Africa Oyé Festival

TIME & PLACE
Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd June 2013
Review Field - Sefton Park - Liverpool
12:30pm - 9:30pm both days
Admission: FREE

Map of Sefton Park - Click for larger image

Click on the map above for a larger image

WHERE TO STAY

Liverpool has a wide ranges of affordable accommodation from Hotels to Apartments to Guest Houses so why not stay for the weekend.

Our two partner Hotels who will be providing our Artists accommodation for Africa Oyé 2013 are:

The Devonshire House Hotel
(10 mins by Taxi or Bus)
293-297 Edge Lane
Liverpool
L7 9LD
Tel: 0151 264 6603
Fax: 0151 263 2109

The Adelphi Hotel
(City Centre - 12mins by Bus)
Ranelagh Place,
Liverpool,
L3 5UL
Tel: 0871 222 0029
Fax: 0871 222 7009

A good Guest House recommendation is the World famous Old Dairy Farm (Kempton Road L15) which is very popular and reasonably priced too. It is around 10-15 mins walk to the park.

For all other festival accommodation visit: www.visitliverpool.com

TRAVEL
Africa Oyé are pleased to be working with goCarShare to help people share car journeys to and from the festival. With the average 100 mile car journey leading to over 20 kg of CO2 being produced, goCarShare has the potential to reduce the festival's carbon footprint considerably. It's a great way to save money and as it is built around Facebook you can see if other friends are going too.

So if you're driving, or need a lift,
click here to add your journey.

By Road from M62: At the end of the motorway take
the A5080 (merges with A5047) Edge Lane heading towards the City Centre. Continue straight ahead for about ¾ of a mile then turn left into Durning Road. Continue straight ahead for ¾ mile through Tunnel Road, and then Lodge Lane. At the end of Lodge lane turn left into Croxteth Road, then take the first right into Croxteth Drive. You are now in Sefton Park. Continue left along Croxteth Drive and you will come to the festival site.

By Rail: Take the Northern Line towards Hunts Cross and get off at St Michaels. Walk down Belgrave Road to Aigburth Road, then cross the road onto Lark Lane and walk the full length of Lark Lane and you'll come to Sefton Park. The walk is about 1 mile.

By Bus: There are a number of buses that will take you to Sefton Park - Saturday & Sunday: Route 75: from Liverpool ONE Bus Station or Great Charlotte Street to Ullet Road - every 10 minutes
Routes 80/80A: from Liverpool ONE Bus Station or Great Charlotte Street to Ullet Road - combined, every 10 minutes
Saturday only: Route 173: from Liverpool ONE Bus Station or Great Charlotte Street into Sefton Park - every 60 minutes.

For full details of the bus or rail timetables noted above, call
Traveline on 0871 200 2233 or visit merseytravel.gov.uk

PARKING: Please utilise Public Transport where possible as thereis no parking in the immediate vicinity of the festival field. You can use these links to plan your journey to Oyé.

WHILST AT THE FESTIVAL

Children: We all know kids can go walkabout and be out of sight in a blink of an eye, so please keep an eye on your children at all times. Any lost children must be reported to the stewards on the festival site as a matter of urgency.

Pets: Please keep your dog on a leash, they might not seem scary to you, but they are very scary to children and some adults too. Please keep any scary dogs away from the main festival site.

Security: People are usually very honest at Oyé, but
please keep an eye on all of your belongings at all times.

Toilets: Africa Oyé ~ Nominated 'Best Toilets' at the UK Festival Awards. As always there will be toilets on site at the festival.

PLEASE KEEP OYÉ TIDY!

Let us all continue to enjoy this beautiful green space. Please bag up your rubbish and throw it in the wheelie bins and skips provided.

By far the greatest amount of material that is thrown away by residents is food waste (28% = 110,000 tonnes) despite most of it still being edible - more than double that of paper and card.

Not only are we throwing away food and drink that could have been eaten, we are also in effect throwing money away. On average each family throws away £600 worth of food and drink each year because we prepare, cook and serve too much, or we don't use the food and drink we buy before it goes off.

Top tips to....save on food waste

		Check what is in the cupboard, fridge and freezer before going shopping.
		Know what you are going to buy before you go shopping
		Plan meals in advance.
		Check the dates on food regularly and use foods with the shortest date first.
		Freeze foods you will not get round to eating in time.
		Measure portion sizes to help avoid cooking or serving too much food.
		Be creative with using up leftovers (most leftovers will keep for two days in the fridge if they are well wrapped, apart from rice).
		Use the fridge to extend the shelf-life of fruit and vegetables.
		Wrap fresh foods well or store in air-tight containers once opened.
		If you've bought fruit on offer and have more than you'll eat immediately - such as berries - try storing a punnet in the freezer ready to use a handful at a time in smoothies. Simply blitz from frozen.

Come and see the Love Food Hate Waste team at the festival
for more information and food saving recipe ideas.

For more food saving tips visit: www.recycleformerseysideandhalton.com