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.
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British artist Jeremy Deller will be joined by the raver, provocateur and founder of UK-based clothing brand Sports Bange, Jonny Banger. The digital creator Danny Price will also appear with TikTok creators and comedians Grace Campbell and Josh Berry. Voices from the social and political spectrum will once again join a host of international music names at FORWARDS from Bonobo, Ezra Collective, Primal Scream, Arlo Parks, Gabriels, Raye, Leftfield to Goldie with the Live Ensemble, Olivia Dean and Biig Piig.
FORWARDS aims to harness the legacy and power of live events for positive change, stirring crowd consciousness in one of the UK's most progressive and socially-minded cities, Bristol. The stage will also be heading to Glastonbury 2023 this summer bringing all-important conversations on activism, the climate crisis and more to Silver Hayes.
Weekend tickets are currently on their second release for £114.34 while day tickets are £68.14 and £74.33 for Friday and Saturday respectively.
FORWARDS heads to Clifton Downs on September 1-2, 2023
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