The World Transformed
Background
Back in Spring, my good comrade Mr. Isaac Rose - author of The Rentier City (2024) - informed me The World Transformed (TWT) festival would be moving to Manchester. After a year's break, the largest left-wing gathering in Britain would be reborn in a new city, decoupling itself from the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.
Given STAT's regional reputation for provocation and high engagement, particularly amongst the youths, I was asked to work on the social media and comms. teams for the festival.
It wasn't immediately obvious what I'd signed up to. With there being an existing team of graphic designers I wouldn't be creating the visual identity itself, but appropriating key visual elements for a whole host of purposes - from social media posts, emails and leaftlets to web editing. This meant working with the festival's graphic design team, specifically using Figma, and pumping out all sorts of assets at the request of literally anyone on the team.
Besides the immediate work of the socialz, STAT was also to be a part of the cultural programming, staging A Secular Exorcism of the North of England on the Saturday night (see programme below). This was an audio-visual theatre performance and "evening of noise, drone and ritual".
Alongside all of this I manned the comms desk during the festival weekend. This involved the continuation of social media work, and at much greater volumes, but also the checking-in of press contacts, amongst all sorts of other queries. Throughout the weekend I also produced a number of posters for arts events.
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| reverse side of main promotional leaflet, featuring STAT's "Exorcism of the North" |
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| "Exorcism of the North" as shown in the print programme |
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| list of TWT25 festival partners, including STAT Magazine |
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| staff credits, as shown in print programme |