Look at the website and you can see the Arabic festival is in its fifth year. And given the complexity of the event, it can only be happening because a lot of people are putting significant effort into it. It's not the sort of thing a council committee could just wish into existence.

An effort on a similar scale would certainly get *some* sort of shanty festival going, but somebody has to actually do it. To match the Arabic one in breadth of appeal it would have to expand to include events on shipboard cooking and the literature of the sea, displays of the history of sailors' uniforms, visiting ships, knot-tying workshops, maritime films... which would be worth doing, but does Liverpool have people who could do that?

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