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20th December 2022

Sophie Matterson

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="8096" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="8033" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="8094" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="8095" img_size="large"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Sophie Matterson Winner of the Australian Geographic Spirit of Adventure Award 2022 [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Sophie Matterson is an adventurer currently based in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. In 2020 and 2021 Sophie solo trekked 4,800 kilometres across the width of Australia, from Shark Bay, Western Australia...

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15th December 2022

Robyn Davidson

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="8082" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="8083" img_size="medium"][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Robyn Davidson [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Robyn is an Australian writer best known for her 1980 book Tracks, about her 2,700 km (1,700 miles) trek across the deserts of Western Australia using camels. Her career of travelling and writing about her travels has spanned 40 years. In 1975, Robyn moved to Alice Springs in an effort to...

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9th December 2022

Leonie Katekar

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="8081" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="8084" img_size="medium"][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Leonie Katekar [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]MY 12,000 KM BIKE-PACKING RIDE THROUGH SOUTH AMERICA Leonie Katekar left behind her past and confronted her fears by immersing herself in a foreign world and embarking on 12,000 km solo bike-packing expedition through South America. Leonie undertook her journey during a difficult time in what had...

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4th August 2022

The Longer Way Down

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7995" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7997" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text]115 Days, 21 Countries, 17002 Miles. Heartbreak, elation, anger, relief, disgust, romance. Not a novel you’d read on the toilet, but two 24 year olds on a journey down the west coast of Africa in one of overlanding’s finest: a 1998 Toyota Land Cruiser (lightly rusted) with...

By PatrickB
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3rd August 2022

Soviet Film Package

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are proud to announce the UK premiere of two fascinating short films from the Soviet Union. The first, made in 1978, charts a promo tour across Central Asia of a group of colleagues on 'electron' scooters. They are all colleagues at the factory where they are made! A joy to behold! The...

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3rd August 2022

Austin Vince: The Best Film Title Sequences of the 1960s

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7981" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text]Mondofest curator Austin, takes us on a whistle-stop tour of some of the greatest movie title sequences of the 1960s. He holds firmly to the idea that the title sequence should tell you what the film is about and what  it's going to feel like. Almost like a trailer....

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13th July 2022

Valentina

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7975" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Friday Night Band [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text] Valentia, a musical duo nurtured in Cotswolds, is a project combining the beautiful, traditional european jazz style known as gypsy jazz with the world of folk, blues and pop music. Blending seamlessly between engaging and atmospheric, switching between the two as and when needed. Virtuosity and...

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28th June 2022

Suffocating the Cat: Land Cruising with Chris Scott

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7964" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7965" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text]When Chris Scott branched out from motorcycles to 4x4 exploration in the Sahara, there was only one vehicle on his list: Toyota’s legendary Land Cruiser. It was while regularly travelling the Australian Outback for Rough Guides years earlier that he grew to admire these rugged workhorses with...

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11th June 2022

Atlantic Escapade

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7940" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7941" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Get a feel for life aboard an ocean-going rowing boat [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text] In 2018, Andy became the first person to row solo around Great Britain – a trip that was inspired by the Adventure Travel Film Festival. Having never rowed a boat before and never been to sea, he...

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10th June 2022

John Manning’s Tree Tour

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7935" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7936" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] An arboreal adventure around the festival site! [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text] Join John Manning for a wander amongst the trees in the Hatherop Castle grounds where you'll will learn skills in tree identification, discover their ecology and history and the pressures they face. Gaining just a minute understanding of the trees and...

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