Better Culture & Conversations
16/06/23 18:30 - 20:30 at Yorkie Green Village
Introduction and Keynote
A keynote by Baroness Warsi ‘Constructive political debate and civil disagreement’.
Speaker: Baroness Warsi
Convening, Influencing, Doing
The Radix Big Tent Ideas Festival: REGENERATE
Held in York, on June 17th 2023, in the grounds of York Minster.
AllSustainable RegenerationCollective ImaginationHealth & Cost of Living Better Culture & ConversationsReligion, Education & Civil SocietyEconomic & Physical Regeneration
Launch Event
16th June 202318:30 - 20:30
Introduction and Keynote
A keynote by Baroness Warsi ‘Constructive political debate and civil disagreement’.
Keynote Speaker: Baroness Warsi
Festival Opening
09:30 - 10:00
Festival Opening with the Lord Mayor of York
The Rt Hon Lord Mayor of York, Reverend Councillor Chris Cullwick, will open the Festival at 10 am.
The Rt Hon Lord Mayor of York: Reverend Councillor Chris Cullwick
Sustainable Regeneration
10:00 - 11:00 at The Kit Kat Club
Power to the people. But which people?
Devolution but to whom and which powers and to what effect?
Chair: Adam Laver, Local Democracy Reporter, Yorkshire Post
Better Culture & Conversations
10:00 - 11:00 at Smartie Pants
Is culture worth the money?
Can major projects like the Olympics and City of Culture really regenerate places - delivering measurable change, growth and civic pride?
Chair: Chenine Bhathena, London 2012 and Coventry City of Culture
Collective Imagination
10:00 - 11:00 at Polo Place
Land and why it matters
Britain faces a housing crisis. Solving it will mean thinking differently about how we use land, yet who owns and controls it is a largely forgotten debate.
Chair: Miriam Brett, Co-Director, Future Economy Scotland
Economic & Physical Regeneration
10:00 - 11:00 at Quality Street
HOW COMMUNITIES CAN SHAPE THEIR OWN FUTURES - LESSONS FOR YORK CENTRAL
Exploring the ambition of community groups and learning from successful projects how communities can shape neighbourhoods and economies through participation.
Chair: Phil Bixby, YoCo
Economic & Physical Regeneration
10:00 - 11:00 at Aero Auditorium
Big Business: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
Does the private sector have a role to play in regeneration and, if so, what? How can we create a win-win from private sector investment?
Chair: Jonathan Cowap, Formerly BBC Radio York
All day at the Village Green
10:00 - 18:00
What couldn't you leave behind?
Drop in interactive art project in Community Fayre area putting ourselves in the place of refugees.
Local Artist: Greg McGee
All day at the Village Green
10:00 - 18:00
Art Wall
Leave your mark (literally) on the debate by contributing to our Festival art wall.
All day at the Village Green
10:00 - 18:00
Speakers' Corner
Have your say about whatever is important to you, at our very own Speakers’ Corner.
All day at the Village Green
10:00 - 18:00
Community Fayre
Find out what local businesses, charities and voluntary organisations are doing to confront the issues we are discussing today and how to get involved.
Better Culture & Conversations
11:10 - 12:10 at Smartie Pants
Creating Real Policy Change Through Drama
Arts & Homelessness International uses drama to address the challenges raised by homelessness. Using processes first developed in Rio three decades ago, Legislative Theatre is now practised around the world.
Led by: John Organ
Better Culture & Conversations
11:10 - 12:10 at Aero Auditorium
Better Conversations
How do we have better political conversations/ build common ground and promote participation in democracy?
Chair: Adela Suliman, Breaking News Reporter, Washington Post
Collective Imagination
11:10 - 12:10 at Polo Place
Reimagining York’s Future 2040
We will re-imagine York in 2040, looking forwards to a just and equitable future when our people and our natural environment are flourishing. We will describe what we can see, hear, and smell as we walk around the City, reflecting on the journey that brought us to this moment.
Chair: Victoria Hughes, Programme Lead - Emerging Futures, JRF
Economic & Physical Regeneration
11:10 - 12:10 at Quality Street
Where did all the workers go?
