Exeter Respect returns to the city on Saturday 11th June and Sunday 12th June 2016. Our diversity festival has grown dramatically along with the diversity of the city’s population, and provides a great, safe, space in which more communities than ever before can come and celebrate and share their cultures.

Exeter Respect is the city's annual celebration of diversity where we use the performing and creative arts to engage the wider community in sayign no to racism and all forms of prejudice. The Respect ethos is a simple one: racism and prejudice often spring from fear, and fear is often based on ignorance, so lets' overcome ignorance by getting to know one another and sharing not shunning our cultures.

One of the best ways to get to know someone is to enjoy yourself with them, hence our celebratory event and adoption of the old Commission for Racial Equality slogan: All Different, All Equal!

The first Exeter Respect festival took place in 1997 and there has been a celebration virtually every year since then. From 2003 to 2008 Exeter Respect's biggest event was at Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre, but from 2009 to the present day our focus has been a giant two day free festival in Belmont Park, with a footfall of around 20,000 people every year.

http://exeter-respect.org

Free