Captain's Log

January 2025 - Welcome to our new webpage! Exciting plans are underway for the pirate invasion of Conwy on the 10th and 11th of May 2025. Many of you are seasoned veterans and know the drill. For newcomers eager to learn what to expect, take a moment to explore our photo galleries and videos to get a glimpse of what's to come. We can’t wait to welcome you aboard!


28th January 2025 - Last week we were invited to pose for Conwy Camera Club. An interesting night, we took plenty of props and were asked to do some interesting things (Like stick out tongues?) anyway we have a video from our resident photographer Combat Wombat to illustrate our evening.



Conwy Pirate festival starts a week tomorrow

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There will be parties at many of the taverns in Conwy next Friday 9th May 2025 to mark the start of this years Pirate Festival. The Bluebell and The George and Dragon are putting on music  and festivities to kick off the weekend and there will be music over the weekend at The Liverpool Arms down on the quay. The festival starts properly on Saturday morning with activities throughout the day in the marquee and along the quayside. There will be plenty to see and do so make sure you don't miss it!

20th May 2025 - Well me hearties the Conwy Pirate Festival is over for this year and the crew have spent a good week and a half taking down and putting away with still more to do!  We need time to reflect now and count the money in our coffers. Money still needs to flow out to many of our creditors. When we know our financial position we will be able to confirm if and when we can host another event in 2026.


The event takes a huge toll on the organisers its not just one weekend. Organising this event takes over our life and we spend hours, days and weeks filling in forms chasing grants, organising etc etc. Without solid support from Conwy businesses  for whom the event is supposed to benefit it may be impossible to proceed as we have exhausted our current grant revenue.  We are getting a small trickle of funding through our Ko-Fi page for which we thank each and every donor.

 

Conwy Pirates CIC however will continue to be seen at many events with our props, games and cannon as appropriate to the venue. Our next appearances are for the Canal & river Trust at Ellesmere Port and Anderton boat lift, watch Social Media for more details.


Regards and thanks for your support Cpn Jon and the crew


 

29th May 2025 -As many may know we changed our name to the Original Conwy Pirate festival several years back when there was an attempt to move our festival to Rhos on Sea.  At that time we named our Facebook Page the Original Conwy Festival to distinguish ourselves.  Since then we changed back to just Conwy Pirate Festival but that's caused confusion and we are now initiating a merger of the two social media pages.