Bristol Cultural Development Partnership www.ideasfestival.co.uk

The 2007 Festival of Ideas aimsto ignite the hearts and mindsof the people of Bristol,exploring questions on the arts,Englishness, happiness andaffluence, Africa, big business,spirituality, crime and justice,science and peace. We havesome great speakers includingtwo Booker Prize-winningnovelists, Kiran Desai andGraham Swift, one Nobel Prizewinner for Literature, WoleSoyinka, musician Billy Bragg,cartoonist Steve Bell,psychologist Oliver James and civil rights campaignerClive Stafford Smith.

In addition to this broad assembly ofthinkers, speakers and writers lined upto share their ideas, the festival andWatershed present two film strands tooffer audiences food for thought – aseason on spirituality and film, and adocumentary series of screenings anddebates which explore contemporaryissues affecting people today, fromcorporate corruption to globalizationand climate change.

The documentary programme includesscreenings of Black Gold and Fast FoodNation, films that argue that we mustradically change industry, economics andsociety if we hope to continue our way oflife. Introducing some of the films areleading speakers including Colin Skellet,chairman of Wessex Water, once ownedby Enron, talking about working for thecompany with a showing of Enron: TheSmartest Guys In The Room. We are alsohosting a panel of leading greencampaigners, including Tony Juniper,Director of Friends of the Earth, talkingabout An Inconvenient Truth, looking atwhat we can do to avert climate change.

I look forward to joining you in hearingsome inspiring talks and participating inthe debates.

Andrew Kelly

(Film stills from top) Non-Fat and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

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(Clockwise from top) Kiran Desai, Graham Swiftand Billy Bragg

10 May

Clive Stafford Smith on crime and justice18.00-19.00Watershed£3.00/£2.00

Clive Stafford Smith is the Legal Directorof Reprieve (www.reprieve.org.uk). Hespent 20 years fighting for the lives ofpeople facing the death penalty in theSouthern United States, and nowrepresents 36 of the prisoners held out ofreach of the law in the US prison inGuantánamo Bay. Clive was one of thefirst lawyers to visit Guantánamo and hasnow written a book about his clients andhis experiences, Bad Men – GuantánamoBay and the Secret Prisons, published in2007. His book shines a bright,unblinking light into the darkest cornersof illegality that are being justified bygovernments in the name of the War onTerror. A devastating story that will makeyou cry, laugh and shake your head indisbelief. Clive Stafford Smith is one ofthe heroes of our age, an optimist in badtimes, dedicated to achieving justice forhis clients.

9 May

Wole Soyinka12.30-14.00British Empire and CommonwealthMuseum£6.00/£4.00

Wole Soyinka is a courageous voice forhuman rights, democracy, and freedom.The first African to receive the NobelPrize for Literature, as well as a politicalactivist of prodigious energy, WoleSoyinka follows his modern classic Akéwith an equally important chronicle ofhis turbulent life as an adult in (and inexile from) his beloved, beleagueredhomeland, Nigeria, in his new book YouMust Set Forth at Dawn. The book is anintimate chronicle of his thrilling publiclife, a meditation on justice and tyranny,and a testament to a ravaged yethopeful land. A rare opportunity to hear a world-leading speaker.

Professor Steven Fuller on intelligent design18.00-19.00Watershed£3.00/£2.00

Bristol and the South West have big plans for celebrating the life and work ofCharles Darwin in 2009, the bicentenaryof his birth. Both Darwin and evolutionare coming under increasing attack,however, the latest riposte beingIntelligent Design. Steven Fuller,Professor of Sociology at the University ofWarwick, is the author of a forthcomingbook defending Intelligent Design:Dissent over Descent. He believesIntelligent Design has driven science for500 years, being responsible for the 17thcentury’s scientific revolution and helpingbuild modern histories of physics,mathematics, genetics and social science.Steven Fuller’s revisionist history isessential reading for anyone who wantsto gain a deeper understanding ofscience’s most vociferous debate. Chairedby Julian Baggini, author of Atheism.

