Wexworlds Website created by Frequency
10 August 2009
The Wexworlds Festival is a new Irish science fiction and fantasy weekend festival that will debut in November 2009. The Wexford based event will feature writers such as Eoin Colfer, Darren Shan, Oisin McGann and Sarah Rees Brennan as well as high profile names from the world of comic art and writing. Frequency created a CMS-based site in Expression Engine with a full guest and event listing as well as article links to all of the major social media sites.Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl), Darren Shan (The Saga of Darren Shan) and Oisin McGann (The Goblin of Tara and The Evil Eye) are amongst the many creators attending the first WexWorlds Festival.
WexWorlds is the first Sci Fi and Fantasy Fiction Festival in Wexford supported by Failte Ireland.
Over the course of the weekend a variety of activities will be taking place including, talks and readings, science experiments, comic art workshops, an exhibition on the process of writing for a comic, activities for younger children, discussions about fantastic literature, a selection of competitions and performance events at varied venues in Wexford town to include Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford Library, Bookstores, related businesses and hotels.
As well as books and comics, the weekend is a celebration of all fantastic fiction, and there will be workshops on costuming, to light hearted fun sessions with kids and foam weaponry, movie showing, and it will coincide with an exhibition by Vera Klute.
Situated in the southeast coast of Ireland, Wexford’s history is steeped in myth and legend and makes this a perfect location for an Alternate Worlds festival. A story tells of its origin in the mists of time, when Garman Garbh was drowned on the mudflats by waters released by an Enchantress. The vast expanse of harbour thus created was named "The lake of Garman" or Loch Garman, the Gaelic name for Wexford.
Wexford is also home to one of the top fantasy fiction writers, Eoin Colfer author of the famed Artemis Fowl series and currently working on the much anticipated new follow up to the Douglas Adams Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy due to be released circa WexWorlds Festival time.
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