We are very excited to announce that Write4Gold will return to the UK for 2009! It will all go down at the UK’s biggest and best free urban youth festival: HUB Festival at the Wellington Dock in Liverpool on May 23rd 2009 and May 24th 2009.

Follow up:

More than ten thousand people will attend this massive free festival that also features skating, breaking, scratching, rapping and much, much more. And that not all, not only is this the Write4Gold event for all UK teams, its also the Write4Gold for West Europe!

That means teams from France, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg should also sign up for this one and come to Liverpool to compete! Its been a bumpy road for UK Teams in Write4Gold, only once before have there been a Write4Gold competition in the UK, in 2006 when it took place at Victoria Park in London. Back then the winner was Wordplay Crew from Cambridge who went on the European Finals at Splash Festival in Germany, only to be placed outside the top rankings. In 2008, a young London crew named RT travelled all the way to Munster, Germany to represent as the only team from the UK in the biggest Write4Gold of all time, the West Europe qualification 2008. RT placed in the top 2 of 28 teams and qaulified for the European Finals, and with a 2nd place on from there on to the World Final 2008 where they finished honourably, but out of the top 3. Who will win the 2009 competition and go on to the big finals at Splash Festival 2009?

Ok so in hard facts that means:

Write4Gold West Europe 2009
Date: 23rd of may 2009
Start: 10am
Location: Wellington Dock, Liverpool HUB Festival
Adress: Wellington Dock (next to Sandon Dock), 90 Regent Road, Liverpool, L5 9SY
Website: Link
City: Liverpool
Participants: UK, Ireland, Benelux
Local Support and cooperating Organizer: ZAP GRAFFITI ARTS
Accommodation and Flyer: Info

FREE BUS:
Participants at this years WRITE4GOLD Liverpool have a fee bus from the city
centre to and from the Hub Festval site and back. This will save you at least
£8.00 in taxi fares EACH WAY, and as there's no public bus route to the spot,
this will be your best bet! It's a treck otherwise!

MEET AT 9.00 am on Saturday 23rd of May @
ZAP GRAFFITI ARTS, 2nd floor, Grand Central, 35 Renshaw Street, Liverpool L12sf. 2 minutes walk from both Liverpool Central Station, and Liverpool Lime Street Station. Although the bus will do a few trips, please be sharp, then we get rokin quicker!

FACT FILE!
THE SPACE AVAILABLE FOR ALL THE PAINTING AT THIS YEARS HUB FESTIVAL IS 500
METRES (ALMOST HALF FOR W4G AND HALF FOR THE JAM)

Further info on Liverpool and the events please get in touch with
kieran[at]zapgraffiti.co.uk
00 44 (0)151 708 7073
00 44 (0)796 428 3318

Write4Gold West Europe 2009 (23.05.2009, Liverpool, England)

FOES Crew (Kube,Omin,Rolk,Cist,Goner,Maser,Janoe)
Dublin, Ireland (Flickr)

LG Crew (Gums,Pleak,Neohs,Farm/CSK)
London, UK (Flickr 1, Flickr 2, Flickr 3, Flickr 4)

RT Crew (Towns,Vibes,Ders,Teck,Choe,Intro,Dazer,Raws,Crome,Alfa,Gors)
London, UK (Website)

Vandetta VA (Zadok,Tems,Skyhigh,Has,Sterling)
Southampton, UK (Flickr 1, Flickr 2, Flickr 3)

Usual Suspects (Tase, Bue, Si2, Rize, Drift)
London, UK (Flickr)

YOC (Bamer,Soka,Skem,Azby)
Glasgow, UK (Flickr)

Frime Team (Rik,Itea,Esko,Bide)
Brussels, Belgium (MySpace)

NWSK Crew (Estum, Smug, Macism, Soulrelics, Sars)
Glasgow, UK (Flickr)

Paint Wasters (various artists)
Cambridge, UK (Flickr)

Regiment Phive (Soyer,Dako,Grub,..)
London, UK (>Flickr)

RESULTS AND GALLERY HERE