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Kingston 2007

Rain on the Parade — Kingston’s Mud Festival

by Jennifer Barclay on 4 July, 2007

in Event reports and reviews, Kingston 2007

Jennifer Barclay’s account of Kingston’s answer to the Boryeong Mud Festival
Where else on a wet Saturday in June would you get classical dance, freestyle football and women arm-wrestling? But no-one I asked in Kingston-upon-Thames knew where Fairfield Recreation Ground was. Signs might even have attracted the curious. Eventually I got directions from a policewoman, and [...]

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Kingston Korean Festival 2007 programme

30 June 2007 Kingston 2007

Courtesy of the Korean Language Meetup group:
10th Korean Festival 2007
Festival Programme
09:50 Entry
10:00 Opening Ceremony
10:30 Ceremonial Parade of British Korean War Veterans
10:50 Gilnori (Samulnori genre) performed by Hanaldarae team to pronounce the start of the festival and pray for a successful festival
11:00 A series of traditional Korean dance performed by Jun Soon Hee’s dance team from [...]

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Enjoy the festival

29 June 2007 Kingston 2007

Don’t be put off by the jaded travel professionals appearing in today’s more lengthy post. Go to Kingston tomorrow and have some fun. I hope the weather’s OK.
As for the Trafalgar Square event, I’m afraid I’ve got to be elsewhere, so again can I ask you to take your digital cameras and send in some [...]

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