Rugby League World Cup Cultural Festival

The Rugby League World Cup Cultural Festival was an ambitious, inclusive, multidisciplinary festival bringing together audiences for sport and art. Over October and November 2022, the festival brought large-scale outdoor performances, arresting public art works and a programme of engagement opportunities. Taking place in four of the tournament host cities, and across 40 library services reaching deep into the Rugby League heartland towns across the North, the festival amplified the tournament’s strapline of “The Power of Together” and celebrated inclusivity and positive social impact.   

  • Dancer dressed in Rugby League kit holding her arms in the air with a red smoke grenade in one hand

    Power of Performance, This is Us

    An outdoor spectacular in Newcastle, Hull, Leeds and Manchester

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  • Light poem installation in front of Central Library, Manchester

    Power of Poetry

    A series of touring light poem installations, and engagement activites

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The Rugby League World Cup Cultural Festival was directed and produced by Pinwheel and generously funded with public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England and delivered in partnership with Newcastle City Council, Hull City Council, Leeds 2023, North of Tyne Combined Authority and Libraries Connected.

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