Sussex Festival of Ideas

The Sussex Festival of Ideas is a dynamic and engaging programme of talks, events and activities, from the School of Media, Arts and Humanities. It aims to harness the transformative power of the arts and humanities to fashion new ways of thinking about the past, present and future. The Festival’s 2022 edition includes a two-day programme of talks, events, workshops, conversations, screenings and performances at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts. The festival events explore a wide-range of topics: from black identities and the countryside to irreverent responses to inequality and exploitation within the cultural industries, the visual cultures of Instagram to cultural mediations of climate change, media coverage of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities to the new visibility of menopausal life and politics. The programme includes a screening of Lizzie Thynne’s new documentary about and the work of film pioneer Jill Craigie and a closing keynote presentation by Gary Younge on statues, cultural memory and empire. With the exception of Gary Younge’s talk, all events are free with no booking required. Seats will be allocated on a first come, first served basis and audiences are free to come to part or all of a day's programme.