You asked, we listened! After this year’s Young Adult tickets sold out faster than ever, we’ve had loads of messages asking if we could release more.

While we’re not able to keep adding more at the original £195 price, we’re committed to keeping the festival as accessible to young people as possible. So we’ve created a new Tier 2 Young Adult ticket for 18-25s, priced at £255 - still £40 cheaper than a standard adult weekend ticket!

Tickets are limited, and based on how fast the first round went, we expect these to sell out quickly - so if you’re eligible, grab yours while you can.

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We see space and time as the stage on which the world takes place. While space does not change and is given in one go, time unfolds.

But Einstein made time like space, unchanging and given in one...

Just under 13 weeks until we’re back in the fields of Hay-on-Wye, soaking up the sun and the ideas at #HTLGI26! 🌞

With new names joining our lineup every week, we're getting closer and closer to our...

Sunday listening = sorted.

The latest episode of Shambala Speaks is available now! In this episode, we're joined by rising star and G-Folk pioneer Hak Baker. Expect big ideas, honest conversation and just a touch of strong language.

Listen via the link below, or wherever else you like to get your podcasts! x

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We're told productivity is all about single-minded focus, hard grind and big goals, that deviating from the linear path means failure. The problem: it's not true.

Award-winning neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff is LIVE at ALSO26 to share the joyful power of 'tiny experiments' in which goals are discovered, pursued and adapted on your own terms. ✨

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For those looking for the traditional summer festival experience, the HowTheLightGetsIn camping field certainly delivers.

Get ready for stunning views, lots of hot showers, and a great location...

Big ideas. Big personalities. and ever BIGGER head-to-heads have just been announced💥

Slavoj Žižek vs Mahmood Mamdani
Zarah Sultana vs Zia Yusuf
Kathleen Stock vs Minna Salami
✨ Plus many, many...

The HTLGI Hay 2026 music lineup just got busier! 🎶✨

One electrifying Spring Bank Holiday. Cutting-edge artists. Genre-bending sounds. Unforgettable moments you won’t find anywhere else.

We've just...

From lying and deception, empathy and theory of mind, parasocial relationships, unconscious bias and intuition, group behaviours, to why The Traitors is such compelling viewing? 🧠

Join award-winning neuroscientist and psychologist, Catherine Loveday, and award-winning writer and broadcaster, Claudia Hammond for brilliant, eye-opening session, The Psychology of The Traitors.

You’ll never watch it the same way again.

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ALSO Saturday sees Chris Coull with award-winning vocalist Imogen Ryall, performing their thrilling new jazz suite, a bold reimagining Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, 🎺

Expect the energy of Blue Note’s hard-bop era combined with Gershwin’s timeless melodies coupled with narrated sections outlining the libretto. With a lineup of some of the UK’s finest jazz musicians - Imogen Ryall (vocals), John Turville (piano), Simon Thorpe (bass), Matt Fishwick (drums), and Chris Coull on trumpet - you won’t want to miss it.

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LET’S MAKE HISTORY 🥚

After an idea championed by @greg_james on @bbcradio1, we’re excited to be a part of an OFFICAL Guiness World Record Attempt at Hyde Park this year.

Our volunteeering spaces are full, but make sure you sign up to our waiting list ⏰

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Who fancies another helping of Shambala Speaks goodness? 🙋

In this upcoming episode, we’ll be joined by rising star and G-Folk pioneer Hak Baker. Expect big ideas, honest conversation and just a touch of strong language. Tune in wherever you get your pods this Sunday x

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This May Bank Holiday, Sharon Wanjohi is bringing her sharp wit, satire, and maybe a little too much nostalgia for the cartoons that shaped her adolescence to the HowTheLightGetsIn stage.

Her...

Across the western world, support for populist parties is growing, with calls for tighter borders and defence of national identities. And across the political spectrum the rhetoric has followed.

In...

Carrying the love, wherever we go, always 💖

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With debates by day and dancing by night, there’s plenty to fall in love with at HowTheLightGetsIn festival.

This Spring Bank Holiday in Hay-on-Wye, join our excellent roster of thinkers, musicians, and comedians for an unforgettable weekend of over 300 events.

From boundary-pushing discussions to live music that sets the perfect evening atmosphere, it’s the perfect celebration of curiosity, creativity, and big ideas.

Click the link to find out more about everything HowTheLightGetsIn festival has to offer. howthelightgetsin.org/festival…
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🎭 Comedy meets economics as award-winning comedian Elf Lyons and her father, the economist Dr Gerard Lyons bring Elfonomics to ALSO!

They’ll be pulling apart big money concepts to try and work out how the world works, from the serious to the silly to the downright strange in a podcast episode designed just for ALSO.

We cannot wait.

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Reform’s Zia Yusuf is going head-to-head with Your Party’s Zarah Sultana at HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2026! A fiery debate you're not going to want to miss! 🔥

For decades, liberal economics was seen as...

Applications for our Recycling Crew are now open ♻️

We’re after a rad crew who are just as passionate about recycling as we are! This is a physical role and includes litter picking, bin servicing and materials sorting.

If you’re passionate about implementing our leave no trace philosophy we want to hear from you 👇

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Grab yours now and let the countdown to our Adventures in Utopia begin - payment plans and Green Traveller discounts available! x

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With over 40 days of consecutive rain having descended across some parts of the UK, it's officially time to start day-dreaming about the sunny days of Spring soon to come! 🍃 🌼

Lock in a bank...

This summer, join BAFTA-nominated, BIFA-winning screenwriter and best-selling novelist, Emma Jane Unsworth and us for ALSO’s Big Summer Read! 📚

We’ll be taking a tour of Emma’s brilliant novel SLAGS - one of Vogue’s Books of the Summer, one of The Guardian’s Novels of the Year, and the paperback was picked for WH Smith’s Travel Book Club in January 2026 - a love letter to the 90s, a deep dive into boyband obsession, and a whisky-fuelled road trip that goes wrong for two messy sisters approaching midlife.

Come along and be part of it. And of course, there will be plenty of time for (fun) questions.

#ALSO26. Est. 2014. Where ideas run wild.

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"Best for: Sticking it to the man." - TimeOut

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The first new events of our Children's Programme have just been released! 🤩

HowTheLightGetsIn invites the youngest thinkers to explore the biggest ideas, through stories, magic, and play with our...

We’re thrilled to welcome a fantastic roster of philosophers to HowTheLightGetsIn festival this Spring, including Simon Critchley, Slavoj Žižek, and John Gray.

They’ll be with us from May 22nd-25th...