Think & Drink

Short, engaging talks by people who really know their subject, given in a pub rather than a lecture hall.

Guernsey is full of people who know fascinating things: about the sea, the law, the past, the brain, the stars, the state of the world. Most of them never get asked to talk about it outside their day job, and most of us would happily listen if it didn't involve a conference badge.

So Think & Drink puts the two together. Short, engaging talks by people who really know their subject, given somewhere comfortable rather than a lecture hall. No jargon and no homework: the expertise stays up front with the speakers, and the rest of us just bring the curiosity.

Speakers

Nick Cragg - Guernsey's Fourth Plinth Project: a community-focused modern art initiative

Paul Chambers - The magic trick: what wet plate photography taught me about second chances

Lupin Vivian - How do you think? Exploring various modes of human thoughtHas spent a lot of time thinking about thinking. Expect aphantasia, synaesthesia, eidetic memory and several other ways minds turn out to work differently from one another.Instagram

Andrew Doyle - Reinvention Island: seven ways Guernsey earned its livingAuthor of Reinvention Island, which traces the seven very different trades that have kept Guernsey in the world economy over five hundred years, from knitting and privateering to quarrying, tomatoes, tourism and finance.