Forthcoming Events
11 February 2009
Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson is speaking at the following events in March:
Tom Hodgkinson and Ed Mayo
Tom discusses consumerism and children with Ed Mayo, author of Consumer Kids: How Big Business Is Grooming Our Children For Profit.
At the Glasgow Aye Write Book Festival, Mitchell Library and Theatre, 201 North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN
www.ayewrite.com
Wednesday 11 March, 6pm, £6/7
Idle Parenting and Ukuleles
Tom discusses the new book and leads a singalong with his uke.
The Big Green Bookshop, Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green, London N22 6BG
Tuesday 17 March, 7pm, admission free
Anarchy in the Middle Ages
Tom discusses the amoral “free spirit” movements that popped up all over Europe in the medieval era. With early music from Princes in the Tower. Part of the Think In Kingston festival.
At the Studio Rose Theatre, 24 Kingston High Street, Kingston
Think in Kingston website
Box Office Telephone: 0871 230 1552
Wednesday 18 March, 8pm, £6
"The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods."