2009

Gilded Balloon set up camp at The City Rooms for duration of festival. They feature over 30 shows in 3 venues. Ed Byrne, Clive James, David O’Doherty, Hans Teeuwen, Mark Thomas and Shazia Mirza perform.

Young people from across the East Midlands perform as part of the Pieces project, a partnership with Nottingham Playhouse. We set up a partnership with Age Concern to develop a comedy project with older people. We also start talks with Leicester’s Youth Offending Service about a project with offenders.

The Best of Leicester Comedy Festival tour has grown to 14 venues across the UK.

We deliver the Games Village and Social Programme for Special Olympics Leicester. We also deliver the first SO 2009 festival in Skegness in partnership with sinfonia ViVA.