Writing Feast, Sunday 5 November 2017
Feast will be getting into the spirit of all things literary and bookish with our first ever Writing Feast, in association with Dulwich Literary Festival and Dulwich Books. We’ll be meeting local authors but also giving YOU a chance to shine with a creative writing workshop and an introduction to local creative writing and poetry […]
Sports Feast on Sunday 2 July 2017
Put your trainers on this Sunday because we have SO MUCH sporting activity planned! Which obviously means you can feast just that little bit extra because you will be working it all off… Sports Day for kids! There literally will be fun and games up at the kids picnic and play area! Egg and spoon […]
Dance in the streets, it’s Feast this Sunday!
Celebrate National Volunteer Week! This week is National Volunteer Week and what better way to celebrate it than with Feast! It’s a lot of fun to put this monthly show on the road and we always need help. If you think you could spare a few hours please volunteer yourself, we’d love to meet you. Here’s what’s on! […]
Sunday 7 May 2017 – Children’s Feast!
We have all the usual stuff happening – you know, great food, great music, great hanging out opportunities, great weather – all that. But as you wander around the one hundred plus stalls, you may notice a preponderance of bears… “If you go down in the hood today (eh hem, Sunday), you’d better go in disguise…” […]
Feast is back! Sunday 2 April!
Spring has sprung and Feast is back! The sap is rising and the sun is out – and there will be 100 multicoloured stalls all over West Norwood this Sunday! We have a cornucopia of upcycled pre loved furniture and retro kitchenalia, cushions and throws, buttons and bows – and food from virtually every cuisine on earth! […]
Volunteer for West Norwood!
Feast is volunteer powered and it wouldn’t happen without you! Volunteer for Feast Feast has lots of friendly lovely people who volunteer on Feast days and behind the scenes – but we always ALWAYS could do with more of you! We need: hub leaders (who help run the different market spaces) entertainment coordinators to help with Wingit, […]
#WiNGiT: new for 2017!
West Norwood’s Got Talent! We are proud to announce WiNGiT, our open mic performance space for young people at Feast. When? At each Feast (first Sunday of the month) from 1pm-3pm Where? By the DJs at the leisure centre at Feast’s Family Wellbeing hub Who? The open mic is open to anyone under 20 who has […]
Feast Christmas Lights, Sat 10 December, 4-8pm!
Feast & St Luke’s church come together each year to bring a volunteer powered community Christmas fair to West Norwood! Come to St Luke’s this Saturday at 4pm and watch all the lights being turned on. The church facade and grounds will be illuminated, there will be choirs singing, plus hot food & mulled wine to keep you all toasty. […]
West Norwood Foto – the winning photographs!
Our thanks to all contributors Thank you to everyone who sent in entries to West Norwood Foto. One hundred and thirty eight photographs were submitted. And some more have just arrived! Our judges viewed the online gallery to make their decisions based on relationship to theme and composition. Age wasn’t taken into account and some […]
Christmas Feast, Sunday 4 December!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… …and Feast is certainly spreading the Feastive Christmas love far and wide this Sunday. As it’s the last Feast until April 2017, we have made it a MASSIVE one. We normally have five hubs, but this month we have seven! And a free film at the end of it […]
Arty Feast this Sunday 6 November!
This Sunday 6 November, it’s hands on art time at Feast! We’re going all creative and it’s your chance to get your hands mucky, gluey, covered in charcoal or tied up in wool… All about Feast this Sunday you will hear the clickity click of knitting needles. Why? Because we are ‘knitting West Norwood together’ with a […]
Knitting West Norwood together!
Can you knit? Would you like to teach someone to knit – or learn how? Come to our ‘hands on art’ themed November Feast on Sunday 6 November and help us knit a quilt to raise money for a local organisation South London Refugee Association ; a wonderful charity working on the front line with refugees in our neighbourhood. We need squares […]
West Norwood Revealed…
Have a look here to see what has already been entered! FEAST is calling for your defining images of West Norwood; photos that capture the character of our area. We are busy creating an online gallery where we will exhibit all entries. Everyone gets the chance to shine. It’s about taking part and sharing pictures […]
Sunday 2 October is Harvest Feast!
Lovely autumn is suddenly upon us – season of mists and mellow fruitfulness – and we at Feast will be making the most of it (especially the fruit). We will be squashing and bobbing apples and pears, swapping plants and seeds and giving what we can to the Foodbank, for that is what one does […]
Santa’s Grotto @westnorwoodfeast.com Community Hub this Feast!
