East Finchley Festival is an annual free music and arts festival, which attracts thousands of visitors and takes place on the Sunday closest to the Summer Solstice in Cherry Tree Wood, East Finchley. The festival is run by East Finchley Festival CIC, a registered social enterprise with no political or religious affiliation, and is funded […]
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Join the Parade
Back by popular demand… On Sunday 21st June, we will parade along the High Road (pavement only) from Martin School, to finish in front of the main stage in Cherry Tree Wood for the start of the festival at 12pm. Come dressed in your festival best! We would love groups from local schools, sports clubs, […]
Laser Tag in the Wood
Games take place every 30 mins from 1pm. Recommended age 7+ The laser tag entrance is located beyond the end of the food stalls, towards the tennis courts. Please arrive at the laser tag entrance tent 5 minutes before the start of your session, where you’ll be given a wristband. There are 20 places available […]
Main Stage
Programme HOST: SIMON DOUGLASS 12:00 Festival opening with Reeta Chakrabarti12.10 Kasai Masai 12.50 Gloryuss13.30 The Snakeoil Rattlers14.10 Her Name Was?14.50 JBC15.30 Ally London16.10 The Vivettes16.50 The Fortunistas17.10 Raffle draw with Sarah Sackman MP17.30 Dreampark Artist profiles
Community <br/>Stage
Programme HOST: NICK ALLAN 12:00 Opening with Bubbles the Elephant from The Learning Experience12:10 Tetherdown Primary School Choirs12:40 Fixation Academy13:05 Brookland Junior School Choir13:30 JK Dance Academy13:55 Archer Community Choir14:15 Martin Primary Y3&4 Choir14:40 Coldfall Community Choir15:05 Highgate Primary School Choirs15:25 R Voices15:50 Madhuriya Classical Indian Dance16:15 Shay Dolan16:40 Jazz Journey17:00 Serena Dench17:20 Rob Thom17:40 […]
Wellbeing
Pilates, yoga, dance, meditation and breathwork sessions for all ages and abilities. Just turn up and join in! FREE 12:30 – 13:00 Meditation with Jo Join Jo from The Breathe Academy for a relaxing meditation sessionwww.thebreatheacademy.co.uk @TheBreatheAcademy 13:15-13:45 Kids’ Yoga Children’s yoga session with Alexandra of The Iyengar Yoga Studiowww.tiys.co.uk 14:00-14:30 Yoga Yoga session for all with […]
About us
East Finchley Festival is an inclusive FREE one-day community festival in London N2, produced for the benefit of the local community. The festival has existed in its current form since the early 1970s. Since 2019, the festival has been run by East Finchley Festival CIC, a non-profit Community Interest Company and certified social enterprise, registered […]
Join the team
This is YOUR community festival and we’d love you to be part of it.We always looking for volunteers to help out in the planning and running of the festival as well as a whole army of helpers on the the day. Current vacancies: On the day we also require the folowing: If you’re able to […]