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Polari at Writing on the Wall
London’s award-winning LGBTQ+ literary salon comes to WoWFEST 2024. The inimitable Polari founder and author Paul Burston, presents a dazzling line up of award-winning talent; the multi-talented Rosie Garland, Irish wordsmith Ciaran Hodgers and the legendary Gerry Potter. Paul Burston founded Polari in 2007. The salon has been welcomed at the Southbank Centre, The British...
Danny Morrison: The Dirty War
Danny Morrison returns to Writing on the Wall for a one-off exclusive on the Stakeknife affair and how he was lured into a trap by Britain’s biggest spy in the IRA. The events of 7 January 1990 changed Danny’s life. Charged with conspiracy to murder, kidnapping and IRA membership, he was eventually sentenced to eight...
Turning a Book into a TV Series: Ashleigh Nugent
Ashleigh Nugent and Tom Thostrup, co-founder and Managing Director of 2LE media, will talk through the process of how Ashleigh’s electric debut novel, Locks, was optioned for TV. Locks was published by Picador Books in 2023 and received rave reviews, including 4 out of 5 stars in the Daily Telegraph. Later that year, he secured...
Lights Bearing West: Book Launch with Tony Wailey
Tony Wailey’s latest book, Lights Bearing West, is about memory, place and distance, messages sent, delivered, picked up, put down, kept or discarded. Going away, having adventures and coming home, whether these adventures are first hand or tenth hand, is part of everyone’s trilogy in Liverpool – even for those who have never left the...
The Welsh Connection
The Welsh Connection featuring Manon Steffan Ros, Gareth Twamley & Iwan Steffan. From architecture to Scouse voices, Liverpool is inextricably connected to Wales and owes a debt to the creativity of its people. WoWFEST 2024 celebrates Welsh writing talent with one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary Welsh novelists, Manon Steffan Ros, and the hugely...
Future Station: Like Lockdown Never Happened – Music & Culture during Covid with Joy White
What music got you through the pandemic? Join us for a conversation with Dr Joy White about culture during COVID at our Future Station talk at 6pm on Tuesday 2 April. Joy will draw on her latest book ‘Like Lockdown Never Happened’ to consider the ways in which contemporary Black musical forms helped us to...
The Jesse Janes Band + Liam Cromby
Folk/bluegrass band Jesse Janes headline Bombed Out Church. All taking place under marquee. Jesse Janes all hail from Liverpool, with sisters Kate and MaryRose originally from Omagh, Co.Tyrone. Enjoy both original songs and covers of popular artists, such as Dolly Parton, Fleetwood Mac, and The Eagles! Support from Liam Cromby, an Americana folk/rock singer/songwriter, raised...
Ibiza Club Classics Performed by A Live Orchestra
Reviving the good old days of Ibiza, one classic at a time! We are thrilled to announce our first event in a brand new series, Revival Nation Presents: Ibiza Club Classics. Get ready to dance the night away as Symphonica Orchestra and Mr Switch DJ take the stage LIVE from the Invisible Wind Factory in...
N’famady Kouyaté
N’famady Kouyaté returns to the Music Room, this time as the winner of the 2023 Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition. Cardiff-based N’famady’s music is a blend of his West African heritage and Western indie, pop and jazz. His live performances, backed by an excellent band, create vibrant atmospheres, fuelled by his charisma and charm on stage.
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...