Community Shop welcomes you and your family to their winter’s grotto to meet Santa Claus, decorate edible baubles and warm up with a mug of homemade soup. There is a mince pie making workshop at midday which has limited space available. Please contact patricia.james@westnorwoodfeast.comcommunity-shop.co.uk to book a place. All activities and refreshments are free of charge. Santa […]
History Feast this Sunday 4 September!
West Norwood has history, find out at Feast! This Sunday 4 September we are celebrating our neighbourhood’s rich history – whilst eating well and enjoying ourselves at Feast, obviously… All our usual traders will be there – and remember, at the leisure centre’s Family Wellbeing hub, all food traders have a dish that is £5 […]
Holiday Feast, Sunday 7 August!
Holiday! Celebrate! “If we took a holiday Took some time to celebrate Just one day out of life It would be, it would be so nice…” – Madonna It’s August Feast this Sunday, the weather looks cheerful (isn’t it always?) and we’ve got a whole day of entertaining ourselves together. Here’s what’s happening, people. Feast […]
Feast Community Hub pop up Sunday 3 July!
The Community Shop behind the recycling centre on Vale Street is hosting a pop up event with Feast, the Library of Things, Bzz Garage & Open Orchard! The folk from the Community Shop will be using their surplus food to create burgers and hot dogs to which you can add your own toppings – all for just […]
Flower Feast Sunday 3 July!
If you’re going to West Norwood Feast… …be sure to wear a flower in your hair… This Sunday it’s a flower filled Feast and we require general skipping and the wearing of flowers (in hair, on shirts, skirts and shorts). New Feast Community Hub! There’s a whole new Feast thing to do (if you live […]
West Norwood Big Sing with 7 choirs @westnorwoodfeast.com Portico this Feast!
We have seven choirs singing for you at Feast this Sunday, raising money for St Christopher’s Hospice Come to the Portico Gallery, listen and join in! 2.15 – West Norwood Community Choir 2.30 – Portico Singers 2.45 – Going for a Song 3.00- London Chinese Philharmonic Choir 3.15 – Crystal Palace Community Choir 3.30 – Nunhead […]
Performing Arts Feast, Sunday 5 June!
There’ll be dancing, dancing in the streets this Sunday… …and at St Luke’s and in the Portico Gallery and at the leisure centre for a Feast of the Performing Arts! The exceptional Grounded Movement dancers who have been turning up guerrilla styley to Feast this year will be kicking it all off with their own […]
Next Feast, Sunday 5 June, 10am-4pm
PoetrySlabs @westnorwoodfeast.com May Feast
Poetry Slabbing, Reading and Telling – all over May’s Feast!
Performance + Arrowe Hill live! Sat 30 April
Enjoy an evening of English psychedelia with ‘Hauntological R&B/Acid Expressionism/Psych-Volk’ outfit of Arrowe Hill (who have just finshed laying down tracks for their eighth album) and a big screen showing of Nic Roeg’s 1970 subversive classic film PERFORMANCE – plus short films and sounds. Saturday 30th April 2016 Doors open 8pm Tickets £5 (cert 15) Buy […]
Next Feast – Sunday 1 May!
Scientific Feasting That’s what we got for you this Sunday, people of West Norwood. There will be science experiments galore for everyone to do and a whole host of entertainments for you all – for freeeeeeeee!! At Artisans there will be potato stabbing (we kid you not), straw bending (with YOUR EYES), tasting without smell […]
Poetry Feast, Sunday 3 April!
Poetry hits the streets of West Norwood It’s all about getting the collective muse on this year, WeNo-ers. We’re kicking off our season of Feasts this Sunday 3 April with a poetically themed one. This is what is happening (get out your quills). PoetrySlabs, a local initiative, want to know if you have a poem […]
The Emergency Poet coming to April Feast!
The world’s first and only mobile poetic first aid service A mix of the serious, the therapeutic and the theatrical, the Emergency Poet offers consultations inside her ambulance and prescribes poems as cures. In the waiting room under an attached awning Nurse Verse dispenses poemcetamols and other poetic pills and treatments from the Cold Comfort Pharmacy. There are skulls, […]
PoetrySlabs at Feast
The first Feast of the year is poetry themed! Coming soon (on April 3rd, in fact) to a neighbourhood exceptionally close to you – West Norwood’s very first poetry-themed FEAST. This special day of occasional versification will be anchored by the instinctively lyrical Deborah Alma, the one-and-only EMERGENCY POET, who will be parking her Larkinesque […]
Feast is back on Sunday 3 April
Feast needs you! Recruitment day Sat 5 March.
