Not just for nerds, the 2011 Ideas Festival is a conversation starter.
Presented by Arts Queensland in partnership with the State Library of Queensland, the 2011 Ideas Festival will run from 19-22 May and will focus on our state’s communities: their unique character, resilience, and versatility. The Festival provides an outlet to challenge thoughts and behaviours and share experiences, particularly in the wake of the natural disasters that have been a part of Queensland’s reality in the beginning of 2011.
Relive our world record attempt
Queensland Ballet’s World’s Largest Ballet Class If you are over six years of age, now is your chance to secure your place in the Guinness World Record books. Queensland Ballet is challenging the record for the World’s Largest Ballet Class as part of their commitment to putting Brisbane on the international dance map,
31/05/2011
One of our most popular sessions, Predicting Happiness with Paul Frijters, is now up as a vodcast - do your chances of a happy life increase after the age of 60?
Predicting happiness: Does life give second chances? Filmed as part of the 2011 Ideas Festival, Brisbane. Is it possible to predict which children will grow into unhappy adults? Or do we determine our own wellb...
Vodcasts now available on the Ideas Festival website - there are still a couple more processing and we will have them up soon! Browse for your session by speaker surname or use the programming pages to locate your talk.
Vodcasts by speaker Stefan HajkowiczSession: Fringe Ideas: Future body, Environmental triage: We can’t save everything, so do you prefer wallabies or wombats?
Missed Barbara Gunnell at the festival? While you are waiting for the vodcast (not much longer now!) have a listen to the interview she did with John Barron.
27/05/2011
Did you see our Ideas Festival shirts? We've got some spare and would like to share - first 25 people to post a 25 word review of one of our sessions will win a shirt! [Warning: Sizes limited, Ideas Fest makes no guarantee that shirts may not double as dresses in some instances...]
The Ideas Festival is nearly over for another year. We've loved sharing ideas, inspiration and a little fun and dance with you! There is just one question remaining - what was your favourite part?
Alas the rain is going to prevent us from doing today's World's Largest Ballet Class on Kurilpa Bridge. However, the good news is we have a back up plan and the class is still going ahead! Please make your way to the State Library of Queensland on Stanley Place South Brisbane to the main reception area.
ZOMBIES! Come and learn the Thriller dance with the Future City zombies at 5:30PM at the Edge.
I’ve crept up onto the roof of The Edge building to get a view of Future City- Zombie Climate Apocalypse. What is Future City you ask? It’s a game, but this isn’t any ordinary game. Future City is a real world game that explores a fictitious environmental catastrophe and there will be zombies.
It's promising to be a beautiful day at the Ideas Festival today. Tickets still available at the door for most sessions in the program, so come on down to the State Library of Queensland!
Future S*x session received a lot of love in the twittersphere tonight ( ). Stay tuned for more Fringe Ideas with Future Body tomorrow night and the incredible Future City- Zombie Climate Apocalypse scenario that will be unfolding over the weekend.