Blog

Paralympic Cauldron

Festive Road was commissioned in 2019 to create a Paralympic Heritage Cauldron for Stoke Mandeville, the spiritual home of the paralympic movement. On 19th August 2021 they were finally able to mark the start of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics with the traditional ceremony at Stoke Mandeville and the Cauldron was a key part of the event.  The Cauldron will also…
Read more

Out & About Again

It was wonderful to be out and about again - after more than 12 months of no Outdoor Arts activity, we were thrilled to be involved in events two weeks in succession! On 26th June we were in Aylesbury for their annual Whizzfizzfest. Heading into its 19th year, the family-friendly literary and arts festival has…
Read more

Northampton Diwali 2020

We had a wonderful time creating a new piece of work which was presented as a video for the Northampton Virtual Diwali Parade on 7th November 2020. For the ‘Parade’, we created a fabulous video - using a mixture of new footage (including a new walking puppet - Lakshmi) and highlights from previous Diwalis. You…
Read more

Northampton Pride Wings

Festive Road was commissioned by Northampton Borough Council to make a wings sculpture for Carnival, and their Pride Festival. Even though these physical events were cancelled, there was a #VirtualNorthamptonPride - and we were thrilled to be able to share our wings as part of this event. You will be able to see the 'Pride…
Read more