Nottingham Festival of Words

Nottingham Festival of Words: February 16^th–17^th 2013

The Nottingham Festival of Words will take place for the first time in the City next year. It will be a great celebratory event bringing together diverse forms of word-related cultures, and will include all forms of  literature, spoken word, theatre/film, and anything else connected with words. Nottingham Festival of Words is looking for event and activity proposals that will enable and encourage the public to engage with literary culture in all its forms. If you are an individual, group or organisation working with words we would love to work with you, so tell us about your event ideas.

Publicity will be created for the Festival as a whole, incorporating information about all of the events. A central venue will act as a hub, with a book market and a selection of spaces for events, while other venues throughout the city will also host events.

This will be a large, well-organised festival, bringing new audiences to the city and your events. We anticipate high media coverage. We are already working in partnership with Nottingham Writers’ Studio, Nottingham City Council, Nottingham Trent University and Writing East Midlands.

A dedicated team from these organisations will manage the Festival, deciding on the programme, producing publicity, liaising with the central venue and facilitating events – for example by providing a Festival Box Office and helping organisers to find venues for their events. Individuals, groups and organisations are invited to propose events for inclusion within the programme.

The Festival will take place on the weekend of 16^th and 17^th February 2013, and on Nottingham City’s Light Night – Friday 15^th February. It may also include events during the fortnight around this weekend. Note that the following week is school half-term.

The Festival will be themed around ‘Lace and Love’ in 2013. There is a city-wide ‘Lace Season’ taking place in the months leading up to and culminating with Light Night, and you’ll note that the dates are very close to St Valentine’s Day. Your event need not be directly related to the themes, but we hope that most events will have at least some connection.

We understand that you may not be able to provide full details of your proposed event, but please provide as much information as you can, even if it is vague or not finalised.

This information will be used in programming the Festival. Submitting a proposal does not commit you to staging the event, and it does not commit the Festival to including the event.

Return a separate copy of this document for each event you would like to propose by email to nottwords@gmail.com or by post to Nottingham Festival of Words, Nottingham Writers’ Studio, Broadway Business Centre, 32a Stoney Street, Nottingham NG1 1LL by 30 June 2012.

If you have any enquiries, please call Nottingham Writers’ Studio on 0115 959 7947