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1989

The First Annual Festival

The first of the annual festivals took place in 1989, this time with a French theme to celebrate two hundred years since the French Revolution.

Despite some locals believing the events were only for French people, on the whole it proved a successful experiment and the idea to theme each year’s festivities was adopted for most of the following decade.

A new Friends of the Festival was set up in order to provide general fundraising and awareness raising.

French Festival

A poster for the 1989 French Festival. Taken from the Norfolk & Norwich Festival archive.

Information about specially produced French wines to enjoy at Festival events, from the 1989 Festival programme. Taken from the Norfolk & Norwich Festival Archive.

 

A poster displayed at Norwich Castle Museum’s exhibition ‘The Rights of Man & the Citizen’. This poster was almost censored in France by the French government. From the 1989 Festival Programme, taken from the Norfolk & Norwich Festival archive.

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