The Great Spitalfields Pancake Race
SHROVE TUESDAY 20 February 2007
DRAY WALK, OLD TRUMAN BREWERY, BRICK LANE, E1.
at 12.30pm
Get in training for Shrove Tuesday and join in the Great Spitalfields Pancake Race. All you need to get together is a team of four people suitably dressed up (or down) to enter in the relay race. Bring your own frying pan and we’ll provide the pancakes. The race will be run along Dray Walk at The Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane and all you have to do is toss the pancake a couple of times en route.
The heats will start at 12.30pm followed by the finals and the prize giving.
The winners will receive a beautifully engraved - you’ve guessed it - frying pan! The best dressed team will also receive a prize. And there will be prizes for runners up and scrumptious pancakes for all entrants.
The event is being organised by ALTERNATIVE ARTS in aid of the Children in Cities Campaign run by Save the Children, registered charity no 213890.
So enter your team now. Please try to get yourselves sponsored or bring a donation on the day for the charity. Thanks.
If you’d like to enter a team (or donate a prize for one of the winning teams) please contact:
ALTERNATIVE ARTS
Top Studio, Bethnal Green Training Centre, Deal Street, E1 5HZ
Tel 020 7375 0441
Fax 020 7375 0484
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5 responses so far ↓
1 Carole // Feb 19, 2007 at 8:32 pm
I’d love to celebrate Pancake Day with the kids tomorrow. Can you tell us more about this day?
2 Jon Tillman // Feb 19, 2007 at 9:15 pm
The races will be costumed, and are free to go and see. I have not attended one before, so there is not much else I can tell you…
3 Carole // Feb 19, 2007 at 9:54 pm
I’m sorry I wasn’t clear. I’m in the U.S., and we don’t have Pancake Day here. I’m wondering how it started there, and if families cook some special pancakes or have traditions around this?
4 Jon Tillman // Feb 19, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Gotcha. “Pancake Day” is the Anglican nickname for Shrove Tuesday. The reason that pancakes are associated with the day preceding Lent is that the 40 days of Lent form a period of liturgical fasting, during which only the plainest foodstuffs can be eaten. Therefore, rich ingredients such as eggs, milk, sugar and flour are disposed of immediately prior to the commencement of the fast. Pancakes were therefore the perfect way of using up these perishable goods, besides providing a minor celebratory feast prior to the fast itself. In the States it is called “Fat Tuesday” or more widely “Mardi Gras”.
5 Carole // Feb 19, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Thanks, Jon!
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