This year's annual Kilburn Festival will be taking place on Sunday 10 July in Kilburn Grange Park from 1pm to 7pm. The festival promises to be a family fun afternoon packed with exciting children’s activities, local music and dance.

As in previous years, the main festival in the park is accompanied by sister festivals in Comedy, Film and History, celebrating the diversity of Kilburn’s culture and history. These festivals present events in the week leading up to the Festival and on the day itself.

Love Camden spoke to Janet Grauberg, Chair of the Kilburn Festival Trustees to find out more. 

What are the highlights of this year’s festival?

A festival for all ages, highlights this year include a world music stage showcasing an eclectic mix of live musicians, from hip hop, soul and indie rock to country, blues and brit funk - there will be something for everyone. There will be dance workshops for children and a global tour of dance performance, including from the over 50’s line dancing group. Browse a whole host of stalls including the local folk shop selling sheet music or indulge in food and drink from across the world, plus there will be all sorts of good causes giving out information and motivation – environmental groups, human rights groups, political groups and healthy living groups.

As part of the Kilburn Festival a production of The Girl with Two Voices, a trilogy of plays by Alan Williams is being performed in the Kingsgate Community Centre from 1pm, near Kilburn Grange Park where the main body of the festival is taking place. 

Kilburn Festival also runs alongside the popular Kilburn Film and History Festivals that run in the week leading up to the community festival on the 10 July. These celebrate the vibrant variety of KIlburn’s culture and past.

How can people find out more?

Visit kilburnfestival.co.uk . Also keep and eye out for news and notices in the Kilburn Times, our official media partner for the event.
 

What’s your most memorable festival experience to date?

There are so many! I love the variety of acts and participants that make up the Kilburn Festival. One year a local group created a ‘plastic bag monster’ to show how many plastic bags are thrown away each year. ‘We All Need Somebody To Lean On’ sung by the ‘Community Choir’ formed for the 2009 festival also stands out, as well as finding gin and tonic cupcakes on the North West London WI cake stall and watching children play on the ‘Kilburn Beach’.

For more information about the festival visit kilburnfestival.co.uk