Festival
BOOT FEST
Join us in the sun at Future Yard, Birkenhead on Saturday 29 June for a day packed full of music from the most exciting Indie/Alternative acts from Merseyside. Ft. Shefu, The Sukis, Juno, Toy Car & Georgia Johnson. Plus, live screen printing, a vinyl record fair & the launch of our 7th print issue. *Free...
Our Hands, Our Mouths – Poverty and Resistance
The latest survey by Debt Justice shows the shocking impact of the Conservative Government’s austerity measures by revealing that a record 6.7 million people in Britain are in financial difficulty. This event, by Writing on the Wall and the Poverty Research & Advocacy Network (PRAN), has been organised to respond to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis...
Comic Con takeover at Liverpool ONE
Liverpool ONE is gearing up to host a full Comic Con takeover as favourite characters from films and comic books take centre stage ahead of the much-anticipated arrival of Comic Con in the city. Visitors to Liverpool ONE will have the chance to enjoy a month-long of cosplay fantasy and science-fiction character appearances, parades and...
Sarah P Corbett: Craftivism as a Form of Gentle Protest
Award-winning activist and author Sarah P Corbett joins Roger Phillips, award-winning former BBC Radio Merseyside broadcaster, in conversation at Leaf. They will be discussing her new book, The Craftivist Collective Handbook, her work around the world and how Liverpool has shaped her activism. Sarah Corbett set up the global community ‘Craftivist Collective’ in 2009 after...
The Haunted Body Workshop with Joelle Taylor
We are delighted to welcome Joelle Taylor, winner of the 2021 TS Eliot Prize and the 2022 Polari Book Prize to Quaker Meeting House for The Haunted Body, a masterclass in writing. Joelle will take participants through some of her tried-and-tested techniques used to create her poetry collection, C+NTO & Othered Poems, and her new...
Banned Book Club: Writer’s Marketplace
Step into the world of literary rebellion and celebrate the power of words at the Banned Book Club: Writer’s Marketplace! In 2023, PEN America counted 3,362 book bans affecting 1,557 unique titles in US schools. The authors targeted are predominantly female, Black and/or LGBTQ+ writers. (https://pen.org/) The practice of banning books contributes to a growing...
Leechcraft with David Ward
WoW are delighted to host the launch of Dave Ward’s Leechcraft, a haunting new poetry collection teeming with folkloric power. This mesmerising work dips into ancient mythology, weaving spells that will surely echo in the minds of readers for years to come. Leechcraft is a sharing of wisdom and healing, dreams and desires, rooted in...
Creative Heritage Day at WoWFest24
WoW’s acclaimed Creative Heritage Programmes work with communities to explore, preserve and promote marginalised histories. For over a decade now our Creative Heritage Project has collaborated with archivists, museums, libraries and participants, to uncover lost voices and hidden histories of little-known figures and events of significance to the development of diverse working-class cultures in Liverpool...
Your Local Arena: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell said about his classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, ‘I do not believe that the kind of society I describe necessarily will arrive, but I believe that something resembling it could arrive.’ This event, produced in partnership between WoWFEST: FAHRENHEIT 2024 and Your Local Arena, asks: just how close are we to Orwell’s vision...
Rewriting the Future: Workshop with Francesca Beard
Join spoken word poet Francesca Beard for a workshop informed by George Orwell’s chilling dystopian world in the literary classic, 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four). Francesca will perform her specially commissioned piece on the film George Orwell (Part V) film at WoWFEST’s screening and panel talk, Your Local Arena: George Orwell (Part V), on Thursday 16 May...