The Schumacher Centenary Festival
Time For a New Direction
Saturday 8th – Sunday 9th October, Bristol
A weekend celebrating the life and vision of E.F. Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful and A Guide for the Perplexed and pioneer of green economics.
Saturday 8th October - Colston Hall (10am – 5:30pm)
A packed day of lectures, workshops and an evening concert.
The annual Schumacher Lectures have been held in Bristol since 1978 – and this year, they are returning to their original venue, Bristol’s Colston Hall – recently transformed with a brand new multi-level foyer.
Not only will we be presenting probably our finest – and largest – selection of speakers ever, but the day will be capped with a very special world music concert, with an incredible line-up from Africa, India and the UK.
Colston Hall (7:30 – 10:30pm) - Concert
‘Small World’ – the cream of world roots musicians to help us celebrate – from India, Trilok Gurtu plus Johnny Kalsi and the Dhol Foundation; from Senegal, kora player Seckou Keita; the Celtic band Mabon; and Bristol’s own Patrick Duff.
Sunday 9th October - @Bristol, the Watershed and Other Harbourside Venues
Opening keynote (10:30am)
Vandana Shiva – India’s great champion of the developing world’s farmers and their crops
Then, a day of workshops and films:
Towards a Guild of Green Economists - Molly Scott Cato
Citizen Science - David Gee (European Environment Agency)
Local & Renewable Energy – Juliet Davenport (Good Energy) & CAT
Common Cause - Tom Crompton (WWF)
The Work That Re-connects – Lisbet Michelson, Meretta Hart
The Regenerative City - Herbert Girardet
Film Premieres ‘The Four Horsemen’, ‘Animate Earth’, ‘Future of Hope’ and ‘Voices of Transition’
For more information on the festival and for a list of speakers (including Green Books authors Rob Hopkins, Satish Kumar and Matt Harvey), click here.
The Schumacher Briefing, Small is Beautiful in the 21st Century is being published by Green Books to coincide with this event. The biography of Schumacher, written by his eldest daughter, Alias Papa, is currently available from Green Books.