Marches.TV at the Hay Festival: Sunday 24th May
For the next ten days Marches.TV will be reporting from the Hay Festival.
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My word it was hot! It is wonderful to see so many people really enjoying everything that Hay has to offer. Everywhere is packed: the Festival site, the Town centre, The Castle and The Globe. Shepherds are doing a roaring trade with their sheep’s-milk ice cream at their shop in Hay and on-site at the festival as people swap wellies for sunnies and try to cool down.
There are so many other places to read event reviews that we decided that we would concentrate on the people. In today’s video diary I talk to Hay-based designer, Clare Keil, about her use of American hardwood, tulipwood, for “Wave and Splash” the canopy area at the Festival site. We also chatted to Rachel Harries from Madley business, Wiggly Wigglers to find out who they are and what they do that makes them such a local success-story.
Three other notable blogs to follow for Hay Festival stories are:
Mike Wood at http://mjkewood.blogspot.com
James Rock at http://haystyle.wordpress.com
Guardian Books at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/guardian-hay-festival
Worth thinking about for Monday 25th May.
Marc Craste and Helen Ward
Varmints
Monday 25 May, 9am
Venue: SONY Screen Buy tickets at £4.00
The writer and film-maker of this beautifully haunting ecological tale come together to discuss working collaboratively and their recent BAFTA nomination. Screening included. Chaired by Amelia Johnstone.
Charlie Ryrie
Cut-flower workshop
Monday 25 May, 10:30am–4pm
Venue: Meet at Box Office for bus Buy tickets at £55.00
Easy bouquets – working with seasonal flowers at the Real Cut Flower Garden. Talk, demonstration, home-grown lunch and make your own bouquet to send out by mail at the end of the workshop.
Marcus Brigstocke, Andre Vincent and Carrie Quinlan
The Early Edition 3
Monday 25 May, 1pm
Venue: Sony Screen Buy tickets at £7.00
The comedians read the papers for laughs.
Paddy Ashdown
The Joseph Rotblat Lecture 2009: Ashdown’s Third Law
Monday 25 May, 2:30pm
Venue: Guardian Stage Buy tickets at £5.00
The WMD Awareness Programme lecture this year is given by the Royal Marine commando, party leader and international peacekeeper, whose memoir A Fortunate Life is published this month. Chaired by Rosie Boycott.
Lisa Jardine
The 2009 Raymond Williams Lecture: Culture & Society
Monday 25 May, 4:00pm
Venue: Guardian Stage Buy tickets at £6.00
Williams’ Culture and Society became a cult book for liberal practitioners and critics in the humanities throughout the 1960s and 70s. The Professor of Renaissance Studies looks at his dreams and ambitions for mass culture, and the vital role of literature in the democratic process, and asks whether there is something important to be learned from his cultural analysis today.
Michio Kaku
Physics of the Impossible
Monday 25 May, 5:30pm
Venue: Guardian Stage Buy tickets at £6.00
The acclaimed physicist boldly goes beyond the known limits to explore perpetual motion, invisibility, ray guns, anti-gravity and anti-matter, teleportation, cyborgs, faster than light travel, time travel, zero-point energy, and extraterrestrial life.
Tony Curtis talks to Francine Stock
Monday 25 May, 7pm
Venue: Barclays Wealth Pavilion Buy tickets at £15.00
An audience with the Hollywood legend, lover, comedian and autobiographer.
Jeremy Hardy
Monday 25 May, 8:30pm
Venue: Barclays Wealth Pavilion Buy tickets at £9.00
Hilarious deadpan wit from the News Quiz star in his stand-up show.
