WGW.....WHITBY GOTH WEEKEND.
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Random
blog day boo yah. As you should know Fridays is random blog day were
we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's
blog is on the Whitby Goth Weekends.
The Whitby
Goth Weekend (WGW) is a twice yearly festival held in the town of
Whitby on the North Yorkshire coast. The festival also incorporates
the Bizarre Bazaar Alternative Market which tends to hold over 100
indoor stalls every weekend. The town was picked due to its
connections to Bram Stokers Dracula. The weekend came about in 1994
thanks to Jo Hampshire and a pen friend meet up at the Elsinore Pub
the WGW has grown over the past 20+ years to be one of the worlds
premier goth events. Over the course of the past several years WGW
has supported several charities including the Bat Conservation Trust,
The Sophie Lancaster Foundation (a blog will be posted about this
charity on 29/05/2020), The DEBRA Charity and others.
In 2012 I
managed to attend the October event thanks to the help of my
grandmother and a great-aunt. I was meant to go with an ex but we
separated up to a week or two before the event, my grandmother and
great aunt came with me so I didn't have to travel up there alone and
had someone I knew there with me. I stayed for most of the weekend
but left the morning of the regular football game that happens
between the local football team and a team of goths. It has been the
only weekend I was able to go to, monetary issues deterring me from
returning to another weekend BUT I am hoping to attend another
weekend at some point in the next few years.
Due to the
Covid-19 outbreak WGW April 2020 was cancelled. They held a Virtual
Bazaar over the dates, so any vendors attending the events could
still sell wares to customers. Until told otherwise the October 2020
dates are still possible. For more information on the weekends, both
the WGW website and social media pages are down in the bibliography.
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