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Dragon Festival

About the Norwich Dragon Festival 

We are currently working with the Norwich Education Network (NEN) on the first ever Norwich Dragon Festival, a celebration of dragons and their importance in the culture and history of the city over many centuries.

The Festival involves a series of fun and exciting events aimed at families, schools, the wider local community and visitors of all ages and will take place from 31 January to 22 February 2009.

The packed programme includes exhibitions, performances, story-telling, a dragon trail, art and craft activities, films, competitions and much more across many city centre venues.

We want to hear from you

If you have information, memories and photos of dragons in Norwich we want to hear from you! We are currenty collecting information about the history of dragons in Norwich, so please get in touch if you have:  

  • Memories from street processions featuring Snap
  • Old photos or paintings of dragons in Norwich
  • Knowledge about the locations of dragons across the city
  • Historical sources that feature dragons

If you have any information you think would be relevant please call Jo Archer on 01603 599576, email  or write to Jo Archer, Norwich HEART, PO Box 3130, Norwich NR2 1XR.

Keep visiting www.norwich12.co.uk/dragonfestival for the latest updates.

Dragon Dragon Competition

The competition has now closed for entries - a big thank you to everyone who entered. Winners will be notified in November and a prize-giving ceremony will take place at Norwich Castle on Saturday, 29th November.

Dragons across Norwich

To whet your appetite, here are some images of some dragons across Norwich, from top to bottom:

  1. The only remaining dragon carving in the Great Hall at Dragon Hall, from which the building now takes its name

  2. Golden wyverns (dragon-related creatures with two or less legs) at Surrey House

  3. Snap dragon at Norwich Castle, courtesy of Jarrold Publishing

  4. The dragon at Ethelbert Gate at Norwich Cathedral

  5. St Margaret of Antioch, the patron saint of women in childbirth, bursting out of a dragon. Legend has it that she was swallowed by Satan in the shape of a dragon but managed to escape alive when her crucifix irritated the dragon and burst its belly. This is one of four particularly fine medieval wooden carvings in St Helen's Church at the Great Hospital

  6. Festival procession with Snapdragon and Whifflers on 24 June 1951, taken by George Plunkett


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