TWO of Liverpool’s most famous and longterm popular events – the Mersey River Festival and the Mathew Street Festival – both started without council assistance, but crucially with volunteer labour.
Having taken over the River Festival, built up over decades to attract some 300,000 visitors, Liverpool Culture Company cancelled it (apparently to release funds for other events) and staged a “Not the River Festival� way out at Bramley Moore and Wellington Docks which attracted 20,000 people.
The associated celebrated Sea Shanty Festival was subverted into a Country & Western event. Imagine where we would be if 2007-8 was entirely handled by dynamic, knowledgeable volunteers?
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Posted by miwy dzrfe | November 21, 2007 10:12 AM
Posted on November 21, 2007 10:12