Win tickets to Future Everything

After 15 years at the sharpest edge of digital culture,Futuresonic evolves into FutureEverything festival

Next week our blogger Fran Graham will be covering FutureEverything for Culture Vulture readers, in the meantime you can get your hands on a pair of tickets worth £150! All you have to do to win between now and next Monday night is stick your name in the comments box with your twitter ID, and tweet with hashtag #futr
The winner will be picked at random and alerted on Tuesday am, so please don’t enter if you can’t make the event.

In the meantime here’s a little bit more about what Future Everything is all about, and why it’s worth getting over to Manchester to enjoy…

From a Roman feast in a luxury hotel lobby to a revolutionary new way of connecting globally, FutureEverything announces its 2010 festival programme.  Taking place in Manchester from 12 to 15 May, FutureEverything brings together some of the world’s most visionary thinkers, artists and musicians to celebrate the creativity and innovation being used to drive social change in the digital age.

FutureEverything, a cultural organisation which advances and advocates social innovation through creativity and digital technology, has programmed a festival that embraces the whole city, using locations as diverse as the derelict grandeur of Victoria Baths to telephone kiosks dotted around Manchester.  The programme explores five strands: Art, Music, Conference, PlayEverything and Showcase.  Highlights include:

• The launch of GloNet, a new way to interact globally, extends the festival via live events in five cities in different time zones, and was developed to respond to needs for festivals to find new ways to be globally connected and reduce air miles
• The Conference, where 500 opinion-formers, artists, technologists and scientists take part in lectures, forums and panel discussions on the way people and organisations operate, innovate and interact

• Visionary thinker Adam Greenfield curates iPhone and Android Apps to explore surprise and drift in Serendipity City
• Agents of Change transform a secret urban location using spray-cans and perception altering art, streamed live across the city as clues gradually reveal their location
• Cutting-edge music performances including acclaimed Japanese artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda’s audio-visual work inspired by his fascination with data, sound and light, and legendary Konono No. 1’s distinctive, raw sounds taken from traditional Bazombo trance
• Presentation of the inaugural £10,000 FutureEverything Award to this year’s winner, The EyeWriter, a pair of low-cost eye-tracking glasses that allow artists and graffiti writers with paralysis to draw using only their eyes.