Street Party News June 28 2009.

ELMFIELD ROAD STREET PARTY
SATURDAY JULY 18TH 2009

EVENTS WILL INCLUDE:-

12 NOON    Road officially closed to traffic until midnight! Music and dancing all day.

3PM ONWARDS: FOOD AND DRINK; BASKETBALL CHALLENGE; FACE PAINTING; PARTY GAMES.

5PM    TEA DANCE.
The chance for residents and their friends to show off their syncopated swing dance moves to the music of Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and many more.

6PM    SING-ALONG AROUND THE PIANO.
Margaret will be playing a selection of old music hall classics on the piano for everyone to join in.

7PM    KARAOKE!
Have a look through the song list on the day or check out the website to choose the songs you want to sing. Write your name and song(s) choices on the list by the stage under the marquee on the day.

9PM    RAFFLE.
People have donated prizes that include bottles of wine, shopping vouchers, tomato plants and champagne. David will be out selling raffle tickets and collecting more prize donations soon, or you can drop of your prize donations with Paul at number 9.

9.30 PM ELMFIELD’S “GUILTY PLEASURES” DISCO.
We’ll be playing those tunes we’re too cool to admit we all secretly love, including “Mr Blue Sky”, “Crazy Horses”, “Mamma Mia”, “Rio”, “Let Your Love Flow”, “Jolene” and “I Feel Love”. If you haven’t told us your guilty pleasures yet, please pop them through the letterbox at number 39 (along with your name if you’re not too embarrassed!) or use the comments section of the website.

BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE DONATING RAFFLE PRIZES, BUYING RAFFLE TICKETS, BRINGING OUT FOOD AND DRINKS TO SHARE ON THE DAY.

If you can help set things up and put up street decorations on the day, meet on the green at 12 noon.

If the weather’s good why not bring out your garden chairs (and tables if you have them) onto the green to create a communal space to meet your neighbours, chat and eat?

The VERY LAST AND FINAL planning meeting will be held in the Coppermill on Monday July 13th July at 8PM.  EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO COME ALONG

Less than a month now …

Hey Elmfield Road,

It’s less than a month now until the street party. The weather’s looking promising and we’ve sorted out the marquee, PA system etc. Hope everyone’s worked out what they’re going to cook or bring along on the day.

I’ve put together about an hour of 40s swing music for a good old fashioned ‘tea dance’. (If you have Spotify you can review the playlist here.) If you want to practice your swing dancing here’s an online swing dance tutorial site, or you can learn the lindy hop here. Here’s some more ambitious swing dancing to learn from!

Also, don’t forget to let us know your guilty pleasures, you know – those tunes you really shouldn’t like. We’ll be doing a mix of all those on the day too.

Finally, if you have any prizes you can donate for the raffle please drop them off at number 9 or number 39.

See you all on Saturday July the 18th for a jumping, jiving party

Street Party Guilty Pleasures Mix

Hi folks,
Would anyone like to suggest any tunes to be included in a ‘guilty pleasures’ mix, where we share our love of – let’s face it – cheesy tunes? Here’s my collection  on Spotify: -

Leave you’re suggestions and I’ll try to do a mix of them all for the day.

Latest Street Party News: June 2009

Events line up (provisional).
3PM ONWARDS: MUSIC AND DANCING; FOOD AND DRINK; FACE PAINTING; BASKETBALL; PARTY GAMES
4.30PM – 6PM: BEST DRESSED PET / ELMFIELD’S GOT TALENT
6PM – 7PM: LIVE MUSIC (tbc)
7,30PM – 8PM: SING-SONG: COCKNEY KNEES UP
8PM – 9PM: ELMFIELD’S KARAOKE CHALLENGE
9PM – LATE: RAFFLE DRAW AND PARTY DJ!

STREET PARTY NEWS June 1st 2009.

The road will be officially closed to traffic on Saturday July 18th from lunchtime until midnight. Please move your car to the end of the street on Saturday morning. If you’re going to be away that weekend the people at number 9, 11 and 59 don’t mind you parking outside their houses.

There will be no charge for anyone who wants to attend the party. To help raise money for this and next year’s events we’ll be selling raffle tickets beforehand and on the day.

