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W. London Canalboat Festival Trail

We’re blazing a trail of weekend-long community-based canalboat festivals, from Westminster to Ealing, demonstrating the utility of London's canal for community building & pandemic-era performance.

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Goodbye Spacehive, hello Crowdfunder!5 years ago

Dear Friends, Thank you so much for your support for our Spacehive crowdfunder. We have decided to move our crowdfunding to https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/brigadoon as we can offer perks like badges, canal boat cruises, silent gigs and more! All pledges on Spacehive will be cancelled. We have really come far - we now have a flotilla of 10 boats, and our first festival will take place 29th to 31st of May at Paddington Basin. We hope you will continue to support us by visiting our Crowdfunder and making a pledge there and please consider sharing our project. Thank you so much, the Brigadoon festival team, Cal, Lindsay, Eric and Sarah.

90 backers!
90 people have backed W. London Canalboat Festival Trail!5 years ago

Whoop, 90 people have pledged since fundraising began!

Update from Captain Eric: Mary Seacole monograph signing with Cleo Sylvestre5 years ago

We are busy putting together a programme of activities from March 29th to generate interest in our upcoming festival. To commemorate national nurses day in May, a book signing and Q&A with actress Cleo Sylvestre for her monograph "The Marvellous Adventures of Mary Seacole". A brilliant history from an actress who, among many other things, recorded her first single with the Rolling Stones as her backing vocalists and broke the colour barrier in the national theatre in 1969. Watch the update to find out more.

21 people liked W. London Canalboat Festival Trail5 years ago
80 backers!
80 people have backed W. London Canalboat Festival Trail!5 years ago

Whoop, 80 people have pledged since fundraising began!

70 backers!
70 people have backed W. London Canalboat Festival Trail!5 years ago

Whoop, 70 people have pledged since fundraising began!

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W. London Canalboat Festival Trail has reached 10% of its target!5 years ago
60 backers!
60 people have backed W. London Canalboat Festival Trail!5 years ago

Whoop, 60 people have pledged since fundraising began!

1st Feature for our festival trail5 years ago
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Thank you so much to all of you for being part of this project Captain Eric recently gave an interview to Kensington and Chelsea Social Council - and they featured it on their website :) here's the link. https://www.kcsc.org.uk/news/spotlight-your-canal-boat-cic P.S. Please help us by sharing the project with one friend who likes music and community in the sunshine - we aim to hit 100 small pledges by Sunday 7th of March :)

50 backers!
50 people have backed W. London Canalboat Festival Trail!5 years ago

Whoop, 50 people have pledged since fundraising began!