Developed from a festival-within-a-festival at Electric Picnic, MindField will bring Dublin's Merrion Square alive from April 29 to May 1.

Topics up for discussion include capitalism, poetry, Iceland, photography, butterflies, fashion and foreign policy (to name but a few!) with participants like Ryan Tubridy, Simon Kelly, Dermot Bolger, Paddy Cullivan, John Banville and Detmar Blow all set to get involved.

A Festival Founders Pass, which gets you full priority free access to all ticketed events and workshops over the weekend and admission to the Festival Club, costs €69. Individual show tickets are €10, and many other events and workshops are free to enter.

See [link]http://mindfield.ie/[/link] for details.