FlipSide Festival 2021

Following a hiatus due to Covid-19 in 2020, FlipSide returned in 2021 for a salon-style one day edition in the stimulating environs of Yew Tree Barn and Printroom Studio, a creative barn complex set among 15 acres of water meadows in the parish of Sweffling, Saxmundham, Suffolk.

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Hosted by FlipSide curator Gareth Evans, acclaimed guests including Zakia Sewell, Andrew Kotting, Corinne Fowler, Patrick Wright, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Ken Worpole, Jini Reddy, Nina Migya-Powles, Ben Rivers and Micheal Pawlyn explored how the the pandemic and the ongoing ecological crisis, alongside significant political change in recent years, have raised profound questions about the 'nature' - in every sense - of the country we inhabit, and how we need / wish to think about our place within it. Albion has for centuries conjured a mythical, albeit changing, aspect of British identity, and our presentations offer a special focus on inclusion, history and co-existence, in assessing what kind of 'Albion' we might wish to see established in the coming years.