How do you fight ignorance? WHAT’S IT LIKE TO HEAR
VOICES NO ONE ELSE HEARS? How do you get more women in
business and on boards?
WHAT DOES A DEAF MUSICIAN SOUND LIKE?
How do you fight ignorance? EXPLOR E . EXPRES S . EXCEL
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO HEAR
VOICES NO ONE ELSE HEARS? What’s Your Digital Identity?
WOULD YOU TRAVEL WITH A REFUGEE FAMILY ACROSS EUROPE?
IDENTITY & DIVERSITY 16TH - 18TH OCTOBER 2019 1
TO PARENTS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE WIDER CANFORD COMMUNITY We are broadcasting a number of events live on YouTube this year. We will send out an email with further information shortly. There may also be space for you to come along to particular talks. If you would like to attend a particular talk, please get in touch with Head of Enrichment Tom Marriott txm@canford.com, as he will be able to advise as to whether there will be space.
TO PUPILS You are expected to attend the events that are allocated to any groups to which you belong. You are extremely welcome to attend further events outside your regular school commitments/timetable. Day pupils are not required to attend evening events (beyond 6pm) but are most welcome to attend them.
TO CANFORD STAFF You are welcome to all events. If as a teacher you have a class attending a talk, please could you check that all the pupils are present.
WEDNESDAY 16TH OCTOBER 9.00AM - CHARLIE WALKER Layard Theatre - Upper Sixth and Lower Sixth 11.00AM - JULIAN BAGGINI Layard Theatre - Upper Sixth and Lower Sixth 11.00AM - CHARLIE WALKER Music School - Shells and Fourth Form 2.30PM - CAROL MURRAINE Layard Theatre - Lower Sixth and Fourth Form 2.30PM - JEREMY HUNTER Music School - Upper Sixth 7.00PM - SARAH LEAVER Layard Foyer - Drama Pupils/Scholars and English A Level Pupils
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THURSDAY 17TH OCTOBER 9.00AM - RUTH AMOS Layard Theatre - Fifth Form and Lower Sixth 9.00AM - ALISON BRANITSKY Music School - Upper Sixth 11.00AM - MAUDIE FRASER Layard Theatre - Fourth Form and Lower Sixth 11.00AM - GUY WALTERS Music School - Upper Sixth 11.00AM - ALISON BRANITSKY Long Gallery - All Lower Sixth, Upper Sixth, Medics and Psychology Pupils 5.00PM - MINESH KHASHU AND LEANNE PEARCE Long Gallery - All Academic Scholars 7.30PM - PAUL WHITTAKER Layard Theatre - Fifth Form and Lower Sixth 7.30PM - STEVE ETCHES Music School - Shells and Fourth Form
FRIDAY 18TH OCTOBER 9AM - CARL MILLER Assembly Hall - Fifth Form boys, Lower Sixth and Upper Sixth boys 9AM - FIONA HATHORN Music School - Upper Sixth and Fifth Form girls 9AM - OLLY BURTON Layard Theatre - Shells and Fourth Form 11AM - CARL MILLER Assembly Hall - Shells and Fourth Form 11AM - PETER TATCHELL Layard Theatre - Upper Sixth and Lower Sixth 11AM - MARIE-LOUISE SHARP Music School - Fifth Form
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IDENTITY AND DIVERSITY Welcome to the 2019 Canford School Festival of Ideas! Ideas are the original currency. They underpin all that we, as humans, seek to do and are the lifeblood that pumps through the veins and arteries of civilisation. The great novelist, Victor Hugo, said “There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come”. Hugo’s vivid prose perfectly captures the way in which an idea can both define and be defined by the era in which it emerges. It can often seem that in the modern world we are all searching for the next big idea, as though they are hidden treasures, buried in the zeitgeist, waiting to be unearthed: the next business opportunity, the next technology, the next app, the next fashion and so on and so on. However, I do not think this is how it works. The most powerful ideas are not haphazardly stumbled upon by chance, nor are they the product of effortless inspiration by great minds. The sort of ideas that Hugo rightly claims are stronger than armies, the ideas that change the world and the way we think about everything, these ideas take time. Whilst the moment of crystallisation and the effect of an idea can be lightning fast the myriad influences, experiences and failures that helped to grow and nurture that particular idea happen over years. There is no recipe for this process, but three key characteristics are common amongst all those who have had great ideas: curiosity, enthusiasm and resilience. I hope all Canfordians will approach this year’s festival with this curiosity to embrace new ideas, the enthusiasm to share and discuss these ideas with their friends and teachers and the resilience to have their ideas challenged in turn. We live in increasingly complex and turbulent times. The modern world is continuously asking new questions of our identity on an individual, national and even global level. The answers to these questions will not come from closed minded or tribal thinking. The answers will come from listening to and learning from a genuinely diverse range of perspectives. Maybe, just maybe, the seeds of the ideas that will change the world tomorrow will be sown over the course of the next few days. I hope you enjoy the festival. Tom Marriott HEAD OF ENRICHMENT
