From the 7th to the 10th of July Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival takes place at the Crown Hotel in Harrogate, full details in the newsletter below:
Raworths
Harrogate Literature Festival
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Staff
Picks...
With over
25 different events to choose from over the four days of the
Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival, staff from the Harrogate
International Festivals (proud winners of Best Achievement at the
recent Harrogate’s Hospitality and Tourism Awards) have
written a Top Pick for an event of their choice to help you
out...
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Know Your
Neighbour
Beth Walker, Festival Administration Assistant
My
festival pick has to be one of the most fascinating lunch dates you
could ever have. The Raworths Literary Lunch features two authors
who promise to provoke, inspire and expand your mind over a two
course lunch and glass of wine.
The internet impacts, shapes, consumes all our lives. Jamie
Bartlett is the Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social
Media and author of The Dark Net. He’s a journalist and Tech
blogger for the Telegraph, has done TED talks, and is the go-to
authority, with his book The
Dark Net.
He’ll be sharing stories from censorship, to radicalism, and how
tech is changing political and social movements.
If you’ve ever wondered about an Ex or indeed, a boss, forensic
psychologist Kerry Daynes will talk about her book, Is There A Psycho In
Your Life? She’s worked with some of the country’s most
notorious psychopathic criminals, including inmates in maximum
security prisons. But are psychopaths walking around in our
everyday lives?
Know Your Neighbour? Raworths Literary Lunch in
association with Yorkshire Life | Thursday 7 July, 12pm – 2.30pm |
Crown Hotel | BOX OFFICE: 01423 562 303
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The
Wonders of the Universe
Gemma Rowland, Operations Manager
What’s it
all about? Where does space end? These are the big questions in
life. Just over 100 years ago on November 25, Einstein set
down the equation that rules the universe. The general theory of
relativity. It transformed our understanding of space and time.
This July, in tribute to our roots as a festival of science as well
as the arts, we’re on a mission of scientific exploration to unlock
the secrets of the universe. It begins on 8 July at the Crown
Hotel as the remarkable violinist Jack Liebeck is joined by the
Professor of Experimental Physics at Oxford, Prof Brian Foster.
Jack, with pianist Katya Apekisheva will perform a programme of
music that was loved by Einstein and inspired his work, including
Bach and Mozart. Brian, who is also the European Director for the
international Linear Collider, will explain Einstein’s love of
music, how it helped him make the connections and discoveries that
changed the world, and shaped our concepts of space, time and the
evolution of the Universe.
At the Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival (7-10 July), the
co-presenter of BBC Stargazing Live and Royal Astronomical Fellow,
Mark Thompson, promises a little stardust for the soul. He will
blast audiences out of this world as he takes us on a tour of his
book, ‘A Space Traveller’s Guide to the Solar System’.
Lucie Green, a Research Fellow at the Mullard Space Science
Laboratory, also presents ’15 Million Degrees, A Journey to the
Centre of the Sun’, in an astonishing and enlightening adventure
explaining how light reaches the Earth.
There’ll also be some science of the mind with Berwins Salon North
on 28 July, as three experts explain the science behind the music
we love, including the renowned neuroscientist Dr Catherine
Loveday, who’ll explore how music impacts on our memories.
The Wonders of the Universe (Various Events) |
Thursday
7 - Sunday 10 July | Crown Hotel | BOX OFFICE: 01423 562 303
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I Have A
Dram
Helen
Donkin, Literature Festivals Co-ordinator
Whisky
used to be something great uncles supped, accompanied by a pipe.
But then, something happened. David Beckham became the face of the
Haig Club whisky.
Whisky has become a thing for ‘Millennials’. According to Future
Laboratory research, women make up 37 per cent of whisky customers
in the US, and nearly a third in the UK, perhaps thanks to the
cosmopolitan quaffing girls of Sex in the City, to the
whisky-tumbling women of Mad Men.
Like wine, we want to understand what we’re drinking, not just mix
it with coke,
Charles Maclean has been dubbed ‘whisky’s finest guru’ by The
Sunday Times. He spent 30 years researching its curiosities and
character, resulting in Whiskypedia, the ultimate guide to Scotch
whisky. Informative, entertaining, experience a wee dram as never
before. Join the whisky renaissance.
Whiskypedia | Thursday 7 July, 8pm | Crown Hotel |
BOX OFFICE: 01423 562 303
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