarded tents left at festival sites washed, ironed and made as good as new (one or two of the flags even sport a tent toggle), and off-cuts from the Cameron Balloons Factory in Bristol. The tent fabric is sourced through seasonal work undertaken by the woodland community at Steward Wood. They also grew, and made the flag-poles.
Open to everyone, the workshops were made possible with support from Moretonhampstead Development Trust, and major funding from Dartmoor Sustainability Fund, Making It Happen Teignbridge Partnership, and Devon County Council. Workshop leaders, Veronica Gould and Andrea Foxwell, intend to carry on with the project, so that gradually more and more people participate in creating these unique works of art. It is hoped that this will become an annual display of colour and community that celebrates Moretonhampstead at the end of a long winter, heralding in the Spring with a blaze of colour, and giving an extra visual 'bite' to the Food Beer and Arts Festival.
A Quiz has been devised, to make Flag Spotting fun. It can be bought for 50p at The Gateway Tearooms, or the Sawdye and Harris Office in the centre of the town. (Monies raised will go to go towards next year's flag fund)
