Medway River Lit presents: Pierfest!

Line up line up for the day-long extravaganza at the intersection of words and music – Pierfest! Come for one event, or stay for them all, feel free to drop in and out, and do some creative activities with Puffing and Wooling from 12-4pm.

12pm – 4pm: A creative chillout session, Puffing and Wooling, hosted by Tilley and Del, which is suitable for neurodivergent attendees.

2pm: Patience Agbabi will read from her YA novel in verse, Wonderland, about a young girl’s passion for a musical genre, followed by a disco playing Northern Soul classics.

5pm: Jake Nathan will perform poems from his hip-hop inspired collection A Life In The Day of Jake Nathan accompanied by beats and samples.

6.30pm: Performance artist and poet Naomi Wood will perform ‘Monster’ ‘hilarious’ and joyful spoken word show. autobiographical about fear and all the weird ugly things we hide. It’s about looking and being seen and all that we keep hidden from sight. It looks at what we consider to be ‘monstrous’ especially in women. It is about reconnecting with the ferocious, ravenous and wild.

8pm: Poet-musician Gabriel Moreno will perform songs from his book Gibraltar, accompanied by music.