Hey! Festival

ArtBomb'25 | 6pm-8pm | Sat 16 August

Hard | Art will deliver the inaugural Hey! Festival, a spoken word event bringing local and world-renowned poets, including none other than Salena Godden, together to write for a better future & develop new work to be performed in Doncaster.

Hey! Festivals are a writer-led Hard | Art initiative. Pop-up micro literary festivals which go where other festivals fear to tread. Collaborative, dynamic, agile and inventive — they put emphasis on listening to our audience.

Hard | Art curate, in collaboration with local venues, half-day literary festivals which offer a line-up of both locally and nationally known writers, reading and talking about the issues of today (climate, democracy, social justice and cultural change). They are receptive as much as creative. Setting up stalls where people with different views can argue and debate anything from climate to the price of cheese.

The Fête of Britain is on a mission to meet the people who really run Britain. The people who roll their sleeves up every day and do the hard graft.

Every place Hard | Art stop they want to build connection and the possibility for future collaboration as the people collectively bring to life the new Britain we all so desperately want to see.