What’s On
Liverpool is a vibrant city, with plenty of activities to suit all tastes. Find out what’s happening and when with our handy ‘What’s On’ calendar.
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...
Super Connected Live
Is it time to break up with our phones? Based on the critically acclaimed album by indie rock polymath Tim Arnold, ‘Super Connected LIVE’ is a Black Mirror-esque show fusing film, live music, theatre and the ticking time bomb of social media & big tech. As the film rolls, Arnold performs on stage and screen...
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...
Sugar Rush PicknMix
Sugar Rush is tailored for the upbeat, daytime reveller – perfect for an older audience who loves the party scene but favours an earlier start, and for the younger crowd looking to warm up for a night out. The event promises an afternoon filled with irresistible beats from up-and-coming and local DJs spinning the best...
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...
Music and Poetry
Kunst Site presents the fifth instalment of its Music and Poetry event, a cosy evening filled with live music and spoken word performances by various local and Manchester based artists and visual projections by illustrator Ana Ortuño. Located at Quarry, the event will be held indoors with plenty of seating opportunities Live Music from: Three...
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...
Warn Them of the Danger – Raymond Waring
Warn Them of the Danger is A theatrical, visceral collage exploring the boundaries of violence and belief and indeed theatre itself based upon the 1957 story of ‘alien contactee’ James Cooke, from Runcorn, Cheshire. Written by Claire Monica Burgess and Raymond Waring, with music by Peter Cattermoul. Performed by Raymond Waring Drawing from the lives,...
