Year of Food and Drink funded events

Glasgow

The event will bring together Malawians and non-Malawians (including AMS’s Scottish partners) to celebrate Malawi’s Independence. This is an annual event and will involve tasting and sharing Malawian as well as Scottish food, listening to and dancing to Malawian music, multicultural socialisation, listening to speeches (related to the event and AMS as a whole) from guest speakers, and many more other activities.

Glasgow

We are organising a family event in the evening to celebrate our cultural day along with some other organisations with some Home foods and Home music. This would take place in the evening where we estimate about 150 to 200 people to attend the event.

Glasgow

A week of events including a debate, heritage workshops, sporting activities, games and a closing gala.

Clydebank

In order to bring diverse community into the celebration of the Year of Food and Drink, we are planning to organise a celebratory event that will feature cookery demonstrations of exotic dishes as well as Scottish dishes. Sessions will also demonstrate smoothies making using fruit grown locally and imported as well as fruit Kebabs. Sessions will take place in the community Café in Centre81that meets requirements of hygiene standards. Music from diverse countries will be play to create celebration ambiance

Glasgow

Having members from various communities and cultures we celebrate the cultures on International culture Day.

This makes each community feel at home with other cultures having recognised its own culture.

This is aimed to celebrate our differences and turn it to strength rather than weakness and divisive element.

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Glasgow

The aim is to organise fun for ethnic minority families with their children,so as to alleviate stress and tension.

Also, to enhance cohesion and mutual coexistence within these various communities but with shared challenges.

It also strengthens links with the centre which is important to most of the migrants from the countries that David Livingstone had impacted.

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Glasgow

Celebrating all different kinds of African food, along with a traditional African dress fashion show and music.

University of Edinburgh

We will provide a food tasting of 15 items on a fusion menu of traditional Arabic foods from across the 22 countries that make up the Arab world. These will be sourced from local Arab restaurants, home businesses and individuals. Visitors will also be able to enjoy an authentic Moroccan tea ceremony served by local Moroccan women. With the added child friendly activities of story telling, face painting, and a henna artist and also hosting a traditional Palestinian dance called Dabke.

Glasgow

We are organising a social event in the evening to celebrate our cultural day along with some other organisations with some Home foods and Home music.

Abderdeen

Football festival for children aged 7-12

Football festival for adults (16+)

As part of the UEFA Captains of Change project, AFC Community Trust are working to support a grassroots club to truly reflect their local community; Glentanar Community FC will have representatives and volunteers engaging in the festival to promote inclusion within youth football, increasing awareness and accessibility to opportunities within the game.

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Edinburgh

The event will gather ‘Guest Sellers’ from 6 ethnic groups who will display and sell their food, cultural artefacts and fabrics. The ‘guest sellers’ can comprise of chefs, artists, shop owners, etc.

A diverse range of music will be played.

Young people will play games like hopscotch, Giant Jenga, and simple homemade games like Recycled Bottle bowling, water cup races and fake tattoo booths.

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Inverness

Onam Celebrations – a traditional festival celebrated in Kerala, a state of South India. The highlights are:– Attractive floral decorations and lamp, Food and Drink – authentic taste of Kerala cuisines, Socio-cultural Programme – There will be storytelling in Play form enacted by children and Kerala folk dance called ‘Thiruvadara’ performed by ladies wearing traditional sarees. The celebrations are going to end with ‘Rope Pulling’, a tradition that has been going on for centuries as a part of the festival celebrations.

This year we will include – Gaelic songs as a part of cultural diversity and inclusion of being part of ‘Highland Community’

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Aberdeen

We intend this year to organise a vibrant and exciting One World Day event that will showcase the fashion, music, dance, languages, food of the various communities and truly reflect the multi-cultural nature of Aberdeen.

We will be working closely and strongly with the OWD (One World Day) committee and we will be drawing from the wealth of experiences and expertise they will be bringing to the planning of this event.

There will be small corners for kids to enjoy face painting/balloon modelling so that they can experience cultural diversity with one another as well.

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Aberfeldy and Perth

Variety of events including harvest festival, Moon Cake baking, lantern making, competitions and lunch club.

We will host a Food & Culture themed event using locally sourced produce and preparing cuisines from African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Arabian Gulf and Scottish recipes.

The project will also provide opportunity to assemble an exhibition/short film to be displayed to highlight the influence of Arab Culture and civilisation on Scottish life over centuries, and shine a light on the huge, often unacknowledged contribution that Arab learning has made to the development of modern Scotland. It will focus on the legacy of learning and enlightenment that our communities share, rather than what divides us.

