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This year will bring a focus on food inequality, loneliness and the role hospitality can play in building community, connection and care.

Exploring how the stories we tell can shape our relationship to Nature & Community, for a kind and radical futures.

Exploring the freedom, tension, and nuance of creating beyond expectation and refusing to be boxed in.

Exploring the legal frameworks of protest and the urgent fight against global injustice. Join our panel of legal experts, campaigners, and activists as we discuss how to challenge authority and stand in solidarity with communities in Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and Haiti.

Reclaiming Britishness, if it’s possible, and through the lens of their art/writing and blackness.

Comedian Jayde Adams and chef Josh Eggleton bring Centre of the Universe to FORWARDS for a live celebration and interrogation, of the city they call home.

From Brand Ownership, to Brand ethics and supply chain practices, we unpack the challenges and opportunities Brands have and how they can be a force for good. With great power comes great responsibility.

Unpack the invisible forces that shape success - explore how privilege operates behind the scenes. From who gets in the room, to who gets backed once they’re there. Challenge assumptions and open up honest dialogue around power, equity, and opportunity. This is a conversation about what’s seen and what isn’t and how we begin to shift the balance.

A discussion around Fascism, the Far Right, and ways we can disrupt them

Whether you're worried about someone you love, trying to understand a world and a word that feels increasingly hostile, or just done with conversations that go nowhere… This panel is for you. Six extraordinary speakers. One urgent question: what can we do now?