- Produced by Institute of Ideas
- Price Saturday or Sunday tickets are £55 and £30 for concessions, weekend passes are £100 or £45 for concessions
- Get ready to leave the echo chamber of social media and enter a festival where free-thinking is the only currency
- Bring along the friends that are hooked on Adam Curtis documentaries
- Surf to Tickets
- See you at Barbican
The Battle of Ideas returns for another weekend jam-packed with discussions with expert speakers centred around one notion: free thinking.
The annual two day festival from the Institute of Ideas is back at the Barbican with a programme full to the brim of contemporary debate and questioning for attendees to take part in. This year the festival explores current conversations in programme strands including “State of the Nation 2016” and “The Battle for America”.
Further discussions to be part of include “Feminism: In conversation with Camille Paglia” and “Nihilism and terror: how political is political violence”. Initiated by the Institute of Ideas and organised and supported by a wide range of partners and sponsors, Battle of ideas brings together hundreds of insightful and though-provoking speakers from across the globe, representing a wide range of disciplines and viewpoints.
Speaking ahead of the festival this year, Institute of Ideas director Claire Fox said: The festival’s slogan is FREE SPEECH ALLOWED, an antidote to today’s climate of offence-taking. If you’re willing to challenge and be challenged, and leave the comfort of the echo chamber, I forward to seeing you at the Barbican on 22 and 23 October”.
From #BLACKLIVESMATTER to Bowie and box sets, it’s likely one of the hardest decisions to make during the weekend is which sessions you really can’t miss. ……………………………………………………………………………………….
COMPETITION: Win 1x pair of weekend tickets to attend Battle of Ideas at the Barbican on 22nd and 23rd October from 9.30am. To enter the competition, send an email to ava@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ line. The winner will be randomly selected.
Q: Sir Thomas More’s Utopia will be up for discussion on Sunday of the festival. In More’s book, which was published 500 years ago this year, where in the world did the fictional society of Utopia reside?
A: .1) Beneath a highway underpass in San Francisco .2) On an island in the Atlantic Ocean .3) In the centre of the Amazon rainforest .4) The Arctic Tundra