Feast only works because of people like YOU – residents and Feast goers who love West Norwood. This Saturday afternoon in Knowles (new pub on Norwood Road, you can’t miss it, it’s the only new pub on Norwood Road) some of our volunteers will be there waiting to talk to YOU about how you can […]
Super Surplus Supper! Monday 1 February
Come dine with the West Norwood Community Shop! Spaces are limited so please book here through Grub Club to reserve your place at this unique table… This is the first dining event of nine for West Norwood Feast’s Food Week, which starts on Monday 1 February and culminates in a Caribbean Feast on Sunday 7 February. […]
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas….
Feast & St Luke’s church come together annually to bring a volunteer powered community Christmas fair to West Norwood. There’s a Christmas gift market inside the church with a wonderful selection of local makers and artisans selling original artworks, unique homeware items, handmade jewellery and Christmas decorations. We even have free craft activities for children, including […]
Feast Christmas Lights, St Luke’s Church, Sat 12th Dec, 4pm-8pm
Feast & St Luke’s church come together annually to bring a community Christmas fair to West Norwood. We are delighted to announce Christmas Lights, a festive night market on Saturday 12th December, 4pm-8pm. There will be a Christmas gift market inside the church with a wonderful selection of local makers and artisans selling original artworks, unique […]
Feast is entirely run by volunteers
FEAST is a people-powered market that takes place the first Sunday of every month from April to December. At each FEAST you can explore the five hubs – Food, Artisans, Fresh’n’Green, Family and Retro – all brimming with fantastic stalls and friendly sellers, meet new people (some of them might even be your neighbours!), enjoy free entertainment from […]
Market Trader News article
Nice little write up on Feast from our friends at ilovemarkets.com https://markettradenews.com/oops-did-i-say-the-c-word/
Fashionistas & Fireworks @westnorwoodfeast.com Feast Sunday 1 November!
Kick up those heels at Fashion Feast! It’s all about fabulous frocks and fireworks this Feast. Our volunteers have pulled together the finest outfits in West Norwood, put them on well rehearsed models and are ready to give you not one, but TWO fashion shows in the Old Library on Knights Hill! The sporting of dark […]
Fashion Feast, Sunday 1 November!
Feast has its own fashion show in the Old Library featuring curated collections from local boutique Fashion Clicks, preloved styling from Emmaus and bespoke pieces made by the talent craft group The Stitch. There will be two shows, one at 1pm and the second at 2pm. All modelled by local people. Be sure not to […]
Don’t miss the last Feast of 2015 on Sunday, 6 December 10am – 4pm
It’s the very last Feast of the year… …so make the most of it this Sunday, good people of WeNo. As usual there’s lots to do and see and hear and buy and EAT. Eating is especially high on the list, as it will be cold and you’ll need your strengths keeping up. Most of […]
Harvest Feast-ival… Sunday 4 October
…hits the streets of West Norwood this Sunday 4th October! What with it being autumn and all of us getting the harvest in, we are asking that you Feast punters turn out your cupboards and bring what you can to Feast. The Norwood FoodBank will have its very own stall at the Food Fair and […]
Enjoy delicious food at Feast
What to bring for the Harvest Feastival, Sunday 4 October.
This month we are coming together with our local community to support Norwood Food Bank. Their current needs are as follows (and if items are not listed it means they are probably overstocked with these items). They DO NOT need pasta or teabags. Tinned fish 500grm rice (just plain rice is best) Tinned vegetables Tinned tomatoes Tinned fruit […]
Sunday 6 September, a historical Feast…
…in that the theme this month is History! Spot the Feast volunteers in old fashioned garb -courtesy of the South Lambeth Theatre who will be having a vintage sale of old props and costumes on Feast day! There will be a history quiz prepared by fair-handed volunteers (perchance in bustles or plus fours) and you and your families […]
Holiday at Feast Sunday 2 August!
Who needs to go away in August when you have your own festival of holiday fun at home in West Norwood this Sunday? The weather will be of the kindly British variety and even some of the Feast volunteers and traders (who are not sunning themselves on beaches, drinking French wine or climbing mountains) will be getting […]
Delicious doesn’t even begin to cover it
Local Artisans trading at Feast
Holiday Feast on Sunday 2nd August
Feast sponsored Tea Dance – next one Wed 8 July!