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WEDNESDAY 16TH OCTOBER Charlie Walker THROUGH SAND & SNOW: 43,000 MILES ON A BICYCLE 9.00AM, LAYARD THEATRE 11.00AM, MUSIC SCHOOL
Charlie Walker is a British adventurer and travel writer. He specialises in long distance, human-powered expeditions and has travelled over 50,000 miles by bicycle, foot, ski, horse and dugout canoe. Charlie’s longest expedition was a 43,000-mile bicycle journey reaching the furthest cape in each of Europe, Asia and Africa. On this journey he traversed 60 countries, encountering extremes of weather, remoteness and physical exhaustion. In 2014 Charlie descended the Lulua, a little-known tributary of the Congo River, in a leaky dugout canoe.This journey into remote and effectively uncharted territory
of DRC was beset by rapids, waterfalls, hippos, crocodiles and finally, shortly after leaving the river, violent bouts of malaria and typhoid fever. In 2017, Charlie completed a world-first 5,200-mile triathlon along the perceived Europe Asia border.This expedition spanned from the midwinter snowfields of the Russian Arctic to the Bosporus in Istanbul. Charlie’s 2019 traverse of Papua New Guinea by foot and paddle took him to some of the most remote communities he’s encountered living among some of the world’s least accessible jungle.
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WEDNESDAY 16TH OCTOBER Julian Baggini THE DIVERSITY OF IDENTITY 11.00AM, LAYARD THEATRE
Dr Julian Baggini is the author, co-author or editor of over 20 books including How The World Thinks, The Virtues of the Table, The Ego Trick, Freedom Regained (all Granta) and The Edge of Reason (Yale University Press). He was the founding editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine and has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, as well as for the think tanks The Institute of Public Policy Research, Demos and Counterpoint. He is Academic Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent.
His website is www.microphilosophy.net
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WEDNESDAY 16TH OCTOBER Carol Murraine IDENTITY AND DIVERSITY FOR WHAT? 2.30PM, LAYARD THEATRE
Born in London, mother of one daughter, Carol Murraine delivers talks and training to the independent school sector, teaches at Eastside Young Leaders’ Academy, is the Wellbeing and Pastoral Manager, Parent Liaison and Designated Safeguarding Lead for the organisation. Over a decade she has been drafted in to remove 3 schools from special measures and worked at deputy level in education. A specialist in behaviour intervention, in 2016 she authored the Mayor’s Stepping Stones transition mentoring programme and currently sits on The Sun’s Task Force against gun and knife crime. Carol loves art, fitness and is a Zumba instructor.
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WEDNESDAY 16TH OCTOBER Jeremy Hunter NORTH KOREA EXPOSED: DAILY LIFE IN THE HERMIT KINGDOM 2.30PM, MUSIC SCHOOL
Jeremy Hunter is a photo-journalist, writer, broadcaster and lecturer. He began his media career as a Creative in Advertising, working with such luminaries as Ken Russell, Tony Scott, John Schlesinger, Nick Roeg and Oscar-winner Jim Clark. When the miners’ strike of 1975 brought the advertising industry to its knees, Jeremy found himself a post as foreign correspondent at NIR-TV in Tehran, placing his life on the line to cover pivotal moments in 20th Century history and interviewing some of its great architects, including Indira Gandhi. As the deposition of the Shah drew nearer in 1979, Jeremy returned to the UK for his safety and became an onscreen news / current affairs reporter for Granada Reports, Granada Television from where he went on to the BBC as a writer / producer. His last series as producer / writer and location photographer was the two-part series for Channel 4’s Cutting Edge ‘The French Foreign Legion’. Throughout his career, Jeremy has taken a special interest in documenting the world’s festivals, rituals, ceremonies and celebrations which has taken him to 65 countries across 5 continents.
