This weekend we had the Festival of Ideas in Malvern. It was a series of a dozen or so events and talks and the following quote from the brochure explains what it’s all about it better than I can.
In a rapidly changing world, can we look to the future positively and with hope? In what ways can emerging ideas in areas relating to social policy, economics, medicine, science, politics, psychology, arts and foreign policy lead to a better world?
Themed sessions explore this topic from different perspectives.
I attended 8 lectures in all, and found them all to be entertaining and stimulating.
I’m slightly reluctant to tell the world about this as I wouldn’t want to see it become sponsored by the Daily Telegraph and turned into another Cheltenham Literary Festival or something similar but, given that it’s on my blog, if it does go global it’s highly unlikely that I will have had anything to do with it.
I’d like to thank all of the organisers for all of the effort they put in to make this happen, all of the lecturers who came to wake up sleepy old Malvern for a few days, and all of the helpers who manned the tea stalls, the bookshop, checked tickets etc. All of the lectures were free to attend, and it’s a fantastic reflection on our society that people are prepared to make this sort of thing happen.
If you squint at the logo, it looks a bit like David Mitchell in Upstart Crow.