National Paralympic Day And Liberty Festival
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Come and enjoy a free, fun, festival at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. This family-friendly day includes a range of ‘come and try’ inclusive sports, plus the very best of deaf and disability arts. The event takes place just four days before the start of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Expect a carnival atmosphere with music, dance, visual arts, poetry, installations and street theatre.
Everyone is welcome at National Paralympic Day and Liberty Festival. It offers some of the most accessible facilities of any outdoor festival in the UK.
Paralympics GB Carnival featuring:
• Boccia
• Cycling
• Equestrian
• Goalball
• Para Triathlon
• Shooting
• Table tennis
• Sitting volleyball
• Wheelchair basketball
• Wheelchair tennis
• Judo
• Paralympics GB fan zone where you can meet athletes, take photos with the Rio 2016 Paralympic Torch and more.
See queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/whats-on/events/2016/5/national-paralympic-day-and-liberty-festival-2016 for more information.
Music
- The Orchestra Of Unlimited Potential
- Mind The Gap Band
- Jez Colborne
- Kris Halpin
- Billy Saga
- Hemingway
- Rockinpaddy
- John Kelly
- Monica Vasoncelos
- Victoria Oruwari
- Lizzie Emeh
Dance
- Deaf Man Dancing
- Marc Brew Company
- Sadler's Wells
- Candoco Dance Company
- Corali Dance Company
- WDSA
- Touch Compass
Poetry & Spoken Word
- Owen Lowery
- Jack Dean
- Cian Binchy
- Rowan James
Street Theatre & Aerial Performance
- Deaf And Hearing Ensemble
- Daryl Beeton
- Nicola Miles Wildin
- Amelia Cavallo
Jez Colborne
A talented musican and actor who is one of the founding members of the Leading Edge, a network for aspiring learning disabled arts leaders.
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Billy Saga
Willian Coelho, better known as Billy Saga, is a disabled Brazilian musician who fuses hip-hop, rock, reggae, dub and samba to comment on politics…
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Hemingway
A five piece indie rock outfit from Norwich, who create a sound that has heralded comparisons to The National, Suede, The Cure right back to the…
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