The Main Event
The Main Event was the centre of each Eat Cambridge festival: a single large day bringing producers, traders and food businesses together under one roof. For most of the festival's life it was held at the Corn Exchange, the Victorian hall in the middle of the city that also serves as Cambridge's main concert venue.
The format was a food fair, not a sit-down event. Producers took stalls, visitors moved between them, and the day functioned as an introduction to businesses that most attendees would otherwise only meet one at a time.
Holding it at the Corn Exchange mattered. The hall is central, it is large, and it is a civic building and not a commercial one — which fitted a festival that was run by volunteers and was not trying to make money.
A record of the one day the whole festival came together under a single roof.