Astrid Proll, Bristol Festival of Ideas.

Astrid Proll & Iain Sinclair

Bristol Festival of Ideas

The 60s & Violence

Bristol Festival of Ideas returns in May 2008 with a full programme of debates, lectures and discussions. Events at Arnolfini include Baroness Susan Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, discussing identity; a panel discussion on the 60s and the legacy of idealism; and Naomi Klein whose new book The Shock Doctrine (Allen Lane) critically examines the success of America’s ‘free market’ policies.

For details of events at Arnolfini please go to our website. For information about the full programme see www.ideasfestival.co.uk or pick up a copy of the festival brochure at Arnolfini.

Events

Mon 12 May, 6.00pm

£6.00 / £4.00 concs.

Astrid Proll talks to writer and commentator Iain Sinclair about activism in Germany in the late 60s, her involvement with the early Baader- Meinhof Group (Red Army Faction) and subsequent imprisonment, why she came to England in the early 70s and what followed.
Iain Sinclair recently interviewed Astrid Proll for his forthcoming ‘documentary fiction’ Hackney, That Rose Red Empire which will be published in the autumn.

www.ideasfestival.co.uk

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