Arts Melbourne is inviting you to share your memories of past celebrations in the form of a letter. After all, Melbourne always puts on a great show when there is an excuse to celebrate! Please get in touch to share your memories of the great events and celebrations Melbourne has had in the past, from the highlights of the church calendar: Easter, Harvest and Christmas to the Melbourne Carnival, Festival and Melbourne Wakes. National celebrations, the Centenary of the end of WW1, our Remembrance Sunday Parade and street parties for the Royal Jubilee. These are all usually great opportunities to come together and meet old friends.

 Let us look back on our past celebrations and use these memories to imagine the future - how will we come together this year? What could we do to celebrate when we can? What will this mean to us?

Quotes from your letter, The Melbourne Letters will be printed as booklets that will be shared with the community, We are working with Melanie Wheeler, Rebecca Goldsmith and Chris Wright thanks to sponsorship from South Derbyshire District Council to turn our memories into something spacial.  If you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or any other materials you would be happy to lend to the team that could help to tell the stories of Melbourne celebrations, please get in touch.. As soon as we are all able to, the team would love to meet up, have a chat and record some of your memories in person.

For now, please send a letter telling them about your favourite experiences of Melbourne celebrations in the past – whether 5 or 50 years ago, and what your dream celebration would look like in the future, the Arts Melbourne Team look forward to hearing from you – and if you include your address or telephone number someone will get back to you.

Either drop them off in the “special box” in Melbourne Post Office, deliver to the Festival Office, 49 Church Street, DE73 8EJ email to info@melbournefestival.co.uk or call 07765 819428. We look forward to hearing from you!