Malvern Festival of Ideas
6-8 March 2020
A Brave New World?
Date for Malvern Festival of Ideas 2021:
5-7 March 2021
This will be an online event with opening speaker Baroness Shami Chakrabarti. A new website will be launched in November 2020
ABOUT
Welcome to Malvern Festival of Ideas, a multidisciplinary festival of ideas taking place in Malvern, Worcestershire. It is a themed weekend of talks, discussion and activities.
In 2020, the title of the Festival is A Brave New World? 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.
LOCATION
Welcome
The Festival of Ideas at Malvern is one of the most thought provoking and considered of its kind in the UK. There is plenty time to think, debate and question with no rushing between sessions and complicated ticketing. Set between the hills, in a beautiful town, this is a highlight in the year.
Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford
Various venues in Malvern, Worcestershire
Speakers
Colin Blakemore / Irene Guijt / Ruth Lister / Anthony Painter / Grace Blakeley / Heather Widdows / Subramanian Ramamoorthy / Ivana Bartoletti / Peter Tatchell / Bernadette Russell / Tom Crawford / Chris Budd.
Programme
Friday Evening
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Saturday Evening
Saturday at Malvern Cube
The Wishing Tree
Bernadette Russell is an award-winning storyteller and author of short stories and creative non-fiction for adults and children, including "The Little Book of Kindness" and "Be the Change, Make it Happen." She is also a playwright and poet. She has been a monthly columnist for Balance magazine since 2016, and has created work for National Theatre, Southbank Centre, National Trust and English Heritage amongst many others.
Bernadette will lead three interactive story-telling and activity sessions based on her book, The Wishing Tree, at 10am, 11.45am and 1.45pm
EnviroMaths
Two family presentations on how mathematics can help address important environmental issues
How Mathematics Can Save the Whale
Professor Chris Budd, 2pm Cube Theatre
Saving the whales and curing cancer are two of the great challenges of the present day, and mathematics has a part to play in addressing them. This talk will use these two examples to illustrate the process of mathematical modelling to gain insights into how the world works and how we can change it.
How Mathematics Can Clean up Ocean Pollution
Tom Crawford, 3pm Cube Theatre
Tom describes his research looking at where river water goes when it enters the ocean and why it is important for controlling pollution.
Saturday at Malvern Cube
Physics for a Better World
A physics presentation and drop-in session explaining some of the physics behind climate change with the Institute of Physics
Eights Ways Physics Can Save Our Skins
David Cross, 12noon Cube Theatre
Dave will present 8 ways in which current research offers hope of a brighter future!
Hands on with Physics
A drop-in session running throughout the day (10am to 4pm) explaining some of the physics behind climate change
We have all heard about climate change and global warming. Scientists are working hard to find cleaner energy and to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Find out how the ‘greenhouse gases’ are causing the Earth to heat up and see how physics is helping us to use less energy in our daily lives.
Saturday at Malvern Cube - Additional Session
Laughter Yoga with Merrie Maggie
A laughter yoga session with Maggie Thompson, a qualified Laughter Yoga Teacher with several years experience
11am to 12noon, Cube Green Room
Laughing makes you FEEL good
- Exercise your internal body as well as your external body through laughter exercises and deep breathing
- Improve communication through laughter
- Energise and revitalise through deep (Yogic) breathing
- Laughter helps your body create Endorphins that enhance your immune system
- Relieve stress by allowing laughter to embrace you every day.
- Bring out the child in you through playfulness.
For more information, contact Maggie on
07565 218567
maggie@merriemaggie.co.uk
www.merriemaggie.co.uk
Book places throught the Festival Eventbrite page or contact Maggie
Malvern Festival of Ideas 2020
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By telephone: Call 01684 565708
By email: info@MalvernFestivalofIdeas.org.uk state the event and number of tickets required.
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Disclaimer
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by Festival speakers are solely those of the speakers, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Festival organisers. All speakers are invited in good faith as appropriate contributers to chosen topics for lawful free speech and for questioning by the public.