The programming team at WLF HQ are currently wading through the applications for events that have already been received and we have been overwhelmed by the quality of the applications. The 2012 festival is already looking to be a very exciting and amazing event.
For the inaugural 2011 festival we opened the doors far and wide and had a myriad of different events, workshops, talks and seminars to choose from. Sadly some of these did not reach us until very close to the festival itself, and this unfortunately caused some problems.
In 2012 our message about the festival and the events that we will choose to undertake is quality over quantity. We want to make the festival as accessible to all as possible but with limited funding and staffing in place we have decided to put a cap on the amount of events that the festival undertakes to organise and promote in 2012, and so we will be arranging and hosting no more than 40 individual events in Worcester, including the appointment ceremony of the second Worcestershire Poet Laureate and the second Worcestershire Poetry Slam Championship. It was always intended that the “hub” or “capital” of the festival would be Worcester, with other events taking place in other locations within the County.
Organisations in other areas of Worcestershire may organise their own events under the festival banner but these events must be completely self organised, self managed and self contained.
There will be a separate programme of children’s events, organised by Taliah Drayak.
We will be starting the process of confirming events, performers and speakers and choosing the ones we would like to have in the 2012 festival so if you would still like to take part and you would like to be considered as a speaker, run a workshop or run other events you need to submit your event application forms to us as soon as possible.
The official closing date for event applications to reach us is February 28th 2012, but the sooner you get them to us the sooner we can look at whether we would like to include your event in our programme.
You can download the event application form here:
Worcestershire Literary Festival – Event Application Form 2012
We look forward to receiving your event submissions, and if you have any questions at all please feel free to contact the Festival team on 01905 24435 or email info@worcslitfest.com.
Lisa Ventura
Festival Director, Founder & Chairman
On behalf of the Worcestershire Literary Festival Committee