West Norwood’s very own volunteer led Intergenerational Dementia Friendly event. The Tea Dance brings together both young and old to sit and talk, sip tea, eat cakes and if so moved…to dance. This lovely event happens the 2nd Wednesday of every month from 2.30pm-4.30pm at the Portico Gallery, 23A Knight’s Hill, London SE27 0HS. […]
West Norwood Food Week 13 – 21 June
A mid-summer week of unique dining experiences in West Norwood Special menus and events have been curated for west Norwood Food Week ranging from free family picnics to Feasty experiences to fine dining tasting menus To find out more and to book your place please visit www.grubclub.com/west-norwood-food-week And please share with your friends – get […]
There will be dancing in the streets…
…of West Norwood this Sunday 7 June – for it is Dance Feast! Time to put your dancing shoes on, people, there will be plenty of opportunities to join in. We have the 25 strong House of Funk streetdance troop coming to perform at Health & Wellbeing by the leisure centre at 1pm (flying sideways) (they will be showing us […]
Feast Kids Lunchbags!
Feast and Beamish & McGlue are working together to produce affordable lunches for kids on Feast days. You can buy these at the new picnic and play area at the Health & Wellbeing hub by the leisure centre. Proper delish!
Dance Feast – Sunday 7 June!
The next Feast on Sunday 7 June is all dancing! If you know anyone who’d like to dance for us in June, please get in touch. Samba dancers, Lindy Hoppers, country line dancers, Morris Men, streetdance crews – we’ll have them all! Just email hello@westnorwoodfeast.comwestnorwoodfeast.com
If you go down to West Norwood today…
Bring your teddy to the Feast! Teddy Bear’s picnic at the Picnic & Play area by Feast’s new hub, Health & Wellbeing, by the leisure centre. Pack a picnic (or pick up some bits from the foodie hubs; Fresh & Green, Health & Wellbeing or the Food Fair) ; there will be yummy Beamish & […]
A Feast for kids!
Picnic time for teddy bears… This May’s Feast sees the launch of our new Picnic & Play area at the Health & Wellbeing hub! You and all your teddies are most cordially invited to a Teddy Bears’ picnic on the grass by the leisure centre. There may even be the odd Feast volunteer teddy in a […]
An Easter Sunday Feaster!
Feast is baaaaaaack! At last! The winter is over, the flowers are budding and Feast has come out of hibernation. Your favourite local market is back on the streets of West Norwood for another year, bringing you food, fun and fabulous finds. All the old favourites will be there and a whole bunch of new stuff. […]
I Love Feast!
It’s very nearly that time again, when the buds start to bud and the Easter bunnies start to make their chocolatey appearances in West Norwood…but not quite. Another whole month to go people – but do not despair! We have our annual Feast volunteer and stall holder recruitment event happening this Sunday at the West Norwood […]
It’s the last wonderful Feast of the year!
All the volunteers have worked so hard this year to bring each fabulous Feast – and Sunday 7 December’s is even more magnificent than ever. We have a new Health & Wellbeing market hub opening at the Leisure Centre! We are really happy to welcome the new volunteers from the centre and the local housing […]
Feast has a new hub: Health & Wellbeing!
Opening for the first time at December Feast, the new Health & Wellbeing Hub based at the West Norwood Health & Leisure Centre on Devane Way (just opposite the West Norwood train station). On Sunday 7 December 2014 the Health & Wellbeing hub will be inside the centre itself, though there will be a couple […]
Remember, remember the 2nd of November…
Fireworks and Feasting This November’s Feast is, wait for it, the BIGGEST EVER!!! We have over 80 stalls coming this Sunday, the whole of West Norwood will be positively teetering with brightly coloured gazebos. And watch this space as in December there will be a 5th Feast hub opening, in the whiz bang new West Norwood Leisure […]
A cinema for West Norwood?
Dulwich already nearly has its own Picturehouse but West Norwood’s seems largely at the well-founded rumour stage. Latest we heard was that a Picturehouse would probably be opening in the Nettlefold theatre building… in 2017. Can’t wait that long? No, neither can we. So we at Feast have started some film nights at the Portico […]
The Feast Film Nights programme: October to December 2014
A Harvest FEASTival of Fun Palaces and jumble trails
Harvest FEASTival Goodness, is it really that time of year again? Indian summers that go on into October confuse us here. In keeping with tradition, October’s Feast is all about the redistribution of food. We have the Norwood Food Bank at the Food Fair in St Luke’s, so please feel free to bring your non perishable donations […]
Do you have a freedom pass?