Clifford is organising a 24-foot long marquee this year. It’ll contain a stage (for the band, karaoke and DJ) as well as tables for everyone to share food and drink. Come rain or shine we’ll have a party! (Correction: The actual size of the canopy/marquee is 46′ x 24′)

The money collected from last years raffle is helping to pay for the event, including insurance and DJ hire, but won’t cover all costs. If you can donate prizes for the raffle to help pay for next year please drop them off with Paul at number 9 or David at number 39.

All residents and their friends are invited. Use the website to offer advice or look for suggestions from other residents on local hotels and B&Bs if you run out of space for your friends: http://elmfieldroad.wordpress.com/

If you have any more ideas for the party, or just fancy a pint, come to the next planning meeting: Sunday 28th June 6pm Coppermill Pub (beer garden if the weather’s nice).

Age of Stupid showing in Walthamstow.

Transition Films is showing The Age of Stupid at the Asian Centre on Orford Road in Walthamstow Village on Friday 22 May.

Street Party Meeting Notes: May 4th 2009

Elmfield Road Street Party – 18th July 2009
Thank you to everyone who came to the meeting on Bank Holiday Monday evening. The next meeting will be held on Monday 18th May at 8pm at the Coppermill Pub.
The following points were discussed:
1. David is waiting for the road closure paperwork. Stage insurance to be decided upon in June. We are considering whether to hire a bouncy castle for children. To look into insurance costs.
2. Ian to keep chasing up any available funding.
3. Any more volunteers to co-ordinate events?
4. Ali and Katherine will be decorating the street for the party and are asking for ANY DONATIONS OF FABRIC, PAPER, CRAFT MATERIALS (give to Ali at No 13)
5. Cliff, Stan and Alan are organising the marquee.
6. Paul (No13) to contact Fire Brigade to see if they are available on 18th July to lead activities linked with fire service.
7. Any money raised to go towards improving the street and/or green opposite (e.g. community garden, garden bench).
8. Residents may want to invite non-resident family or friends. If anyone has views as to whether non-residents should be charged for attending (e.g. £1.00 or 50p for adults, children 50p or free) or whether we should have a donation bucket at the party, please let us know. Also, should residents ask guests to donate some food and drink? If anyone has strong views either way, please let us know (David No39 or Bridget No4 or come to meeting).
9. WFM have been invited to cover the street party in their free paper.
10. Cliff suggested a sing-a-long to old time classics. Margaret has volunteered to lead a sing-a-long – (e.g. Lambeth Walk, Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner, Underneath the Arches).UPDATE here’s a link to some old musicn  hall songs, for inspiration
It was decided a time table of events on the day would be useful
Provisional timetable of events

3pm Street Party begins Face Painting / children’s games / eating and drinking

4.30pm-5pm Best Dressed Pet Show? (Bridget, Andrea)

6pm-7pm Elmfields got Talent (David)

7.30pm-8pm Knees-up (Margaret)

8pm Raffle

8.30pm Band? Karaoke?

9.30pm DJ?
11.30pm Grand Finale …. Chinese Lanterns

This is only a provisional timetable and may change. For example, depending on whether a karaoke machine can be hired or borrowed, whether there is a band)
Any suggestions or contributions are welcome and valued.
Our next meeting is on Monday 18th May 8pm The Coppermill Pub. Please come along.