North Lanarkshire

The project will run during the culture month in North Lanarkshire, it has designed to encourage integration by sharing culture recognition . Though food and drink people have chance to re-union to other community group and learn different culture. Three people in the African community will run a workshop to about how to cook African healthy food. It will offer a food testing platform to showcase African cuisine. African healthy food will be displayed to the invited audience and will be shared between them to celebrate the heritage and diversity in Scotland

Edinburgh

Dusherra the flagship event of the Scottish Indian Arts Forum is being held on 25th October 2015 on top of Calton Hill in Edinburgh. Dusherra, one of the largest festivals in India, commemorates a 10 day war between the gods and demons thousands of years ago. It is celebrated with gusto by communities with music, dance, food and a symbolic burning of the Effigies of the demons to celebrate the victory of good over evil

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Glasgow

Featuring a Multicultural Show and Tell, traditional African folk dance classes, and music and food from around Africa.

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Glasgow

We will provide varieties of foods from different countries and invite people in the community to come and celebrate diversity, traditions and cultures through food experience.

There would also be music and dancing

We will introduce local and international food which are locally sourced, providing opportunity for participants to taste food and drinks they are not familiar with and explaining their origin, nutritional value, where to access them and how to prepare them for best nutrition and good health. We will present the range of choices to use food economically to enhance wellbeing and bring a sense of sharing and celebration to the presentation and enjoyment of food. We will welcome participants to talk about their cultural identities as diverse communities living in Scotland.

Paisley

The project will be a unique community based approach to bringing together the new and established diverse African communities of Renfrewshire. The aim of the event is to give African people living in Renfrewshire and others an opportunity to come together and share their experiences and cultures, as well as allowing other people to come along and get to know more about this vibrant community, through music, food, and drink.

Two key South Asian festivals, Diwali the festival of light and Eid the celebration of annual pilgrimage the Hajj. Through these celebrations we aim to bring people together from all backgrounds to learn from and respect each other culture and values, therefore fostering better community relationship amongst communities. It’s a cultural awareness for local community as well as the younger minority generation about the tradition of festivals which will promote close relationship and Harmony among people.

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A Diwali extravaganza in the company of the Edinburgh Hindu Mandir and Cultural Centre and their members, patrons and the local community. A cultural celebration involving food, drinks, dance and music.

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Glasgow

A day long celebration of the tapestry of cultures that make Glasgow the most exciting city in Scotland. We will have refugee and asulum seeker volunteers working with us to create a fesival of colours, flavours and music. We want women to share the cultural celebrations from their home countries with us as we share the traditions from ours.

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Glasgow

We propose to hold an event which we hope will bring together various ethnic minorities and religious groups. We will have stage performances put on by members of our elderly group and kids dance group.  Each performance will represent a country .i.e. kids performance will be on Africa. After the performances we plan to serve the food from the countries we represent in our show.  This will be a buffet clearly we will label which country the food is from.

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Glasgow

A shared meal for 30 open to former detainees, people from the communities that support them and the general public. This meal is going to be held as an end of a research Masters into the experiences of ex-detainees- both to thank the participants and people who supported the research project and to share the learning to a wider audience.

Before the meal there will be a showing of a short film made by ex-detainees and the opportunity to ask questions and share experiences.

Glasgow-based Mayuko’s kitchen has developed Japanese foods with Scottish ingredients. For this particular event, they will provide a European roll cake with Japanese ingredients, and a Japanese ‘Kasutera’ cake with Scottish ingredients. Japan Desk Scotland provides Japanese green tea, as well as other kinds of teas. JDS also makes a documentary of how Mayuko’s Kitchen makes these cakes and show them prior to eating them.

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During WW11, many Polish soldiers were stationed in Renfrewshire. After war many of them choose to remain here, starting families and becoming valued and integral members of local communities. We invite anyone with a Polish connection in their family to attend a first meeting of Polish Roots club where we hope to share stories, memories, photographs and other memorabilia relating to Polish families. Program of Inaugural meeting includes: presentation of short films about Polish-Scottish connections, exhibition about life in Renfrewshire during and shortly after WW11, some Polish traditional food to taste.

We would like to celebrate Polish-Scottish connections by creating Polish Roots Club. The event will be a chance for us to get to know if there is a need for regular meetings and celebrating Polish-Scottish connections more often. We will talk about the idea and invite participants to take active part in creating Polish Roots Club.