What has been the impact of Covid, Brexit and the Ukraine war on migration and what should we do about it?
Chair: Jo Phillips, Broadcaster and Writer, Radix Fellow
Religion Education & Civil Society
11:10 - 12:10 at The Kit Kat Club
A Students' Manifesto
Pupils from York’s secondary schools and the Quaker schools network present their prewritten manifesto to a panel of education experts.
Chair: Joe Zammit-Lucia, Chair of the Radix Open Manifesto project
Walking Tour
11:10 - 12:10
Health and Wealth Walking Tour
Miles is a father of two who combines his own life as a former banker with his personal experience of homelessness and his recovery journey from addiction to uncover layers of local history that highlight how York’s health and wealth has been continually shaped.
Religion Education & Civil Society
12:20 - 13:20 at The Kit Kat Club
DO WE UNDERSTAND RELIGION, AND DOES IT MATTER?
Interactive game using a smartphone pop quiz followed by panel discussion.
Chair: Rosie Dawson, Former BBC producer from Religion Media Centre
Sustainable Regeneration
12:20 - 13:20 at Aero Auditorium
Transport for Net Zero
What is the future for transport in the UK to meet net zero targets? What strategy for York and the region? Which innovations can help significantly reduce emissions?
Chair: Nick Love, Presenter, Jorvik Radio
Collective Imagination
12:20 - 13:20 at Smartie Pants
Time for Action on Care
More people need care but fewer people want to do it. Expanding child- and social care will need rapid reform of the care workforce and changing attitudes. What needs to change to forge a care revolution?
Chair: Sophie McBain, Associate Editor, New Statesman
Economic & Physical Regeneration
12:20 - 13:20 at Quality Street
Using Science and Tech to turn York and North Yorkshire Carbon Negative
York is home to some of the world’s leading bioeconomy science and research facilities. Scientists from BioYorkshire talk practically about how their expertise can deliver clean water, vertical farming, and help industry transition to clean processes.
Chair: Joan Cocannon, University of York
Collective Imagination
12:20 - 14:30 at Polo Place
Children Imagining the Future
Children are the future, and their imagination is limitless. JRF and Game Creators have asked pupils of Tang Hall School to show us what they want York to look like in 10 years’ time. Double session.
Walking Tour
12:20 - 13:20
The Story of Guy Fawkes
Beyond a tale of gunpowder, treason and plot, this walking tour of York tells the comprehensive story of Guy Fawkes. Tour guide Vicki first became interested in Guy Fawkes in 2009 and her passion is one of the reasons that she moved to the city. She interweaves her own personal journey of being diagnosed with Stage 4B cancer, treatment and remission with the story of his life.
Sustainable Regeneration
13:30 - 14:30 at The Kit Kat Club
Decarbonisation and the Green Industrial Revolution
Can decarbonisation deliver economic success for Yorkshire and the UK?
Chair: Deborah Cohen, Former Science Editor, BBC
Health & Cost of Living
13:30 - 14:30 at Aero Auditorium
A new social contract for Britain's health
How do we stay healthier for longer and reduce the burden on the NHS?
Chair: Prof Stephen Smith, former Dean of Medicine, Imperial College
Economic & Physical Regeneration
13:30 - 14:30 at Quality Street
Design made it possible: Creativity and Economic Success
The UK’s design sector is a growing powerhouse which contributes £97.4bn to the economy and almost 2 million jobs. Join the Design Council to explore how to grow regional design hubs and tackle global challenges such as AI and decarbonisation.
Chair: Minnie Moll, CEO, Design Council
Sustainable Regeneration
13:30 - 14:30 at Smartie Pants
Tourism, Culture, and Promoting Regeneration
Sir Tim Smit, founder of the Eden Project in conversation with Fiona Laird, Founder of the National Arts Trust.
Walking Tour
13:30 - 14:30
YORK MINSTER PRECINCT - A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Discover the plans that will shape the green future of York Minster, covering a wide range of projects around the Precinct, finishing with a talk on the statue of the Queen in the North Transept.
