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2005

Jonathon Holloway Becomes Festival Director

Jonathan Holloway was appointed festival director and introduced a greater number of site-specific installations and high impact launch events, resulting in an 60% increase in attendance in the first year alone.

The 2005 festival introduced the free family day and the Luminarium – an inflatable sculpture of air and light – it was one of the year’s most popular installations.

The Festival showcases the work of innovative choreographer Matthew Bourne – a reworking of ‘La Sylphide’ where a young Glaswegian is enticed beyond the mean streets and night clubs of Glasgow.

Arts make life better

Norfolk & Norwich Festival brings tens of thousands of people together in celebration – it has been doing this for over 250 years. Through our May Festival and our year-round arts education work, focusing on children and young people, we lead and support celebration, creativity and curiosity in communities across Norfolk and the region.

This year we begin an exciting new initiative, Festival Connect & Create that will bring creative opportunities to those schools and communities with least provision. Creativity transforms people’s lives. It builds cohesive communities, develops vital skills and supports health and wellbeing. We want more people to have access to creative opportunities.

Please consider donating to support and develop this work. With your help we can increase access to the life changing power of the arts.

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