Latitude has announced a series of special video collaborations to celebrate the festival’s 10^th birthday. The first video, is in partnership with performance poet Luke Wright, Latitude’s Poetry Arena programmer who has written and recited his exclusive poem “Latitude” over a video that celebrates Latitude as the UK’s leading multi arts festival. 

Luke Wright: ‘I’ve been involved with Latitude since the first year in 2006. It’s been great to see it grow from a leftfield idea for a new festival into one of the UK’s major cultural events. I’m really proud to have played a small role in an event that has launched hundreds of new pieces of art into the world and been the meeting place for so many amazing artists.’

The headliners and bill will be revealed on Tuesday 3^rd March.

Latitude by Luke Wright

A rainbow grid of gigs and shows

as wide and deep as culture goes

explodes one weekend in July.

The city kids smear time and fry

on deckchairs watching purple sheep:

a binge of art, a dearth of sleep.

Where brainwaves scrawled on cup-ringed pages

come to life on woodland stages

lighting parts of jaded folk

that stay lit up as fires smoke

and Winter throws its first frost down.

In sleepy nooks of far-flung towns

across our bruised and battered isle

this magic weekend brings a smile

and takes us in our scarfs and coats

to wander near the Sunrise coast,

and lingers like a lover’s scent

when life is broken hearts and rent.