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Media Reform Coalition: Media Democracy Festival 2015 at Goldsmiths

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Time 10:00
Date 17/10/15
Price £15
  • Produced by Media Reform Coalition
  • Price Festival Ticket: £15, Unconference: £5, Party: £10, Solidarity ticket: £25; free tickets available
  • Get ready for #MediaDemocracy.
  • Bring along media savvy.
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  • See you at Goldsmiths

Help build a movement for #MediaDemocracy: the day includes a self-organising unconference, documentary screenings, workshops by the Centre for Investigative Journalism + a live crowdfunding party!

9am - 10am: Arrivals/ registration - Great Hall

Speakers

10am - 11.30am: Great Hall

The day will start with some great speakers setting the scene and explaining why Media Democracy is so important.  Confirmed speakers include:

Aral Balkan

A designer & social entrepreneur creating independent technologies that protect our fundamental freedoms & democracy.

Natalie Fenton

Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, Co-Director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and  Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy, a founding member of the Media Reform Coalition and Board Director of Hacked Off

Kam Sandhu

A journalist and co-founder of Real Media, an independent news website and aggregator that campaigns for public interest journalism and against mass media distortion. 

Michelle Stanistreet

Michelle is the elected general secretary of the National Union of Journalists (UK and Ireland).  Michelle worked as a journalist for 10 years at the Sunday Express newspaper as feature writer and books editor.

11.30am  - 12pm: Break, and the great chair re-arrange, Great Hall

Open Space Unconference

12 - 6pm: Great Hall (with breakout sessions in various classrooms)

The bulk of the day will be a self-organising open space unconference facilitated by Johnnie Moore.  Everyone will be free to propose a session that answers our central question: How can we create media democracy?

Film

Alongside the open space they'll be screenings of related documentaries including:

The Fourth Estate with a Q&A with Director Lee Salter

El Diario de Agustin (Agustin's Newspaper), with a Q&A hosted by Alborada.

Workshops

Half hour taster sessions run by the Centre for Investigative Journalism.

Party (and live crowdfunding)

6pm - late.

Live crowdfunding of media projects, spoken word, live music, and DJs.  Filanthropy is organising a party from 6pm - late in the Student Union.  This will include the opportunity for 3 projects to pitch to the room and invite pledges of financial and other support from the crowd (who will be able to decide which projects get £5 of their ticket money, plus anything else they feel inspired to contribute).

If you've got a media project that could really do with £500-1000 to help get you started then APPLY NOW for your chance to pitch to the room!

LIVE BAND: United Vibrations

SPOKEN WORD: Anthony AnaxagorouDeanna Rodger and Potent Whisper

Full programme here.

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