IMAGINE THE WORLD
For 25 years Hay Festival has brought together writers from around the world to debate and share stories at its festival in the staggering beauty of the Welsh Borders. Hay celebrates great writing from poets and scientists, lyricists and comedians, novelists and environmentalists, and the power of great ideas to transform our way of thinking. We believe the exchange of views and meeting of minds that our festivals create inspire revelations personal, political and educational. Hay is, in Bill Clinton's phrase, 'The Woodstock of the mind'.
Hay now runs 15 festivals across five continents at which the re-imaginings of international writers gathered together and current political thought cross cultural and genre boundaries and foster the exchange of understanding, mutual respect and ideas.