This Saturday join thousands on Briggate for

Hope for the Nations

Hope for the Nations- Leeds’ annual international street party - warmly invites you to Briggate this Saturday for hospitality, friendship, food and entertainment.

Hope for the Nations is an afternoon which celebrates the nationalities living in the city of Leeds. There will be a stage with entertainment from across the globe and stalls providing free food and snacks to shoppers.

Throughout the afternoon a massive 60ft flag is unravelled down the city’s main shopping street. The flag was stitched by a Zimbabwean refugee living in Leeds and is comprised of the 126 flags of all the nationalities present in the city.

Project Director Paul Lancaster said: “Each year is an opportunity for us to learn more about the people in the city. Shoppers are drawn to the stalls and to the flag and often share their stories with people- last year people from 22 Middle Eastern nationalities came to talk to us and this year even more nationalities are taking part in the day.”

16 Stalls will line Briggate with food and snacks from across the world and dance and song comes from Poland, Korea, the Caribbean, Asia, Nigeria and Zambia to name but a few.

Paul Lancaster said “Leeds should feel proud that people across the world see the city and choose to make it their home. Every year thousands of students from across the world pick this city to study and learn in, Hope for the Nations celebrates how we can be one in our diversity.”