Guests

SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE

Alfie Bown is a Lecturer in Digital Media at Royal Holloway University London. He is a founding editor of 1968 Press and his journalism has appeared in Tribune, New Statesman, Paris Review and the Guardian. His other books include The Playstation Dreamworld and Post-Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production.

Teresa Livingstone is a musical comedian and a classy lady, at least she tries to be, despite everything life throws at her as a 40-something Northern Irish woman.One of Northern Ireland’s top comedy acts and a skilled pianist and singer, she recently starred in her own BBC Sounds six-part series Tell Teresa and was previously seen on BBC’s The Blame Game, Soft Border Patrol and Late Licence.

Elliott Morgan is an American stand up comedian, actor, writer, host, producer and YouTube personality. He was a co-host of the YouTube channel SourceFed and is one half of The Fundamentalists.

Barry Taylor is a theologian-philosopher, musician, artist, academic and writer who has spent more than thirty years challenging traditional notions of religion and church and creating alternative communities built on the idea that life is uncertain, the future is unwritten and that none of us has the answer. Barry's work collapses the boundaries between the sacred and the profane, blurs the lines between theism and atheism and raises new questions about life, death and everything in between.

Fringe Programme

This year’s Wake festival is offering three fringe events. If you are a patron of mine at Flame level or above, you can attend these events for free. Just message me on the Patreon app so that I can add you to the guest list.

MONDAY 3RD

7:30PM | THE SECRET PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY | black box

Originally created by Barry Taylor and run for many years in LA, TSP mixes music, art and spoken word to explore a theme. The topic for this event is Comedy. It will be hosted by Barry Taylor and include comedy from Elliott Morgan, performance art from Lauren Fueyo and a conversation with Alfie Bown, author of Post-comedy.

TUESDAY 4TH

7PM | DOCTORED | ELLIOTT MORGAN | THE CRAWFORDSBURN INN

Elliott will be doing a stand up set that will touch on some of the difficulties he has faced in the last couple of years and will explore themes related to life, death and the absurdity of existence. This will take place in the Gallery of The Crawfordsburn Inn.

WEDENSDAY 5TH

7:30PM | ‘THE PROFANE TEMPLE’ LAUNCH | EVERYDAY ANALYSIS | BLACK BOX

This will mark the launch of Everyday Analysis’ new pamphlet, which is an essay written by myself on the Church of the Contradiction. This essay is a companion piece to the CCon videos which will be debuting earlier in the day.