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Festival of Ideas 2

Please note: this season finished in Jan 2011

The Bristol Festival of Ideas aims to stimulate the minds and passions of the people of Bristol with an inspiring programme of discussion and debate throughout the year.

It brings together many of the cultural organisations in the city along with universities and others (the responsibility for the programme is BCDP’s alone). It seeks to provide an annual festival of debate and discussion in May with special events through the year.

For full Festival of Ideas programme details, including other talks and discussions at Watershed and venues across Bristol, please visit Festival of Ideas' home page.

Shown in Festival of Ideas 2

Clay Shirky: Our Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected AgeWed 30 June 18:00
Burma: Everything is BrokenWed 14 July 18:30
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed CountryWed 14 July 20:40
Jonathan Watts: Will China Save Mankind or Destroy It?Thu 29 July 18:00
Nicholas Carr: How the internet is changing the way we think, read and rememberTue 31 Aug 18:00
Should there be a Robin Hood tax?Thu 21 Oct 19:00
What's The Blogging Story?Fri 22 Oct 19:00
Susan George - Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer WorldTue 2 Nov 18:00
Climate Wars - The Fight for Survival as the World OverheatsTue 2 Nov 19:30
Did New Labour Change Britain?Wed 3 Nov 18:00
The Problem with CapitalismWed 3 Nov 19:30
Wings Sat 6 Nov 13:00
Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology as We Know it Mon 8 Nov 18:00
Rachel Hewitt - Mapping the NationMon 8 Nov 19:30
Harry Ricketts - Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great WarThu 2 Dec 18:00
Robin Ince's Bad Book Club - One Man's Quest to Uncover The Books That Taste ForgotThu 2 Dec 19:30
Evgeny Morozov - Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the WorldTue 18 Jan 18:00
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