Our Summer festival, celebrating the racial diversity in Braunstone, and remembering the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Slave Trade.
The opening event is on the Friday evening at 6.30pm, where dignitaries will meet local residents and look at the photo-exhibitions marking the abolition of the slave trade. A percussion ensemble will play traditional Ghanaian music and refreshments will be served.
On the Saturday we will hold our Summer Fair in and around the church, where the Ghanaian band will compete for time with steel drumming from the Caribbean and an old-fashioned fairground organ from Merrie England! The usual stalls will sell home-made cakes and produce, and different cultural groups from around Braunstone will bring their own traditional foods for us to sample.
On the Sunday, the festival will close with a service of Songs of Praise (starting at 4pm) which will feature a Gospel Choir from a Leicester black-led church.