Slow Down, Stop Worrying, Get a Life at Ways With Words
WAYS WITH WORDS – a festival of words and ideas
Dartington Hall, Devon, July 11 – 20, 2008
Press contact: Caroline John on 01803 867311
caroline@wayswithwords.co.uk
Slow Down, Stop Worrying, Get a Life at Ways With Words
When Ways With Words returns to Dartington Hall in July for another festival, many events will challenge you to ask, "Is this how I want my life to be? How can it be better?"
When the festival started seventeen years ago it was labelled a literature festival and had an emphasis on novels and poetry, but last year it took on a new title - a festival of Words and Ideas. There’s plenty of both at this year’s festival. While fiction, biography, history, art and science still feature largely there is also an emphasis on how to live more satisfying lives.
Carl Honoré, who wrote In Praise of Slow, will challenge people to slow down, not live in the fast lane and particularly to make family life more peaceful. He will argue strongly for not pressurising children to be little Einsteins but instead giving them time to think, observe, play, be imaginative. On a similar topic, Christina Hardyment’s talk will reveal the conflicting advice given to parents over many generations on how to raise their children, as well as analysing the parenting worries of our own age.
Psychologist and Guardian columnist Linda Blair offers advice for living a happier life in the modern age where work, relationships and finance can create stress.
Tuesday 15 July at the festival focusses on The Art of Living. Philosopher Havi Carel describes her life-threatening illness, and gives philosophical and practical pointers on how to live with ill-health. There will be questions about the clothes people buy when John Harvey asks whether mass produced clothes mean mass produced people. Ziyad Marar explores the way deception has become embedded in our culture. Mark Vernon notes that when you type "How to be happy" into Google you get 30,000,000 hits. He tackles the pursuit of happiness and well-being. The mysterious topic of hunger and appetite is discussed by Raymond Tallis.
In between events there will be time to take Carl Honoré’s advice – to slow down, relax in a deck-chair, read a book, watch the literary world go by or to reflect on previous talks with other festival enthusiasts.
So take time out of your busy schedule and go to Ways With Words, where you will be rejuvenated by the people, the ideas, the beautiful surroundings. You will find yourself evaluating how you live as you consider all aspects of our rich, complex and diverse lives.
N.B.
Also appearing from 11-20 July at Ways With Words at Dartington Hall: Sandi Toksvig, Kate Adie, Dan Cruikshank, Patrick French, Rose Prince, A.C. Grayling, Tariq Ali and about 200 more writers.
Individual tickets £5 - £8. Day tickets and Rover tickets also for sale.
Information and tickets: 01803 867373.
Full programme and online booking: www.wayswithwords.co.uk
Dartington Hall, Devon, July 11 – 20, 2008
Press contact: Caroline John on 01803 867311
caroline@wayswithwords.co.uk
Slow Down, Stop Worrying, Get a Life at Ways With Words
When Ways With Words returns to Dartington Hall in July for another festival, many events will challenge you to ask, "Is this how I want my life to be? How can it be better?"
When the festival started seventeen years ago it was labelled a literature festival and had an emphasis on novels and poetry, but last year it took on a new title - a festival of Words and Ideas. There’s plenty of both at this year’s festival. While fiction, biography, history, art and science still feature largely there is also an emphasis on how to live more satisfying lives.
Carl Honoré, who wrote In Praise of Slow, will challenge people to slow down, not live in the fast lane and particularly to make family life more peaceful. He will argue strongly for not pressurising children to be little Einsteins but instead giving them time to think, observe, play, be imaginative. On a similar topic, Christina Hardyment’s talk will reveal the conflicting advice given to parents over many generations on how to raise their children, as well as analysing the parenting worries of our own age.
Psychologist and Guardian columnist Linda Blair offers advice for living a happier life in the modern age where work, relationships and finance can create stress.
Tuesday 15 July at the festival focusses on The Art of Living. Philosopher Havi Carel describes her life-threatening illness, and gives philosophical and practical pointers on how to live with ill-health. There will be questions about the clothes people buy when John Harvey asks whether mass produced clothes mean mass produced people. Ziyad Marar explores the way deception has become embedded in our culture. Mark Vernon notes that when you type "How to be happy" into Google you get 30,000,000 hits. He tackles the pursuit of happiness and well-being. The mysterious topic of hunger and appetite is discussed by Raymond Tallis.
In between events there will be time to take Carl Honoré’s advice – to slow down, relax in a deck-chair, read a book, watch the literary world go by or to reflect on previous talks with other festival enthusiasts.
So take time out of your busy schedule and go to Ways With Words, where you will be rejuvenated by the people, the ideas, the beautiful surroundings. You will find yourself evaluating how you live as you consider all aspects of our rich, complex and diverse lives.
N.B.
Also appearing from 11-20 July at Ways With Words at Dartington Hall: Sandi Toksvig, Kate Adie, Dan Cruikshank, Patrick French, Rose Prince, A.C. Grayling, Tariq Ali and about 200 more writers.
Individual tickets £5 - £8. Day tickets and Rover tickets also for sale.
Information and tickets: 01803 867373.
Full programme and online booking: www.wayswithwords.co.uk
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