Events
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...
Welcome To Aquatopia
Welcome to Aquatopia is a stand alone commission to mark the anniversary of The Blue and Yellow Submarine Parade, one of the best loved moments of Liverpool 2023. This year we welcome you to join a deep sea disco for all the family and the next chapter of this fantastical underwater story. The party will bring together the underwater kingdoms of...
It’s The End of The World and They Knew It: Dystopia – Then vs. Now
Life imitates art in unexpected ways, especially when it comes to dystopias. From the realms of science fiction to the harsh realities of today, we witness the convergence of fiction and fact: robots and AI, surveillance states, global wars, government oppression, natural disasters and mass poverty. The Liverpool University Special Collections and Archives: Science Fiction...
Pint o Science
Pint of Science is back for 2024! Get ready for three evenings full of fascinating science from Monday 13th to Wednesday 15th May. Scientists from across Merseyside will be taking to the stage in venues across Liverpool and Wirral, including Leaf, Future Yard, Tempest and the Ship and Mitre. From the surveillance state to the...
Pity: Andrew McMillan, with Paul Farley
Two award-winning poets come together at WoWFEST to launch a debut novel! Andrew McMillan, whose Physical was the only poetry collection to ever win the Guardian First Book Award, will be reading from his debut novel Pity, and in conversation with multi-award winning poet Paul Farley. Pity explores community, masculinity and post-industrialisation in Northern England amidst the...
Drop the Dead Donkey The Reawakening
BREAKING NEWS: 30 years since the launch of the trailblazing, smash-hit TV series, the Globelink News team are back, and now live on stage for the very first time. Starring the original cast members Susannah Doyle, Robert Duncan, Ingrid Lacey, Neil Pearson, Jeff Rawle, Stephen Tompkinson and Victoria Wicks, the iconic BAFTA and EMMY award-winning...
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...
Collaborator: A Work In Progress By Daniel Kitson
I dislike audience participation. I think It’s creatively bankrupt, ethically questionable and if I see it mentioned in the blurb for a show, I will not attend due to moral objections and/or personal discomfort. Anyway. I’ve written something about that and it’s got just over 200 parts. So… Collaborator was conceived specifically to be performed...
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...
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...
