Ten Years on the Edge

Rebel Rants Series Announced

In 2010 Writing on the Wall celebrates ten years of delivering a festival that brings together our diverse, community based audience, with the best local, national and international writers, artists, poets, musicians and film-makers, and just about anyone we feel has something relevant to say. 

Our tenth anniversary will be a special festival with an exciting series of pre-festival 'Rebel Rants' on justice, liberty, identity and race, designed to get you fired up for our launch in May 2010.  Guest speakers are Martin Bell, Michael Mansfield QC, Germaine Greer and Darcus Howe.
 
Over the past ten years we've had some amazing guests - Noam Chomsky, Benjamin Zephaniah, Helen Walsh, Lindsey Collin, Billy Bragg, Anne Enright, Kevin Sampson, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, James Kelman, Levi Tafari, Dave Jacques, Jimmy McGovern and many, many more, who have kicked into town to entertain and challenge, keep us writing and thinking, and engaged us in debate and discussion about Power, Palestine, Music, Crime, Drugs, War; events for insiders, notes from underground, Yemeni workshops, film production and premieres, and plenty of drinking tales. 

An award winning festival that does more than just dares to be different.  Pioneering in its field and unique in its style, a ‘rare beast – a festival fueled by pure, righteous anger’, which has the ‘foresight and guts to hold events in some of our most deprived areas’ and reach ‘audiences that other festivals can’t reach.’ 

Details of the 2010 WoW Festival will be announced soon, but first we invite you to put forward your ideas for festival writers/artists and events that you would like to see at WoW.  Email them to us by clicking here and don’t forget to sign up and become a WoW supporter and be first to hear all our news and future announcements.

This page was modified on January 11, 2010