Chris Brooker
A gifted performer, Chris Brooker has taken his unique mix of comedy and improvisation to stages all over the world. After a decade on the UK comedy circuit Chris has forged a fine reputation for...
Soulfood
SoulFood is a chance to meet other 21-35s at the festival, share reflections on this year's theme of "Wake Up", and enjoy some shared silence at the end. Informal and relaxed - bring your lunch along!
Jemma Freeman & The Cosmic Something
Three piece, outsider, alt, psych, power trio Jemma Freeman and The Cosmic Something are the aural equivalent of a distorted photograph capturing the hinterland found between emotions and actions....
Apollo Ghosts
Apollo Ghosts are a band formed in Vancouver, B.C. Canada in 2008 (founded on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh). Apollo Ghosts live currently feature...
Jeremy Williams
Jeremy Williams is a writer and climate justice campaigner, and also a children's author. He runs The Earthbound Report, twice recognised as Britain's leading green blog, and is the author of...
Ben van Der Velde
Ben Van der Velde is a stand-up comedian, actor, improviser and presenter. Over the past few years, has spread joy and nonsense to all four corners of the British Isles, as well as Greece, Estonia,...
Aislinn Evans
Aislinn Evans is an artist, writer, and educator. Their practice exists at the peripheries between art and writing, encompassing publication, performance, and video. Their top priority is making...
Gerry K
Anecdotal, observational and refreshingly honest in style, Gerry's comedy is enriched by a somewhat unique perspective: Real name Gerry Kyei (pronounced “Chay”), Gerry was born in the East End,...
All The Threads You Leave Behind by Anna Rathbone
Anna Rathbone is a maker-of-things based in Bristol, working across a range of disciplines including theatre, textiles, installation and live art. Exploring themes of grief, loss, and what's...
Harriet Braine
Harriet Braine is a musical comedian, who dedicates a remarkably large portion of her oeuvre to Art History. After winning Best Newcomer at the 2016 Musical Comedy Awards, she started gigging around...
Beloved Sara Zaltash
I am a British-Iranian artist, musician, astrologer, spiritual practitioner and public mystic. I live to serve god(S) of all disciplines, ideologies and theologies. In any other moment in history,...
Helen Coffey
Helen Coffey is the travel editor of The Independent. She regularly appears as an expert contributor on travel-related stories for the BBC News channel, BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio 4, and LBC, among...
DUCK
We are DUCK - a wonky synth/punk/queer noisepop trio from Sheffield/Leeds. We released our 2nd LP “There Are No Normal Conversations Any More”, Feb 2020 on Hell Hath No Fury Records just in...
Imogen Stirling
Imogen Stirling is a Glasgow-based artist. She is a performance poet, theatre-maker, musician, writer and facilitator. She was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence for Paisley BookFestival 2021, is...
Words for a Dying World
Hannah Malcolm writes and campaigns around the subject of climate justice and the Church. She is training for ministry in the Church of England and writing a PhD on a theology of climate and...