The Hive's annual community street festival:

Our 2012 Mayday community street festival:

The 2012 street party took place on Belmont on May 7th 2012. With the help of numerous supporters and associates, the Hive Music and Media Centre provided another successful day for everyone involved within the local community. The Mayday event followed on directly from the centre's popular Royal Wedding street party hosted in April 2011.

There was an exciting variety of activities and attractions on offer for people of all ages in 2012, in addition to acoustic performances, street theatre, arts and crafts workshops, information stalls, refreshments and lots more. A whole host of interactive workshops and community activities were also scheduled for the benefit of visitors and these included the following;

• Face painting
• Textile and material workshops
• Live acoustic music from local Shropshire musicians
• Several childrens craft workshops
• Maypole and traditional dancing workshops
• Resident Hive DJ
• Ice cream from Iddy's Ices
• Taiko drumming workshops
• Samba drumming performances
• Stop-frame animation workshops
• Shrewsbury Jazz Network
• Live street art/graffiti demonstration
• Large games including Connect Four
• Bagpipes with Chris the bag-piper
• Photography from Jim Hawkins
• Shropshire Live and their mascot, Buddy the Dog
• Henna tattoing with Hennacat
• Filming with The County Channel Tv
• Shrewsbury Carnival
• Diddidance Shropshire
• Storytelling with Milly Jackdaw
• Fairground style games with We Are Frostfire
• Bunting hand-made by Lootybag
• Balloons and decorations with Glee Balloons
• Shrewsbury Film Society
• Samba drumming
• Food and drink with Eat-Up of Milk Street
• Plus lots more...

There was also the chance for members of the public to win tickets to see Jessie J perform in the Quarry Park Shrewsbury, thanks to organisers of the event, Kal Music.

The Hive Music and Media Centre was grateful to the following businesses and organisations for their support with the May 2012 event:

Severnside Housing - Shrewsbury Carnival - Diddidance Shropshire - Bright Owls language school - Shropshire Live - We Are Frostfire - Lootybag - BBC Radio Shropshire - Hennacat - Glee Balloons - Iddy's Ices - Juliet Chiltern - Simon Boyd Interiors - Simon Baynes Books and Music - Shrewsbury Town Centre Residents Association - Chris the Piper - Eat Up cafe and restaurant - Wace Morgan Solicitors - Jim Hawkins Ltd and The County Channel (TV) - Shrewsbury Film Society - Shrewsbury Jazz Network and St Winefride's School...

Support the Hive's street party in 2013 and get involved!

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Images from the 2012 Mayday community festival:

More images from the day can be viewed via the image gallery on the main menu!

Businesses who supported the 2012 event: