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Festival of the Future City 2019
Can cities offer the radical ideas and radical solutions the world needs?
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Novel Writer: Michael Donkor
This month's debut is Hold, a powerful coming-of-age novel moving between Gana and London.
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Wed 25 September 2019

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St George's Bristol

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Slavoj Žižek

Sex and the Failed Absolute

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Thu 26 September 2019

18:30 - 19:30

Storysmith

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Hold

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Stephanie Flanders Talk, Festival of Economics 2017, Bristol

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