Street Party Meeting: Minutes from 23 April 2009

Thank you to everyone who came to our meeting on Monday evening and for all contributions.
They following was decided at the meeting:
Street Party Date When David canvassed the residents, 18th July was the date most people preferred, and so it was decided the party will be on Saturday 18th July 3pm-11.30pm.
D.J. Jeff had asked the DJ (of Chester Road Street Party fame) if he would be available on 18th July. He quoted £200. We felt this price was a little steep and weren’t sure what that included. If anyone knows of any DJs available on 18th July, we would be really grateful if you could approach them or forward their details so we could talk to them. As this is a Community Street Party and because monies raised would be donated to charity, is there a possibility prices would be dropped?
Music Whether there is a DJ or not, it was decided we would need background music during the day.
Ian suggested that people could burn their favourite tracks onto a CD so that he could mix them for the party. People would need to do this a week before the party so Ian has time to mix music.
It was suggested that throughout the day music from different decades could be played at different times … so that there would be music from the 1940s right up to 2009. People would need to give CDs to Ian so that he could make this happen. If you are unable to burn CDs, let Ian (No. 39) know what music you would particularly like to hear.
Food It was decided that we would ask all residents to contribute a dish for everyone to sample. This worked really well last year. Residents would also be asked to contribute or bring soft and/or alcoholic drinks.
Road closure and insurance. David will contact the council
Funding. Ian will contact councillors to see if there is any available funding.
Charities We talked about where any money raised (mainly through a raffle) could be donated. Alot of people were in favour of a local charity or for using the money for a Community Garden.
Street Decorations. Katherine and Alison have agreed to do a banner.
Marquee and infrastructure. Stan and Cliff will look into this also into setting up a small stage area for kareoke and/or “Elmfield’s got Talent”

Events on the day.
We thought it would be a good idea to have a timetable of when different activities would be happening.
We came up with numerous events that could be going on throughout the day.
Suggested events:
“Elmfield’s got Talent.” This would be open to children and adults.
Kareoke. If anyone has access to a karoke machine or could help in anyway, please let us know.
Kids Events: Face Painting (Bridget)
Football (Jeff)
3 legged race
Egg and Spoon race
… all open to adults too!
Raffle. Any donations would be gratefully accepted.
It was decided that if there are a lot of donations, we could group smaller prizes together as one larger prize.
Lucky Dip or Tombola.
Bring & Buy.
Pet Show
Grafitti Art
“Strictly Elmfield”
Live Band. Does anyone know of any bands who would be interested in performing at the Street Party?
Or are there any musicians who want to get a band together?
These ideas are all brilliant and it would be great if some of them could actually happen. However, to make any event happen, we need people … YOU … to volunteer to co-ordinate an event. If you are interested in a particular event, let us know (either talk to or drop a note through David’s door (No.39) or Bridget’s door (No.4). Or if you can, PLEASE come to our meeting. There were very few people at the last meeting and all contributions are welcome and needed …. The more the merrier!

Next meeting … Monday 4th May 8.30pm Coppermill Pub

Elmfield Road 2009 Street Party

Hi Folks,
We’re hoping to hold the street party this year on

SATURDAY 18th JULY,

3pm to 11.30pm!

Music, food, drink, good company, competitions … what more can you ask for Please come along to the next planning meeting to find out more:- 8.30pm Monday May 4th, Coppermill Pub.

Street Party 2009 – possible dates to avoid?

If we’re having a street party this year, we could try to make sure it doesn’t clash with other events people might want to go to. These are some events already planned this year:

07.06.2009  Camden Green Fair 2009  Regents Park  Camden
20.06.2009  Tottenham Carnival  Bruce Castle Park  Tottenham
20.06.2009 Paradise Gardens Festival  Victoria Park  Tower Hamlets
04.07.2009  Pride London 2009  Various, Central London  -
04.07.2009 Leytonstone Festival  Various – Leytonstone
12.07.2009 Rise Festival Finsbury Park
12.07.2009 Walthamstow Festival (council-organised, clashing with Rise as usual. Rise is the one chance Londoners have to get together and make a positive statement about embracing all the cultures in our town and rejecting racism)
2009 Shoreditch Festival  Shoreditch, various venues
18.07.09 Lovebox Victoria Park
18.07.2009  Leytonstone Festival  Various – Leytonstone -
22.07.2009  Shoreditch Festival  Shoreditch, various venues
02.08.2009  Carnival del Pueblo  Burgess Park  Southwark
02.08.2009  East London Mela 2009  Barking Park  Barking and Dagenham
12.09.2009 The Mayors Thames Festival  South Bank  Southwark
13.09.2009  The Spitalfields Show and Green Fair 2009  Allen Gardens and Spitalfields City Farm  Tower Hamlets

Also, there is the Brick Lane Festival and the Walthamstow Mela. –  anyone know the dates of these?