HowTheLightGetsIn 2011

HowTheLightGetsIn is an annual philosophy and music festival offering over a hundred events, plus live performances. The event, now in its third year, is held at Hay-on-Wye in Powys, Wales from Thursday 26th May to Sunday 5th June 2011.

Line-up

The line-up includes philosophers, writers, comedians, academics, and politicians as well as musicians.

Acts include The Correspondents, Jim Moray, The Mandibles, Hannah Peel, Ben De Vere, Monster Ceilidh Band, The Bees Knees, Bard, Pirouette, Camille O'Sullivan, Kyla la Grange, Gwilym Gold, Mount Kimbie, Ghostpoet, Client (DJ set), Lulu & the Lampshades, Handshake, Peggy Sue, Gaz Mayall, Richard Strange, Kieron Johnson, Lail Arad, Joe May, Ana Silvera, Barty (DJ set), Mad Jack and the Hatters, MC Xander, Dizraeli and the Small Gods, Ewan Hoozami, Ewan Pearson, United Vibrations, The Worm, Julio Bashmore,and Blaenavon Male Voice Choir.

Comedy comes from from Suzy Bennett, Jo Neary, Salena Godden, John-Luke Roberts, Henry Parker, Kieron Maguire, Luke Wrigh, Trevor Lock, Robin Ince, Helen Arney, and Tony Law.

Guest speakers Simon Armitage, Polly Toynbee, Alex Callinicos, Oliver Kamm, Vince Cable, Steve Fuller, Richard Sennett, Leela Gandhi, Dany Cohn-Bendit, David Aaronovitch, Bonnie Greer, Ziauddin Sardar, Martin Jacques, Barry C. Smith, Simon May, Lauren Booth, Julian Baggini, Henrietta Moore, Tim Crane, Leela Ghandi, Don Cupitt, Angie Hobbs, Barry C. Smith, Carol Diethe, Simon May, Anthony O’Hear, Julian Baggini, Rachel Armstrong, Susan Greenfield, Bryan Appleyard, Zia Sardar, Laurie Penny, Phillip Blond, William Cash, Felicity Evans, Peter Hacker, Christopher Hamilton, Jonathan Derbyshire, Peter Hacker, Iain McGilchrist, Joanna Kavenna, Henrietta Moore, Colin Blakemore, Mary Warnock, Hilary Lawson, Ziauddin Sardar, Angie Hobbs, AC Grayling, John Harris, Mary Midgley, Robert Rowland-Smith, Catherine Malabou, Oliver James, Mark Williamson, Richard Layard, Harriet Lamb, Joanna Kavenna, John Naish, Douglas Murray, Dylan Evans, David Lammy, Isabel Hilton, John Harris, Athene Donald, Aubrey de Grey, Dylan Evans, Jayney Goddard, Ted Honderich, Mark Salter, Richard Bentall, Molly Meacher, Rana Mitter, Simon Glendinning, Robin Dunbar, Anjem Choudary, Julie Bindel, Paul Moss, Cory Doctorow, Nigel Warburton, Robert Bickers, Evgeny Morozov, Annie Machon, Douglas Murray, Johann Hari, Ulrich Lehmann, Roger Graef, Jerry Rothwell, Richard Schoch, Paul Kingsnorth, Nell Leyshon, Danny Miller, Anita Sethi, Frank Furedi, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Robert Skidelsky, Zygmunt Bauman, Maryam Namazie, Simon Critchley, Lewis Wolpert, Mark Vernon, Susan Blackmore, Jampa Thaye, Frank Furedi, Rowan Pelling, Gerald Moore, Edward Skidelsky, and Robert Skidelsky.

Tickets

Earlybird Festival Live tickets giving access to all live & night sessions including bands, DJs, comedians and parties are now on sale.

An early bird Festival Live 10 day ticket is priced at £78 or £168 with camping. Early bird Festival Live 3 day ticket (first weekend or second weekend) are priced at £28 or £58 with camping. Some individual event tickets are also available.

To buy tickets, click here.

This year's new theme is 'New Gods: icons and ideas in a changed world', and HowTheLightGetsIn offers a programme ranging from philosophy seminars to arts and theatre workshops and musical performances.

Camping

There is camping and parking available at Tangerine fields which is within a few hundred yards of the festival site. With on-site toilets, showers and added security as well as a Pamper Parlour, the Tangerine Fields site offers you everything you could want for a unique festival experience. To buy camping tickets, or for more information, click here.

There will be more information here when available.

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