Summer Events
17 June 2008
The Idler is coming to three festivals this summer.
1. Ledbury Poetry Festival
TOM HODGKINSON speaks on poetry, idleness and radical thought.
Sunday 5 July, 3.45pm, Burgage Hall
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2. Camp Bestival, Dorset
TOM HODGKINSON on merriment and ukuleles.
Saturday 20 July, 3.45pm
Also appearing are GAVIN PRETOR-PINNEY and MICHAEL SMITH.
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3. Secret Garden Party, near Huntingdon
Thursday 24 — Sunday 27 July 2008
THIS YEAR at the Secret Garden Party, we present our very own grove: a debating space with adjoining medieval garden. We have organised a programme of dialogues, during which our favourite poets, philosophers and writers will ponder the big philosophical issue: how to live. Appearing over the four days will be Crass co-founder, poet, essayist and artist PENNY RIMBAUD, New Economics Foundation director ANDREW SIMMS, NEF associate and medievalist DAVID BOYLE, QI writer JOHN MITCHINSON, author DAN KIERAN (I Fought The Law) and JAY GRIFFITHS (Pip Pip and Wild), brand-burner NEIL BOORMAN, plus poet and playwright CLARE POLLARD, radical historian JOHN NICHOLSON, and actor, musician and publisher DAVID BRAMWELL. Plus lunchtime poetry in KIRSTY KNIGHT-BRUCE’s medieval herber and music in the evenings from LOUIS ELIOT and JOHN MOORE.
Click here for the festival website
"I do nothing and then I do something. But it's taken years of investigating idleness in all its forms to be able to achieve this. My discipline is borne out of concerted study of idleness."