Ideas Festival
The Ideas Festival provides an outlet for people to challenge thoughts and behaviours, and share experiences.
It is presented by Arts Queensland in partnership with the State Library of Queensland.
2011 Ideas Festival
The 2011 Ideas Festival ran from 9–22 May and focused on our state's communities and their unique character, resilience, and versatility. It ran for 4 days across 3 sites in Queensland.
Highlights included:
- over 115 local, national, and international speakers
- a new world record set for the World's Largest Ballet Class, with 1500 ballerinas packing into 5 floors of the State Library of Queensland
- a fundraising lunch hosted by Maggie Beer, with proceeds going to the Premier's Disaster Relief fund
- over 40 speaker-based sessions exploring topics such as predicting happiness and redefining the great Australian dream (watch vodcasts).
Besides speaker sessions, workshops, exhibitions, and online resources, the 2011 festival included 4 new elements:
- dedicated programs for both primary and secondary school students
- a Fringe Festival to explore ideas unsuitable for dinner table conversation
- an OpenIDEO collaboration with government departments to produce policy innovation
- a strengthened programming focus on regional participation, running in 2 sites across Queensland.
OpenIDEO Challenge
At the 2011 Ideas Festival the global community was invited to collaborate on potential solutions to improve the connection between food production and consumption.
