Scarlets Festival of Sport

Lighting the Flame, Parc y Scarlets on 6th & 7th July 2012

In the true spirit of the London 2012 Games, a partnership of the Llanelli Town Council, Communities First [Glanmor and Tyisha & Felinfoel & Llwynhendy], the Scarlets, Carmarthenshire County Council, Human Being Active, Welsh Athletics, AcuNat and Llanelli’s schools, are bringing the community Carmarthenshire’s first ever Festival of Sport.

The festival also supported by Carmarthenshire Community Events & Festival Grant and the Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust, will include a wide range of sports and healthy lifestyle activities and workshops. All the festival’s sport and activities are FREE for all to attend.

600 children from Llanelli’s primary schools will take part in competitive sports on the Friday of the event. And just like the Olympics; the winners and runners-up of each sport category will be awarded medals.

On the Saturday there will be the Festival’s medal and awards ceremony for the winners and runners-up of the Friday’s sports day. Also on Saturday there will be sport displays and sport taster sessions for the whole family to enjoy. Some of the sports on display will include Gymnastics – represented by Llanelli Gymnastic Club and Judo – represented by Llanelli’s Sanshirokwai Judo Club.

There will even be a healthy active family fun run to take part in. Additionally on Saturday there will be a multi-cultural Olympiad the. The Olympiad will include an African drumming workshop, a Zumba taster session, a Bollywood dancing workshop, and many other activities

Some of the aims of the festival are to increase young people’s appreciation and involvement in sport, increase young people’s knowledge of the Olympics and the ideals behind the games, to show that exercise and living a healthy active lifestyle can be fun, to increase the knowledge and respect of other cultures and to leave a legacy of a growing annual festival of sport based at Parc y Scarlets.

The organising partnership wishes to thank all involved with the festival.

Friday 6th July, schools will be competing. The participating schools – and countries they will be representing are:

Saturday Schedule

09:45 – 10:00 Festival opens

10:00 – 14:00 Display in Sports Barn- to include

• 10:00 Gymnastics – Llanelli Gymna
  stics Club
• 10:35 Judo – Sanshirokwai Judo Club
• 11:10 Rhythmic Gymnastics – Llanelli Rhythmic Gymnastics Club
• 11:45 Gymnastics – Llanelli Gymnastics Club

10:00 – 16:00 Taster and Sports Activities in the Barn – to include Mini-Decathlon, Mini-Rugby and other ball games, Skipping and Boxercise

12:30 -13:00 Family Fun Run … Around Stadium

13:00 -13:30 Schools medal awards ceremony – Barn

10:00 -16:00 Multi-cultural Olympiad – Music and dance workshops. Also Healthy active lifestyle workshops … West Stand Concourse

Multi-cultural Olympiad – West Concourse

This will be divided into different zones according to activities. Some of the sessions in 4 zones may run simultaneously or overlap

Music and Dance Zone

The programme will start at 10am with Music and Dance performances. Different cultural workshops will be held on sidelines for those interested to participate in them.

10:00am African dance and drumming workshop including history of Olympics

11:30am Bollywood Aerobics workshop

12:30pm Welsh Traditional Dance Workshop

1:00pm Belly Dance workshop

2:00pm Indian Classical, Westerns performance and Dandyia Dance Workshop

3:00pm African Cultural Workshop

3:30pm Finish

Fitness Zone

10:00 am Cheerleading Workshop

11:00 am Commercial Jazz Workshop

12:00pm Street Dance Workshop

1:00pm Zumba Taster Session

2.15pm Break Dance Workshop

3:15pm Finish

Arts & Craft Zone

In addition to games and cultural workshops other informative activities/workshops of the following will be held all day to educate people about importance of healthy living and keep them entertained:

• Women’s Only Group Arts & Craft Workshops
• Face painting
• Henna Painting
• Textile Workshop
• Trysordy Workshops (making Olympic torch & medals using recycled material)
• Health & Well-Being Zone
• Healthy Eating Workshops
• Wellbeing Regeneration
• Family Adviser Stall
• Walking Well Carmarthenshire
• Smoothie Bike workshop
• Age Cymru
• Glanymor & Tyisha Environment & Regeneration Action Group
• STROKE Association
• Home Start Extra
• Well-Being Regeneration
• EPP Cymru – Health & Well-Being Courses
• Polish – Welsh Association
• British Red Cross
• EPP Cymru
• Fair Trade Stall
• Swansea University Health Department