Thu 22 — Sat 24 October
Iau 22 — Sad 24 Hydref

May You Live in Interesting Times is a three-day, biennial Festival that is all about ‘do-it-yourself’ and features a programme that celebrates the latest intriguing uses of everyday technology and social innovation, enabled through shared ideas.

There’s a fantastic range of commissions, exhibitions, a Maker Faire, discussions, workshops, screenings and participant-driven events. Highlights include:

Alfred Sirleaf: Analogue Blogger, from Liberia; Eddo Stern’s first solo exhibition in the UK; Ghana Think Tank solving Wales’ problems; a dynamic, participant driven game show featuring The People Speak; an unConference that explores Technological Tinkering, Wales’ first Maker Faire and a range of new commissions from artists based in Wales.

For more information contact the Festival team on 029 2132 8082, 07531 486 8861, email admin@mayyouliveininterestingtimes.org.uk or go to our website at www.mayyouliveininterestingtimes.org.uk where you can view the programme in full, or download the Festival Diary PDF by clicking on ‘Timetable’.

www.mayyouliveininterestingtimes.org.uk

May You Live in Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology, Cardiff is a partnership between bloc: Creative Technology Wales and Chapter. The 2009 Festival programme has been developed in collaboration with British Council, Ffotogallery, Safle and Wales Arts International.

The Festival has been further supported by the following: @Wales, Academi, Arts Council of Wales, Cyfle, Cardiff & Co, Cardiff Design Festival, ELFEN, G39/WARP, iShed, Maker Faire, National Museum Wales, National Theatre Wales, University of Glamorgan, University of Wales,Newport, Wales Innovators Network, Welsh Assembly Government,UnLtd and 4iP.