About 4,500 people danced their way around the The Fling Festival yesterday (June 28), the biggest yet and the first to be hosted at Hylands Park in Chelmsford.
For all the pictures, click here.
The Chelmsford City Council-organised event, having considerably outgrown its first year in Bell Meadow in 2008, offered various dance tents, cabaret shows and the more bizarre exhibitions such as clay making.
"This is the biggest yet," said council cultural events manager Liam Rich.
"It is less intimate this year but I think we've pulled it off."
The event, which followed three days of the 3foot People Festival at the park for zero to five year olds, necessitated a team of some 50 staff overlooking 148 different activities.
Speaking to the Chronicle festival-goer Rhys Darg, 25, of Great Baddow, pictured making hats with sister Megan Darg and Leanne Shirley, said: "We have been comparing it to other big festivals we have been to and this is much better, much more intimate."
Elaine Tribley of The Hive Artist Studios, manning the Clay Nation tent at the festival, said revellers had made at least 500 clay models at her stall.
While many had made clay animals and miniature people, some chose to make phallic shaped objects.
Elaine said: "The mayor came around and I said 'there might be...' and he said 'rude ones?'
