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‘BELL-ISSIMO!’ TO RING-IN BARNABY FESTIVAL 2012

A mass ‘ring-in’ will take place in Market Place, Macclesfield to celebrate the grand opening of this year’s Barnaby Festival on Thursday 21 June at 6.40pm.

The event, scheduled to begin at 6.45pm, is being choreographed by conductor and Director of...

SECRETS AND MEMORIES WANTED FOR EXHIBITION

Artist Lyn Bannister has been commissioned to create an installation for this year’s Barnaby Festival funded by Arts Council England.

Addressing themes of identity, memory, secrecy and loss (and combining them in this work with the need in us all to leave some evidence of...

ARTS COUNCIL BOOST FOR BARNABY VISUAL ARTS

Barnaby Festival has fought off stiff competition to win a grant of £10,000 for a serious of superb exhibitions of contemporary visual art in Macclesfield town centre.

Some of the town’s most historic buildings will play host to new commissions including Lyn Bannister’s...

BARNABY FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ANNOUNCED

Barnaby announces the highlights of this year’s Midsummer festivities, with lots to bring a smile to your face, including live comedy, lindy hop & laughter workshops.

The festival will take to the streets again from Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 June 2012 and will feature:

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CARNIVAL PARADE PROMISES TO BE BIGGEST YET!

A thousand Maxonians are expected to come together to create Barnaby’s Carnival Parade this year. Groups all over Macclesfield are busy beavering away to produce hundreds of strange and beautiful costumes and push floats.

The Carnival Parade, which will take place late afternoon on...