Prizes
Short List for The Mayor’s Bristol Genius Award 2013 Announced
The shortlist for the 2013 Mayor’s Bristol Genius Award has been announced.
They three projects are:
The Bristol Pound
Bristol Urban Pollinators
Ultra Global PRT
The winner will be announced on 20 May at the Bristol Festival of Ideas Prize Evening.
Go to the News page for further details .
Short List for Best Book of Ideas 2013 Announced
The six books shortlised for the 2013 Foyles/ Festival of Ideas Best Book of Ideas have been announced.
The books are:
Nick Cohen You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom (Fourth Estate)
Charles Fernyhough Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory (Profile Books)
Eliane Glaser Get Real: How to Tell it Like it is in a World of Illusions (Fourth Estate)
Ben Goldacre Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Fourth Estate)
Robert Macfarlane The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hamish Hamilton)
Ali Smith Artful (Hamish Hamilton)
The winner will be announced on 20 May at the Bristol Festival of Ideas Prize Evening.
Go to the News page for further details .
Mayor’s Bristol Genius Award for the Best Bristol Idea: Final Call for Submissions
The closing date for submissions to the Mayor’s Bristol Genius Award 2013 is 15 April 2013.
The judges will draw up a shortlist of projects which they feel best exemplify Bristol as a city that excels in ideas that have the potential to change lives for the better. The idea must be one currently in development or recently completed which originated in Bristol. The winner will be announced on 20 May at the Bristol Festival of Ideas Prize Evening.
Go to the News page for further details including how to make a submission.
Bristol Temple Quarter: Gateway Project 2013: Short List
The judges have selected a shortlist of ten submissions for the Bristol Temple Quarter: Gateway Project.
The winner will be announced on 20 May at the Bristol Festival of Ideas Prize Evening. This will be the proposal that the judges feels best meets the brief of providing a better welcome to the city; an effective means of helping visitors learn more about the history of the area and Bristol, and guiding them on their way easily and quickly to destinations.
Go to the News page for further details.
Bristol Festival of Ideas 2013 Book Prize: Call for Submissions
Bristol Cultural Development Partnership has launched the call for submissions for the Bristol Festival of Ideas 2013 Best Book of Ideas prize sponsored by Foyles.
The prize is awarded to the book first published in the UK in 2012 which presents new, important and challenging ideas, which is rigorously argued, and which is engaging and accessible.
Go to the News page for further details including how to make a submission.
Best Book of Ideas 2012: Winner Announced
Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts has been awarded the Foyles/ Festival of Ideas Best Book of Ideas 2012.
Jonathan Ruppin, Foyles web editor, said:
‘An engrossing and witty exploration of the hinterland beyond urban glamour and rural tranquillity, Edgelands exposes the startling wonder and resonant history of the landscapes we usually traverse so unthinkingly. In the first year of Foyles sponsorship, it’s an ideal winner, as it surprises readers with insights into worlds that they might not even have known existed.’
The award for the book of ideas that has made most impact over 50 years (first published in 1962) was made to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.
Shortlist for 2012 Book Prize
Six books were shortlisted for the 2012 Foyles Best Book of Ideas. The prize is awarded to the book published in 2011 which presents new, important and challenging ideas, which is rigorously argued, and which is engaging and accessible.
The following six books were shortlisted for the 2012 Book Prize.
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Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty |
The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive by Brian Christian
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Made Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward Glaeser
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Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman |
The Better Angels of Our Nature |
Edgelands |