What’s On?
Here’s our full festival lineup for 2024!
✨ 21st March – 23rd March 2024 ✨
Art Gallery
A gallery combined with an indie arts marketplace!
The gallery will display fine art, large-print poetry; digital illustrations, sculpture, and a bustling treasure trove for shoppers.
We’re stocking up with goods from local artists, businesses, and craftspeople. From gifts and jewellery to one-off vintage finds: we’ll have it all!
Our Community Exhibitions are now OPEN for submissions! The 2024 themes are:
- Anatomy
- Creatures (foul and fair)
- Home
- Memory Lane / Nostalgia
- Sweet Things
- Unearthing
It’s FREE to display your artwork at our community exhibitions – including listing pieces for sale. Artwork, crafts, and handmade products can be in (virtually) any format – please send us the photos and details so we can create labels accordingly!
Fancy selling your art or wares at our marketplace? Enquire now!
Performances
These slots include: Music of any kind, original theatre + short-form variety entertainment, drag, multimedia installation art, and stand up comedy.
Are you a performing artist? Enquire now!
Bookshop
Stocked to the brim with unique books and pamphlets from local authors and poets, including limited run projects and self-published zines.
Are you an author, poet, or zinester looking to sell your books? Enquire now!
Competitions
From photography – to competing LIVE at the Speak Volumes! Slam – will your art stand out from the crowd?
Our Competition Hub is coming soon!
Facilities
Our Festival Bar will serve cocktails, cans, soft drinks + more…
We are actively seeking food trucks to serve outdoor hot food during our 3 festival days.
Own a local catering business? Enquire now!
Workshops
These will be hands-on creative sessions with creative practitioners and local professionals. From screenwriting basics – to blackout poetry – or even origami masterclasses – each workshop will provide practical skills, knowledge, and a chance to socialise with like-minded communities.
Please note: Tickets (including free workshop spaces) may be limited to prevent overcrowding.
Opportunities
In line with Our Ethos, the SPEAK VOLUMES! Festival Crew strive to elevate emerging artists and young creatives from diverse backgrounds and underrepresented communities.
We are seeking:
On-site event ambassadors (voluntary)
Technical staff, audio + LIVE (paid)
Bar staff (paid)
Social media ambassadors (voluntary)
Student workshop lead (voluntary)
*All our crew members – paid and voluntary – will be offered a professional reference from our festival founder; expenses reclaim; and on-the-job festival perks.
Tempted? Use our Contact page (or send us an email) to introduce yourself.
SPEAK VOLUMES! 