Twenty years of festival lineups that celebrate the breadth of the arts. Thousands of artists have moved us with theatre, with literature, with songs, with laughter, with dance. Together, we’ve experienced moments that simply couldn’t have happened anywhere else.
To celebrate it all, we’d like to invite you to join us in a conversation about the most important artists, the most important books, the most important theatre shows. Part mission statement, part cultural archive, part collective memory. A cultural and social survey and conversation with you, our audience, to establish in your eyes and our eyes what the most important aspects of modern life and culture have been.
We started with our celebration with…
The Most Important Young Voice or Voices
It is young voices that have always created change. Older voices might have legislated change, but it’s the young voices that have created the pressure for the legislators to respond to.
Check out the shortlisted reveal below, where you will also have the opportunity to vote for your choice of The Most Important Young Voice or Voices.
Our next category is…
The Most Important Poet
Poetry has been at the heart of our programme since our very first edition. In the last twenty years, we’ve enjoyed incredible new talent, and seen established artists taking their poetry into new genres. Here, we will celebrate our most important poet.
Cast your vote for The Most Important Poet below.
