Ideas Festival

06/06/2011

Relive our world record attempt

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?

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...

30/05/2011

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.

Stefan HajkowiczSession: Fringe Ideas: Future body, Environmental triage: We can’t save everything, so do you prefer wallabies or wombats?

30/05/2011

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

23/05/2011

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...]

22/05/2011

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?

21/05/2011

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.

21/05/2011

ZOMBIES! Come and learn the Thriller dance with the Future City zombies at 5:30PM at the Edge.

21/05/2011

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.

20/05/2011

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!

20/05/2011

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.