Freedom

Free Thinking07A Festival of Ideas

Freedom is a major theme of the festival this year and there'll be many opportunities to tackle the issue throughout the weekend.

Events around the theme of freedom

• 7 Debate: Are you a prisoner of yourself?
• 9 Drama: Three writers dissect our contemporary experience of freedom in short plays.
• 11 Debate: Are we freer than we think?
• 15 Discussion: Albie Sachs: A life in pursuit of freedom.
• 19 Performance: A special evening of live music and poetry inspired by freedom.
• 20 Guided Walk: Freedom of the city.
• Film: The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo, (Algeria/Italy) 1966
• Big Screen, Clayton Square, Liverpool - vote with your feet in response to CCTV
• Five Two-minute films from five new writers and five film-makers on the Freedom theme

These films are from World Wide Jam, a collaboration between Contact Theatre and the BBC's new writing hot-house, writersroom.

Film 1. Take It Slow (Avril Jacobs with Avaes Mohammed).

Film 2. Innocent Freedom (Jaheda Choudhury with Thambani Zimba).

Film 3. Ama-gi (Ammar Mallas with Lorna Giezot).

Film 4. Geordie Jihad (Saad Haroun with Colin Simpson)

Film 5. Freedom (Samira Arhin-Arquaah with Kaustubh Bankapore)

Watch the films on the BBC Writersroom website

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