On Thursday, 23rd April, from 2-7 pm, Cross Street Unitarian Chapel will host the Hey! Festival. This is an arts collaboration between the chapel, the Hard Arts Collective and Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre for Fiction, part-funded by their AHEAD programme.
Hey! brings together writers, artists, activists and faith leaders for an exciting afternoon of music, workshops and worship. Whether you’re interested in old Mancunian street songs, writing soliloquys, or arguing with a woman, Hey! promises to bring reflective thought into civic action.
You can book your space at Eventbrite
RUNNING ORDER
2:00pm – A blessing from 5 Faith Leaders, a call and response for unity and peace
2.45pm – Singing Back Radical – with ballad singer Jennifer Reid
3.30pm – Panel talk – Elizabeth Gaskell – More relevant than ever
Free – Please Book
with Manchester Met Centre For Fiction REsearch leads
Dr Emma Liggins, Adam O Riordan and Costa Award winner, Professor Monique Roffey
4:00-5.30pm – Writing Workshops
Free – Please Book
- FATE WRITING – with author Gregory Norminton, Centre for Fiction, MMU
- MAGICAL SOLILOQUYS – with Shakespeare experts Vance Adair and Nicholas Royle, on magical thinking and self-transformation
- ST GEORGE, A MAN FOR OUR TIME – a chance to explore who this man was through letters and monologues, with author Catherine Wilcox, Centre for Fiction, MMU
6pm Live Lit Finale with song and new work, live on YouTube with Good Neighbours/ Fete of Britain TV channel.
ALSO FEATURING
Argue with a Woman – with Anouchka Grose
‘The Ear of Britain’ – from The Empathy Museum.