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WoWFEST: Fahrenheit 2024
In the grip of a climate emergency, while culture wars and real wars rage, ‘WOWFEST: Fahrenheit 2024 – The temperature at which the world burns’ is an arena for ideas and a call to action. The festival programme draws inspiration from Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, reflecting on the urgency of preserving knowledge and...
Toneacity Entertainment Showcase Showcase on Toneacious Soul
Toneacity Entertainment, a budding entertainment agency driven by a commitment to authenticity and excellence, is delighted to announce its forthcoming event at The Invisible Wind Factory on March 23rd. Presenting an incredible evening of entertainment from their premier act Toneacious Soul. The occasion guarantees an extraordinary evening filled with soulful classics, electrifying performances, and an...
Up Next Festival 2024
Unity Theatre’s Up Next Festival is back for 2024 for it’s annual celebration of Merseyside artists, and this year it’s bigger than ever. This Spring, join Unity for an extended two-week arts festival featuring brand-new shows from Merseyside’s most exciting artists and companies. This year’s festival includes newly commissioned works across a range of artforms...
Salena Godden: Love, Grief and Fury
Join Salena Godden for an intimate evening of readings and captivating conversation, discussing her latest collection, Love, Grief and Fury. Three decades since her groundbreaking debut on the UK poetry scene Salena Godden unveils her boldest and most definitive collection yet. With Love, Grief and Fury contains love poems for people and the planet, poems...
Beatrix Campbell: Secrets and Silence
Join acclaimed journalist Beatrix Campbell as she reveals untold truths and hidden government agendas in her latest book, Secrets and Silence: Uncovering the Legacy of the Cleveland Child Sex Abuse Case. In 1987, the Cleveland Child Sex Abuse scandal shook the UK as 121 children were removed from their parents care due to allegations of...
Jah Wobble: Memoirs of a Geezer
For one night only, Jah Wobble, top geezer, legendary bass player and founding member of Public Image Limited with former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon, makes his debut appearance at WoWFEST discussing his newly released expanded edition of Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer. Get ready for an enthralling night of storytelling as Jah Wobble,...
Jon Ronson: Things Fell Apart
This ain’t no conspiracy – Jon Ronson, award-winning writer and broadcaster, is (virtually) in town! The Culture Wars have torn up the ‘normal’ dividing lines in society and ripped up old-style political playbooks. Jon Ronson is the international go-to for all info on the culture wars and the warriors on the battlefield. Jon’s Radio 4...
An Evening with Jackie Kay
May Day, the much-anticipated new poetry collection from Jackie Kay, one of the UK’s best loved poets, casts an eye over decades of political activism: the international solidarity of the Glasgow of Jackie’s childhood; her parents’ Socialist campaigns; the feminist, LGBT+ and anti-racist movements of the 80s and 90s, and the global pandemic and urgency...
Joelle Taylor: The Night Alphabet
A woman walks into a tattoo parlour. But this is no ordinary woman, and this is Hackney in 2233. Jones’ body is covered in tattoos but she wants to add one final inking to her gallery – a thin line of ink mixed with blood that connects her body art together, creating a unique map....
Irvine Welsh: 30 years of Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh returns to WoWFEST for a no-holds-barred celebration of 30 years of Trainspotting and its cast of outcasts – Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie. Trainspotting quickly gained a cult following – which exploded across the world when Danny Boyle’s film of the same name hit the big screen. It left an inedible mark...