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For his work, he has received three UNESCO awards for his reportages. He is also a Fellow of Royal Geographical Society, in London and his presentations on life in North Korea have been well received by the RSGS, the RGS, Hay on Wye Festival, The Jermyn Street Theatre, Piccadilly, The Pleasance Theatre, Royal Society for Asian Affairs in London amongst other organisations and he is a popular speaker with corporate companies, schools and universities.
WEDNESDAY 16TH OCTOBER Sarah Leaver FINDING FUNDING FOR A FORGOTTEN FRIEND 7.00PM, LAYARD FOYER
Sarah has twenty years experience working in theatre as a performer, lecturer and theatre maker. She has worked extensively as an actor with Periplum Theatre Company on seven of their touring shows over 15 years and still works with them to date (UK tours inc National Theatre, Poznan Theatre Festival, Tour 8 states Mexico inc. Mexico City). She worked on all of Company Collisions indoor and outdoor physical theatre shows as an actor and deviser (UK tours inc National Theatre International Mime Festival). She worked over 15 years for mask theatre company Facepack Theatre (Schools Tour UK South, Pavilion Tours). Sarah wrote and performed ACE funded solo show Memoirs of a Hermaphrodite (UK tour. 20082012. Nominated best solo show Brighton Festival 2008). In 2015 Sarah achieved an MA in Creative Writing from Chichester University. She currently works at Northbrook MET as a Programme Lead and lecturer in Performing Arts.
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THURSDAY 17TH OCTOBER Ruth Amos HOW I ACCIDENTALLY BECAME AN ENGINEER 9.00AM, LAYARD THEATRE
Inspirational and motivational speaker, Ruth Amos, is an Inventor, Entrepreneur, Edutuber, Managing Director of Stairsteady and co-founder of the #girlswithdrills movement. Ruth is also co-founder of YouTube channel ‘Kids Invent Stuff ’. After designing the StairSteady as part of her GCSE Resistant Materials Course, Ruth established StairSteady Ltd in 2006. She then went on to win Young Engineer for Britain 2006 with her design. The StairSteady is a mobility device to maintain independence and safety on the stairs. Following on from this success she took her product to market in 2008, it is now available through a network of dealers in the UK and is available in Canada and the USA and parts of Europe. Ruth’s passion and love of engineering inspired her and fellow inventor Shawn Brown to co-create a YouTube Channel ‘Kids Invent Stuff ’ (as seen on The One Show, BBC News Online and Tomorrow’s World Live). ‘Kids Invent Stuff ’ is the YouTube channel where 5-11 year olds have the chance to get their invention ideas built by real engineers. The channel is to give more primary school kids the chance to engage with real engineering projects and engage them in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths).
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Children are encouraged to submit their ideas for inventions to solve a different challenge each month. Ideas can be submitted as drawings or videos and the most creative inventions are showcased on the channel. Each month one idea is built and tested on camera, with hilarious consequences. An accomplished speaker and event host, Ruth is living proof that engineering and science is not boring and every word she utters about business is pure motivational magic. Little wonder she is a hit on stage at educational and corporate events.
THURSDAY 17TH OCTOBER Alison Branitsky WHAT IF THE PROBLEMS ARE THE SOLUTION? REFRAMING MENTAL HEALTH 9.00AM, MUSIC SCHOOL 11.00AM, LONG GALLERY
Alison Branitsky is a peer advocate working at the intersection of human rights and the psychiatric system. She is a member of the worldwide Hearing Voices Movement, which promotes person-centered, contextually-based and social-justice oriented approaches to understanding and working with the experience of hearing voices. She is committed to creating spaces that honour the deeper context of human experience. Alison holds a Master’s degree from the University of Manchester and works as a researcher for the Psychosis Research Unit in Manchester, UK, and for the Hearing Voices Research and Development Project in the US. Her research focuses on trauma-based and person-centered understandings and interventions for mental distress.
