{"id":14071,"date":"2017-08-04T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T07:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14071"},"modified":"2017-08-04T07:43:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T07:43:28","slug":"fiery-celebrations-planned-for-50th-anniversary-of-milton-keynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/fiery-celebrations-planned-for-50th-anniversary-of-milton-keynes","title":{"rendered":"Fiery celebrations planned for 50th anniversary of Milton Keynes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">Milton Keynes is one of UK&#8217;s most iconic locations, nestled in southern England, and it is celebrating its 50<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary this year. An official free event for the MK50 year long celebration, produced by IF: Milton Keynes International Festival, called Feast of Fire, will be celebrated on 21<sup>st<\/sup> October, Saturday, at Milton Keynes (MK), with the city streets being lit up by fire displays. Find here fireworks and pyrotechnics, including fire sculptures, besides live music and performances and also The People&#8217;s Procession.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">The Feast of Fire, commissioned by City Club, is created by Walk the Plank, the outdoor arts experts, in collaboration with people and artists of MK. It opens with &#8216;Spellbound&#8217;, which is a big family show which tells a story, through shadow play, of Rama and Sita, using fire and special effects, marking the Festival of Lights \u2013 Diwali. The People&#8217;s Procession will have 250 citizens from Milton Keynes, from all ages, backgrounds and communities, to lead the audiences, carrying flaming torches, through Midsummer Boulevard (East).<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">The Point Car Park will have Mr. Wilson&#8217;s Second Liners band here at the joyous party, playing live New Orleans Jazz style dance tunes, on a fiery stage. Against a backdrop of fire drawings, a DJ will perform his show. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mkfm.com\/news\/local-news\/feast-of-fire-to-celebrate-mk50\/\">free event<\/a> comes to a close with spectacular fireworks and a flaming finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milton Keynes is one of UK&#8217;s most iconic locations, nestled in southern England, and it is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year. An official free event for the MK50 year long celebration, produced by IF: Milton Keynes International Festival, called Feast of Fire, will be celebrated on 21st October, Saturday, at Milton Keynes (MK), with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14074,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071\/revisions\/14074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}