HE’S BACK! This is one of our favourite talks and was a huge hit at the festivals last summer. The talk is both very funny and very inspiring at the same time.
AFTER being dumped by his long-term girlfriend, and amidst a growing realisation he had things to learn about sharing, David Bramwell took a year off and decided to travel through Europe and America in search of utopia. On his travels he visited an anarchist village in Copenhagen, free love communities and a spiritual caravan park in Scotland. In America he came to blows with the creator of an incredible futuristic city being built in the Arizona desert and thought he had found paradise in Big Sur Esalen, a centre for human potentiality dreamed up by Aldous Huxley. Then there was Damanhur, a science fiction-style community in the Alps with an underground temple the size of St Paul’s Cathedral, a village of treehouses and with claims to have built a fully-functioning time machine. Bramwell returned from his travels a year later and decided to put into action some of the lessons he had learned by transforming his neighbourhood in Brighton into his own vision of utopia, and in doing so changed the lives of thousands of people…
David Bramwell by Toby Amies
Mixing storytelling, lecture-style slide shows and stand-up, The No9 Bus to Utopia is a roller-coaster ride through the most extraordinary communities of the 21st century. Packed with humour, mischief and wild stories about Bramwell’s adventures, at the heart of the No9 bus to Utopia lies a genuine desire to inspire audiences with practical ideas for how they can transform their own lives for the better and re-connect with their neighbours and community.
The No9 Bus to Utopia premiered at the Earth Ship in Stanmer Park as part of the Brighton Festival 2010. It ran for six evenings, sold out every night, and received a string of 5 star reviews. In Spring 2010 it was selected as the headline show for the Brighton Architecture Festival. In January 2011 David was one of ten people chosen in Brighton to talk for the prestigious TED lectures; he chose utopia as his theme.
Take a trip to utopia with us!
Date: Wednesday 8 February 2012
Time: 6.30pm for 7pm. Ends 9pm.
Place: The Idler Academy, 81 Westbourne Park Road, London W2 5QH.
Tel: 020 221 5908.
Tickets £15 or £10 artist/student concession price (includes wine and nibbles). BOOK HERE VIA TICKETWEB.
