A FESTIVAL will be coming to Barrow next month. The Festival of Colours, organised by Barrow Borough Council, The Forum and Barra Culture, will be held on Saturday 26 June. It will be a celebration of the arts and culture from South Asia in a week-long celebration. Daniel Tyler-McTighe hopes the festival will be the start of a great summer for Barrovians. The director at Barra Culture said: “We are delighted to be partnering with Barrow Borough Council and the Forum on bringing this colourful event to the town centre. It’s been brilliant to work with local people of South Asian heritage to plan it and we’re looking forward to contributions from local groups as well as visitors from further afield. We think it’ll be a brilliant way to kick off a summer of fun. There’ll be music, drums, dancing, arts and crafts, stalls of gorgeous things to buy, henna artists, delicious food, colourful powders flying about and we can’t wait!”
Festival of Colours to take place in Barrow this summer
A week of colours and a celebration of south Asia is to take place in Barrow.
Barrow Borough Council, The Forum and Barra Culture are celebrating the arts and culture of south Asia in a week-long celebration, The Festival of Colours, on June 26.
Festival of Colours is inspired by the Indian ‘Holi’ festival, and will be a mix of family workshops, performances and street food, and will culminate in the famous coloured-power-throwing Holi event in Barrow’s town centre.
“We are delighted to be partnering with Barrow Borough Council and the Forum on bringing this colourful event to the town centre,” said Daniel Tyler-McTighe, director, Barra Culture.
DALTON Town Council is appealing to members of the public to keep the town’s floral displays in bloom this summer. Residents are being asked by the council to help out by watering the newly-installed planters to keep them looking fresh. A spokesman for the town council said: “One of our biggest problems during the summer season is the watering of the planters. The flower towers are watered by the contractor, however the wooden planters and mining cart planters don’t have arrangements in place.” Dalton South councillor Shaun Blezard said: “This is a great initiative from the town council to allow the community to get involved and take ownership of the planters.
LITTER including drug paraphernalia is causing an area of a town to become a ‘lawless’ haven for anti-social behaviour, a resident claims. Tyrone Anderson, who founded an anti-litter group in Dalton, hopes transforming the area and clearing up debris can help to turn-around the fortunes of the town. It comes following reports of disorder and anti-social behaviour among youths in the town, which police have been working to tackle. One area Mr Anderson, of the Dalton Community Clean-Up group, thinks is in need of attention is land behind the town’s leisure centre, which he hopes can become a public garden.
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