After two days of festival training with locals, we were keen to get into our first day of festivals. The three communities that we did festivals in were Athlone, Atlantis, and Red Hill.
For the team in Athlone, despite having a fairly small team, managed to start their festival a bit early at 12:30pm. It wasn't too long before kids, parents, and the rest of the community drew towards the excitement and fun of the festival, located in a spacious park with a wonderful view of Table Mountain. The crowd built so well that by the end when they did a tug-of-war, kids vs adults, the whole tug-of-war rope was absolutely full of people, and it was a surprise that it didn't break! At least 150 people came to the festival, with more expected in the coming days.
The Atlantis team arrived to a local team of about 10 and a park full of kids, so it wan't going to be a problem drawing a crowd. Through out the festival there were at least 70 kids in the centre games, and one of the favourites was water balloon volleyball with two sheets on both sides packed with kids. This combined with water balloons that were more like giant water superbombs, meant a whole lot of fun! Michael from Cape Town did a great job as MC, and there were piles of kids swamping both the face painting and balloon sculpting.
Despite being stuck in traffic, the Red Hill team started their festival on time in the rather small dirt space that they had, surrounded by shacks. Almost istantly the area was full with just kids for the centre games, let alone having space for the face painting and the other activities. Some local community workers who were part of the team worked really well and had great time as they saw kids from three very segregated areas of the community come together and enjoy playing with each other. The kids were pretty wild though, so the team came back very weary, but are looking forward to what is in stall for the coming two days of festivals.
For the team in Athlone, despite having a fairly small team, managed to start their festival a bit early at 12:30pm. It wasn't too long before kids, parents, and the rest of the community drew towards the excitement and fun of the festival, located in a spacious park with a wonderful view of Table Mountain. The crowd built so well that by the end when they did a tug-of-war, kids vs adults, the whole tug-of-war rope was absolutely full of people, and it was a surprise that it didn't break! At least 150 people came to the festival, with more expected in the coming days.
The Atlantis team arrived to a local team of about 10 and a park full of kids, so it wan't going to be a problem drawing a crowd. Through out the festival there were at least 70 kids in the centre games, and one of the favourites was water balloon volleyball with two sheets on both sides packed with kids. This combined with water balloons that were more like giant water superbombs, meant a whole lot of fun! Michael from Cape Town did a great job as MC, and there were piles of kids swamping both the face painting and balloon sculpting.
Despite being stuck in traffic, the Red Hill team started their festival on time in the rather small dirt space that they had, surrounded by shacks. Almost istantly the area was full with just kids for the centre games, let alone having space for the face painting and the other activities. Some local community workers who were part of the team worked really well and had great time as they saw kids from three very segregated areas of the community come together and enjoy playing with each other. The kids were pretty wild though, so the team came back very weary, but are looking forward to what is in stall for the coming two days of festivals.
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