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Capital Age Festival 2008

The second annual Capital Age Festival took place at the Royal Festival Hall on 11 July, celebrating the creativity, experience and imagination of older Londoners. Building on the success of last year's event, this was a stunning festival of new performance and participation work.

The festival was extremely popular with over 3,000 people attending throughout the afternoon. The programme included an exciting array of performances from the Matt Ross Jazz Quintet, the Hoxton Singers and 80 year old rhythm tap dancer Will Gaines.

Capital Age Festival 2008 was also part of Big Dance 2008, a week-long celebration of all dance styles and forms which took place from 5-13 July. Big Dance aims to get as many people dancing as possible in both the lead up and during the week itself, and then encourages them to keep dancing all year round. Capital Age Festival's contribution to this week was The Big Chair Dance, which involved around 200 older people performing choreographed pieces.

The City Bridge Trust supported the Capital Age Festival with a two year grant of £20,000 under our Improving Services for Older People programme.