Fellows Festival 2024
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Fellows Festival 2023 Satellite Events
Fellows Festival 2023 Satellite Events
The Fellows Festival 2023 is more than just a day's worth of events in June.
Check out the satellite talks, panels discussions and workshops happening around the world and in your area.
Book your ticket to avoid disappointment.
South East
Network Events: Coaching and mindfulness at The Coffeehouse
LONDON
Date and time: Thursday 8 June, 1:30-2:30pm and 3:30-5:00pm
Location: Dame Caroline Haslett Collaboration Room, RSA Coffeehouse, RSA House
Join this mindful living drop-in sessions at RSA Coffeehouse. The Mindful Living Network co-leads, Tina Basi and Majella Greene, warmly invite you to a drop-in practice session and meeting on 8 June. We are holding two sessions, both following the same format, and Fellows are invited to attend one or both. There is no need to book, just show up and take part.
Inspiring future cities
HAMPSHIRE
Date and time: Thursday 8 June, 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM BST
Location: Sir James Matthews Building, University of Southampton SO14 7NN
This in-person event will provide case studies of how our cities need to improve and some examples of the ongoing work to help our communities develop more vibrant, people-oriented cities that promote healthy and sustainable living.
Fellow-led lunchtime talk - Working with climate change
KENT
Date and time: Thursday 15 June, 12:30 -1:30pm
Location: Redford House (The Old Fire Station), 18-20 Effingham St, Ramsgate, CT11 9AT
Join RSA Fellows at SPACER creative studio on their pathway to net zero, with an hour packed with facts, activities and support for your own climate change resilience.
RSA Coaching Network – What can go right?: progress, presence and stumbling on success
LONDON
Date and time: Thursday 15 June, 2.30-3.30pm
Location: The Steps, RSA Coffeehouse, RSA House
Building on the Network’s June online event, this session will align with the theme of the Fellows' Festival and is an opportunity to explore the topic, 'what can go right' and to align our individual and collective aspirations for human flourishing.
Fellows Festival screening party
KENT
Date and time: Saturday 17 June, 1-6pm
Location: The Margate School, Thanet
Watch all the Fellows Festival streamed discussions and keynote speakers and discuss alongside your local Fellowship community, hosted at TMS auditorium.
There's no need to book, just show up and join in.
Fellow-led workshop: Measuring the environmental impact of your work
KENT
Date and time: Thursday 29 June, timings TBC
Location: SPACER Creative studio
This will be a free one-day workshop hosted by RSA Fellows at SPACER Creative studio in Thanet, Kent.
More information and booking link coming soon.
South West
RSA with Forest of Imagination ‘Assemble in the Forest’
BATH
Date and time: Wednesday 14 June – Thursday 6 July
Location: Bath Assembly Rooms, Bennett Street, Bath, BA1 2QH
'Assemble in the Forest' is a month-long festival held at Bath Assembly Rooms; an invitation to come together full of adventure, to enjoy culture, to celebrate beauty and biodiversity and to showcase the imagination of our community. The RSA is hosting a programme of in-person and online talks as part of Forest of Imagination’s ‘Assembly in the Forest’ at Bath Assembly Rooms this summer. We will be welcoming Bayo Akomolafe, Jane Davidson Margaret Heffernan, Rob Hopkins, George Monbiot and others to imagine ways to regenerate our world, people, places and planet, for more hopeful futures. Please come along to meet our speakers, be inspired, and take ideas away that you can implement for impact in your own context or community.
Wales
Taking place in September on the theme of Our collective futures, linking the Wellbeing for future generations goals with Design for Life.
An afternoon workshop with an early evening keynote speaker and a contribution from one of the national Welsh poets.
Global
The language of business
ITALY
Date and time: Tuesday 8 June, 17.00-18.30 BST
Location: Online
Italy is going a period of economic change, fuelled by the Covid-19 pandemic, where once locally centred and family-run businesses are now seeking growth outside of the Italian market.
Drawing on the expertise and experiences in the fields of academia, cultural development and business, the event will explore the challenges and opportunities of growing a business in the global market, and the impact that those businesses can have in developing their local communities.
Oceania
IdeaSpies conversation series: Global cooperation in the age of AUKUS
Date and time: Monday 19 June 9:00 am – 10:15am BST
Location: Online via Zoom
In September 2021, the leaders of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed AUKUS, an enhanced trilateral security pact cementing and forging what has been termed "The Forever Partnership". But what are the wider implications of this partnership and how can we use it to promote global collaboration and innovation-sharing that will steer us towards a peaceful future.
Aligning with living systems: why the future is regenerative
Date and time: Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 9:00 am – 10:15am BST
Location: Online via Zoom
The words ‘regeneration’ and ‘regenerative’ are increasingly being used across sectors, from economics to farming. But what do they really mean? And how can a regenerative approach help us shape a thriving and equitable future? Join Philipa Duthie, RSA Oceania Director and producer of the ReGeneration Rising podcast, and Andy Thornton, Head of Regenerative Design at the RSA, as they discuss the transformative shifts we need to support the flourishing of people and planet in the long term.
Scotland
From pilot to policy: a transatlantic lens
SCOTLAND
Date and time: Thursday 15 June, 17.00-18.00 BST
Location: Online
Join us for an insightful discussion about influencing policy change in Scotland and the US.
RSA Scotland Annual Conference 2023
SCOTLAND
Date and time: Thursday 29 June, 17.30-19.30 BST
Location: The Burns Room, Scottish Parliament
As the RSA approaches its 270th anniversary next year, this conference will be a wonderful opportunity to come together to reflect on the recent work of the RSA in the area and explore possibilities for future RSA activity in Scotland, framed around the theme of the recent RSA Fellows Festival 'What could go right?'.
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