11 MayMuseum of Bristol Lecture

Adam Sisman on Bristol andthe Romantic poets18.00-19.00Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery Free

A chance meeting between two youngpoets in Bristol more than two hundredyears ago was to have momentousconsequences, kick-starting theRomantic Movement in England. Therevolution inaugurated by WilliamWordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridgecontinues to have a profound effect onour culture in the twenty-first century.

In 1795 both were intensely involved inpolitical arguments that resonate today –among them resistance to governmentoppression and opposition to a foreignwar. Coleridge was notorious in Bristolfor delivering a passionate speechdenouncing slavery, so much so thatslave-owners hired thugs to silence him.In the years that followed these twowould withdraw from active involvementin politics, developing an alternativephilosophy of respect for all living thingsand a reverence for nature that nowseems astonishingly modern.

The Museum of Bristol, opening in 2009,will provide a social history of the lifeand times of this great city. In the firstannual Museum of Bristol lecture, AdamSisman discusses the origins of themarvellously fertile friendship betweenWordsworth and Coleridge.

Wole Soyinka

Clive Stafford Smith

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15 May

Black Gold18.00-19.30Watershed£6.00/£4.00

With retail sales estimated at $80 billion,coffee is the second most actively tradedcommodity in the world after oil. Thiseye-opening documentary traces thecoffee trade from its agriculturalbirthplace in Ethiopia (where it generates67 percent of the country’s exportrevenue) to your cup in Starbucks.English filmmakers Nick and Marc Francisexplore the discrepancy between theskyrocketing profits of multinationalcoffee companies and the all-time lowprices paid for coffee harvests, all thewhile following Tadesse Meskela on hisdetermined mission to secure a fair dealfor Ethiopia’s 70,000 coffee farmers.Also showing is the short film Non-Fat, thewinner of the 2006 Depict! Competition.

Graham Swift18.00-19.00Arnolfini£6.00/£4.00

Graham Swift won the 1996 Booker Prize for Last Orders. His new novel,Tomorrow, tells Paula’s story – a magicalexploration of coupledom, parenthoodand selfhood, and a unique meditationon the mystery of happiness. On amidsummer’s night Paula lies awake,Mike, her husband of 25 years asleepbeside her, her two teenage children,Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms.The next day, she knows, will redefine alltheir lives. Her story is both a glowingcelebration of love possessed and amoving acknowledgement of the fear ofloss, of the fragilities, illusions andsecrets on which even our most intimatesense of who we are can rest.

12 May

Steve Bell and the If cartoon14.00-15.00Watershed£6.00/£4.00

Steve Bell was described by the SundayTimes as ‘the best political cartoonist we have’. Tony Benn said his ‘instinctiveradicalism places him clearly on the sideof the poor and the oppressed, andagainst the might of the rich andpowerful’. His daily If... cartoon strip inThe Guardian is required reading as acommentary on our life and times and asa great start to the day. In an illustratedpresentation, he talks about the historyof If… and his new book, My Vision forYou, the ultimate self-help guide usingthe Blair method.

14 May

Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room18.00-20.30Watershed£6.00/£4.00

After their fall from grace in 2001, Enronexecutives Ken Lay and Jeff Skillingrefused to speak to the media, but thecompany archives contain a number ofrevealing phone conversations and videotapes. With expert commentary AlexGibney reveals how Enron’s defraudingof investors, employees and the entirestate of California was not so much theproduct of a few bad apples as theultimate result of a deregulated free-market system. A fascinating chronicle ofarrogance and greed. Showing with theshort film 72 Faced Liar. Introduced byColin Skellett, chairman, Wessex Water,which was owned by Enron at one time.

