Festival of Ideas

Download Festival
of Ideas brochure, 2005 here
(3MB PDF file)

Download Festival
of Ideas brochure, 2006 here
(1MB PDF file)

Download Festival
of Ideas brochure, 2007 here
(1MB PDF file)

Download Festival
of Ideas brochure, autumn 2007 here
(1MB PDF file)

AUDIO
Please click the audio button on the left to listen interviews and recordings from this year's events and speakers

GALLERY
Please click the gallery button on the left to see photographs from this year's events and speakers

Festival of Ideas has featured the following speakers and events in 2008, shown in chronological order. Please click on the speaker images below for more information.


	Jean Moorcroft Wilson On Isaac Rosenberg 15 May 08 City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol
	Adrian Tinniswood The Second Museum of Bristol Lecture: the Historian and the City 15 May 08 City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol

	Charles Leadbeater We-think: the Power of Mass Creativity 14 May 08 Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
	George Ferguson Regeneration by Design 14 May 08 Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
	Jon Ronson Tales of Everyday Craziness 14 May 08 Arnolfini, Bristol

	Sebastian Peake Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art 13 May 08 City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol
	Raymond Tallis The Kingdom of Infinite Space 13 May 08 City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol

	The Sixties and Violence Astrid Proll and Iain Sinclair 12 May 08 Arnolfini, Bristol
	The Sixties and the Legacy of Idealism With Andrew Anthony, Sheila Rowbotham, Dominic Sandbrook, Peter Tatchell and Helen Taylor 12 May 08 Arnolfini, Bristol

	The Philosophy of Monty Python With Julian Baggini 11 May 08 Watershed Media Centre, Bristol

	May '68: When Culture was Radicalised Ginsberg and 60s Counterculture 2 Selection of films including: Underground, Face to Face, The Windows of the Skull 10 May 08 Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
	Fairtrade vs Airmiles Harriet Lamb 10 May 08 Ethical Expo 2008, Bristol
	Living the Good Life With Andrew Simms and Harriet Lamb 10 May 08 Ethical Expo 2008, Bristol

	May '68: When Culture was Radicalised Hotel Diaries Directed by John Smith 9-13 May 08 Watershed Media Centre, Bristol

	Social Issues: Documentaries and Debates A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash Directed by: Basil Gelpke / Ray McCormack, Switzerland 2006 Followed by a panel discussion with James Woudhuysen and Peter Lipman 8 May 08 Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
	Alan Sokal On Pseudo-Science, Religion and Misinformation in Public Life 8 May 08 Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
An Evening about God and the Christian Church Recent books by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have caused huge debate about the existence or otherwise of God. We devote an evening of the festival looking at the God question and the history of Christianity.
	Charles Freeman Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State 7 May 08 Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
	Atheism, Agnosticism and God With Julian Baggini, Mark Vernon and Rev. Robert Grimley 7 May 08 Watershed Media Centre, Bristol

	May '68: When Culture was Radicalised Sylvia Harvey May '68 and Film Culture Revisited 6 May 08 Watershed Media Centre, Bristol

	May '68: When Culture was Radicalised Sympathy for the Devil Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, France 1968 4 May 08 Watershed Media Centre, Bristol

	May '68: When Culture was Radicalised Ginsberg and 60s Counterculture 1 Selection of films including: Wholly Communion, Pull My Daisy and Anatomy of Violence 3 May 08 Watershed Media Centre, Bristol

	Nicholson Baker On War and Peace 1 May 08 Borders bookshop, Bristol

	Robert Fisk The Age of the Warrior 5 April 08 St George's, Bristol

	Tim Harford The Logic of Life 28 March 08 Watershed Media Centre, Bristol

	Samantha Power Chasing the Flame 4 March 08 Watershed Media Centre, Bristol

	Muhammad Yunus Creating a World Without Poverty 17 February 08 St.George's, Bristol

	Catherine Fieschi Demos and Everyday Democracy 6 February 08 University of Bristol

	Sir David King The Hot Topic: How to Tackle Global Warming and Still Keep the Lights On 29 January 08 Council House, Bristol