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  • A Month of Sundays returns to Enfield!

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    A Month of Sundays, Enfield’s hugely popular summer festivals of music, performance, entertainment and street food, has returned this year to five locations around the borough!

    A Month of Sundays kicked off in Enfield Town on Sunday 31 July and is expected to have attracted thousands of people.

    Last year, the five free street festivals and two fringe events welcomed 47,100 attendees, 50 local businesses who sold food and drink and 123 performers who entertained the crowds with music, dance, spoken word and more.

    These family-friendly events take place 12pm to 6pm and are free to attend. Look out for Enfield favourites Sissy Lea, Janet Kay, Chickenshed Theatre, Platinum street dancers and a wealth of talent including performances from DJ Bradshaw, TikTokers @TheLewisSisters and Victor Romero Evans. More acts will be announced on the website and on social media #AMonthofSundays


    This year’s dates are:

    • Sunday 31 July Church Street, Enfield Town, including a Pride in Enfield event on Market Square
    • Sunday 7 August, Snells Park, Angel Edmonton
    • Sunday 14 August, Edmonton Green Shopping Centre
    • Sunday 28 August, Ashfield Parade, Southgate
    • Sunday 11 September, Green Lanes, Palmers Green
  • Enfield Winter Lights comes to an end

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    Enfield Winter Lights celebrated Enfield's culture and heritage through a series of incredible art installations, workshops and exhibitions across the borough during February and March 2022. Enfield Council partnered with local creative business Artist Hive Studios to deliver the festival and encourage the public to visit the many local businesses and restaurants that our borough has to offer.

    This festival was funded by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ (DLUHC) Welcome Back Fund, established through a grant from the European Regional Development Fund (EDRF).


    Highlights of Enfield Winter Lights in Palmers Green include:

    • Half a Roast Chicken: It’s Nicer to Be Nice!
    • Lauren Baker: Luna Woman Power Totem


    Enfield Council would like to thank Artist Hive Studios and the artists, businesses and organisations involved in bringing joy, lights and positivity to our borough!

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    Full details available at https://www.enfieldwinterlights.com/

  • Enfield Winter Lights celebration to illuminate town centres

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    The inaugural Enfield Winter Lights celebration will illuminate the streets of Enfield in February and March bringing light, joy and positivity.

    Enfield Winter Lights is a series of large-scale art instal­lations and activities designed to illuminate the town centres of Angel Edmonton, Enfield Town, Palmers Green and Southgate.

    It will bring together artists, local businesses and the wider community, with spectacular light artworks designed to celebrate the heritage of Enfield and dazzle Angel Edmonton, Enfield Town, Palmers Green and Southgate with colour, creativ­ity and innovation. Enfield Winter Lights is delivered by Artist Hive Studios in partnership with Enfield Council.

    Six prominent U.K. based artists who have been shortlisted to deliver site-specific takeovers in each of the town centres. These artists are: Mark Beattie, Claire Luxton, Half A Roast Chicken (otherwise known as Eve De Haan), Dan Maier, Lauren Baker and King Owusu.

    In addition, local artists have been selected to uplift our high street with mean-while installations activating vacant shops and connecting with local businesses. We will also invite the community to enjoy a curated borough-wide art trail viewable night and day, on billboards in seventeen locations.

    As well as iconic outdoor art interventions Enfield Winter Lights will include interactive elements, where the community is encouraged to get creative. Workshops will be hosted by Blake Carlson-Joshua and architect and designer Purva Kundaje, Dan Maier and Jylle Navarro. Full details will be available at www.enfieldwinterlights.com

    The festival pays homage to local luminary Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, a pioneer in the electronics industry and an early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, over 130 years ago. In 1886 Edison Swan United Electric Light Co. took over the former jute mill at Duck Lees Lane in Ponders End and converted it to manufacture electric light bulbs, leading to the factory being known colloquially as ‘The Lamp’.

    This work is supported by The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) Welcome Back Fund, estab­lished through a grant from the European Regional Development Fund (EDRF). Delivered by Artist Hive Studios. The money is helping Enfield Council put in place additional measures to establish a safe trading environment for businesses and customers in the wake of COVID-19, particularly in high streets, and support our local economy on the road to recovery.

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  • Join our town centres for a Merry Enfield!

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    Grab your Santa hats and bring out your baubles, Enfield Council is bringing a series of 'Merry Enfield' Christmas events to four town centres.

    The free, outdoor festivals will take place in Enfield Town, Palmers Green, Angel Edmonton and Southgate where local performers, artists and community groups will provide entertainment to help shoppers and visitors get into the Christmas spirit.

    The events will include performances, a jumbo screen, live acoustic music, and Southgate based theatre company, Chickenshed, will provide a programme containing “Tales From the Shed”, extracts from its full Christmas show, street dance, and a DJ set. Chickenshed has also written the borough its own song, ‘We wish you a Merry Enfield’ which is hoped will become a local Christmas hit! This will all be coming to Palmers Green, Green Lanes on 11 December, 12-6pm.

    In addition, Enfield Council is funding an enhanced Parade of Lights. The hugely popular parade will take place in Enfield Town on Sunday 5 December and will include entertainment and carol singing at the market square.

    Further details can be found at www.merryenfield.co.uk

  • Stage is set for Enfield’s summer of food and arts

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    Performers, food producers and party fans were out in force Wednesday (23 June) to launch the official countdown to A Month of Sundays, a celebration of food and culture in Enfield. Enfield Council’s A Month of Sundays will be a series of street festivals over August’s five Sundays, bringing out the best in the borough’s food businesses and celebrating local heritage and the arts.

    The launch was overseen by Enfield events company Icy Mango, whose local expertise has been brought in to support the Council with its first ever celebration of food and the arts.

    The event schedule is:
    1 August – Library Green to Fountain Island, Enfield Town
    8 August – Leeds Street, Upper Edmonton and Broomfield Park, Palmers Green
    15 August – Ashfield Parade, Southgate
    22 August – Shopping Centre and Concourse, Edmonton Green
    29 August – High Street and Park, Ponders End

    Alongside the food stalls, Enfield Council will be providing free entertainment by some of the borough’s finest acts. In addition, Forty Hall will also be participating in the celebration, hosting a number of exciting activities on 8 August including a farmers’ market, a tour of their vineyard and a talk on beekeeping. The Museum of Enfield is also touring with its exhibition entitled From Enfield to Fork, an exciting exhibition about food heritage in the borough.

  • Festive lights for Palmers Green

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    This year, we will be installing a range festive lighting in Enfield Town including a Christmas tree, cross street lighting and lamp-post mounted lights to help bring festive spirit to the town centre. The official light switch ons will be taking place in Palmers Green on Thursday 21 November 2019 at 4pm.

    Read more here.