We are happy to announce that day tickets for the Idler Festival 2019 are now on sale, starting at only £35. If you were hoping to see one special speaker then this might be your chance to catch them.
Here are some of our favourite headliners from each day:
Punk poet Dr John Cooper Clarke
Sam Lee Mercury-prize nominated folk musician
Sex Sells Salon with Rowan Pelling of the Amorist
Hip hopping all female dance group Boss Morris
Louis Theroux in conversation with Tom Hodgkinson
Groove out with Penguin Café’s Arthur Jeffes
Why We Have Got Shakespeare Wrong with Dr Emma Smith
The Pleasure Revolution with Stephanie Theobald
Feminist history with Zing Tsjeng and Decca Aitkenhead
Sarah Nixey and John Moore of Black Box Recorder perform their favourite love songs
‘Why Laziness is Good for You’ with Josh Cohen
Sally Phillips from Smack the Pony performs new monologues
Memoir, anecdote and classic hits from Squeeze lyricist Chris Difford
Garden guru Alys Fowler gives tips in Fenton’s 300 year old orchard
Youth of Killing Joke gets you drawing while he spins his favourite tunes on the Idler Dansette
Kamin Mohammadi teaches us how to live the Bella Figura
Learn to be a lazy public speaker with Viv Groskop
Buddhist monk Gelong Thubten helps us find our Zen
Don’t fear, we are still selling our Full Weekend tickets, which get you unlimited access across the whole of the festival to all of our headliners and everything else we have to offer.
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