Английская Википедия:Festival of Debate

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The Festival of Debate is an annual politics festival in England which takes place between May and June across South Yorkshire, but mostly focused in Sheffield. Founded in 2015,[1] organisers say its aim is to "bring people together to share new ideas and lived experience that can help shape our understanding of the world."[2] It is the largest non-partisan politics festival in the UK.[3]

Previous guests have included former leaders of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn[3] and Ed Miliband,[4], writer Afua Hirsch,[5] feminist author Gloria Steinem,[3] civil liberties campaigner Shami Chakrabarti,[3] former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis,[4], author and broadcaster Sathnam Sanghera,[6] environmental journalist George Monbiot,[5] composer Brian Eno[2] and writer Armando Iannucci.[3]

The festival was founded in 2015 in the lead-up to that year's UK general election.[1] It is hosted by Opus Independents, a Sheffield-based "not-for-profit independent social enterprise organisation working in culture, politics and the arts".[1] Organisers said the initial aim of the festival was to "engage an increasingly apathetic population with politics".[7]

List of events

Date Number of events Notable speakers Partners and sponsors Notes
2015 David Blunkett, Matthew Parris[8]
2016 Jonathan Bartley[9]
2017[10] Paul Blomfield,[11] Peter Tatchell[12]
2018 (18 April – 29 June)[7] More than 75[4] Ed Miliband, Ruby Tandoh, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Francesca Martinez, Yanis Varoufakis,[4][13] Lowkey,[14] Natalie Bennett, Helen Pankhurst[7]
2019 (19 April to 1 June)[1] More than 60[5] George Monbiot, Ash Sarkar, Roger McGough, Afua Hirsch, Shahmir Sanni, James O'Brien,[5] Paul Mason, The Guilty Feminist[1] The University of Sheffield, Museums Sheffield and Sheffield Theatres[1] After appearing at the 2019 Festival of Debate, James O'Brien said: "A former EDL member said my show saved his life"[15]
2021 (May and June) Over 40[6] Yanis Varoufakis, David Lammy, Maya Goodfellow, Sathnam Sanghera, John McDonnell, Natalie Bennett, David Blunkett, Peter Geoghegan[6]
2022 (19 April – 31 May)[16] 60 events[3] Jeremy Corbyn, Armando Iannucci, Shon Faye, Gloria Steinem, Shami Chakrabarti,[3] Led by Donkeys, David Wengrow, Ece Temelkuran,[16] Magid Magid[17]
2023 (12 April – 26 May) More than 60.[2] Gary Younge, Brian Eno, General Levy[2]

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