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Festival programme 2018

FRIDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER

CHAMPIONING THE BEST STORIES IN PRO WRESTLING
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Wrestling and Academia Free Panel:
Did you know that wrestling is fertile ground for academic study? In fact it's being studied by our 3 panelists today. So we're posing a question:

Does wrestling need to be studied academically?
Featuring:
Dr Claire Warden: Senior Lecturer in English and Drama, Loughborough University and Commissioner of Wrestling Resurgence.
Dr Ben Litherland: Lecturer in Journalism and Media at University of Huddersfield.
Dr Tom Phillips: Lecturer in Humanities at the University Of East Anglia and Author of the forthcoming book ‘Fight Like a Girl: Performance, Promotion and Fandom in Contemporary Women’s Wrestling.
Presented with a screening the BBC 'Raging Belles' after this panel at 4:45pm (FOR FREE!)
​with an introduction by Dr Tom Phillips
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SATURDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER


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SHORTS BLOCK #1 TICKETS
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WRESTLING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE TICKETS
Wrestling For Social Change: 
LIVE PANEL
As a member of a “scene”, how do we actively attempt to make it safer, inclusive, and more fun for everyone? Vicky Haskins, Chuck Mambo, Jack Sexsmith, and The Lady J discuss social change in the wrestling community on Saturday, 15 Sept. at 2:45pm.

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SHORTS BLOCK #2 TICKETS
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HEELKICK TICKETS
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THE BUSINESS OF THE BUSINESS TICKETS
Wrestling For Social Change:
LIVE PANEL

As a member of a “scene”, how do we actively attempt to make it safer, inclusive, and more fun for everyone? Vicky Haskins, Chuck Mambo, Jack Sexsmith, and The Lady J discuss social change in the wrestling community on Saturday, 15 Sept. at 1pm.
DOGLEGS TICKETS
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SUNDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER

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Beauty in Ambition - Wrestling As a Combat Sport
What is “shoot style”, and where did hybrid wrestling come from? We grapple with the topic on Sunday, 16 Sept at 1:00pm. Join us for a chat with Tassilo Jung of WXW, wrestler Damon Moser, and Craig Hall of Tetsujin.
Hosted by professional wrestler TK Cooper.
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Burning Hammer Film Festival presents: Morgan Webster's Wrestling Friends Podcast Live.
Drag your mattress out to the garden and join your host (or as he likes to call it, facilitator) Flash Morgan Webster as he brings together his Wrestling Friends to discuss their origins - in the backyard! Be there live on Sunday 16 September at 11:30am.
Joining Flash on this special backyard wrestling themed convo is fellow NXTUK cohort Mike 'Wildboar' Hitchman, Kip Sabian and Paul Robinson.
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THE BACKYARD TICKETS
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THE DIRECTORS TICKETS
The Directors:
Dale Beaumont-Brown hosts filmmakers Robyn Goding, Danny Mac, Daniel Turner and Ray Zombie along with James Musselwhite and film subject Fraser Thomas as they talk shop and discuss the art of filmmaking in the wrestling scene.

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To purchase a day pass or tickets for any of the events/films then please
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SHORTS BLOCK #3 TICKETS
Shorts Block #4 Kenny Johnson
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WRESTLING WITH INDEPENDENCE TICKETS
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Burning Hammer Film Festival presents our Closing Night Party.
Come and celebrate the culmination of the very first wrestling film festival in Europe with some lovely punk rock ear worms and some dancing.
Performing Live:
Junior
&
Lower Slaughter
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