OU sponsors IF: Milton Keynes International Festival

The OU is one of the sponsors of IF: Milton Keynes International Festival which has been listed as one of the top 100 festivals in The Sunday Times 2012 Festival Guide.

The festival runs for 10 days at various locations across Milton Keynes and presents a busy international programme of concerts, comedy, cabaret, theatre, pop ups, activities and large scale events in unusual places and temporary venues.

The OU is sponsoring two of the festival’s events: As The World Tipped – a wired aerial multi-media theatre in which performers, suspended above the audience in the night sky, struggle to control their increasingly precarious world as they do battle with the effects of drastic environmental catastrophe; and the Cabaret of Ideas, described as a live Wikipedia of fascinating thought leaders, experts and mavericks from, or who have a strong connection with, Milton Keynes.

A handful of OU academics have been nominated to take part in the latter event in which the audience will lucky-dip four 20-minute conversations with people of interest.

Free tickets for members of the OU community!
Members of the OU community – staff, students and alumni – will be entitled to free tickets to the As The World Tipped event, which has been shortlisted in The Observer’s Ethical Awards.

For the 'free ticket' code and booking number - to a maximum of four tickets per caller - please email platform@open.ac.uk and state whether you're a member of OU staff, a student or alumni.