The 20th Future Everything Festival launched last night at the RNCM, where all the music and film events take place. There are several other festival hubs around the city too.
The festival (running from 25th to 28th February) is "an award-winning innovation lab for digital culture...exploring the meeting point of technology, society and culture which lies at the heart of the digital debate. Through a community network and regular events it makes connections between thinkers, developers, coders, artists, designers, urbanists and policy makers – inspiring them to experiment and to collaborate in new ways.
The Future Everything festival brings people together to discover, share and experience new ideas for the future. Pioneering the practice of city-wide ‘festival as laboratory’ it combines a large scale cultural event – encompassing art, music and discussion – with new technology, novel research methods and playful social experiments. It has been named by The Guardian as one of the top ten ideas festivals in the world."
Tonight I am unsure as to watch electro ambient Icelandic composer and performer Ólafur Arnalds or go to a separate, non-festival, gig-Malean band Trio da Kali. I also plan to see two late films at the festival this evening - Delia Derbyshire's The Delian Mode followed by the late showing of Soviet film Elektro Moskva. It might be a tight squeeze getting everything in... but that feeling of cultural overload is part of the joy of festivals.
Have fun!
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