Welcome to Sale Festival 24! Summer awaits us and this June we have a feast of activities for every age group at venues across Sale.  You will soon be able to find everything on offer on social media and via the ‘What’s On’ pages of Waterside Arts Website.

Our brochure and flyers will be available soon in libraries and across businesses in Sale. Our programme this year responds to the great feedback we had from the survey carried out after last year’s Festival by katy@lifeinsale. There is more for families and children, more doing and learning, and we are working hard with our partners to make your Festival inclusive, diverse and a celebration of local talent and culture.  

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Highlight events at our Waterside Arts home celebrate Trafford’s young musicians, Irish Music and Dance, spectacular evenings of ballet and opera, Hootin’ Annies big band music with sought after musician and comedian Amy Webber, and a new ‘Showtime 24’ with drama, jazz, dance and song. We also have Blues Dancing, a World Wine Masterclass, Gorse Hill Studio’s successful drama ‘He Loves me, He Loves me not’, a ‘Minifest’ of dance and music for parents and children, and an interaction with ‘AI and Extraterrestrial Intelligence’ in a talk in the Chambers! Sale Library ‘Gets Creative’ for children with craft, poetry, live music and much more. Sale Photographic Society’s exhibition returns to the HIYA Rooms where Trafford Arts present their ‘Showcase’.

There is a brand new ‘Poetry Trail’  as well as traditional events in the parks, the Cruising Club’s Trafford Mayor’s Canal Boat Parade, outdoor learning on the canal and in the ‘Big Red Bus’ at Springfield School and  the new ‘Comic Con’ in Stanley Square.  Music and the ‘1960s’ feature at Sale Sports Club, and community events in local churches are open to all.

We aim to advance learning and to raise funds for our local charities whose care and commitment help bind us together. Do join us and make June in Sale a month to remember.

Thank you!

Steve Hodkinson