Glasgow

We aim to show case our most popular Ghanaian foods and drinks.  A Ghanaian cultural showcase on the significant weekend of St.Andrew’s weekend. Forging the bonds between Scotland’s African communities and the beautiful cultural characteristics of Ghana. This event will be addressed by his excellency and Ghanaian Consul General for Scotland Dr. Charles Aryaku

Aberdeen

A food, drink and sporting extravaganza with Aberdeen’s growing Nepalese community.

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Aberdeen

The event that day will be International buffet table for the community to try all different tastes, where they can sit and enjoy and meet people from all different cultures as our area is very multi-cultural as is our Committee.

There will be all different music and dance through the day for the community to watch or even to participate. Encourage people from different cultures to put on their national dress.  For children we will have Fun activities to do all different crafts to try out from eg. Paper folding and henna ink.  There will also be a magician and puppet show.

Dundee

A community lunch bringing together women from many different cultures living in and around Dundee, with food and drink from throughout the world.

The theme of the lunch will be to celebrate inspirational women to hear from those women who have overcome barriers and struggles to live, work and raise a family in Dundee.

Following lunch we will showcase some traditional music and dancing from around the world such as Middle Eastern Dancing, African Dancing and Highland dancing asking the women to join in the celebrations.

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The event will be a celebration of the literary work of world renowned spiritual mystic Mevlana Rumi and will feature the sharing of South Asian / Persian culture and culminating in a communal evening dinner.

Our intention is to offer an open invitation to all cultural communities with Falkirk to join us in a ‘Mehfil’ (gathering) to share and learn about each other’s cultural heritage and to have an opportunity to break down barriers which can often occur when there is a lack of interaction between communities.

Edinburgh

Edinburgh Interfaith Association plans to host an Interfaith Multicultural Meal and Quiz. This event will bring together people from the diverse religious and cultural communities of Edinburgh to share food from their different traditions and to find out about each others’ beliefs and practices through a quiz. EIFA has run similar events in the past, with great attendance and feedback. Eating together is one of the best ways of encouraging respect and understanding and developing friendships between groups, in addition to really celebrating and appreciating the diversity of cultures present in Edinburgh and what they bring to the city and Scotland.

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Glasgow

We will welcome the diverse communities of Glasgow, particularly the Kurdish, Arab and Turkish communities to come together and enjoy an evening of shared celebration.  There will be performances from local Turkish, Arab and Scottish musicians allowing people to dance and enjoy themselves to a wide variety of music styles. The food enjoyed on the evening will include dishes of Middle Eastern origin. We will aim to ask guests attending on the evening to sit beside someone they don’t know so that we can get people sharing and truly celebrating together. People will also be welcome to bring something which represents their culture that they wish to share with others.

Grangemouth

An exhibition of a variety of European nationalities’ cuisine (Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Romanian etc.). There will be a talk and presentation on the diverse area Falkirk has become.

The catering will be done by volunteers from each nationality making each individual dish produced authentic and homemade.

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The Glendale Cafe brings women together from a multitude of ethnic and faith communities to celebrate what binds them through food, drink, conversation and films. Our two events will offer a selection of diverse community dishes, great conversation and a two classic films.

Glasgow

Bringing together families and individuals from across communities to share in a diverse celebration of Scotlands Year of Food and Drink.  MCASS work directly with people and families who must deal with a variety of addictions. A vulnerable group often ignored we are working to raise awareness of issues and act as a safe place to help shape more positive paths and lives. We are Scotland and look forward to celebrating this themed year alongside communities across the country.

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Edinburgh

A event specifically catered for the elderly communities in the lothians and Edinburgh. Bringing together the Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Indian communities to celebrate the Year of Food and Drink and local cuisine with an Asian twist.

We will involve a selection of our disabled dancers to perform a series of flashmobs in a variety of public spaces in Glasgow City Centre at peak times during the day early morning, lunch time and end of the working day. Once the dancers have performed their flashmob they will offer the members of the public a small treat, a traditional Christmas mince pie or a clementine this will be accompanied by a little message “some food for thought” these will be comments gathered from our disabled dancers for example “dancing makes me feel happy!” Each message will also include the contact details of BEMIS and Indepen-dance. The flashmob will be accompanied by a live musician and we will work in partnership with founder of The Culinary Abilities Awards, Chris Sandford to support the event with his disabled chefs to make and distribute the food element of the event.
We intend to use this event to celebrate the abilities and talents of our inspiring disabled dance artist and chefs.

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Glasgow

A diverse international buffet created by the members of the North Glasgow Framework for dialogue for the residents of their community. Bringing people together through music, dance, food and drink.

