Community Festival to bring Olympic spirit to Wycombe (From Bucks Free Press)
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Community Festival to bring Olympic spirit to Wycombe
8:20am Sunday 29th July 2012 in News By Natasha Gaunt
Wycombe Steel Orchestra meets the Olympic Mascots
THE Olympics are set to be celebrated during this year's Wycombe Community Festival next weekend - complete with a big screen for people to enjoy the London 2012 games alongside the summer fun.
The annual event, which will also celebrate the town's multi-culturalism, now in its sixth year, will be held at the Rye for the second time.
The free festival will give the young people of the town a chance to perform music, dance, drama or sports in front of an audience. Jacqueline Roberts, festival organiser, said: "It’s an ideal opportunity for any local talent to showcase their skills and take the platform at a local event."
She added that the focus of the day will be to build relationships within the community and providing a well balanced display of all the different cultures that live in the town.
Involved in the event will be the Wycombe Steel Orchestra - SV2G.
The theme of last year’s festival was ‘one year to go’ until the Olympics, and now with the Games upon us, the festival will show on a big screen some of the events taking place on August 5.
