Golden Plains have announced a speech by futurist and variously otherwise qualified smart-guy Dr. Peter Ellyard.
Dr. Ellyard will be delivering the keynote speech at Golden Plains from 10am, Sunday morning. His topic will be “Golden Plains 2050” a topic which festival organisers describe as “a cheeky handle by which Dr. Ellyard will no doubt pick up a broader topic.”
Aside from his current day job of Chairman of the Preferred Futures Institute, the Preferred Futures Group and Chairman of the Sustainable Prosperity Foundation, the doc has also been Executive Director for the Australian Commission for the Future, a Senior Advisor to the United Nations, a Senior Consultant the UNEP, UNDP and UNESCLO and director of Green Cross Australia.
He has also authored two books, ‘Ideas For The New Millennium’ and ‘Designing 2050: Pathways to Sustainable Prosperity on Spaceship Earth.’
Check out this video of him talking about his second book:
If you’re keen to get along, there are a few tickets left and they’re only available from http://goldenplains.com.au/. Oh yeah, and there are some bands playing too. The full timetable is below.
SATURDAY
1:55 – 2:00pm Opening Ceremony
2:00 - 2:40pm - Sonny & The Sunsets
3:00 - 3:45pm - Cosmic Psychos
4:05 - 4:45pm - Magic Kids
5:05 - 5:50pm - Justin Townes Earle
6:10 - 6:55pm - The Clean
7:20 - 8:20pm - Joanna Newsom
8:50 – 9:40pm - Os Mutantes
10:10 – 11:10pm - The Hold Steady
11:40 – 12:30am - Airbourne
12:50 – 1:35am - Wavves
1:50 – 3:00am - Brain Children
3:10 – 4:10am - Mount Kimbie
4:10 – 10am - Silence Wedge
Interstitial Soundtrack by Michael Cue-It-Up and Sweet Jelly Roll
SUNDAY
10:00 – 10:20am - Keynote Speaker - Golden Plains 2050
10:25 – 11:00am - Graveyard Train
11.20 – 12:00pm - Boy & Bear
12:20 – 1:00pm - Wildbirds & Peacedrums
1:20 – 2:00pm - The Middle East
2:20 – 3:05pm - The Besnard Lakes
3:25 – 4:05pm - Pulled Apart By Horses
4:25 – 5:10pm - Best Coast
5:30 – 6:20pm - Robert Forster
6:40 – 7:30pm - Imelda May
8:00 – 9:10pm - Belle & Sebastian
9:40 – 10:30pm - Jamie Lidell
11:00 – 12:00am - Architecture in Helsinki
12:30 – 1:40am - Hawkwind
2:00 – 2:45am - World’s End Press
3:00 – 4:00am - J-Wow feat. MC Kalaf
4:00 – 6:00am Bamboo Musik DJs
6am - Silence Wedge
Interstitial Soundtrack by Rainbow Connection DJs and Breaking & Entering DJs
Special Guest MC Stew Farrell
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On Sunday morning at Golden Plains, Graveyard Train will play their "horror country" tunes to a bunch of zombies. Check them out playing in the Undercover offices below:
