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Skip Navigation Links>Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival

 

Here are some programme details for the 33rd (2012) Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival:

see the WSB website by clicking here

Click on each Event below for full details, or click here to visit the Whittlesea Straw Bear website

Date/Time Event Where Guests
Fri 13th Jan 2012 - 8:00pm to 11:00pm Friday Night Concert Ivy Leaf Club - tickets £9 from 01733 204055

Quicksilver, Pete Coe, Tautas Roks

Sat 14th Jan 2012 - 10:30am to 4pm Saturday Daytime Follow the Bears around the streets with loads of dance teams in tow. All the daytime events are free. Please help maintain the Festival by making a nice donation for the program & buying this year's badge. Various Dance Teams
Sat 14th Jan 2012 - 12:30pm, 1.30pm & 2.30pm Story Teller Sessions Queens Street Methodist/United Reformed Church - free Cambridgeshire Storytellers
Sat 14th Jan 2012 - 12 to 12:30pm Street Entertainment The Buttercross, Whittlesey Town Centre - free Pete White's Suitcase Circus
Sat 14th Jan 2012 - 12:30pm to 1.30pm & 3.30 to 4.30pm Library Sessions Whittlesey Library - free Poets United
Sat 14th Jan 2012 - 2:00pm to 3.00pm  Library Sessions Whittlesey Library - free Pete Coe
Sat 14th Jan 2012 - 8:00pm to11:30pm Saturday Barn Dance Sir Harry Smith Community College - tickets £9 from 01733 204055 Hekety with caller: Pete Coe
Sat 14th Jan 2012 - 8:00pm to 11:30pm Saturday Cajun Dance Childers Club, 1A Station Rd, Whittlesey, PE7 1SA - tickets £7.50 from 01733 204055. Free cajun dance workshop at 8pm to teach you some cajun dance moves - it's not hard, even with 2 left feet! Doughboy Zydecajun
Sun 15th Jan 2012 - 12:00pm-2:30pm Sunday Burning Sir Harry Smith Community College - dance displays & music inside from 12, the Burning of the Bears at 2.30pm. Food van. Various Dance Teams
 

 

Photos and videos from previous years:

2009:

 The procession video

Joe Bridge's photos

Bridgeplayer9's videos

Pig Dyke's tribute video

Pig Dyke video

Ouse Washes video

Red Leicester video

Witchmen video

Part of Pig Dyke's friday night play video

scratch longsword team & the Straw Bear banner at Germany's Narrenfest, January 2009

2008:

YouTube videos

Kev's photos

Peter Burnham's photo

New Tang Dynasty TV report

Jim Wilding's photos for sale

Sally Reed's photos

SaxonFenKen's photos

BBC Cambs report

2007:

GREAT PRESENTATION

Dave Mallinson's photos

BBC Camb's photos

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