Ruskin Mill Trust and the Hay Festival are working together to celebrate neurodiversity. Our two-day event, Hay@the Mill, is a “living conference” on the theme of autism and re-imagining our potential.
Our exciting programme allows delegates to:
- Experience our curriculum by direct involvement in craft workshops with students and tutors;
- Hear guest speakers – from the literary world and academia – offer their perspectives on autism;
- Discuss and celebrate with us, through fabulous biodynamic food and evening events.
Ruskin Mill and Hay – be part of the discovery, as we re-imagine everyone’s potential, together.
Our collaboration
Ruskin Mill Trust and the Hay Festival are delighted to announce the second year of our collaboration – “Re-imagining Our Potential”.
Ruskin Mill is a unique educational charity, with schools and colleges across England and in Wales. The Hay Festival needs no introduction, respected worldwide as a pre-eminent festival of ideas and literature.
Ruskin Mill and Hay are working together to widen the conversation about autism and neurodiversity. Ruskin Mill will exhibit at the Hay Festival in Hay on Wye on 30th and 31st May 2019. We then welcome Hay Festival to Ruskin Mill by hosting our Living Conference at our site in the beautiful Horsley Valley, near Nailsworth in the Cotswolds on 19th and 20th July.
Our students
Ruskin Mill students have a range of needs – many of which arise from autism.
Our students also have unique abilities, developed through a curriculum rooted in biodynamic ecology, social enterprise and craft.
This curriculum is a powerful educational offer, that we call Practical Skills Therapeutic Education or PSTE. PSTE gives each student the potential to shape their own future, experiencing meaningful relationships with crafts, people and planet.
Hay, Ruskin Mill and our students invite you into the discovery and debate that surrounds the unique world of therapeutic education and autism.
For us, education is a process of continual dialogue and development, in partnership with the student and underpinned by research.
Join us at Ruskin Mill College, Nailsworth, in the beautiful Horsley valley, as we celebrate neurodiversity.
Programme
Friday 19th July
9am | Registration |
10am | Introduction to Day 1 – Grainne O’Reilly, Principal, Ruskin Mill College |
“Welcome to my World” – Ruskin Mill students and parents introduce the event | |
11am | Craft workshops with Ruskin Mill students and tutors |
1pm | Lunch |
2.30pm | Craft workshops end |
3.30pm | Discussion Panel 1 – Panellists to be announced |
6pm | Supper & drinks available |
7pm | Evening performance |
9pm | Close |
Saturday 20th July
9am | Registration |
10am | Introduction to Day 2 – Grainne O’Reilly, Principal, Ruskin Mill College |
11am | Craft workshops with Ruskin Mill students and tutors |
1pm | Lunch |
2.30pm | Craft workshops end |
3.30pm | Discussion Panel 2 – Panellists to be announced |
6pm | Supper & drinks available |
7pm | Evening performance by Ruskin Mill students |
9pm | Close |
Craft Workshops
Experience and enjoy Ruskin Mill’s craft and land curriculum, working alongside our students and craft tutors. You can choose from:
Green woodwork | Iron-age forge | Pottery | Music |
Pewter casting | Fish farming | Leather work | Poetry |
Basket making | Animal Husbandry | Horticulture | Textiles |
Biodynamic agriculture |
Once you have made your booking (below), we will contact you by email to confirm your choice of activities. Bookings will be on a “first come, first served” basis. While we will endeavour to offer you your first or second choice, we can’t make any guarantees.
We look forward to welcoming you to Hay@the Mill!
Bookings
Your ticket price includes all programmed events.
Once you have registered, we will contact you by email to book your choice of craft workshops.
Biodynamic, vegetarian and vegan food and refreshments can be purchased at a number of outlets across the site.
£25 per day
BOOK BY 30 APRIL FOR THE EARLY BIRD RATE OF £20 PER DAY
We look forward to welcoming you to Hay@theMill!
Click here to visit the booking page for Re-imagining Our Potential