Saturday
Saturday
12.00 – 5.00pm Big Lunch Tent
1.00– 5.00pm Workshop Arena
Saturday and Sunday
Global Workshop Arena
Important : Please wear comfortable, loose clothing and trainers or appropriate shoes for all workshops
• 1pm Saturday Middlesbrough Gym Club
A bit more than head over heels! The display group with an age range of 5 – 20 trains at Southlands Leisure Centre and will give you a taster of what they do. Much of its success has been achieved in just 18 months, already producing regional champions & British Champions in both junior and senior Tumbling
Sunday Tees Valley Gym Club
The club has members ranging from 3 – 20 year olds and trains at Holmwood School, Easterside. It boasts many acrobatic regional champions with gymnasts qualifying for British Finals. Four gymnasts are part of the Question Display Team – British Champions for the last 2 years.
• 2pm Saturday & Sunday Robson Irish Dance Group
Based at St Alphonsus Church Hall in North Ormesby this group of boys and girls, ages 4 – 24, proudly perform this intricate, traditional dance form at numerous events including at Royal Albert Hall and at the World Irish Dance Championships in Philadelphia, USA.
• 3pm Saturday Shen Tai Chi School (Sunday under the trees in the Global Arena)
The group will perform a variety of Qigong moves and Yang and Chen style forms including empty handed, fan and sword forms. All abilities welcome.
Sunday Bollywood Boys
A chance for boys only to try out some basic moves and have some fun trying out street dance with a hint of Bollywood. Ages : 8 – 11yrs. All abilities welcome.
• 3.45pm (Sat) Saturday & Sunday Mirage Belly Dancers
4pm (Sun) For Mirage Belly Dancers age really is no barrier with dancers from 18 – 70 years old! This popular troupe train at the Scout Hall on Tollesby Rd and performs, always to a very warm reception, all over the North East.
The Mela Mix
Throughout the two days there are many exciting things happening in spaces and places around the Festival Site.
We’re nearly 21 so bring in your photos! Next year it will be the Mela’s 21st Birthday and what better way to celebrate than to show photographs and memories from over those years. Our information tent will be collecting your memorabilia and photos to put into our archive and which we’ll use to create a Mela Memory Board in 2011.
Are you itching to show off your talent? Our new Open Performance Arena gives you the opportunity to do just that! Between 2.00pm and 5.00pm on Celebrate Sunday bring along your music on an iPod or CD and join local band ‘Undercover’ in expressing yourself through poetry, music, dance, whatever you’ve got that fits in with the Mela ethos! The arena is open to showing anything from anyone and we particularly encourage people and groups from our local global communities. But please remember this is a family area and entertainment should be suitable for a family audience. Special thanks to ‘Undercover’ for making the Open Performance Arena possible.
Cycling Recycling – We’re going GREEN! What do you do you normally do with your cans and plastic at the Mela? Well this year watch out for the Magnificent Macmillan Academy who’ll be cycling whilst recycling their way around the festival site on specially designed trikes with recycling bins on the back for you put your recyclable rubbish in. And if you want to know more about recycling they are definitely the people to ask. Thanks also to Middlesbrough Transport and Policy Department and Middlesbrough Waste Awareness.