FROME’S first Kindness Festival is now in full swing!
The Kindness Festival is celebrating the kindness that keeps the town going, and runs until this Sunday 6th March. It is being coordinated by local non-profit organisation, The Good Heart.
Frome College students have enthusiastically helped to make the Kindness Festival badges that are flooding the town this week, alongside the poster campaign sponsored by local stationers Postscript.
In addition to the six-day programme of free events (bookable at www.thegoodheart.uk), the Festival’s Kindness Crew is offering assemblies and workshops on the theme of kindness in eight local schools and setting in motion all kinds of warm-hearted happenings around the town.
These include interactive thank-you notice boards at Frome Town Hall and Lo Rapitenc in Cheap Street, an Angel Map at St John’s Church, and street performances in the Westgate on Saturday and outside the library on Sunday.
From 6.30pm – 7.30pm Tuesday to Thursday, Frome Town Hall is hosting the Festival Momo Bar. From Friday onwards, the town will be illuminated by Window Wanderland kindness windows, with a special workshop at The Good Heart on Saturday 5th March for anyone who wants to be part of creating a window themselves.
On Sunday 6th March, you can either join in kindness activities outside the library or show kindness to the environment by planting trees on the East Mendip Way.
“The Kindness Festival aims to affirm the superpower of kindness we all have inside of us,” said Festival organisers The Good Heart. “Please join us in celebrating the kindness that already exists in Frome, in practising how to be more kind to ourselves and others, and in deepening our understanding of the difference it makes to our health and wellbeing – as individuals, as a town, and globally.
“Given what’s happening in the world right now, kindness seems more important than ever.”
