PIERFEST - a day-long celebration of words and music in the Sun Pier House Cafe/Gallery!

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.

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.

Patience Agbabi has spent over 30 years celebrating the written and spoken word. Her four celebrated poetry collections include Telling Tales, a 21st century remix of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Her Leap Cycle series for middle-grade readers charts the adventures of Elle, a 12-year-old girl born with The Gift of travelling through time. Book 1, The Infinite (Canongate, 2020), explores neurodiversity, ecology and…