Festival guide

2023 – leaflet

 2023 newspaper

2022

Want to download your own PDF? Click here (but be mindful that it is almost 40MB).

This year sees us launch out biggest ever Festival newspaper (48 pages!), arriving on doorsteps and in venues from 26 Sept 2022. As you can see, it has artist features from Pamela Sullivan, Kieran Murray, Carrie Barrett, KingFast, Maria Paul, Cherry Smyth, The Armagh Rhymers and Jaki McCarrick, plus

  • Children’s activities
  • A Festival calendar
  • Full event listings
  • Stories and articles on people, films and tours
  • Memorials
  • More Festival information.

2021

In 2021, we are continuing to issue newspapers directly to people’s homes. This year, we are posting 28,000 copies to homes across the north west; with a further 2,000 available from particpating venues (from the start of Oct).  This helps lower the potential for contact transmission of Covid-19 and gifts many people with a newspaper full of artist commissions,stories and children’s activities. you can take a quick peek below (we recommend using full screen if flicking through the newspaper pages ), or download a PDF version, here.

2020

In 2020, Coronavirus affected how we delivered information. We sent almost 20,000 newspapers to homes across Merseyside. You can download a 2020 PDF of the newspaper, using this link.

Additionally, you can see the online version here. You can choose to read through individual articles, but please be aware that these have not been type set.

 


2019


2018 and before

Below you can view previous year brochures, 2003-2018, minus 2003 and 2006, which we are in the process of digitising. We will add these as soon as we can locate and digitise versions. In the mean time, we hope you will enjoy skimming through those we have uploaded.

2018 brochure

2017 brochure cover
2017 brochure cover – click for PDF
2016 brochure cover - click to link to PDF
2016 brochure cover – click for PDF
2015 brochure cover - click to link to PDF
2015 brochure cover – click for PDF
2014 brochure cover - click for PDF
2014 brochure cover – click for PDF
2013 brochure cover - click for PDF
2013 brochure cover – click for PDF
2012 brochure cover - click for PDF
2012 brochure cover – click for PDF
2011 brochure cover - click for PDF
2011 brochure cover – click for PDF
2010 brochur cover - click for PDF
2010 brochure cover – click for PDF
2009 brochure cover
2009 brochure cover – click for PDF
LIF2008 brochure – click here for PDF
LIF2007 brochure - click here for PDF
LIF2007 brochure – click here fore PDF
LIF2005 brochure - click here for PDF
LIF2005 brochure – click here for PDF
LIF2004 brochure – click here for PDF