Headington Festival

Headington Festival Weekend

31 May – 1 June 2014

10am – 5.00pm Saturday; 1.00pm – 5.00pm Sunday

The Headington Festival and Sports Day was such a success last year, that it has been decided to extend the Festival to include Saturday (31st May) as well as the traditional Festival and Sports day on Sunday (1st June). On Saturday morning there will be a Food and Craft Fair located in the Headington shopping area, plus music and street entertainers displaying their skills. A Fun Fair will be open in Bury Knowle Park during the afternoon.

On Sunday, the event moves totally to Bury Knowle Park, where there will be a host of stalls to choose from, the Fun Fair, a wide variety of entertainment, including children’s amusements, food, music, bands and dancing, plus an enormous range of sports demonstrations which you can view or even participate in!

A number of Headington shops are supporting an Odd One Out competition for children. Details and entry forms will be distributed to various shops in the shopping area.

So why not come along and support your local community by either selling / advertising your goods on a stall, volunteering to help on the event days or attending the event itself, buy ‘goodies’ from the stalls and enjoying the sports and entertainment! There is no Admission Charge!!!

The event is organised by the Headington Action Festival Committee in partnership with the Oxford City Council.

For more details, and information on how to book a stall, click here for the Headington Festival website 

Celebrations will start at 6am with the Magdalen College choir singing Hymnus Eucharisticus from the Great Tower.  The bells will then ring out over the city for approximately 20 minutes.

This year Magdalen Bridge will be open to pedestrians and closed to traffic from 3am until 9am to enable everyone to enjoy the singing in comfort and safety. The bridge will re-open to traffic as soon as it is safe to do so.

There will also be May Morning events and activities taking place across the city including Morris Men dancing in Radcliffe Square and Broad Street.

Many bars and restaurants across the city will open for breakfasts including eateries in the city centre and East Oxford. For more information about events and activities happening in Oxford on May Morning visit Daily Info’s website – www.dailyinfo.co.uk

Breakfast will be available at Tick Tock Café (all night), Rick’s Café, G&D’s and Atomic Burger on the Cowley Road, and at Queen’s Lane Coffee House, Patisserie Valerie, Quod, The Rose, The Grand Café, The Chequer’s and All Bar One in the High.

Turl Street Kitchen will be open from midnight will baps served at 5am and sit down breakfasts from 7am. The Vaults & Garden will be serving breakfast from 5.30am and G&D’s in St Aldate’s and Little Clarendon Street will be open from 6am. News café in Ship Street will be serving breakfast and hot drinks from 6am as will The Buttery, Jericho Café, and Art Café in Bonn Square.

The Big Bang will also be open from 6am serving the Big Bang Breakfast!

Pubs that will be celebrating May Morning include The Oxford Retreat, The Cape of Good Hope, The Bear Inn, The White Horse, The Grapes, The Anchor, The Crown, The Kings Arms, and The Chequers.