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David Hutcheon at the Adventure Travel Film Festival

Ginger Baker and Fela Kuti’s Nigerian Adventure in Music

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7122" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7124" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] MONDOFEST keynote presentation [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]At the end of 1969, superstar drummer and angriest man in rock Ginger Baker, was on the verge of collapse. Strung out on heroin, deeply grieving Jimi Hendrix’s death, and alienated from his former Cream and Blind Faith bandmates, he needed a new direction....

Zac Newham

Zac Newham – Q&A

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7075" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Q&A after his film ‘The Road To Sydney’ [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Zac Newham is quite the star of this year’s festival. Personable, resolute, charming and YOUNG! He is the man behind the extraordinary website www.natural-art.uk and the more you get to know him, the more you realise that his solo cycle ride...

Dan Whaley

Dan Whaley – Musical Journey

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7069" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7042" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Dan Whaley [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Dan Whaley is a broadcaster, journalist, quizmaster and musician who has been fortunate enough to play gigs everywhere from Fishguard to Frankfurt and Leicester to Las Vegas. Every Sunday evening he shares his wide and varied musical tastes with listeners around the globe with his...

Jonathan Rider and Edmund Le Brun in Afghanistan

Jonathan Rider and Edmund Le Brun – Afghanistan

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7097" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speakers: Jonathan Rider and Edmund Le Brun [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]In 2015 Jonathan Rider and Edmund Le Brun were the first people to raft the length of the Oxus River in Afghanistan, from its source high in the Pamir Mountains to the border with Tajikistan. As China seeks to build a road...

Frances Castle talking about her graphic novel Stagdale

Frances Castle – Stagdale, The Story Behind A Graphic Novel

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7125" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7034" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Frances Castle [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Frances Castle is a London based illustrator who runs the independent record label ‘Clay Pipe Music’. She has recently self-published the first part of her graphic novel series ‘Stagdale’. The book is set in the summer of 1975, and tells the story of twelve-year-old Londoner Kathy who moves to the remote, unwelcoming village of Stagdale following her parents’ painful separation. The cottage she now...

Sacha Dench adventurer

Sacha Dench – The Human Swan

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7046" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Sacha Dench [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Sacha is a conservationist, adventurer and motivational speaker. She has spoken to audiences from school groups to a president, and recent awards include the 2018 Britannia Trophy for the most meritorious performance in aviation (previously awarded to Sir Richard Branson and the Red Arrows and not won...