14 May

John Tusa on the future of the arts 18.00-19.00Arnolfini £6.00/£4.00

Sir John Tusa has been Managing Directorof London’s Barbican Centre for more than a decade and has been a notablecontroversialist, speaking up for the needfor the arts, defending their achievementsand arguing for more funding. In his newbook, Engaged with the Arts: Writings fromthe Frontline, he provides passionatelyargued, candid and challenging essays onthe arts in Britain today, seeking out theways in which they can be made to blossomin this cultural and political climate, withcuts in arts funding ever threatened. His isa call for us to think about why art mattersso crucially for us all.

Billy Bragg and Julian Bagginion Englishness19.30-21.00Arnolfini £6.00/£4.00

National pride and Englishness are comingto the forefront of political argument. Inhis book The Progressive Patriot, BillyBragg provides a passionate and brilliantpolemic on the meaning of nationalidentity in modern Britain. His explorationof what it means to be English looks at the cross of St. George, religiousfundamentalism, patriotism, inclusivity andbelonging. He talks about Englishness withphilosopher Julian Baggini, whose latestbook, Welcome to Everytown, is theaccount of six months he spent in postcodearea S66 on the outskirts of Rotherham –an area which reflected most accuratelythe full range of the nation’s inhabitants,its most typical mix of urban and rural, oldand young, married and single.

The politics of affluence andwellbeing with Jay Griffiths,Tom Hodgkinson, Oliver Jamesand Tobias Jones19.30-21.00Arnolfini£6.00/£4.00

What makes us happy is now a majorarea of science and both happiness andwellbeing are rapidly becoming hotpolitical issues. Psychologist Oliver James,author of They F*** You Up and Britainon the Couch, has spent the last 12months travelling the world to investigatewhy, despite the fact that we are gettingricher, we don’t seem to be getting anyhappier. He debates his book Affluenzawith Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idlerand author of How to be Free, JayGriffiths who has written on the nature oftime and whose new book, Wild, exploresthe need for wild places for happiness,and Tobias Jones, whose Utopian Dreamslooks at alternative communities.

(Clockwise from top) Tobias Jones, Jay Griffithsand Tom Hodgkinson

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17 May

An Inconvenient Truth18.00-20.35Watershed£6.00/£4.00

Davis Guggenheim’s riveting Oscar-winning documentary charts formerpresidential candidate Al Gore’s effortsto raise the public’s awareness ofclimate change and global warming.Based on over 1000 lectures on theenvironment which Gore has givenaround the world since 2000,Guggenheim showcases the man’s wit,humour and intellect. Gore pleads thatwe can no longer afford to view globalwarming as a political issue – rather, he argues that it is the biggest moralchallenge facing our civilization ifhumanity is to survive. Showing with the short film ARKive – a web resourcecreating a lasting audio-visual record oflife on Earth. Following the film a panelwill debate the practical things to bedone to halt climate change andenvironmental disaster with TonyJuniper, Director, Friends of the Earth,Peter Madden, CEO of Forum for theFuture and Chris Priest, non-execdirector of Green Light Trust and of theDEFRA-funded ClimateSpace project, and lead scientist on the Climate Futuresinvestigation at Hewlett Packard Labs.

16 May

Fast Food Nation18.00-20.30Watershed£6.00/£4.00

Inspired by the bestselling book byjournalist Eric Schlosser, Fast FoodNation delves into the murky world ofthe fast food industry while exploring thecontradictions of contemporary Americanlife. Centred around a fictional Coloradotown, the film focuses on various links inthe food production chain: a youngMexican couple working illegally in aperilous meat-packing plant, arestaurant-chain executive undergoing a crisis of conscience, and a teenageburger-slinger drawn into politicalactivism. With an all-star cast featuringGreg Kinnear, Ethan Hawke, CatalinaSandino Moreno and Bruce Willis,Richard Linklater majestically weavesthese stories into a hard hitting look atthe fast food industry, touching on widerenvironmental and social consequences.Showing with the short film Kitchen, inwhich a young woman prepares a recipefor her husband which turns out to be far from easy! Introduced by CarlHonore, author of In Praise of Slow.

