Yearly Archives: 2016

Ahmadabad Carnival Parade: Trans-form

Ahmadabad Carnival Parade: Trans-form
Festive Road’s Creative Director, Jessica Rost, recently travelled to India as part of the Trans-Form project. Trans-Form is a volunteer-based project that engages UK, International and Indian artists with schools and communities in Ahmedabad, India, in an educational, arts-based programme of workshops, transforming waste into carnival and street arts –transforming people’s lives. The project was…
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Celebrating our 10th Anniversary and looking forward to the New Year

Celebrating our 10th Anniversary and looking forward to the New Year
Ten years ago professional artists Jessica Rost, Simon Tipping, and Paul Smith, along with their colleagues Julie Morton and Julia Roach, returned from a research trip to Trinidad. They had been to experience what is claimed to be ‘De Greatest Show on Earth’. The Caribbean Mardi Gras had fired up their imagination, they wanted to…
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