Economic & Physical Regeneration
14:40 - 15:30 at The Kit Kat Club
How can we revive our flagging high streets?
Even before Covid our high streets were changing. How can we ensure they have a new life?
Chair: Simon Marshall, Aviva Capital Lead
Health & Cost of Living
14:40 - 15:40 at Polo Place
The Times Newspaper's Health Commission
Come ready to give evidence directly to this influential investigation into health reform. How has the NHS helped or failed you? How do you stay healthy and what are your ideas to improve the system?
Chair: Rachel Sylvester, Times Columnist
Economic & Physical Regeneration
14:40 - 16:50 at Aero Auditorium
The Pitch Pit
Big Tent’s highly popular version of Dragon’s Den. Entrepreneurs ready for investment identified by York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub get their chance to pitch for real money to real angel investors. Double session.
Chair: Tilly McAuliffe, Founder of Think Publishing
Better Culture & Conversations
14:40 - 15:40 at Quality Street
Big Data: Big Opportunity or Big Threat?
The media conversation around big data is about its risks and threats but could it transform our society, reduce costs and improve outcomes across crime, education, housing, health, finance?
Chair: Dr Paul Goldsmith, Founder of digital health companies, MHRA NED, NHS Clinical Senate
Sustainable Regeneration
14:40 - 15:40 at Smartie Pants
Climate Resilience
How do we adapt to the climate changes we are facing to protect our homes, our heritage and our environment?
Chair: Deborah Cohen, Former Science Editor BBC
Walking Tour
14:40 - 15:40
Health and Wealth Walking tour
Miles is a father of two who combines his own life as a former banker with his personal experience of homelessness and his recovery journey from addiction to uncover layers of local history that highlight how York’s health and wealth has been continually shaped.
Better Culture & Conversations
15:50 - 16:50 at Smartie Pants
Creating real policy change through drama
Arts & Homelessness International uses drama to address the challenges raised by homelessness. Using processes first developed in Rio three decades ago, Legislative Theatre is now practised around the world.
Led by: John Organ
Religion Education & Civil Society
15:50 - 16:50 at The Kit Kat Club
Does religion do more harm than good?
Cause of global conflict and excuse for discrimination or driver of social change and social good?
Chair: Roger Bolton, Former Presenter of ‘Sunday’ on Radio 4 and BBC1’s Heart of the Matter
Religion Education & Civil Society
15:50 - 16:50 at Polo Place
The University and Place based regeneration
What’s a university got to do with delivering regeneration?
Chair: Matthew Reason, University of York St John’s
Sustainable Regeneration
15:50 - 16:50 at Quality Street
Food, Glorious Food
How do we feed ourselves sustainably, affordably and securely?
Chair: Anna Taylor, Executive Director, The Food Foundation
Economic & Physical Regeneration
16:30 - 16:50 at Aero Auditorium
Entrepreneurs' Pit Stop
Following the continuation of the Pitch Pit, at 16:30 counselling and networking for entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs.
Welcome by: Emma Rollason-Taylor, York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub
Better Culture & Conversations
17:00 - 17:50 at Smartie Pants
Can business and politics learn to love each other?
Why don’t politicians and business people understand each other? How can they work better together to deliver a better society and economy?
Chair: Nick Love, Presenter, Jorvik Radio
Economic & Physical Regeneration
17:00 - 17:50 at The Kit Kat Club
A Woman's Work
Over a decade after the Equality Act, women still face numerous challenges in the workplace, to the cost of us all. How do we challenge the legal, cultural and social behaviours which keep women out of their place?
Chair: Ros Bragg, Director, Maternity Action
Health & Cost of Living
17:00 - 17:50 at Aero Auditorium
Poverty and the Cost of Living
What does the cost-of-living crisis mean to us and what can we do about it?
Chair: Richard Edwards, BBC Radio York/Politics North
Religion Education & Civil Society
17:00 - 17:50 at Polo Place
Skills: The key roadblock to levelling up
How can we reform education to embrace new technology and equip our kids with the skills that they and the country will need to succeed?
Chair: Piers Birmingham, Chair of Politika, the Radix Youth Wing