{"id":147629,"date":"2025-05-31T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147629\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T20:05:10","slug":"free-family-festival-returns-to-park-near-birmingham-after-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147629\/","title":{"rendered":"Free family festival returns to park near Birmingham after six years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bearwood Shuffle held its last get-together around the Lightwoods Park bandstand in 2019. Now it’s making a comeback\"LightwoodsLightwoods Park(Image: Kirsty Bosley)<\/p>\n

A free family festival loved by families in Bearwood and beyond is returning to Lightwoods Park after six years.<\/p>\n

Bearwood Shuffle will be held at Lightwoods Park, just off the Hagley Road, on Saturday, June 14.<\/p>\n

The event is totally free to attend, run by volunteers, and will feature live music, food, play zones and a craft market.<\/p>\n

Read more: I went to market in a park Birmingham gave away and got something money can’t buy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Families are invited to take their picnic blankets to the park for the occasion from 12:30pm until 6:30pm.<\/p>\n

Among the artists scheduled to play are Layla Tutt, El Sam, the Metz Jr Band, Sam Redmore and the Tropical Soundclash Allstars and the Ceilidh Band.<\/p>\n

Between sets, Sharon Brown of SoFunk will be leading disco dance fitness sessions for extra dancing opportunities. The Birmingham<\/a> Opera Company is also expected to attend.<\/p>\n

Families can take picnics to the park, but food will be available, with Japanese-inspired hotdogs, kara-age fried chicken, artisan coffees, Caribbean street food, pizza, arancini, donuts and brownies on offer.<\/p>\n

The Lightwoods House restaurant, 1000 Trades on the Park, will have an outside bar with extra beer pumps and drinks from Attic Brewery.<\/p>\n

The kids craft zone will feature activities throughout the day, with arts, glitter tattoos, skipping ropes, Jenga, archery and garden games.<\/p>\n

Local artist Tat Vision will be there to make his signature puppets and The Parakeet will craft with cardboard and natural materials.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, more than 30 local crafters and makers will sell from the Bearwood Shuffle Arts Market.<\/p>\n

Bearwood Shuffle is a not-for-profit that began back in 2011, named after the iPod Shuffle and created to ‘make a difference’.<\/p>\n

The grassroots, community-powered festival hopes to bring ‘live music, creativity and good vibes to the heart of Bearwood’.<\/p>\n

Bearwood Shuffle takes place on Saturday, June 14 and no tickets are necessary. The not-for-profit team behind it has set up a fundraising page<\/a> to help support the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bearwood Shuffle held its last get-together around the Lightwoods Park bandstand in 2019. Now it’s making a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[16824,855,748,393,4884,17756,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-147629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-bearwood","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-smethwick","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114604246667566184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}