William Dalrymple on India19.00-20.00British Empire and CommonwealthMuseum£6.00/£4.00

William Dalyrmple is one of our leadingwriters on Indian history. His latest book,The Last Mughal, is a portrait – usingextensive new material – of BahadurShah Zafar II, the story of the last daysof the great Mughal capital and its finaldestruction in the catastrophe of 1857.The Last Mughal is an extraordinaryrevisionist work with clear contemporaryechoes. It is the first account to presentthe Indian perspective on the siege, andhas at its heart the stories of theforgotten individuals tragically caught up in one of the bloodiest upheavals inhistory as well as telling the remarkablestory of Zafar who, though starved ofpower, nevertheless succeeded increating a court of brilliance, andpresided over one of the great culturalrenaissances of Indian history.

Paddy Ashdown on making peace19.30-21.00Council HouseFree

Between 2002 and 2006 Sir PaddyAshdown, former leader of the LiberalDemocrats, was the High Representativefor Bosnia-Herzegovina, seeing at firsthand the effects of war. His latest bookSwords and Ploughshares: Bringing Peaceto the 21st Century, reflects on thatexperience. The British armed forces arecurrently engaged in Afghanistan, Iraqand the Balkans in ‘peacekeepingoperations’: how do we avoid thesemissions turning into long-termentanglements? How do we bring oursoldiers home? And what do we do aboutfailed states that are havens for gangstersand terrorists? Paddy Ashdown fears wewill soon see major wars between nationstates, many beginning as minor conflictsthat will expand into full-scale warsunless the international communityintervenes. The way to stop the big warsis to deal promptly with the small ones.There have been 15 UN-led interventionssince 1946, and there are 74 wars inprogress today. Ashdown is uniquelyqualified to investigate the successes and failures of peacekeeping operations,reveal what lessons have been learned –and what lessons keep being forgotten.An Inconvenient Truth

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Paddy Ashdown

21 May

Ziauddin Sardar on Islam and science18.00-19.00Watershed£3.00/£2.00

Ziauddin Sardar has been called ‘Britain’s own Muslim polymath’ and is a pioneering writer on Islam, science and contemporary cultural issues. The Qur’an and the traditions of the ProphetMuhammad place a great deal ofimportance on science and this close anddeep relationship established science asan integral part of Muslim culture andcivilisation. From the ninth to thefifteenth century, Muslim scholarspursued science as famine strickenpeople hanker after food. But the declinewas just as spectacular. Why did Muslimsocieties abandon the pursuit of science?Why is science so conspicuously absentfrom Muslim societies? This lectureargues that a viable, dynamic culture ofIslam is not possible without a seriousinfusion of the scientific spirit. Sciencebelongs at the very heart of Islamicculture and the survival of Muslimcivilisation itself is intrinsically linked toits troubled relationship with science.

18 May

Nick Cohen on what happened to the Left?18.30-19.30Watershed£3.00/£2.00

Nick Cohen always felt that to be goodyou had to be on the Left. Now he isconfused: the Left apologises for amilitant Islam, supports Palestine but notchange in China, the Sudan, Zimbabweor North Korea. In one of the most talkedabout books of the year, What’s Left?How Liberals Lost Their Way, Nick Cohenreclaims the values of democracy andsolidarity that united the movementagainst fascism. The Observer called it ‘amoving account of a long personaljourney carried off with wit, verve,considerable literary skill andcompassion’.

Jasper Fforde

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18 May

Who Killed the Electric Car?18.00-20.00Watershed£6.00/£4.00

Fast, sleek, efficient and fun to drive –the electric car, most notably the General Motors EV-1, seemed to havebeen beamed from the future. Then,seemingly just as quickly as it arrived, itdisappeared. The cars were recalled bythe manufacturers and the vehicles weredestroyed, despite the valiant efforts ofdedicated electric enthusiasts. Fashionedlike a tongue-in-cheek murder mystery,this provocative look at the intersectionbetween the auto industry, oil interests,the government, science and consumerswill make your next walk to the parkinglot feel like a distinctly political act.Showing with the short film ClownChildren, an ‘ordinary’ day in the life oftwo brothers in Guatemala City.

