Headingley Festival of Ideas first took place in May 2014, and involved 13 events attracting over 600 people. For 2015, the Festival has moved to October, taking place between Saturday 3rd and 17th at venues throughout Headingley.
This year’s theme is ‘Change’, and the Festival looks at some aspects of change, gives you an opportunity to explore change you want to make, how change has been documented, and the effects of dramatic change on individual lives.
The short programme is below, but for full details and ticketing information see the 2015 Programme.
SHORT PROGRAMME (October)
Sat 3 – HEART, 1-5pm – Creating a Sustainable Headingley
Tue 6 – Headingley Parish Hall, 7-9pm – Changing Headingley: For Better or Worse?
Tue 6 – Left Bank, 7-7:45pm – The Glass Cyphers Installation Preview (open to public Oct 8-10th)
Tue 6 – HEART, until 17 Oct – Art Exhibition
Wed 7 – Arcadia, 7:30-9pm – Philosophy in Pubs – ‘Blue Funks & Red Lines: Identifying Mood Swings in Recent British Politics’
Thu 8 – Headingley Library, 7-9pm – Local Poets for Change
Thu 8 – HEART, 7:30-9pm – Drama Workshop: King Lear & Change
Fri 9 – New Headingley Club, 7-8:30pm – Sound Tracks to Change
Fri 9 – HEART, 7:30-9:30pm – Leeds, Changes for Good
Sun 11 – Headingley Parish Hall, 11am-1pm – Daoist Art of Lishi
Mon 12 – New Headingley Club, 7:30pm – Café Scientifique – ‘Health Freaks on Trial: Changing Views of Home Remedies’
Tue 13 – Headingley Library, 7-8:30pm – A Woman Without a Number
Wed 14 – Bare Coffee, 7-9pm – Taste and Morals: A Participatory Coffee Event
Thu 15 – Costa Coffee, 7:30-9:30pm – Speaking to Persuade: The Ancient Art of Rhetoric
Fri 16 – St Michael’s Church, 7pm – Subversive Peacemakers
Fri 16 – Café Lento, 8pm – Music at Lento’s
Fri 16 – HEART, 8-10:30pm – Jazz at HEART
Sat 17 – HEART, 1-5pm – Apple Day
Sat 17 – New Headingley Club , 2-4pm – Comic Power
The Festival is planned by the Headingley FoI, a newly constituted independent organization affiliated with Headingley Development Trust. For more information or to get involved with the FoI, contact: headingley.festivalofideas@gmail.com
P.S. The final of the Headingley Festival of Ideas Schools Debating Competition 2015 took place in May, following qualifying rounds in January. This year’s winners were Allerton High School. The judges also nominated Sally Greaney of Cardinal Heenan Catholic High for the ‘Best Individual’ performance.