Is that anything like 'I feel like a new woman', Ruth? :-)

We did indeed organise a multicultural festival once. We had the Orlek Cossack Dancers who, although mainly English themselves, did bring a lot of family and friends from the Ukraine, Poland and Russia. We also booked Tuup (pronounced toop - Important later) - A wonderful story teller from Ghana who doubled with a local Lancashire story teller in a loose sort of way and between them named their event 'two-up, one down':-)

For me it was one of our best festivals, but (didn't you know there was one of them coming!) we could not have done it without extra funding from North West Arts as they were at the time. I must say though that the funding was quite easy to raise in light of the fact that we were raisung the profile of the event to include an audience that were previously unserved. Which is, I think, a good thing for all concerned.

One aside - Tuup ended up at the wrong pub - another White Lion about 5 miles down the same road, in a particularly depressed area. He had a chat with a couple of people there to get directions and they came along later to see him - Added bonus!

Cheers

DeG