Blood Red Road, Pure and Momentum are all powerful commentaries on our world and thrilling narratives. Their award-winning writers will discuss strong heroines, dystopias and The Hunger Games.
How to hold it all together and lock in with the beat.
Duration 60 mins.14+ years
Each young person attending this workshop must fill in the Permission Form available for download here. Please send the form in advance to admin@hayfestival.org AND bring a copy on the day.
The author of McMafia explores three fundamental threats facing us in the C21st: cyber-crime, cyber-warfare and cyber-industrial espionage. Governments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars fighting an ever-morphing, super-smart new breed of criminal.
In a special preview session the National Poet of Wales reads and discusses her forthcoming poetry collection ICE. Chaired by Fiona Hamilton of Lapidus, the UK organisation for creative writing and reading for health and wellbeing.
A conversation with the film editor who has worked with Martin Scorsese for forty years. Her credits include Hugo, Gangs of New York, and Goodfellas. She has won three Oscars – for Raging Bull, The Aviator and The Departed. She was married to the late film director Michael Powell.
Is the digital age a friend or foe to writers, publishers and readers across the globe? The panel includes the Director of the Bocas Litfest in Trinidad, the Delhi-based bookfair strategist and the Emerging Markets Director of The Frankfurt Bookfair.
Chatfield on How To Thrive in the Digital Age; Perry on How to Stay Sane; Krznaric on How To Find Fulfilling Work; and de Botton gives us the skinny on How to Think More About Sex.
Inspired by suggestions from you, these amazing artists draw live on one giant piece of paper. It will be random and it will be fun. Chaired by Paul Blezard
Signed to Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings, and backed by a brilliant collection of musicians, McFarlane has made a big impact on the contemporary jazz scene. Expect a liberal dose of subtle, stealthy swing and jazz, bringing an eminently soul undercurrent to her music.
The film of the book by Michael Morpurgo. Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and across Europe as the war rages on. Directed by Steven Spielberg, screenplay by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis, produced by Revel Guest. UK, 2011, 146’. PG. See also event 334.
Getting to grips with Guitar and Bass structures working together.
Duration 60 mins.14+ years
Each young person attending this workshop must fill in the Permission Form available for download here. Please send the form in advance to admin@hayfestival.org AND bring a copy on the day.
The screenwriter and director discusses his work, from the Oscar-winning Killing Fields to his 2011 collaboration with Johnny Depp on The Rum Diary See also events 459 and 493.
The publicatiuon of this autobiography celebrates the 25th anniversary of Roche’s incredible triple victory – the Tour de France, Giro de Italia and the World Championships. The only other cyclist ever to achieve this is the subject of Fotheringham’s new biography - Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike. They talk to Rob Penn.
The Devil’s Violin Company presents A Love Like Salt
Event 405 • •
Venue: Hay On Earth Stage
The storyteller and musicians explore the tales behind King Lear and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Oliver Wilson-Dickson - Violin, Sarah Moody - Cello, Luke Carver Goss - Accordion.
Recently described as the ‘Missy Elliot of the classical world’’ due to her innovative approach to songwriting that samples and reworks classical pieces into her own songs, Carlyle's extraordinary voice has won her legions of admirers, including Bjork, Willy Mason and Jon Snow. She returns to Hay after her 2009 session with Will Young to perform her groundbreaking album Floreat and to join our Woody Guthrie tribute.