19 May

Jasper Fforde14.00-15.00Arnolfini£6.00/£4.00

Jasper Fforde is a remarkable writer. Hisfirst novel The Eyre Affair, introducingthe detective Thursday Next, is set inSwindon in 1985, in a world that issimilar to our own, but with a few crucial– and bizarre – differences (Wales is asocialist republic, the Crimean War is stillongoing and the most popular pets arehome-cloned dodos). Over the next threeyears Jasper became a phenomenonacross the world, with his novelsreceiving effusive praise and huge sales.In July 2005 Jasper began a new seriesof books – called Nursery Crime – withthe publication of The Big Over Easy, apolice procedural into the universalmystery Who Killed Humpty Dumpty? Thesecond book in the series, The FourthBear, was published in July 2006. Jasperwill return to the Thursday Next series –and Swindon – with the publication ofthe fifth book in the series First AmongSequels, next year. Jasper lives andwrites in Wales and has a passion foraviation. He talks about the ideas in his books.

Ziauddin Sardar

9-20 May

Spirituality and Film Season

Stories have forever been used to convey philosophical and ontological truths to awide audience, and cinema arguably plays a key role in carrying on that collectivetradition. Maybe it’s the visual nature of the film which allows it to transcend itsentertainment and artistic appeal, sharing with the audience concepts of spiritualityand the sublime. This season of screenings and discussions presented by Watershed aspart of the Festival of Ideas explores whether cinema can deal with notions ofspirituality, philosophical ideas and debates of the spiritual; whether it can in factpresent a spiritual experience and if so, what that experience is like and what itspurpose is. We revisit a selection of classics from Raging Bull and Three Colours: Blueto Groundhog Day and Ghost Dog in a more contemplative light, looking at spiritualnotions such as rebirth, redemption and enlightenment. Other highlights in theprogramme will include a special Birdman of Alkijazz live performance to early silentBuddhist masterpiece Light of Asia at Arnolfini, Laurel Chiten’s compellingdocumentary on writer Rodger Kamenetz, Jew in The Lotus and an Éric Rohmerdouble-bill. We’re delighted to welcome to Watershed guest speakers Ian Christie,Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck College London University,Stephen Hinde, a Buddhist teacher within the Longchen Foundation tradition, Keith Tester, Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, Dr Rupert Gethi, Director of the Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Bristol and Father Robert King, Catholic Chaplain, University of Bristol.

For more information on the programme, visit: www.watershed.co.uk/spirituality

22 May

David Edgerton on The Shock of the Old18.00-19.00Watershed£3.00/£2.00

We think we live in an age of newtechnology. David Edgerton’s new bookThe Shock of the Old challenges the ideathat we live in an era of ever increasingchange. Interweaving political, economicand cultural history, it will show what it means to think critically abouttechnology and its importance. Standardhistories of technology give tired oldaccounts of the usual inventions but TheShock of the Old argues that to have afull picture of the history of technologywe need to know not about what a fewpeople invented, but about what thingseveryday people used – and when theyactually used them. It reassesses the Pilland IT, and shows the continuedimportance of technology such ascorrugated iron and sewing machines.Simon Jenkins in The Guardian said this‘is a book I can use. I can take it in twohands and bash it over the heads ofevery techno-nerd, computer geek andneophiliac futurologist I meet.’

