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The Clapham Festival of Music & the Arts (Cla'am Fest) was created to organise annually in Clapham, a festival for music and the arts, promoting education and fostering community spirit and service in Lambeth.
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The Clapham Festival of Music & the Arts (Cla'am Fest) was created to organise annually in Clapham, a festival for music and the arts, promoting education and fostering community spirit and service in Lambeth. Cla’am Fest is a valuable programme demonstrating excellence, aspiration with ambitious content giving real opportunity for individuals to become actively involved in the community. See notes on the Founder and Artistic Director of our festival - Stephen Bennett.

Clapham is unique in being a very artistic community but with little or no opportunity for expression. An abundant cornucopia of leading international figures in the arts with outstanding talent in abundance reside here! …a vast treasure trove of multi-ethnic, rich and poor, talented famous and unknown humanity.

Cla’am Fest will create, foster and build community spirit. Activities and opportunity abound while demonstrating creative community-inclusive programming. Events & concerts will grow and expand throughout the year.

The William Wilberforce Award for Community Spirit and Service is an incorporated outgrowth of the Clapham Festival of Music and the Arts but it is a separate and unique award conceptually intended to foster community spirit and service locally in the community as well as nationally and internationally. The idea and committment is to raise individual and public awareness to the importance and power of community spirit and motivation to think creatively, compassionately and imaginatively in service to the community and each other. In this way, we might all of us become aware of the importance of helping each other and making the world a better place by being better citizens and human beings. See the william wilberforce award for community spirit and service for more information about this important annual award event.

 
Why poverty? Why do we ignore the gulf between rich and poor? Why are the rich "haves" so selfish and lacking in empathy?
You might be interested in these worrying, if not shocking facts, courtesy of the Open University.
Is community spirit and service a thing of the past?
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Watercolour painting of Holy Trinity Church on Clapham Common painted  by our Artistic Director, Stephen Bennett
Holy Trinity Church on Clapham Common
Painting by Stephen Bennett
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Holy Trinity Church on Clapham Common - was used by William Wilberforce as a centre for the Abolitionist Movement against slavery. Away from traffic and buildings in a peaceful setting, this is a unique and ideal place for some of the most exciting events of the festival. (click to enlarge picture)

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