“There is an enormous amount of division within society,” Hilary Lawson, the founder of HowTheLightGetsIn festival, tells The Independent. “We need to talk about the ideas that underly those divisions rather than retreating to our different tribal identities.”
Lawson’s brainchild, which is the biggest philosophy and music festival in the world, is something of a panacea to the average literary festival. This is because first off, the festival has music, and secondly, the festival is centred around panel debates and discussions.
“We are fundamentally different to literary festivals in many ways, and that is centrally because we are about ideas and the edge of ideas,” Lawson, whose festival is due to take place at Kenwood House in north London this weekend, explains.
“It is very much about seeking to provide a framework outside of the literary celebrity game of providing authors with vehicles for promoting their book and selling them.
Lawson’s brainchild, which is the biggest philosophy and music festival in the world, is something of a panacea to the average literary festival. This is because first off, the festival has music, and secondly, the festival is centred around panel debates and discussions.
“We are fundamentally different to literary festivals in many ways, and that is centrally because we are about ideas and the edge of ideas,” Lawson, whose festival is due to take place at Kenwood House in north London this weekend, explains.
“It is very much about seeking to provide a framework outside of the literary celebrity game of providing authors with vehicles for promoting their book and selling them.
- 9/29/2022
- by Maya Oppenheim
- The Independent - Music
There are not many festivals where you could easily cross paths with a Nobel Laureate or a Pulitzer Prize winner while queuing for some food - unless you are sauntering around HowTheLightGetsIn festival that is.
Something of an ideological lucky dip, HowTheLightGetsIn, the biggest philosophy and music festival in the world, is known for its eclectic line-ups. Previous speakers at the event span from Noam Chomsky, renowned academic, to Brian Eno, the English musician, Ed Milliband, former Labour Party leader, Philip Pullman, best-selling author, to two authors both famed for whipping up controversy, Richard Dawkins and Slavoj Zizek.
Update - due to the passing of Queen Elizabeth 11 on September 8 the festival is now taking place on October 1-2.
At its core, HowTheLightGetsIn is about trying to liberate philosophy from the far-flung elitist ivory tower of academia and make it more digestible and rousing for wider audiences. And it is Hilary Lawson,...
Something of an ideological lucky dip, HowTheLightGetsIn, the biggest philosophy and music festival in the world, is known for its eclectic line-ups. Previous speakers at the event span from Noam Chomsky, renowned academic, to Brian Eno, the English musician, Ed Milliband, former Labour Party leader, Philip Pullman, best-selling author, to two authors both famed for whipping up controversy, Richard Dawkins and Slavoj Zizek.
Update - due to the passing of Queen Elizabeth 11 on September 8 the festival is now taking place on October 1-2.
At its core, HowTheLightGetsIn is about trying to liberate philosophy from the far-flung elitist ivory tower of academia and make it more digestible and rousing for wider audiences. And it is Hilary Lawson,...
- 9/9/2022
- by Maya Oppenheim
- The Independent - Music
The Kittens have unveiled the music video for 'Jupiter and Mars'.
The track is the first to be released from the duo's upcoming home-recorded debut album and is available now as a free download.
The video has been directed by Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski, and follows their work on Django Django's 'Beginning To Fade'.
The Kittens are Bryan Mills from Enniskillen and Nick Munro from Edinburgh.
An instrumental version of the track played by The Kittens with Lone Pigeon on piano features in John Maclean's debut movie Slow West.
The film stars Michael Fassbender and Ben Mendelsohn and won the Sundance Jury Prize.
Mills also preforms 'The Minstrel's Song' in the movie itself and contributes 'Theme from The Orkestra of the Dead' to its soundtrack.
Slow West is released in the UK by Lionsgate this Friday, June 26. Its soundtrack is out now on Lakeshore Recoreds.
Maclean and...
The track is the first to be released from the duo's upcoming home-recorded debut album and is available now as a free download.
The video has been directed by Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski, and follows their work on Django Django's 'Beginning To Fade'.
The Kittens are Bryan Mills from Enniskillen and Nick Munro from Edinburgh.
An instrumental version of the track played by The Kittens with Lone Pigeon on piano features in John Maclean's debut movie Slow West.
The film stars Michael Fassbender and Ben Mendelsohn and won the Sundance Jury Prize.
Mills also preforms 'The Minstrel's Song' in the movie itself and contributes 'Theme from The Orkestra of the Dead' to its soundtrack.
Slow West is released in the UK by Lionsgate this Friday, June 26. Its soundtrack is out now on Lakeshore Recoreds.
Maclean and...
- 6/23/2015
- Digital Spy
London Live will broadcast live coverage of Field Day on Sunday (June 7).
The local TV channel is planning a special two-hour broadcast from the festival in Victoria Park.
London Live will bring viewers exclusive access, with performances from Saturday's headliner Caribou as well as Clarence Clarity, Django Django, Mac DeMarco, Hackney Colliery Band, Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté and Spector.
Interviews with some of the acts are also being planned.
Field Day 2015, taking place this week, includes other acts such as Patti Smith, Ride, Todd Terje, Fka twigs, Radiohead's Philip Selway, Savages, and Run the Jewels.
London Live's coverage of the event will begin Sunday at 6pm.
The local TV channel is planning a special two-hour broadcast from the festival in Victoria Park.
London Live will bring viewers exclusive access, with performances from Saturday's headliner Caribou as well as Clarence Clarity, Django Django, Mac DeMarco, Hackney Colliery Band, Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté and Spector.
Interviews with some of the acts are also being planned.
Field Day 2015, taking place this week, includes other acts such as Patti Smith, Ride, Todd Terje, Fka twigs, Radiohead's Philip Selway, Savages, and Run the Jewels.
London Live's coverage of the event will begin Sunday at 6pm.
- 6/5/2015
- Digital Spy
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