The Events Guide is ready!
After hours of slogging over his mac, Brian and the Festival Team are delighted to announce that the Events Guide is good to go. If you just can't wait to get you hands on a copy, then download yourself a Mono or Colour version via the website.

The Events Guide will be stitched into the latest copy of the Cottenham Newsletter, that will be dropping on your doorstep in early June. A big thank you to Cottenham Newsletter and Target Print for distribution and print!

“The history at the bottom of your garden”

The Fen Edge Archaeology Group will be showing how much everyone can discover about the past, without having to step outside their own local area. We have already been finding out about the last 2000 years of the Fen Edge: through fieldwalking; village trails; expert talks; and our test pit excavations in Cottenham gardens. We will be presenting finds from all of these activities at FEFF 2009 and letting everyone know how they can join in our future activities. We will give everyone a taste of archaeology by running a test pit excavation, where you can see us at work and see the finds as they emerge; give the kids a taste with our sand pit excavation; and have some great finds from our recent projects on show for people to see.

Finds from the bottom of your garden

How many of us have kept hold of the strange and old looking things we dig up in our gardens? Have you ever wondered just what that old bit of stuff was? Well we have an expert on hand to help you to identify and date those relics we all keep tucked away gathering dust. Richard Mortimer, Project Manager from Oxford Archaeology East will be at our stand at FEFF 2pm – 4pm on Saturday 20th June. So bring along your old bits of pottery, metal, bone, tile – whatever and he can tell you just what they are and how they fit in with our history.

Kite Making on the Green for Friday only!
Squeezed in at the closing hour, we are excited that the STEM Team Cambs - a Science and Engineering promotion and teaching support group, are coming to the Festival. They will be running School-only workshops in kite making with hands-on activities during pre-booked sessions from 9.20 - 2.20

You want Culture; we've got it loads of it!
The Culture Tent is going to be an ever popular venue this year with a great selection of things on the Saturday and Sunday, including:

• Display on Stone Circles
• Wool Spinning
• Cambridgeshire Archives & Local Studies
• The Archaeological Dig
• Cottenham Village Society
• Cottenham & Cambridge Cheese Making Display
• Vollage Design Competition
• Walking Tours of Historical Houses of Cottenham
• Bring your own Artefacts
• plus more....