FORWARDS Festival announce final names for the INFORMATION conversation stage

FORWARDS Festival announce final names for the INFORMATION conversation stage

Posted on: 24 Aug 2023

Festival goers can expect a diverse and thought-provoking INFORMATION stage programme Channel 4 representatives, actors, authors, music industry heavyweights and more.

 

FORWARDS Festival 2023 will take place at The Downs, Bristol on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 September 2023.

 

Some of the new names added include the Great British Bake Off’s Briony May Williams, drug research expert Professor David Nutt, Marvel’s Spider Man India comic author Nikesh Shukla, award-winning food industry activist Christina Adane, Sunday Times food columnist, The Outlaws star Gamba Cole and even Bristol mayor Marvin Rees.

 

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With this year’s musical programme featuring high profile names such as Erykah Badu and Aphex Twin, FORWARDS is sure to be another smash hit success. If that’s not enough, the INFORMATION stage will feature urgent debate from the likes of already announced trans activist Munroe Bergdorf, BBC historian David Olusoga and British artist Jeremy Deller.

 

Now in its second year, FORWARDS aims to kickstart a new breed of festivals that focuses on social initiatives, underrepresented communities, and sustainability. The INFORMATION programme will cover themes including inequality in the media, the housing emergency, racism, sexism, queer storytelling, politics and more.

 

The full INFORMATION lineup is as follows…

 

Friday 1st September:

 

SEX TALKS PRESENTS: NON-MONOGAMY MUSINGS BY RUBY RARE (1.30 PM - 2.30 PM)

Ruby Rares Sexy Sermon on non-monogamy - the advice you always secretly wanted from one of the UK’s most prominent sex positive superstars

 

HEADLINE TALK: LIV LITTLE IN CONVERSATION WITH MUNROE BERGDORF (2.30 PM - 3.30 PM)

Telling Our Stories - Reflections on sharing experiences with the world

 

BIG TEAM PRESENTS: DIVERSITY - BUZZWORD, BOX TICKS AND POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION (2.40 PM - 3.40 PM)

Kaden Gardener (Black Excellence Bristol)?, Poku Osei (?Babbasa), Siggy Patchitt (Bristol Beacon) and Marvin Rees (Mayor of Bristol) and hosted by NGAIO (Big Team CIC) 

 

LIT IN COLOUR PRESENTS: REWRITING LITERATURE (3.50 PM - 4.50 PM)

Hafsa Zayyan (We Are All Birds of Uganda),  Jade LB (Keisha The Sket), Moses McKenzie (An Olive Grove In The Ends), Nikesh Shukla (The Good Immigrant) and hosted by Dr. Zaahida Nabagereka (Lit In Colour/Penguin)

 

HEADLINE TALK: VICKY SPRATT TALKS TO DAVID OLUSOGA (4.30 PM - 5.30 PM)

Broadcasting Inequality - An urgent discussion on inequality in the media

Saturday 2nd September:

 

SOLIPHILIA PRESENTS: INTERSECTIONAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, INVOLVING EVERYONE IN THE CLIMATE CONVERSATION (1.30 PM - 2.30 PM)

Domi Palmer (Climate Live), Frances Fox ??(Climate Live), Joycelyn Longdon? (Climate in Colour) Tori Tsui (??Climate Justice Activist) and hosted by Clare Farrell? (?Extinction Rebellion) 


 

HEADLINE TALK: DANNY PRICE INVESTIGATES - WITH GRACE CAMPBELL AND JOSH BERRY (2.30 PM - 3.30 PM)

Seriously Funny - Is politics a joke? - current affairs for content


 

SENTIA PRESENTS: SOBER CURIOUS - ARE PEOPLE BORED OF BOOZE? (2.40 PM - 3:40 PM)

Professor David Nutt (Sentia), Millie Gooch (Sober Girl Society Founder), Moya Lothian-McLean (Novara / The Guardian)?, Richard Batts (Ecstatic Dance /Sober Rave) and ?hosted by ?Noah Villeneuve (Club Soda / beyond booze podcast)


 

TEAM CANTEEN CIC PRESENTS: FOOD FOR THOUGHT - THE ETHICS OF CONSUMPTION WITH JOSH EGGLETON (3.50 PM - 4.50 PM)

Christina Adane (Bite Back Founder / Award winning activist on the food industry), Jasmine Clark (Viva Charity's Environmental Campaigner), ?Josh Eggleton (Team Canteen), Rob Percival (Author of THE MEAT PARADOX), Shaunagh Duncan (Oatly Head of Sustainability), Xanthe Clay (Telegraph food writer / President of Guild of Food Writers) 


 

HEADLINE TALK: JONNY BANGER IN CONVERSATION WITH JEREMY DELLER (4.30 PM - 5.30 PM)

“We're not sure where this conversation will go!”

FORWARDS Festival 2023 will take place at The Downs, Bristol on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 September 2023 with tickets available to purchase HERE.

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Article by:

Stanley Gray

Stan is a born and bred Bristolian, recently graduated from studying English Literature in Sheffield. His passions are music and literature and he spends the majority of his time in venues all over the city, immersing himself in Bristol’s alternative music scene. A lifelong Bristol City fan, Stan’s Saturdays are spent watching his team both home and away.