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We’ve now launched our full May programme (with some additional events for June and July). We’re delighted to be doing this in association with the Observer, our national media partner. What’s next (below) has our next three events and Coming up (on left) has the next six events. For the full list of events go to What’s On (above). Each event entry has full booking details. Ticket sales are run by the venues where the event takes place with the exception of the free events at Foyles which are booked online using Eventbrite. New events are launched regularly. To be the first to hear, sign up to our mailing list and Twitter feed.
What's next...
The Arab Awakening: Islam and the New Middle East
17 May 2012, 16.30-17.30
In The Arab Awakening Tariq Ramadan explores the opportunities and challenges across North Africa and the Middle East, as they look to create new, more open societies. Arguing that ... Read more »
Are Women Animals?
17 May 2012, 18.00-19.00
In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Earnest Englishwoman', published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?'. She protested that women were not treated as fully human, and that their status was ... Read more »
A Humument
17 May 2012, 18.00-19.00
In the mid-1960s Tom Phillips took a forgotten nineteenth-century novel, W H Mallock's A Human Document, and began cutting and pasting the extant text to create something new. The artist ... Read more »
New ideas...
“Ideas Notebook – Alastair Sawday – A Green Mayor”
By Alastair Sawday
In the latest in our series of Ideas Notebooks on the elected mayor for Bristol debate, we asked publisher Alastair Sawday to write about how he would like a new mayor of Bristol to address green issues. ... Read more »