FORWARDS 2023 has confirmed David Olusoga and Munroe Bergdorf will be speakers in the festival programme. The festival, which launched in 2022, puts all-important conversations side-by-side with a huge music line-up with Aphex Twin and Erykah Badu top billed this year (September 1-2, 2023).
THE INFORMATION stage creates a space for pressing cultural issues to be tackled head-on by some of the leading voices in the country. FORWARDS'S 2023 line-up will tackle inequality in the media, the housing emergency, racism, sexism in story writing, black novelists and writers, queer stories, politics on TikTok and more.
Headline speakers at the Clifton Downs festival include BBC broadcaster, historian and BAFTA award winner David Olusoga with journalist and housing rights activist, Vicky Spratt. The pair will be unpacking inequality in the media. British Vogue’s contributing editor, author and LGBTIQA+ activist, Munroe Bergdorf will appear alongside author and founder of gal-dem, Liv Little, to speak on the power of storytelling.
