Thanks to...
All the people who support what we do, and buy tickets, and we would especially like to thank the following:
The staff and management of the Alive Corn Exchange, who help us put on our cinema event, and who have helped us keep ticket prices low!
Visit West Norfolk
We'd like to thank Visit West Norfolk for their support, guidance and input at all stages of Wyrdfest.
CULTure Babylon is delighted to announce that we have received grant funding from the Borough Council Kings Lynn & West Norfolk to support our events for West Norfolk Wyrdfest in October this year.
This means that we will be able to keep ticket prices reasonable, while also paying our performers and creative contributors fairly – something that is very important to us.
King’s Lynn is known as the Festival Town of west Norfolk and we are proud to be able to add a new festival to the events calendar, especially one which celebrates the strange, the curious, and the deliciously dark!
We are extremely grateful to BCKLWN for seeing the potential of our ideas and for backing our proposal with funding.
And finally, Downham Market Arts, who have suppported this programme both financially and with adminstration and oversight.
CULTure Babylon Remembers
We have been going long enough for some of the people who supported us in the early days to sadly no longer be with us...
Richard Gladman
Richard's monster movie double bills in London and his 'Frighten Brighton' event
were big inspirations for CULTure Babylon.
He was hugely generous in encouraging others to start their own events.
Marion Ross
Marion was Mayor of Downham Market and was among the first people to realise that Fear in the Fens had the potential to add to the cultural life of West Norfolk.
We fondly remember her stuffing goody bags for VIP ticket holders while still wearing her mayoral chain at our first Fear in the Fens Festival in 2016.
Michael Clarke
Michael Clarke had an extensive knowledge of systems of magic, particularly folk magic and witchcraft of East Anglia.
He was also an expert in the Nightside Qabala of modern occultism.
He talked at CULTure Babylon events on topics as varied as Voodoo, Hoodo and Jewish Folk Magic.
Dr Charlie Oughton
Taught and wrote on a wide range of cultural subjects and in 2018 brought his fearless performative lecture style to Fear in the Fens with a talk on the impact of Gothic fiction and film on mainstream society.
Jackie Westrop
Jackie was both a borough and town councillor for Downham Market.
She was also chair of Downham Market Arts and an early advocate for Fear in the Fens. She tried hard to get the town council to recognise the value of an event like ours for Downham Market.