The Forum
The home of big ideas
A festival within a festival, The Forum programme sprawls from the serious to the surreal. With talks, debates, panels and plenty more, we put the big, thought-provoking questions to an overwhelming range of experts, professors and masterminds. Come and have your opinions shaken. When night falls, headline comedians and musicians take over.
Highlights
Music for Flamboyant Moments - Estilo String Quartet
La Patri
Reya
BrokenPen
Sofar Sounds: Latin takeover
Las Chanchas
Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo 2.0
Thought Club
Oli Dugmore
Little Minds, Big News
We Know You Can Pay a Million: Hacking and Ransomware
AI and Algorithm: Attention Seeker or Attention Stealer
How To Go Viral: From Instagram to TikTok and Everything in Between
Troubled Waters: A New Breed of Climate Activism
Do Blue Plaques Talk Back?
Tonight the Music Seems So Loud
Big Boys Don't Cry: Are Men OK?
Bring on the Flamboyance
Sequins to Swords: What Exactly is Cosplay?
"Don't Mention the War": How to Agree to Disagree
WTF Is Going On With British Housing?
Fern Brady
The Fear Opportunity
Sisterhood In The Music Business – Sarah Cracknell (Saint Etienne) in conversation with Delphine Seddon