Edinburgh

Polish Cultural Festival Association in partnership with Scottish Polish Cultural Association will organise Saint Nicholas Christmas Celebration with Workshops -Traditional Krakow Crib (Nativity Scene – a type of Christmas manger modeled after the medieval, renaissance and baroque architecture of Krakow, Poland), Music, Dance and Food. The event will also celebrate Edinburgh-Krakow partnership and will be an excellent opportunity for the diverse communities to learn more about Polish traditions and culture.

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Stirling

A celebratory event for ethnic minority women and their friends, family and communities creating a fun filled afternoon of musical, culinary and dancing entertainment.

All welcome.

Friendship Harmony is an event based around celebrating different cultural recipes using locally produced Scottish vegetables and fruits, cooked in a healthy way and following energy efficiency and energy saving practices. The day will be open for people’s families and communities from across Glasgow to come, enjoy the healthy, fresh and low carbon food print meals. The event will also include beauty therapy sessions using natural skincare products to release stress. The event will be followed by the group attending one of the popular Scottish pantomimes in one of the Scottish Theatres to celebrate being part of the Scottish Community and culture.

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A day event to share culture and cuisine reflecting the diversity of our membership which includes South Asian, African, Polish members with the wider Scottish community.

We will be delivering a community lunch at an event which will include an exhibition area to promote support services on health topics of concern affecting ethnic minority groups.

A  cultural and heritage event of storytelling and display of artworks.

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Edinburgh

The event will highlight the links between Kenyan food, music and migration. Kenya has a rich tradition and fusion of African, Arab and Asian cultures from its geographic position on the east coast of Africa, which has long history of trade across the Indian Ocean. The historical aspects of Kenyan cuisine, as influenced by migration, will be showcased; from local ingredients put to good use to create honest and nutritious meals to more exotic cuisine introduced by merchant traders and colonisation.

Aberdeen

A day of sharing Pakistani culture and cuisine with the wider Scottish community.

The event will be a community lunch and an opportunity to share the literary heritage of Pakistan with a reading from some of the works of Pakistan’s National Poet ‘Allama Iqbal’.

We are also planning to invite the local Scottish literary community to attend to share the diverse range of Pakistani food and drink and to exchange poems and prose from the national poets of Pakistan ‘Allama Iqbal’ and Scotland’s ‘Robert Burns’.

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The event will be a celebration lunch to share the Islamic culture with the wider Scottish community. Using food, poetry, art and friendship. A multi ethnic, cross community event to celebrate our diversity and combined humanity.

To celebrate the Year of Food and Drink, we will be hosting Dine and Dance, an event that will bring together diverse communities to celebrate and promote cultural diversity through food, games and music.

The management team will devise table mats that will provide talking points and game rules for guided interaction during the meal. Food will be representative of the many ethnic communities represented within Scottish International, cooked by our team players. We will also have a DJ who will play traditional and popular music from around the globe.

Our activity will be an international meal event to which guests will also be invited to bring along food, drink or snacks from their own cultures. The event will focus on showcasing the cultures that are present in the Kinning Park area. This will be done by liasing with local community groups that use the Kinning Park Complex.

As well as the food from the different countries there will be music and dance from around the world as well. Local artists will be engaged in order to decorate the venue with images from the different cultures represented.

Additionally we shall link in with Govan and Craigton Integration Network to showcase the food and cultures of some of their service users that are seeking or have been granted asylum.

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Dundee

Through this event we want to rekindle the memories of African heritage, where over 100 families will come together and sample a wide variety of African foods. This will also be a chance for families and friends to mingle and socialise in a safe and relaxing environment, an opportunity that doesn’t come too often for Africans living in Scotland

Glasgow

We will employ Ranjit’s Kitchen to provide a pop up 3 course meal for 40 people, with live Indian music and short film to follow. We want to bring together a diverse group of people living in the neighbourhood, and draw attention to high quality authentic Indian vegetarian cooking available on the southside of the city, accompanied by excellent live and film entertainment.

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We are Govanhill’ will celebrate the diverse ethnic and religious mix of Govanhill. Govanhill is the most ethnically mixed community in the whole of Scotland. 50 banners/flags will be designed and produced by local people to celebrate the 50 languages spoken in the area.

The banners will be displayed on lamp posts along the main arterial routes around Govanhill.

The high profile event will be launched with a complimentary food event, prepared by local people from our Govanhill Grub  cookery group, will celebrate and showcase the food of the local community.

