Hay Festival

A new chapter begins! We are delighted to welcome Professor Dame Elan Closs Stephens to the Hay Festival Global board of trustees. https://lnkd.in/ePNuAEby

Thank you, Open Society Foundations! https://lnkd.in/eT5drUMc

Are you ready, Texas? Hay Festival Forum Dallas is back and bigger than ever this October with events all over the city. Coming soon… hayfestival.org/dallas

Open books, open minds. https://lnkd.in/eez63z3t

It’s back 🦋 We’re bringing Lviv BookForum to the world, 3–8 October, with free online events featuring essential Ukrainian voices alongside internationally acclaimed writers, historians, policy makers, and poets. Sign up to our newsletter to be the first to hear the full programme, out at the end of this month at hayfestival.org/lviv

A world of different opportunities 🦋 Novelist and poet Katie Munnik shares her thoughts on taking part in this year’s Hay Festival Writers at Work programme. https://lnkd.in/dKmUNkZw

Book festivals improve our world. And we need your support to flourish. Today we are proud to join eight other UK festivals with a message of our collective impact and shared mission. https://lnkd.in/eHgXSACa

And the final numbers are in! Thanks to your support, Hay Festival Hay-on-Wye 2024 was one of our most successful and accessible editions yet. Over 11 days, 23 May–2 June, 752 artists took part in 627 events, 6,315 pupils from 145 schools enjoyed free programming in person, 119 schools and 38 public libraries joined online. And you turned out in your thousands to take part. Read the full report at https://lnkd.in/ehdg6Cg8 And the journey doesn't stop here. Coming up over the next six months, we have events running in Kenya, Mexico, Spain, the USA, Ukraine, Peru, and Wales, where we’ll be bringing communities together to explore the biggest questions of our times with artists, experts, and dreamers. As a charity, we rely on your support to make this happen. Get involved and continue your support for a world of different at https://lnkd.in/e7YgG4hs 

Explore a world of different possibilities with Hay Festival Global over the next six months 🦋 Join us in person or online for upcoming events in Kenya, Mexico, Spain, the USA, Ukraine, Peru, and Wales, where we’ll be bringing communities together to explore the biggest questions of our times with artists, experts, and dreamers. Platforms like these – open stages for free expression and exchange – feel more important now than ever before. And they can only take place with your support. Get involved by signing up to our newsletter https://lnkd.in/dsRhRxbc and taking part wherever you are https://lnkd.in/dgyyB5QV. See you soon!

It’s time to #ShowYourStripes! We kicked things off last night at Hay Castle, projecting Hay-on-Wye’s climate stripes to share our concern about the changing climate and urgent need for action. Created by climate scientist Ed Hawkins as part of Hay Festival Trans.MISSION in 2018, Warming Stripes is a visualisation of global temperature increases over the past 150 years. Find your own climate stripes at https://lnkd.in/e6Mssef and discover more about Hay Festival Green projects and events at https://lnkd.in/dUr-_W2w 📸: Adam Tatton-Reid