30 May

Kiran Desai on her BookerPrize-winning novel TheInheritance of Loss19.30-21.00Council House£3.00 – Book with Bristol Libraries

Kiran Desai won the 2006 Man BookerPrize for The Inheritance of Loss, theyoungest ever woman to win thecompetition. At the foot of MountKanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives anembittered old judge who wants nothingmore than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphanedgranddaughter, Sai, and his cook’s sontrying to stay a step ahead of USimmigration services, this is far fromeasy. When a Nepalese insurgencythreatens Sai’s blossoming romance withher handsome tutor, they are forced toconsider their colliding interests. Thejudge must revisit his past, his ownjourney and his role in this graspingworld of conflicting desires, everymoment holding out the possibility forhope or betrayal. The Inheritance of Lossexplores what it means to be animmigrant, and what happens whenpeople move from a poor country to awealthy one. Kiran Desai is the author ofHullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and shelives in the United States where sheteaches writing at MIT.

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Wole Soyinka

Professor Steven Fuller on intelligent design

Clive Stafford Smith on crime and justice

Museum of Bristol Lecture

Adam Sisman on Bristol and the Romantic poets

Steve Bell and the If cartoon

Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room

John Tusa on the future of the arts

Billy Bragg and Julian Baggini on Englishness

Black Gold

Graham Swift

The politics of affluence and wellbeing with Jay Griffiths,

Tom Hodgkinson, Oliver James and Tobias Jones

Fast Food Nation

William Dalrymple on India

An Inconvenient Truth

Paddy Ashdown on making peace

Nick Cohen on What happened to the Left?

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Jasper Fforde

Ziauddin Sardar on Islam and science

David Edgerton on The Shock of the Old

Kiran Desai on her Booker-Prize winning novel

The Inheritance of Loss

Spirituality and Film Season

Summary Programme

Date Event Time Venue

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Bristol Cultural Development Partnership organises many specialFestival of Ideas’ events throughout the year. Previous speakershave included Edward de Bono and Will Hutton. For further detailsgo to www.ideasfestival.co.uk

Events for June include:

June date to be confirmed

XiAolu and Nick BroomfieldWatershed£6.00/£4.00

Filmmaker and writer Xiaolu Guo, whoselatest book A Concise Chinese-EnglishDictionary for Lovers, about a Chinesewoman in England, has been widelypraised, discusses her work with NickBroomfield, the filmmaker. Both Nick andXiaolu are award winning filmmakers.Nick’s latest film, Ghosts, is fictional(though based on a true story) about ayoung Chinese girl who is smuggled intothe UK so she can support her son andfamily in China. Xiaolu’s new film, How isYour Fish Today, is already a hit on theinternational film circuit. Both films willbe shown and there will be a discussionfocussed around the Chinese in Britaintoday from different perspectives.

The Hub SalonBefore each screening in thedocumentary film season – AnInconvenient Truth, Enron, Black Gold,Fast Food Nation and Who Killed theElectric Car? there will be a discussion in the Bristol Hub between 17.00 and17.50. Just turn up and join the debate.The Hub is located two doors down fromthe Old Vic Theatre. 35 King Street,Bristol BS1 4DZ. See www.the-hub.net/where/bristol

21 June

John Gray on Black Mass:Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia18.00-19.00University of Bristol, Wills Memorial BuildingFree

During the last century global politicswas shaped by utopian myths.Pursuing a dream of a world withoutevil, powerful states waged war andpractised terror on an unprecedentedscale. From Germany to Russia toChina to Afghanistan entire societieswere destroyed. Utopian ideologiesrejected traditional faiths and claimedto be based in science. They wereactually versions of the myth ofApocalypse – the belief in a world-changing event that brings history,with all its conflicts, to an end. Thewar in Iraq was the last of thesesecular utopias, promising a new eraof democracy and producing blood-soaked anarchy and an emergingtheocracy instead. John Gray arguesthat the death of Utopia does notmean peace; rather the resurgence of ancient myths, now in openlyfundamentalist forms. Obscurelymixed with geo-political struggles for the control of natural resources,apocalyptic religion has returned as a major force in global conflict.

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