Sotheby's Institute of Art are delighted to be named as supporting partners for the Financial Times (FT) Weekend Festival for 2024.
FT Weekend Festival is an exclusive opportunity to engage with FT journalists and one another - and enjoy a fun, stimulating day of performances, tastings, interviews and debates across 10 stages.
Join Dragons' Den Deborah Meaden, best-selling author Robert Harris, your favourite FT writers and more on Saturday, September 7 to experience the FT Weekend paper live to life at the annual FT Weekend Festival. Taking place at the iconic Kenwood House Gardens in Hampstead Heath London, the programme is focused around exploring global perspective on the ideas and issues of the day, with a starry and diverse array of thinkers, writers, artists, chefs, performers and more.
About FT Weekend Festival
The FT Weekend Festival is where the FT Weekend paper comes to life, a celebration of big ideas, literature and art, food and drink and much more. It is a chance for FT Weekend readers from all over the globe to engage with FT journalists and one another, and enjoy a fun, stimulating day of performances, tastings, interviews and debates.
Previous speakers include former UK prime ministers Tony Blair and Sir John Major; politicians including Jeremy Hunt and Rachel Reeves; chefs including Alice Waters, Nadiya Hussain, Angela Hartnett, Ravinder Bhogal, Elizabeth Haigh, Daniel Boulud; authors include Robert Harris,Yuval Noah Harari, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elizabeth Strout; Tech titans include co-founder and chairman of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman; CEO of Snap Inc. Evan Spiegel; fashion designers Diane von Furstenberg and Vivienne Westwood, actor Vanessa Redgrave, as well as FT Weekend columnists and editors, Roula Khalaf, Gillian Tett, and Martin Wolf.