 | We like your spirit! Here's a great website that tells you all about organising street parties: streetparty.org.uk/royal-wedding-street-parties.aspx
As it says, though, it may be a bit chilly for a street party in April. Highest average temperature for the 29th is apparently 16 degrees Celsius – not exactly balmy…
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 Posts: 1 | Emma M.( 30s, Female, London )The street party is a lovely way to bond the community whilst celebrating the Royal wedding. You must firstly clear it with your local council as they will be responsible for closing the street and ensuring safety measures are up to scratch. You should organise a committee that will share the responsibility, and allocate key roles to different people. I would also suggest holding a community meeting and getting as many people from your street together as possible. You might be surprised what people can help with. I have many more suggestions for making the party a success. If you need any further help email me on emma@kapowconsulting.co.uk and I will be pleased to help. Good luck xx
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Posts: 1 | Hi all What a good excuse to get the neighbours together and have a big celebration. I think everyone should do it! There's a great website that features Royal Wedding T-shirts – not the tacky variety but all really cool and funky – it's called Printed Wardrobe! printedwardrobe.com/Default.aspx?pid=7&cat=81 It's good to see that you can buy these things with a modern twist! Happy organising! x
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Posts: 1 | Lyndall P.( Female, United Kingdom )Penni Black Catering has designed a menu to cater for a street party. They will organise the food and theme it and deliver it to your street. Penni Black can supply all the tables, chairs, linen and serving staff if required – I can send you a menu for you to have a look at – call 0800 389 6107 or email info@penniblack.co.uk
It has been really popular – seems like lots of like minded people wanting to hold street parties! What fun|!
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Posts: 1 | Karmen H.( 20s, Female, United Kingdom )CELEBRATE THE ROYAL WEDDING
AT EAST END FILM FESTIVAL
A day of pomp, circumstance and cinema
with Regency wenches, Libertine’s and other historic East End figures
inspiring the ultimate Royal Wedding street party
Friday 29 April 2011, The Water Poet, 11am – 11pm, FREE Since its first edition in 2001, East End Film Festival has grown to become one of the UK’s largest film festivals. Last year’s festival comprised over 200 screenings and events across 29 venues, reaching an audience of over 30,000 people – and this year East End Film Festival will celebrate its TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY with a programme that promises to be even bigger and better. From our opening night World Premiere gala screening of an all-access documentary about The Libertines, to an array of brilliant British films, hot international premieres, street parties and heritage screenings to celebrate the Royal Wedding, two afternoons of film and music curated by Guillemots and Saint Etienne in collaboration with Camden Crawl, a free outdoor screening in Spitalfields Market of a silent classic with live accompaniment, and a Bank Holiday bonanza of movie madness where hundreds of free screenings, projections, live music and events will be found in every nook and cranny of the East End… there’s a massive sense of celebration in the air! Another reason to celebrate is the fact that this years festival coincides with the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on 29 April. “When we found out that the Royal Wedding would take place bang in the middle of our dates, we decided a day of royal-related activity was in order,” explains festival director Alison Poltock, ”with music, screenings, and street parties – a full blown local wedding celebration of the East End old and new.” There’s been a long-established tradition of street parties in the East End of London, with local residents taking to the streets to celebrate royal weddings, coronations, and jubilees. East End Film Festival is therefore dedicating the day of Friday 29 April to pomp, circumstance and cinema by entering into a marriage of convenience with historic local boozer The Water Poet to reinstate THE LIBERTY OF NORTON FOLGATE. This historic area dates to the Doomsday Book and for centuries recognised no law but its own, and whose unruly residents robbed travellers, hid traitors, and had a healthy disrespect for authority. This debauchery has inspired what’s set to be the ultimate Royal Wedding street party with Regency wenches and Libertine’s, music hall entertainment by singer Nichola Jolley and accordion chanteuse Garance Louis, a Sipsmith gin palace, a hog roast, stalls selling pies and puddings, a procession of conjurers and jugglers lead by the Pearly King and Queen of Bow, a horse and dray with Fullers cask ale, haircuts and shaves by a “Sweeney Todd” attired barber from Jack The Clipper, all accompanied by screenings of heritage films of street parties and celebrations of yonder year sourced from the archives of the BFI, the Imperial War Museum and Hackney Archives, plus a live broadcast of the Royal Wedding itself. So come celebrate a national event outside of national governance! For full details visit eastendfilmfestival.com .
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