It's back!
The Burnley Words Festival will take place from Friday June 16 to Sunday July 2. The event will feature a range of activities including workshops, readings, stalls, exhibitions and performances across a whole host of town centre venues and locations.
The include writing workshops for authors, theatre productions for children and a poetry walk. A striking window mural, which features a poem about Burnley by local writer Kathryn Halton, was installed at the end of April in an empty shop unit.Her work offers a response to a famous piece by ‘punk poet’ John Cooper Clarke about his never wanting to visit the town.
“We’ve got music, poetry, writing, theatre, film, storytelling, a record fair and so much more besides.” Sue Robinson from Culturapedia said: “We are delighted to be working with our Burnley partners to make this celebration of all things wordy happen after such a long break. Everything is either free or pay what you can.”
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