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THURSDAY 17TH OCTOBER Maudie Fraser (D11) CERTAINLY NOT WHAT I ENVISAGED AFTER FOUR YEARS AT CAMBRIDGE! 11.00AM, LAYARD THEATRE
Maudie left Canford in 2011 and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2015 and spent the next two years advocating for refugee rights, through which she developed her signature technique of Positive Activism. In 2017 she established sixty:2, a pop-up restaurant using plant-based gastronomy to get people learning and talking abut the impact of food on the planet. She is now working on establishing a permanent site. Maudie speaks five languages and competes in power-lifting at national level.
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THURSDAY 17TH OCTOBER Guy Walters FROM THE BLITZ TO BREXIT - IS THE BRITISH OBSESSION WITH THE SECOND WORLD WAR LAUDABLE OR A CRISIS IN OUR NATIONAL PSYCHE? 11.00AM, MUSIC SCHOOL
Guy Walters is an historian, journalist and TV presenter. The author of a dozen books, countless articles for the Daily Mail and The Times, and a regular fixture on history documentaries, Guy has one son – William – in the Lower Sixth at Canford.
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THURSDAY 17TH OCTOBER Leanne Pearce and Minesh Khashu PORTRAITS WITH PURPOSE 5.00PM, LONG GALLERY
Leanne has specialised in portraiture since the early 2000s over which time she has developed a fresh and dynamic approach to capturing the likeness and character of the sitter. Since successfully completing her first degree in Fine Art at Northumbria University, Leanne has been commissioned to paint many faces, some of which appear regularly in the public arena. When Leanne is not working on commissions or running Thought Foundation Gallery where she is a Creative Director, she concentrates her efforts on creating what she refers to as Portraits with Purpose. Breastfeed is an exhibition of paintings which celebrate mothers feeding their young. Leanne hopes these paintings will contribute to helping women feel more confident and also showcase breastfeeding to wider a community and encourage others to support, be understanding and be proud of what mothers have been doing for millennia. Prof. Minesh Khashu is a Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Perinatal Health in Dorset. Prof. Khashu is well known to lead with vision and compassion. He is a highly regarded mentor and clinical teacher. Prof. Khashu’s interests beyond neonatal/perinatal health include large scale change, social movements to generate health as well as metaphysics, spirituality and poetry.
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THURSDAY 17TH OCTOBER Paul Whittaker MUSIC TO YOUR EARS 7.30PM, LAYARD THEATRE
Born in Huddersfield in 1964, Paul has been profoundly deaf all his life yet pursued a career as a musician. A pianist and organist, he has a Music degree from Wadham College, Oxford, a postgraduate performance diploma from the RNCM and holds ALCM and ARCO diplomas. In 1988 he founded ‘Music and the Deaf ’, a charity to help deaf people enjoy music, which he ran for 27 years. In 2007, he was awarded an OBE for Services to Music and holds honorary degrees from the University of Huddersfield and the Open University. For the past 7 years, Paul has been working with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra on their ‘Feel The Music’ project, visiting 13 different countries around the world. Since May 2015 he has been working independently as a motivational speaker. Paul is passionate about signed song and in 2017, he set up SiBSL - Songs in British Sign Language - a website dedicated to the art form. In addition, Paul adjudicates signed song classes at musical festivals around the UK and at the National Signing Choir Competition. He also runs five signing choirs in the North of England.
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THURSDAY 17TH OCTOBER Steve Etches STORIES FROM DEEP TIME: THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE IN THE JURASSIC SEAS OF KIMMERIDGE 7.30PM, MUSIC SCHOOL
Dr Steve Etches MBE is a plumber by trade and began collecting fossils from the Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset over 35 years ago. His fossil collecting began at the age of 5 with a flint fossil sea urchin which he found in his back garden. Completely self taught, what began as a hobby has now resulted in a collection of over 2,500 fossils all from the Kimmeridge locality, which were once housed in a converted garage at his home and are now on display in the amazing Heritage Lottery funded museum ‘The Etches Collection Museum of Jurassic Marine Life’ in the village of Kimmeridge on the World Heritage Jurassic Coast. Steve has become a renowned expert on fossils from the Kimmeridge Clay - it has always been his wish to donate the collection to the nation so that generations can learn from the amazing fossil specimens, their ‘Stories from Deep Time’ and gain understanding of their place in Earth’s history.
