Join the Queen’s Baton Relay for a celebration at the Victoria Square Festival Site as The Baton makes its long-awaited arrival! On 27th July Birmingham will welcome the Queen’s Baton Relay to the city centre with a colourful, fun-filled evening of entertainment in Victoria Square. As the Queen’s Baton Relay enters the final stage of its 294-day journey around the Commonwealth to the Alexander Stadium, Brum is set to stage a very special homecoming.
The free event brings together dance, music and performance from the city’s rich and diverse communities and is hosted by presenter Radzi Chinyanganya with rapper SANITY outside the Council House.
Dhol drummers, Bollywood and street dancers, a brass band, poets, singers, rappers and DJs will all provide the entertainment before and after the Baton arrives in Victoria Square at 6.45pm, delivered by a very special guest!
Earlier in the day Batonbearers will have visited a wide range of city locations including the Botanical Gardens, University of Birmingham, Sarehole Mill, the Balti Triangle, and stopped off for community celebrations in Cotteridge Park, Swanshurst Park and Small Heath Park.
The Baton will also take in the Gay Village, Gas Street Basin and journey in a tram down Broad Street in order to reach the homecoming party.
Schedule
5-7PM:
- Sonia Sultana
- Bostin Brass
- Casey Bailey
- Navin Kundra
- Tamanna Abdul Karim
- In Her Shoes
- SAMPAD
- QBR Arrival
7-9PM:
- Adjei Sun
- Smile Choir
- Bostin Brass
- Raza and Sebbie
- O’Driscoll Collective
- Bollywood Dance School
- SANITY
- Fatt Projects
