2024 has been a big year for the Festival so far. The Feel Good Fortnight in May saw hundreds of people engage with the wide range of events over a jam-packed two weeks including a bigger and better Feel Good Fair which was a huge success, with new additions including the food and kids crafts in the McKillop garden. We'll be sharing photos here soon reviewing all the events (more than 100!), including those which took place across the Renfrewshire villages for the first time.

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The Feel Good Gathering was also a big success with more than 1000 people joining us in Lochwinnoch park for a community celebration with live music, dance, bar tent, storytelling, street food, massage and stalls. Pictures of this will soon be on our blog site.

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And now we're gearing up for our next event which is 31st October - our Halloween parade. We've been working towards this for weeks with community workshops making feature scale lantern puppets but we have also made more than 90 lanterns in and out of school with local children. We can't wait to showcase this alongside the choreographed flag waving that legend Jane Simpson has put together. Flag wavers will be dancing their way through Lochwinnoch to the thunderous sound of Bloco Winnoch samba band. They will be followed but community groups including Good In The Wood, RSPB, Wildcare, Lochwinnoch Toddlers and Kibble. After the lanterns there and puppets the parade will be rounded of by the Pied Pypers.​​

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We'll finish the parade in Lochwinnoch Park with a Fire Picture finale and free hotdogs for kids before they head out guising. 

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You'll be able to see the parade from 5.30 pm when is starts at Auld Simon.