Festival, Carnival & community events

Additional case studies

Lewisham Peoples day

Continental drifts have managed Lewisham People’s day since 2006. This is a large scale outdoor festival attracting around 35,000 people and featuring 7 music stages as well as over 120 stalls, 100 council/ community groups and a large children’s area. Continental Drifts organise all logistics and safety management of this event.

‘Can I just say that I thought that People's Day was particularly good this year. It had a really lovely atmosphere. Thanks and congratulations to all who have played a major part in pulling it together’
Lewisham Council Executive Director, Aileen Buckton

Stop the Hiding Festival.

A one day festival on Streatham common to promote awareness and raise funds for campaigns against domestic Violence. This event won an award from the GLA for its innovative and successful dissemination of information about this subject.
Continental Drifts were the production team for this event, and dealt with all aspects of site and production management including obtaining entertainment licenses. Continental Drifts also acted as advisors to the event managers and mentored the volunteer crew at the event.

"Thank-you so much for all your energy and kindness as we stumbled through our first festival! There really would have been no festival without you, and of course thanks for your patience! I learnt so much."
Liz Dillon, Stop the Hiding Festival"

Coin Street and Thames Festivals

Continental Drifts have worked with the Coin Street team throughout the past 7 years on the production and programming of the summer events and the renowned Thames Festival.
Many of the events centre on different communities, a few examples are; 'Celebrating sanctuary'-, a refugee festival which had 5 music areas each featuring gypsy musicians and refugee bands, many of whom had never played on a music stage before.
 'Indian summer', featuring many traditional Indian and Pakistani dancers and musicians.
'Celebrate South Africa', a 2-day event featuring many artists flown over directly from South Africa, including crafts teachers and carnival costume makers. Desmond Tutu presented the festival, which had 5 music areas alongside a large carnival parade and several crafts areas.

"It’s always a pleasure to work with Continental Drifts"
Adrian Evans- Festivals director.