Exploring living and learning together in Tower Hamlets, the Festival of Communities is a collaboration between Queen Mary and local-based organisations taking place in Stepney Green Park on Saturday 10 and the Queen Mary Mile End Campus on Sunday 11 June.
Over 8,000 people join us over the weekend, and we are looking for Queen Mary initiatives to take part and engage local families by running a hands-on activity, demonstration, stall, exhibit or in other ways – we’re open to creative ideas!
The Festival provides a great opportunity for Blizard researchers and students to engage residents and community organisations with your work and opportunities, whilst you gain valuable insights, connections and ideas for the future.
To support creating new or adapting existing activities to showcase at the festival, QM staff and students can apply for up to £500 of funding through the Centre for Public Engagement.
The CPE team are on hand to offer advice on your engagement activity design through festival information and 1:1 advice sessions and a ‘How to design a Festival of Communities activity’ training session on Wednesday 15 March 2023 from 1pm-4pm.
The Festival call to share how you’d like to be involved and the funding opportunity closes at the end of day on Thursday 30 March.
Visit the Festival website or email festival@qmul.ac.uk with any queries.