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LITERARY
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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
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Berwins Salon North is one of Harrogate’s most
sought after tickets after the Salon was voted as number six in the
‘Top 100 Things to do in the World’ by GQ magazine. Hosted by
Harrogate International Festivals, the series consists of a
cabaret-style night of the most stimulating ideas in art, science
and psychology designed to change your life for the better.
With three expert speakers, each given 30 minutes to
engage the audience with their subject, talks are interspersed with
intervals allowing time for a well-crafted gin and tonic. A
revolutionary movement for the heart and mind!
“A bit of London culture in the North” – Salon North Attendee
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- AI - 22 JUNE
- DIY -
27 JULY
- ISPY -
7 SEPT
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- REVOLUTION - 26
OCT
- EVOLUTION - 30
NOV
- CONSTITUTION - 25
JAN
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Join us
for the AI, DIY, ISPY Summer series with our special ticket
offers -
2 for
£30 or 3 for £42!
Join our
Salon
Club to get tickets for the Summer series and
this Autumn’s Revolution,
Evolution, Constitution series for just £80 for all 6
events.
What’s more, Club members benefit from priority entry and
reserved seating.
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Arthur
Miller is emeritus professor of history
and philosophy of science at University College London. He is
fascinated by the nature of creative thinking and, in particular,
in creativity in art (on the one hand) and science (on the other).
What are the similarities, what are the differences? An experienced
broadcaster, lecturer and biographer, he is noted for being able to
write engagingly about complex social and intellectual dramas,
weaving the personal with the scientific to produce page-turners
that read like novels. Arthur’s new book is the first publication
to explore how computers can be creative in art, music and other
pursuits, and what the future of creativity itself will look like,
surveying cutting-edge developments in AI and in ‘computational
creativity’, bringing them to life through interviews with key
players in the field.
Alex Evans
is a Campaign Director at Avaaz, the global citizens’
movement, and a Senior Fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation.
Over the last two decades Alex has worked on global issues in the
UN Secretary-General’s office, as Special Adviser to two UK
Secretaries of State for International Development (Valerie Amos
and Hilary Benn), and as a consultant for organisations from Oxfam to the US National Intelligence Council.
Once upon a time our society was rich in stories. They united us
and helped us to understand the world and ourselves. We called them
myths. Today, we have a myth gap. Does that matter? Alex Evans
argues persuasively that it does. In this time of global crisis and
transition – of mass migration, inequality, resource scarcity and
climate change – it is only by finding new myths, those that speak
to us of renewal and restoration, that we will navigate our way to
a better future. Drawing on his first-hand experience as a
political adviser within British government and at the United
Nations, and examining the history of climate-change campaigning
and recent contests such as Brexit and the US presidential
election, Alex Evans explores how tomorrow’s activists are using
narratives for change, how modern stories have been used and
abused, and where we might find the right myths to take us forward.
Timandra
Harkness is a science writer, broadcaster and
comedian. Writer and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s
FutureProofing series and documentaries such as Data, Data
Everywhere, and Personality Politic, she’s also resident
reporter on social psychology series The Human Zoo. Since winning
the Independent newspaper's column-writing competition with a short
piece on goat-borrowing, she has written for many publications
including the Telegraph, Guardian, Sunday Times, Evening Standard,
BBC Focus magazine, WIRED and Men's Health. Big data knows where
you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like and
what makes you angry. It can predict what you'll buy, where you'll
be the victim of crime and when you'll have a heart attack. Big
data knows you better than you know yourself, or so it claims.
Starting with the basics - what IS data? And what makes it big?
Timandra takes you on a whirlwind tour of how people are using big
data today: from science to smart cities, business to politics,
self-quantification to the Internet of Things. Finally, she
asks the big questions about where it's taking us; is it too big
for its boots, or does it think too small?
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Jamie
Bartlett is Director of the Centre for the
Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos, an author and
technology blogger for the Daily Telegraph, specialising in radical
and extremist political movements and technology. He has spent the
last two years imbedded with radical groups, making an exploration
of the individuals, groups and movements rejecting the way we live
now, and attempting to find alternatives. Jamie takes us inside the
strange and exciting worlds of the innovators, disruptors,
idealists and extremists who think society is broken, and believe
they know how to fix it. From dawn raids into open mines to the
darkest recesses of the internet, his book Radicals
introduces us to some of the most secretive and influential
movements today. Could it be that these radicals are not only the
symptoms of a deep unrest with the world today, but might also
provide the most plausible models for our future.
Adam
Kucharski is an assistant professor at the
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where he works on
mathematical analysis of infectious disease outbreaks. Science is
giving us the competitive edge over opponents, casinos and
bookmakers. But is there such a thing as the perfect bet? DIY
gambling - how technology, maths and statistics have given some of
the smartest people on the planet the chance to improve their odds
and beat the system - totally legally! The Perfect Bet looks beyond
probability and statistics to examine how wagers have inspired a
plethora of new disciplines - spanning chaos theory, machine
learning and game theory - which are not just revolutionising
gambling, but changing our fundamental notions about chance,
randomness and luck.
Justine
Solomons, founder of Byte the Book whose 'help now
- think later' is taking the networking world by storm. She
will lead an exploratory look at the social psychology behind
reciprocity as we try to create a generosity circle, live! Recent
research reveals that many people would like to receive help, but
don’t ask, and also that many people enjoy helping others, but
don’t know what other people need or how they can help. We’ll
face this head on in an interactive reciprocity psychological
experiment, so join in with a request of your own (e.g. a contact
at a certain business, a workshop with a circular saw?)
and let’s see if we can help you and also enable you to help
others.
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Author
names and details for ISPY to be announced in the coming weeks!
Keep an eye on our website for further details.
All Tickets: £18. Unreserved.
Cabaret style seating
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CWA Dagger News
The CWA will announce the 2017 longlists
for eight of the prestigious CWA Daggers at a reception to be held at
CrimeFest on Friday 19 May. The
winner of the Margery Allingham Short Story Competition will also be
revealed.
Shortly after they’ll be inviting the crime-reading public to submit
their book reviews on www.daggerreads.co.uk. Meanwhile,
readers are being urged to read the books by authors longlisted for
this year’s Dagger in the Library award and give
their feedback at the Reading Agency website. The award will be presented
at Bodies from the Library at London’s
British Library on Saturday 17 June.
The shortlists will be announced this summer, and all other Daggers,
including the Diamond Dagger which this year goes to the amazing Ann Cleeves, are to be awarded at a
glitzy dinner at the Grange City Hotel, London on October 26.
To keep up to date with crime-writing news you might like to
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