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Justine Picardie talks to Hannah Rothschild
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
Evento 167 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 9am • Sede del evento: Oxfam Stage
Beneath the romance and lies, Picardie examines the myth-maker and couturier who conjured up the little black dress, bobbed hair, trousers for women, contemporary chic, best-selling perfumes and the most successful fashion brand of all time.
Duration 45 minutes.
John Kenyon
CADW Lecture 1: The Medieval Castles of Wales
Evento 168 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 9am • Sede del evento: Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage
The Head Librarian of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, and one of the UK’s leading authorities on castles, traces the origins of medieval castle architecture in Wales.
Duration 45 minutes.
Nicholas Humphrey
Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness
Evento 169 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 9am • Sede del evento: Sky Arts Studio
How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? Is it in fact nothing less than a magical-mystery show that we stage for ourselves inside our own heads?
Duration 45 minutes.
Anita Sethi
Anita’s Adventures in Wonderlands
Evento 170 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 9am • Sede del evento: Elmley Foundation Theatre
The journalist and writer has been travelling the world for a year on a Winston Churchill Fellowship – from searching for her father’s childhood home in Kenya to six Hay Festivals and life-changing encounters in Asia, the Antipodes, the Middle East and South America.
The Welsh Venison Centre
Farm Visit
Evento HF122 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 9am–1pm • Sede del evento: Meet at Box Office for bus
Sponsored by Hay Veterinary Group
St Fagans: National History Museum
Evento 874 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 9am–4.30pm • Sede del evento: Meet at Box Office for bus
Take a walk around Wales from Celtic times to the present day and see Welsh history come alive at Wales’ most popular heritage attraction and one of Europe’s leading open-air museums.
For all outdoors events and walks we recommend walking boots and warm and waterproof clothing. Please bring packed lunches.
Stephen Marsh Smith
River Walk 1
Evento 875 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 9am–2.30pm • Sede del evento: Meet at Box Office for bus
Join the Wye & Usk Foundation trip around the Wye and its tributaries near Hay to see the rare and unusual creatures that live in the river, and to see what progress is being made to restore the run of salmon.
For all outdoors events and walks we recommend walking boots and warm and waterproof clothing. Please bring packed lunches.
Safety in the Hills
Workshop
Evento 426 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 9.30am–1.30pm • Sede del evento: Cusop Village Hall
John Wilks, formerly of Ordnance Survey and experienced hill-walker, introduces your family to safe hill-walking and basic map and compass skills.
Sponsored by Brecon Beacons National Park, Local Access Forum and Ramblers Cymru
Michael Wood
The Other Versions
Evento 171 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: Barclays Wealth Pavilion
The historian looks at Athelstan, Wycliffe, Tyndale and the other, earlier versions of the Bible that informed the King James Authorised Version.
Jim al Khalili
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
Evento 172 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: Sky Arts Studio
The physicist champions 700 years of astounding achievement from the Syrian astronomer Ibn al-Shatir, whose manuscripts would inspire Copernicus’s heliocentric model of the solar system, to the C9th zoologist al-Jahith, who developed a theory of natural selection a thousand years before Darwin.
Keith Jeffery and John Scarlett
MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909–1949
Evento 173 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: Oxfam Stage
The distinguished academic discusses his history with the former Director General of MI6.
Shireen Jilla and Caroline Michel, Stephen Kelman and Jo Unwin talk to Rosie Goldsmith
The First Novel – Exiled
Evento 174 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: Elmley Foundation Theatre
How do you get from wanting to write to actually publishing your first novel? The authors and agent provide a study for Kelman’s ground-breaking bestseller Pigeon English and Jilla’s debut novel Exiled – a dark, dysfunctional family psychodrama, played out against the backdrop of privileged society in New York City’s Upper East Side.
Trailer for Pigeon English
Aine Venables
Workshop: Cutting and Sticking for Grown-ups
Evento 427 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 10am–1pm • Sede del evento: Richard Booth’s Bookshop
Work with last year's Hay Festival Artist in Residence to create your own mixed media artwork. Bring along any maps or graphics to use and your imagination...
Axel Scheffler & Diana Quick
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
Evento HF41 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage
Sarah McIntyre
Cartoon Creations
Evento HF42 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: Starlight Stage
Make A Silent Film
Workshop
Evento HF140 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: The Hexagon
The BFI National Archive is home to thousands of films made in Britain before the emergence of sound in 1929, but what are the ideal ingredients of a silent film? Families are invited to pick up a camera to make their own shorts with the BFI’s Joanna van der Meer. Pluck and ingenuity a must.
Supported by the BFI and Film Agency for Wales
Easy Peasy Cookery School
Workshop
Evento HF141 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: Mess Tent
Join us in making mouth-watering Strawberry Shortcake with Cream, delicious!
Sponsored by Brakes Fresh Ideas
Kathy Laws
National Trust Begwyns Walk
Evento 876 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 10am–2pm • Sede del evento: Meet at Box Office for bus
A moderately strenuous walk across the Begwyns with the National Trust archaeologist looking at how the landscape has been used over the centuries.
For all outdoors events and walks we recommend walking boots and warm and waterproof clothing. Please bring packed lunches.
John Kenyon
CADW: A Tour of Raglan and Chepstow
Evento 877 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 10.30am–4.30pm • Sede del evento: Meet at Box Office for bus
A fascinating full-day tour to two of south-east Wales’ greatest historical treasures, Raglan Castle and Chepstow Castle, both in the care of CADW, the Welsh Assembly Government’s historic environment service.
For all outdoors events and walks we recommend walking boots and warm and waterproof clothing. Please bring packed lunches.
Tim Smit
The Eden Project at Ten
Evento 175 • Tuesday 31 May 2011, 11:30am • Sede del evento: Oxfam Stage
Come and join us to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Cornwall’s iconic centre for horticulture and biodiversity with its director.
Chaired by Andy Fryers.
Sponsored by BWA Designs
