April 2020
Bookstagram Hay 2020
Hay will be celebrating its 43rd year of Independence from 3-5th April with 3 days of events reflecting all that is wonderful about this most unique of towns.
LORE LIXENBERG (mezzo soprano) and BARTOSZ GLOWACKI (accordion)
A programme of music by Bach, Purcell, Eccles, John Cage and Acqyaviva. St Mary’s Church at 7.30 pm. Tickets: £12.50 from the Bookshop or online
May 2020
Antiques and Collectors Fair
International Antiques & Collectors Fair of Wales. Royal Welsh Show Ground. 01584 873634
Royal Welsh Spring Festival
The Smallholding and Countryside Festival is a weekend-long event, with smallholders and those who have a love of the outdoors at its heart.
With an emphasis on celebrating smallholding and rural life, the festival will be packed full of interesting things to see, delicious food and drink, live music, country sports, shopping, demonstrations, fun, educational activities and many different types of livestock, horses and other animals taking part in a busy two-day schedule of competitions and displays.
Builth Wells, 01982 553683
Hay Festival
Founded in 1987 around a kitchen table in Wales, Hay Festival is a nonprofit that brings readers and writers together to share stories and ideas in sustainable events around the world – over the last 30 years there have been 120 festivals globally.
HowTheLightGetsIn Festival – Hay 2020
The world’s largest philosophy and music festival, HowTheLightGetsIn, touches down in the Wye Valley for the 11th year running in May 2020 with more ideas, magic, music and wonder than ever before. The world’s leading thinkers, from mind-boggling philosophers to award-winning scientists via renowned journalists and headline-making politicians, will gather to debate the most urgent and fascinating topics of our time. In the past, speakers from Deborah Levy to Rory Stewart have conferred on post-truth and patriarchy, the rise of China and decline of the West, the ethics of plastic surgery, and so much more. Debates will take place alongside a stellar line-up of musicians and comedians, following in the footsteps of stars like Lianne LaHavas, Ana Matronic, Donovan, James Acaster and Lou Sanders, all set in atmospheric and intimate venues.