Martine Frost Archive | Festive Road

Save the date! Walking with Giants Parade returns Sunday 26th June 2016

Back for its 5th year – the Festive Road Walking with Giants Parade promises to be bigger and better than ever! Taking place on Sunday 26th June 2016 the parade starts by “The Hub” at 2pm on Midsummer Boulevard, this free event will see live music and other entertainers weaving their way through the streets…

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…

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…

Paraffinalia – a Festival of Fire & Fun

On Saturday 19th December over 2,000 people saw the Dark Knight return to Milton Keynes, as they attended Paraffinalia at Campbell Park for Festive Road’s 2nd annual Festival of Fire. The breath-taking display opened with fire performers and a saw a lantern parade with children from Long Meadow and Summerfield Schools and at MK Gallery…