LATITUDE FESTIVAL
Thursday 16th - Sunday 19th July
HENHAM PARK, SOUTHWOLD,
SUNRISE COAST, SUFFOLK
Vivienne Westwood
Literary Arena
Saturday 18th July, 2009The grande dame of fashion Vivienne Westwood will be reading from her challenging and thought-provoking manifesto 'Active Resistance to Propaganda' in Latitude's Literary Arena. A collection of essays it is full of ideas about art and culture that claims to "...penetrate to the root of the human predicament and offer the underlying solution."
It appeals to every human conscious to help cultivate and rescue the environment while we still can, using art and urging people to make changes in their own lives to help change the world. She will be interviewed onstage and there will also be the chance to ask any of those burning questions in a Q&A with the audience.
Vivienne Westwood's manifesto has been read all around the world since it's launch at The Hay-on Wye Literary festival in 2007. It was semi-dramatised to spectacular effect by The RSC at Wilton's Hall in 2008.
The AR manifesto reveals that in the pursuit of art the artlover becomes resistant to propaganda. This ethic arms him with a sane look on life.The manifesto is life changing. It is a concrete base for everything else you are trying to do - to change yourself and change the world.