Kirkintilloch

Ethnic minority forum is planning to have a variety of food and drinks,  Foods from Scotland, Africa and  Indian subcontinent included in ‘Winter festival’ for celebrating Diversity of Food & Drink in January 2016.

A session of Yoga involving gentle stretches will be offered to participants as an appetizer.

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Glasgow

Scor is a GAA competition that promotes Ireland’s traditional past-times covering all aspects of our culture, including music, song, dance and quiz. We plan to host competitions in 8 disciplines (Scór quiz on 21/01/16 and day event on 23/01/16), to display the talent of those throughout Glasgow involved in our club. We are hosting a competition in all categories, inviting people of all ages, cultures and social class to participate in celebrating our Irish heritage, through an Irish cultural medium other than sport./

The GAA offers a fantastic medium to promote these cultural events and recognises the importance of our heritage as being central to its core values of Irish culture, volunteerism and inclusion of the diverse communities of Glasgow.

More specifically related to the theme of Year of Food and Drink, we intend this year to integrate two baking stalls, one with Irish (soda bread, Tayto crisps etc) and one with Scottish baked and cooked foods (shortbread, Scotch broth) and drinks. Everyone from any community is welcome to our event and we would be delighted to host you on the day, you never know, we even turn you into the next Gaelic Football Star for Scotland! Céad míle fáilte to all of the people of Glasgow.

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Glasgow

The funding will enable us to organise a Burns Night event in January 2016. Our organisation has been organising this event since 2014 in partnership with Glasgow Life. For 2016 we would like to continue working with Glasgow Life in this event. This will involve Burns’ poetry readings in different community languages, performance from Glasgow Integrated voices – a choir comprising women from up to 7 nationalities, a fusion of Haggis with recipes from different nationalities and food and dance from different cultures.

West Lothian

A community food festival and ”sing a song contest” for kids from the community. The aim of the events is to introduce people to the culinary traditions of our diverse community and give children opportunity to share songs. Also we plan to deliver show of polish dance ensemble ”Ojczyzna”. That show can introduce people to traditional old polish dance. A lots of fun activities for children as well like bouncy castle, face painting, books fair, games and competitions with small awards.

Edinburgh

A Burns Night Community Ceilidh, including a Burns Supper (with vegetarian options) prepared and served by volunteers from Granton Community Gardeners, with Ceilidh music and dancing contributed by a local Ceilidh band and other acts from members of different communities being organised by the Living in Harmony worker.

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Glasgow

We will organize a multicultural community event in Govanhill to celebrate diversity inviting individuals from all areas within Govanhill to attend. The event will be a photography exhibition of traditional tools that the diverse groups use to prepare their meals and specific ingredient that they use.  At the event we will introduce taster sessions of the variety of food connected to the variety of cultures that took part in the photography exhibition. We will also invite a DJ to play a background music that represents the different cultures.

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Edinburgh

We propose to invite around 15 Scottish Muslims to prepare and share dishes which speak to their cultural background. The event will be open to the public and provide a tasty introduction to the diversity of Muslim communities in Scotland. We hope to involve Muslims with connections to Pakistan, Turkey, the Arab world, Iran, Malaysia and Indonesia as well as converts who will bring their own unique stories to the event via their food.

Glasgow

Food is an integral part of any community in Scotland there exists an international menu in which you will find food from all regions of the world. The Eat humble samosa event is a celebration of this, a taste of our rich and diverse community and likewise pallet. We aim to invite people from different communities to bring their foods/music for other community members to share and sample. To enjoy the different sounds and music. The themes of the event are food, art, culture,and exhibitions .

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Edinburgh

We plan to hold a proper Burns Supper that is accessible to the very ethnically diverse children and their families that attend Dalry Primary School in Edinburgh. The Parent Council (PC) want as many people as possible to experience the pageantry of a Burns Supper including a taste of the food, poetry, music and dance of Scotland. Very few of the parents, the majority of whom are from outside Scotland, had attended a Burns Supper or knew what happened at one. We want to provide background information for parents such as a modern English version of the poetry to be recited, an explanation of the traditions around a Burns Supper and its origins.

Pipe in the Haggis, poetry recitations, serving of haggis and other traditional Scottish food, Ceilidh band and Scottish Country dancing demonstration.

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Edinburgh

Event to celebrate our diversity through food, drink, music, dance ,storytelling – all activities designed to bring people together, address isolation, promote integration and social cohesion. The fun programme starts with activities for families with young children (at 4 pm). We will also organise ‘getting to know each other’ activities; share food from around the world while being entertained by a variety of local artists/performers. The event will culminate in a disco for the young and the young at heart.