Also Festival 2017

Friday 30th June to Sunday 2nd July 2017
Park Farm, Compton Verny, Warwickshire, CV35 9HJ, England MAP
£120 for the weekend with free camping

Daily capacity: 500

Last updated: Mon 10th Apr 2017

The intimate Also Festival returns for a 4th year, taking place over three days this year from From Friday 30th June to Sunday 2nd July 2017 at Park Farm, Compton Verney, in Warwickshire 9 miles east of Stratford-upon-Avon.

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In 2017, the music becomes even more interactive. Also-goers are invited to perform in a newly created choral piece led by Juliet Russell, festival co-founder and vocal coach on BBC's The Voice that highlights some of the stories and experiences of the current worldwide diaspora amongst a maze of candlelight. An ‘icons’ series will celebrate some of pop music’s greatest icons with one-hour masterclasses, designed to help master a classic from Prince, Kate Bush David Bowie and Aretha Franklin. Also welcomes a dedicated playlist from Northern Soul Hour plus the sublime 70s inspired Studio 54 Disco not to mention engaging festival-goers with Sundaze DJ Sessions and more.

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Tickets are priced at £120 for the weekend, and a child weekend ticket is priced at £45. A campervan pass is £35 and a car park pass is £30.

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Also's programming encourages experiences without constraints, whether that's learning how to survive an apocalypse, trying a hand at stand-up, watching a band or sitting down to a three course dinner in the festival's beautiful dining tent.

Across the weekend the festival will welcome professors, authors, theorists and more to share their ideas and bring them to life in a live setting. Books by speakers will be on sale for those who want to explore those ideas even further at home.

Highlights include geneticist Dr Adam Rutherford who will reveal just how much we are all immigrants in the UK, celebrated author of Dark Net, Jamie Bartlett returns from the fringes of the internet to tell us who is there and what they are doing, Philippa Perry is on hand to decode the meanings from our dreams and celebrated author Natalie Haynes debuts her brand new show 'Honour Among Thebes' how to harness the power in storytelling.

Festival-goers are invited to witness Psychiatrist Professor Carmine Pariante explain the complex systems behind good mental health, Salon London's 2017 Transmission Prize winner Dr Danny Dorling explains the relationship between geography and politics plus hear leading philosopher Roman Krznaric reclaim the Latin phrase Carpe Diem - it's time to stop living in the moment.

Other popular thinkers invited to stoke the cognitive fires with a series of interactive sessions are a recreation of Professor Clay Routledge’s experiment ‘Fountains Of Youth’, exploring and embracing our memories of the past to improve our future, the acclaimed Professor David Nutt on the potential loss to science the psychoactive substances bill brings plus the great mathematician’s Professor David Tong’s connects us with the poetry of gravitational waves.