The Story of Lafrowda
- 1996 - the first St Just Music Festival
- The idea of a community arts celebration in St Just was born
- 1997 - the second Music Festival and the first Lafrowda Day
- Young people were encouraged to get involved The Youth Club and the schools made costumes, banners and lanterns,
the Sneakers and Sparky entertained the crowds,
and we brought out Graham Jobbins’ Golowan image for our first procession - 1998 - Lafrowda Day was getting bigger
- Special St Just sea creatures accompany the Golowan Sea Witch through the streets
- 1999 was Eclipse Year
- A black sun appeared on our logo and the Black Eclipse Dragon was the highlight of the procession
- 2000 - St Just at the Millennium
- For the first time we had major external funding, and built our own images - the year of the Alien and Ali G
For the first time the roads were closed all day, and street decorations appeared - 2001 - the first full Lafrowda Festival
- brought the former music festival and Lafrowda weekend under one umbrella
Lafrowda Day’s theme was ‘Space’
The school made their first big image - and remember the Dalek? - 2002 - the Lafrowda Trust was formed - a registered charity to run
- St Just’s own community arts education programme
Our theme was ‘transportation’
with a forest of road signs, ‘HMS Nursery’ and the Hell’s Angel - 2003 - Life was a Beach
- Lafrowda Day was bigger than ever
The music continued throughout the evening in both the Plen and the Square
and 5000 people enjoyed the day - 2004 - St Just reached out to ‘Faraway Places’
- The morning that it rained, but spirits weren’t dampened and by the afternoon the sun was out to see Cactus Man and a giant tree frog parade through the streets
- 2005 - The Colours of the Rainbow
- The debut of the Trolley Sculptures
Rory the tiger led the biggest community procession to date
and we had a visit from Cyberstein, the 8 foot robot - 2006 - will be Just Legendary
- The tenth Lafrowda Day - the theme is ‘Legends’ - it’s bound to be special
Lafrowda Day 2006 is on Saturday 15 July
