thank you for that welcome and thank you for coming, this is a great moment and its been two years in the planning and it's just, it always takes your mind away when you actually come to this point and you can look back and go wow we've been through a lot of blood sweat and tears to get here but now lets party and that's what we really want you to do unlike my normal speeches, i'm using that word a lot at the moment, i've written it down i normally i usually go off the cuff but i've written it down because there's so much i've to say and i don't want to forget anybody okay, her we go, on behalf of the staff and board i'm delighted to welcome you here for our 11th dadafest we are thrilled to be delivering such an exciting and diverse program in these austere times and thank all the partners and funders for their belief and support of our work