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Hay Festival
Hay Festival in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Hay Festival is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts, or simply the Hay Festival (Welsh: Gŵyl Y Gelli), is an annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, for 10 days from May to June. Devised by Norman, Rhoda and Peter Florence in 1988, the festival was described by Bill Clinton in 2001 as "The Woodstock of the mind". Tony Benn said: "In my mind it's replaced Christmas". It has become a prominent festival in British culture, and sessions at the festival have been recorded for television and radio programmes such as The Readers' and Writers' Roadshow and The One Show. All the BBC's national radio channels apart from BBC Radio 1 have been involved in broadcasting from the festival, and Sky Arts showed highlights of the festival from 2010 until 2013, handing over the main coverage to the BBC for the 2014 event.
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Background
History
The festival was founded in 1988 by Peter Florence and his parents Rhoda and Norman. From its inception, the festival was held at a variety of venues around Hay, including the local primary school, until 2005 when it moved to a unified location just south of the town. The Guardian was the main sponsor of the festival from 2002 to 2010, succeeding The Sunday Times. The Daily Telegraph and its associated brands in Telegraph Media Group had two terms as three-year sponsors, starting with the 2011 festival. From 2017, the Tata Group and Baillie Gifford are among the principal sponsors, along with the BBC and many non-media companies such as the Arts Council of Wales and the British Council.…
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- Coordinates
- 52.0750, -3.1250
- Address
- Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales
- Established
- 1988
- Official site
- www.hayfestival.com
Sources
- wikidata: Q3278820 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Hay Festival (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Hay Festival?
- Hay Festival is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.0750°, -3.1250°.
- When was Hay Festival built?
- Hay Festival dates to 1988.