For programme information see www.hayfestival.com or write to Hay Festival, The Drill Hall, 25 Lion Street, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5AD.
At a Women's Festival at The Drill Hall in London, many women in the audience were unfamiliar with "free music" and accused FIG of being "elitist" and "inaccessible".
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Its new exhibition space at nearby Drill Hall Gallery is hosting an arts festival, Stone Island 2012, part of the Cultural Olympiad by the Sea (maritimemix2012.co.uk, until 9 September).
While Floridians stage protests to prevent drilling, Louisianians stage a Shrimp and Petroleum Festival to "prove that oil and water really do mix".
Festival and theater company officials then decided to aim for 2011, but with the Beaumont most likely unavailable ("South Pacific" is now running there), they began assessing the Drill Hall at the Armory, which housed the festival's productions of Ariane Mnouchkine's "Éphémères" and Declan Donnellan's "Boris Godunov" last summer.
The play, a co-production of Fishamble and the Drilling Company, is part of the 1st Irish Theater Festival.
25 March-10 April, adult £25, child £14, under-fives free, edenproject.com Three venues in Lincoln – the Performing Arts Centre, the Drill Hall and the Collection – are hosting an arts festival for children.
For instance, when BP was seeking drilling permits in Mexico, the company allegedly used a Days of the Dead festival to gain access to Mexican government officials.
Peter Ackroyd will be appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 28 August; the Southbank Centre, London, on 8 September; and the Drill Hall Bookshop, Chepstow, on 10 September.