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FRIDAY 18TH OCTOBER Carl Miller THE HIDDEN REALITY OF POWER IN THE DIGITAL AGE 9.00AM, ASSEMBLY HALL 11.00AM, ASSEMBLY HALL
Carl Miller is a technology researcher and awardwinning author who has thrown himself into some of the weirdest, least familiar parts of the digital age. His first book, The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab won the Transmission Prize 2019. It describes his journey to understand the new centres of power and powerlessness in the digital age, from politics and media, to business and warfare. It was published in August 2018 by Penguin Random House.
He presents programmes for the BBC’s flagship technology show, BBC Click. He co-founded the first Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital world. He’s written for the Economist, Wired, New Scientist, the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the BBC and he’s also a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College, London.
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FRIDAY 18TH OCTOBER Fiona Hathorn CAREERS, WOMEN, POWER, INFLUENCE AND CHOICE 9.00AM, MUSIC SCHOOL
Fiona is the CEO of Women on Boards UK and advisor to Peel Hunt, an award-winning UK midcap stockbroker. She is an expert in the areas of Governance, Regulation and Talent Management who has sat on marketing, nominations and audit & finance committees. Currently, Fiona is Chair of Hanx’s nominations committee, a sexual wellness fast moving consumer goods company. She is a passionate angel investor who helped to found one of the first female angel investment clubs and one of the judges for The Sunday Times annual NED Awards. Formerly Fiona was a director for Old Mutual Asset Management and Hill Samuel Asset Management, running the Global Equities and Emerging Markets Desks respectively. In 2012 Fiona launched Women on Boards to support women make the right connections and career choices to get to board level within their own company or to take on a non-executive board role.
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FRIDAY 18TH OCTOBER Olly Burton MY RIDE TO DELHI AND THE PEOPLE I MET 9.00AM, LAYARD THEATRE
Oliver Burton is a filmmaker and ethnomusicologist who has recently completed a 16,000km bike ride from England to India. Starting in London, his first host knew someone further along who he would cycle to. This chain of connections continued unbroken through 23 countries and 52 people, ending in Delhi. Oliver always travels with recording equipment to be able to film and capture stories and music performances. He witnessed how instruments changed along the Silk Road, an ancient network spanning from Europe to the Far East, along which the philosophies and values of cultures also changes. For the Festival of Ideas, Oliver will tell stories from his journey, show footage and share lessons learnt from the saddle.
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FRIDAY 18TH OCTOBER Peter Tatchell WHAT NEXT FOR LGBT+ RIGHTS IN THE UK & GLOBALLY? 11.00AM, LAYARD THEATRE
Peter Tatchell has campaigned for LGBT+ freedom and other human rights for over half a century, since 1967. A pioneer of the London Gay Liberation Front from 1971 and a co-founder of the LGBT+ direct action group OutRage! in 1990, he has outed homophobic bishops, exposed the Nazi war criminal SS Dr Carl Vaernet, and ambushed Tony Blair and Mike Tyson. His human rights activism resulted in him being beaten badly by President Mugabe’s bodyguards in Brussels in 2001 and by Russian neo-Nazis in Moscow in 2007. He is Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation: www.PeterTatchellFoundation.org
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FRIDAY 18TH OCTOBER Dr. Marie-Louise Sharp (S03) IDENTITY, HELP-SEEKING AND MENTAL HEALTH 11.00AM, MUSIC SCHOOL
Marie-Louise left Canford in 2003 and is now a Senior Research Associate at the King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) at King’s College London. Marie-Louise is a mixed methods researcher and has research expertise in psychological medicine, epidemiology and has responsibility for KCMHR research strategy. Her research interests include military mental health and help-seeking behaviours, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the UK military, the health and wellbeing of Emergency Responders and has a focus on methods to extend research impact. Marie-Louise previously worked in the non-profit sector specialising in Armed Forces healthcare policy and has advised the UK Government on research and best practice in the National Health Service and the Ministry of Defence in healthcare provision for the Armed Forces community. She was awarded a Clore Social leadership fellowship in 2016 which aims to support leadership, understanding and innovation across the non-profit sector. Marie-Louise also has a background in political science and comparative government having trained at post-
graduate level at Oxford University. Her current published papers include help-seeking behaviours of UK military, pathways to care for mental health problems in the Australian Defence Force, suicide and self-harm in UK military, physical health conditions associated with PTSD in UK veterans and treatment of military related PTSD.
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