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The free daytime event will take place at Aristotle Lane Recreation Ground in north Oxford on Saturday.
Proceeds will go to the Kilsby Boat Project, a 112-year-old narrowboat that has been rescued to become a new community pleasure boat for Oxford’s waterways.
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There will be live music from Jericho Singers, Ben Avison & Three Idle Women, Weekend Warriors, The Dirty Big Canal Dance Band, Mambo Panthers, Papa Nui, and Senegalese kora musician Jali Fily Cissokho.
Visitors can go to the Spoken Word Tent to hear fantasy author Sir Philip Pullman read on stage, and Roy MacFarlane, “Canal Laureate”, will announce the winning performances of this year’s poetry competition.
There will be stalls selling jewellery, clothes, sweets and local items.
(Image: Oxford Mail) And there will be fun activities throughout the day for kids, including face painting, art, a bouncy castle, Channel Olympics, arts and crafts projects, and a movie theater showing short films about local history.
A festival spokesperson said: “Visitors can also enter our fun dog show – a hugely entertaining and impressive competition with our winners taking home fantastic canine prizes.
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“Craft beers and non-alcoholic drinks will be available in the bar shop, and a large selection of food vendors will be on site offering international cuisines.”
The Kilsby Boat Project is rescuing and restoring a 1912 canal boat, reinventing it as a community venue for storytelling, music and boat trips.
Kilsby is moored at the historic Tooley shipyard awaiting restoration work to enable her to make the journey home to Oxford.
For more information visit www.oxfordcanalfestival.com.
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