The Forest Forum focuses on reportage, authentic voices and grassroots activism, to provide an antidote to the spin and PR of mainstream news. Speakers and performers subject to final confirmation and timing.

Friday

Featured
Mind Reading with Jonathan Royle
No Refuge and The Refuge Woman (Performance)
Failures of the Fourth Estate: Can Independent Media Save the Day?
Forgotten Wars: With Vaughan Smith
Putin's World Disorder: With Luke Harding

FRIDAY NIGHT

Featured
The Kut
Lee Baines III and the Glory Fires
Sunstreets
Derek Day
House of Comedy
Nicole Acquah: One Women Show

SATURDAY

Featured
Fake News, Foreign Interference, and the Future of Democracy: Keynote speech by Damian Collins
Fearless Cities: The Promise of Municipalism
Making Black Lives Matter: with bonnie greer
A Civil Rights Lawyer Saved My Life
Exit Brexit: Do We Need a People's Vote on the Final Deal?
The New Age of Consent: What #MeToo Means to Millennials

SATURDAY NIGHT

Featured
PowerDress
Amy Odell
House of Comedy
Miss Byline Drag Queen Beauty Pageant and Cabaret
Salena Godden: Byline Festival Laureate
Vadge of Honour: Comedy Lecture
Stephen Colegrave Interviews Alexei Sayle: It's Funny Anymore

sunday

Featured
The Good Friday Disagreement
Gypsies and Travellers in their own words
The Price of Truth: Investigating the Murder of Daphne Carauna Galizia
Homeless People in their Own Words: With the pavement
The Rise of the Alt Reich: Is the Reality Worse than the Conspiracy?

SUNDAY NIGHT

Featured
PieBoy
Mark Anthony
Mickey Beans
Don Mescall
House of Comedy
The Treason Show
Cult with No Name
Yasmin Choudhury: One women show
The Modulus Quartet

MONDAY

Featured
Modern Slavery
The Criminal Justice System is Broken: with Nick Hardwick
Any answers: The peoples panel
Guerrilla Environmentalism