We end with Jeanette’s response to how we hold onto our imagination even as we grow up. Thank you for joining us for your regular culture fix🥰

40 years of telling stories - and this time, she goes meta, telling us about storytelling. We start with a reading from her new non-fictiom book, One Aladdin Two Lamps:

In true Jeanette Winterson fashion, we have this onstage instead of the usual chairs‼️ How will she make her entrance tonight?👀

About our lives online, and the paradigm shift happening to the entire global population:

We finish the night with Patrick’s vision for Community Clothing in 20 years. Thank you so much for coming and contributing to such an important conversation♥️🥼

The importance of shopping locally:

A little backstory on how Patrick started business in community clothing:

Last but not least - Jerwood Prize for Poetry 2025 winner Karen McCarthy Woolf (together with the audience):

Followed by poet and human rights lawyer Mona Arshi:

We start with a reading by T.S. Eliot Prize winner Roger Robinson:

Brilliant questions from the audience, including the legal grounds for holding national and local governments accountable, how indigenous knowledge translates to legal language, and her thoughts on specific cases in the UK.

No matter what, it’s clear we’re at a critical turning point:

Her work with rivers in the UK🌊