Leeds Waterfront Festival brings the city’s waterways alive each year by hosting a fantastic eclectic mix of music, performance, arts and fun for all the family. The festival on 25th and 26th June, is jam-packed with activities and creativity on the water and dryland.2016 is the 200th anniversary of the completion of the Leeds Liverpool canal and this year’s festival promises a special celebratory weekend of Arts, Entertainment, Music, Food, Drink and family fun right across its eight sites: Armley Industrial Museum, Thwaite Mills, Leeds Dock, Brewery Wharf, The Calls, Victoria Wharf, Granary Wharf and The Tetley also joins the festival line up this year.
On the water there’ll be Musical Barge gigs and boat trips all along the waterways, canoe demonstrations, dragon boat races and a very exciting Junk Boat race!
The festival is running a series of creative workshops on the run up to and over the festival weekend. These workshops are designed to inspire local people to get involved in the festival creatively and explore all that is wonderful about Leeds waterfront, There’ll be an incredible barge ‘yarn-bomb’, creative writing workshops and spoken-word events, photography and film making opportunities, Graffiti master-classes and live street art, junk boat building, art-runs, heritage trails & guided walks and even ‘splash-mob’ performances! It’s a free event so don’t forget to put it in your diary.
For more information;
Contact: leedswaterfrontfestival@gmail.com
Website: www.leedswaterfrontfestival.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/LeedsWaterfrontFestival
Twitter: @LeedsWFFestival Hashtag: #LWF2016
