{"id":4375,"date":"2012-05-01T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T10:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2012-05-01T11:24:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T10:24:31","slug":"may-day-to-host-the-amazing-jon-hicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2012\/05\/may-day-to-host-the-amazing-jon-hicks\/","title":{"rendered":"May Day to Host the Amazing Jon Hicks!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This May Day, North Down Borough Council in association with Holywood and District Community Council are proud to bring the internationally acclaimed street artist, Jon Hicks to Holywood as part of the annual May Day celebrations taking place on Monday, May 7th<\/sup>.<\/h2>\n
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A sample of work from the amazing Jon Hicks, the internationally renowned pavement artist who will be attending this year\u00e2\u0080\u0099s May Day in Holywood on May 7th. Jon will be creating a chalk drawing on Holywood\u00e2\u0080\u0099s pavements of The May Pole and members of the public can watch while Jon creates his masterpiece.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jon regularly appears in street festivals, arts festivals, art happenings, cabarets and corporate events all around the world. Performing his own shows or creating new artworks to a client brief. He has just recorded a spot for the new BBC1 children\u2019s show \u201cThe Slammer\u201d due to be on the TV this autumn. <\/strong><\/p>\n

At May Day, Jon will be creating a beautiful image of the Holywood May Pole on the pavement using chalk, a masterpiece which he will be creating throughout the course of the event. Members of the public can come along and watch Jon working and marvel at his artistry. This is a fantastic opportunity to see an art prodigy in action!<\/p>\n

There\u2019s plenty more happening at the May Day event too. The town will be filled with over 70 craft and charity stalls for the occasion so plenty for the shoppers to browse! Holywood and District Community Council have organised the now legendary Bonny Baby competition at 10.30am in the Queens Leisure Complex with the ever- popular Maypole Dancing at 10.15am and 11.30am. Young children can get their chance to dance around their own Maypole with Jump, Jiggle and Jive from 12.00-4.00pm.<\/p>\n

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To celebrate the Queen\u2019s Diamond Jubilee there will be a Royal themed Fancy Dress Competition at the Main Stage area at 12.15pm. At 1pm the stage will play host to a programme of medieval merriment to keep all the family entertained until 4pm.<\/p>\n

The stage programme this year includes a comic portrayal of Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham along with Jester and Juggler frolics. And there will be many other enchanting characters weaving their way through the crowds throughout the day.<\/p>\n

So come to Holywood this May Day for a fun-filled family day out!<\/p>\n

For more information check out www.northdowntourism.com<\/a> or call<\/p>\n

Bangor Tourism Information Centre on 02891 270069<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This May Day, North Down Borough Council in association with Holywood and District Community Council are proud to bring the internationally acclaimed street artist, Jon Hicks to Holywood as part of the annual May Day celebrations taking place on Monday, May 7th. Jon regularly appears in street festivals, arts festivals, art happenings, cabarets and corporate … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}