Andrew Kelly
Andrew Kelly is Director of Bristol Cultural Development Partnership, Festival of Ideas and Festival of the Future City. His projects include We The Curious, Bristol Legible City, Brunel200, Bristol800 and the annual Bristol Great Reading Adventure. In 2014 he directed Bristol’s programme marking 100 years since the start of the First World War, the largest UK programme marking the centenary. In 2015 he directed the major arts programme for Bristol2015 – European Green Capital. He chairs many events in Bristol Festival of Ideas and has interviewed live on stage some of the greatest writers, musicians and politicians of our time. He is a visiting professor at the University of the West of England and has published 15 books on issues ranging from film and cinema history to Brunel and engineering, the future of cities and 100 years of Bristol aerospace. He is currently working on a book about Bristol and another on statues and memory.
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Events featuring this speaker
The Experimental City: A Documentary
Darran Anderson, Jonathan Carr, Roxana Slavcheva, Andrew Kelly
The Minnesota Experimental City (MXC) project was a futuristic attempt to solve urban problems by creating a full-size city from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota.
Delivering for Bristol: The Mayor’s Annual State of the City Address and Debate
Marvin Rees, Sheila Foster, Bruno Maçães, Tony Pipa, Lola Shoneyin, Ece Temelkuran, Andrew Kelly
As Mayor Marvin Rees reaches the end of his first term, he reflects on the work of his administration and where it goes next.
Can We Thrive as an Urban Species?: The Cabot Institute Annual Lecture 2019
Sean Fox, Andrew Kelly, Helen Manchester, Susan Parnell
Cabot Institute Annual Lecture 2019
Beyond Apologies: Past Guilt and Urban Futures
Michele Curtis, Thomas Hermann, Lawrence Hoo, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Michael Jenkins, Louise Mitchell, Olivette Otele, Anne Thomas, Andrew Kelly
Writers, artists, academics and activists debate how guilty cities should feel about their past and – critically – what cities should do about this to create better futures for all.
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