Hay Festival is a charity providing global festivals of stories, ideas, and new possibilities. The antidote to polarisation, we bring together diverse voices to listen, talk, debate, and create, tackling some of the biggest political, social and environmental challenges of our time. In 1987, Hay Festival was dreamt up in the booktown of Hay-on-Wye, Wales. Thirty-seven years later, the charity runs events and projects all over the world, from the historic town of Cartagena in Colombia to the heart of cities in Peru, Mexico, Spain and the USA. Through one-of-a-kind festivals, in unique locations around the world – plus forums, digital platforms and learning programmes – Hay Festival celebrates and inspires different views, perspectives, and points of view.

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Image credits (gallery): Billie Charity and Hay Festival / Sam Hardwick