A SECOND volume of archived film memories is helping launch a city’s latest literary celebration.

The Sunderland Literature and Creative Writing Festival, which runs for a month from the end of September, features dozens of talks, workshops, readings and various “hands-on” events, most of will be free to attend.

Among the first events will be the initial public screening of Sunderland on Film Take 2.

The film, which runs for 90 minutes, premieres at the city’s historic Quayside Exchange, in High Street East, on Friday September 30, at both 2.30 and 6.30pm.

It follows the successful sell-out festival screening of the first Sunderland on Film, at the city’s Minster, last year.

In keeping with the first film, Take 2 also features archive footage of Wearside at play, at work in shipyards and factories, as well as focusing on Sunderland AFC’s famous 1973 FA Cup triumph, at Wembley.

The Literature and Creative Writing Festival is a now annual celebration of the written word and is said to have, “something for everyone”.

It features many local artists and authors, including Jayne Hughes, Fiona Veitch-Smith, Amanda Revell-Walton, Sheila Quigley, Holly Sterling, Alan Parkinson and Tony Wilson.

There will be more than 100 festival events, ranging from talks, lectures, family history taster sessions, music and singing for young children, reading and creative writing groups, to poetry sessions and craft workshops.

A DVD with highlights from the two films will be on sale at the launch, priced £12.99, with the proceeds going to support the festival.

Tickets for Sunderland on Film Take 2 are £6 and available from the City Library, in Fawcett Street, www.ticketsource.co.uk, or visit www.sunderland.gov.uk, which contains more information about the festival programme.