Thanks to the hard work of our dedicated team, local people and support of local business, Leith Festival Gala Day will go ahead on Saturday 9th June 2012.

If you want to have a stall on Leith Links on the Gala Day please download the application form below and return it to the address on the form along with the appropriate fee.

Please note that the Festival reserves the right to refuse any application and that stalls are not allocated on a first come first served basis so as to ensure a balance of charity, information, food, and other stalls.

If you have any questions about how to be involved in Leith Festival please email – board@leithfestival.com

Stalls Application Form

WE NEED YOU!

Leith Festival is fighting to survive. Having lost several income streams from local authority and charitable body funders in recent months, the Festival is now in danger of closing its doors for good.

For the last 8 years, Leith Festival has created a 10 day community arts festival, showcasing home grown artistic and musical talent, supporting local theatre and dance groups and providing a much needed economic boost to the Leith area. The highlight of the festival has always been the Leith Festival Pageant and Gala Day, held on the 2nd Saturday of June each year. With over 10,000 people attending, this event is an annual platform for local arts and businesses to showcase the vibrancy of the local community. Although the wider festival has been going for 8 years, the Gala day and Pageant have been going for over 100 years and is a key date in the Leith community's calendar.

Due to limited finances, the volunteer board have been forced to conclude that the 10 day community arts festival will have to be put on hold for 2012. We still hope to be able to put on the Leith Festival Gala Day on Saturday 9th June 2012, however it is unlikely that the Gala Day will go ahead without an injection of ideas, finance and local support. Since its inception the Gala Day has been the biggest annual public celebration of Leith’s vital spirit. In these difficult times, perhaps more than ever, we need to emulate Leith’s motto and ‘Persevere.’

The board are committed to saving the Festival and continuing to serve the local community through its work. However we are now calling for the people of Leith to come to our aid, we need ideas and support, investment, sponsorship, donations of time and resources and most of all we need the people of Leith to help us save their local community arts festival.

We are holding a PUBLIC MEETING alongside our AGM at the Leith Community Centre on Wednesday 7th December 2011 at 7.30pm.

We would appreciate anyone who wants to come along with ideas for fund raising, offers of support or investment or anyone who thinks they might have a couple of hours a month to become part of the board of volunteers who run the Festival. We are specifically looking for people with experience in finance, governance and web design/social media. Please email rowan.campbell@leithfestival.com if you want to help us save Leith Festival.

Leith Festival celebrates all that Leith has to offer - our heritage, our culture, our diversity, our future and our people. It is a community arts festival that encompasses all art forms which comes together in a fantastic 10 day programme in June each year. We have over 380 events in over 50 venues across Leith.

Leith Festival Box Office is now closed until next year.

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