Want to share your memories? Fancy a free cup of tea and a slice of cake? Come down to Artisans on Chatsworth Way on Sunday from 11am and meet our volunteers!
August FEAST staycation
It’s August already and the FEAST is upon us! There’s no need to travel to distant climes, just staycation in West Norwood. The weather is baking hot and you have your very own mini festival happening this Sunday in your neighbourhood! What’s on at FEAST this month? For all you foodies loitering in the garden at […]
Shutter art winner announced
Well, we asked, and you delivered. The Feasties have spoken and chosen a winner for the shutter art competition – congratulations Tania Jackson! Tania’s clean line illustration of some of West Norwood’s most iconic buildings was the design that received the most votes and will go forward for production across the four Adarshi Pharmacy shutters […]
This Sporting FEAST…
July 2014 has just about the most sport in it that a human resident of this sceptred isle can handle – the World Cup, the Tour de France (which has some biking action in England), the Commonwealth Games and Wimbledon – all in one summer month. It makes us tired just thinking about it. But not so tired that […]
Check out the free entertainment at July Feast
Calling all designers – let’s create something exciting!
Feast are delighted to announce an exciting competition for local talent to design shutter art on Norwood Road, SE27. In collaboration with the Lambeth Outer London Fund and the Greater London Authority, we are inviting local graphic designers, artists and budding creatives to submit their ideas on how to bring to life the shutter façades of four […]
June FEAST is all about the dance
Spring is no longer in the air, it now almost summer. This is why it is raining. But we have it on good authority that by Sunday the skies will be clear and all of you will be shedding the wellies and macs and coming to FEAST for your monthly fix of stuff to buy and people […]
May FEAST be with you this Sunday!
FEAST is here again this Sunday 4 May! Yet another wonderful FEAST is being bought to you by the community minded people of West Norwood this Sunday. What’s new at FEAST this month? Those more observant of you will notice that the old stalls have been replaced by some smart new ones, in a number […]
Local makers and producers at Artisans
Check out the live music line up for May Feast
Spring (boing Boing) And The First FEAST Of The Season, Sunday 6 April!
It has been a long three months and about time we had another FEAST, no? The theme for this April’s FEAST is Easter (or FEASTer if you like) and although the actual Easter weekend is two whole weeks afterwards, who’s worried? No one, that’s who. Apart from the Easter eggs. There is a distinct chance […]
Time Out Review: West Norwood Feast
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Sidling up Norwood Road…
Hello, FEAST lovers, I’m your new coordinator, Charlotte. I used to work for the Herne Hill forum and still do things like the Herne Hill free film festival but I am now sidling up Norwood Road (this grimly delightful street on which I have lived for the past 15 years) into West Norwood to see […]
I love FEAST open day @westnorwoodfeast.com Portico Gallery
A Big Thank You from FEAST
Well, we have come to the end of another year of FEASTs. The team behind FEAST would like to thank everyone for coming along to the Winter Lights on Saturday 7 December, it was a fantastic evening. FEAST is going into seasonal hibernation, but will be back in March 2014 for I Love FEAST. The […]
Winter Lights, Saturday 7 December 2013, 4 – 8pm
West Norwood FEAST and St. Luke’s Church present an evening of Winter Lights Saturday 7 December 2013, 4 – 8pm Inside and outside St. Luke’s Church Come and join us for our last event of the year – a Winter Lights celebration at St. Luke’s Church on Saturday 7 December 2013, 4pm – 8pm where […]
December FEAST – Sunday 1 December 2013, 10am – 4pm
There is something for everyone at the December FEAST on Sunday 1 December. Pop down to West Norwood for a coffee and lunch at the Food Fair. Start your Christmas shopping at Retro Village, the Artisans Market and Fresh ‘n’ Green, and entertain the children with storytelling in the library and craft activities at each […]
Storytelling at the December FEAST
West Norwood FEAST welcomes Children’s Writers and Illustrators in South London www.cwisl.org.uk to the December FEAST on Sunday 1 December. The group will be running two free story telling and craft making activities in the library at 12 noon and 2pm. Meet the authors and get your books signed!
November FEAST
Entertainment Music on the Steps of St. Luke’s Church 12.30pm Natasha Kirke, solo artist 1.30pm Nunhead Folk Circle Music at the Artisans Market, on Chatsworth Way…. 11.30am Yenshu Sarinara 1.45pm Eales Jazz Trio 2.30pm Steve and the Hats Tour of West Norwood Cemetery – free, but donations welcome 11am, meeting inside the main gates of […]