Our talks tent, Interstellar Ideas, is in the Planet Positive zone on the beach this year and you’ll be treated to dialogue and conversations with speakers at the cutting edge of their fields on issues around the climate and more.
Saturday features writers, poets, musicians, and legendary music producer Joe Boyd covering rhythm, maps, worlds, and universes.
Sunday morning sees theatre piece Phoenix Dodo Butterfly from UEA considering three futures: one of flood, one of fire, and one of drought.
Followed by talks from the Natural History Museum, Cefas, and a very Lowestoft story about charity shop finds and the Dockside Dandies with Pete Wylie and Wayne Hemingway.
There’s more that might interest you in Messums East which is in the same zone with exchanges and talks on visual arts and more.
Saturday 22 June
12:15 Xiaolu Gao: Coastlines
13:30 Steve Pretty and Chris Lintott: Universe of Music
14:45 Diaphonous: George Szirtes’ Worlds of Poetry
16:00 Travis Elborough: Maps are Us – The Atlas Unbound
17:15 Joe Boyd: And the Roots of Rhythm Remain
18:30 Jay Griffiths: Maps of Wildness
Sunday 23 June
10:30 Phoenix Dodo Butterfly
12:30 What do Museums Do? With Jon Ablett from the Natural History Museum
13:45 Michaela Schratzberger from Cefas
15:00 Dockside Dandies with Peter Wylie and Wayne Hemingway
Waterstones will be running a bookshop over the festival weekend so be sure to visit to find more about the writers and performers!