Stuart Basden will be exploring the relationship between activism and journalism in this time of crisis.
This workshop will engage the participants in the attempt to read (and try on!) fashion as a medium of communication and control in todays culture.
This workshop will confront the opportunities and challenges posed to journalism post digital revolution.
This workshop will introduce methods and strategies of digital activism rooted in their historical context and development. Participants will engage in practical exercise and will be able to produce their own digital campaign by the end of the workshop!
How to take steps to safeguard your privacy in an age of mass surveillance.
In this hands on workshop, Gerry Thompson will introduce you to the essence of stand-up comedy and show you how to quickly produce and perform a short piece of comedy material.
How to beat far right in the global meme war? The workshop will flow the collective creativity of the squares movement, the remix techniques and the memetic sphere, showing dozens of practical cases.
An exciting opportunity for young authors aged 7-12 to take part in a free writing workshop with Sussex Young Authors founder, Amanda Di Clemente.
A workshop that examines the stereotypical portrayal of Muslims on screen, and the impact these have.
Breaking down idea making, development and planning on a creative activism.
Ever feel a little anti this and a little anti that? Come knock up a zine! The editors of ten successful, off-the-wall issues are here to answer all your questions on production, promotion distribution and advertising!
What do journalists need to know to ensure accurate and sensitive reporting on victims and survivors of sec crimes?
A compelling case for sortition democracy, could it create a world free of partisan politics?
Stuart Basden will be exploring the relationship between activism and journalism in this time of crisis.
Suzanne Noble and Rose Rouse will discuss the taboos of getting older for both men and women. Free yourselves from those societal restraints by opening up!
A workshop that explores the medias attitudes both to murder and to the underworld. Does all this coverage in the press, online, in podcasts and on television increase our fear of crime or glamourise it?
How you can integrate purposeful impact into your business and life.
Harriet Wistrich and Julie Bindel will look at the fact that in Britain, more women than any other country in the world are arrested, charged and prosecuted for making so-called false allegations.
Come and learn to blag (benign blagging is very useful) and more importantly learn the art of the Counter Blag, find out more than they want you to know when you get a funny call.
Susan Angoy teaches the art of compressed six word stories to hone your narrative skills to the barest essential.
This 4 part workshop will take you through the steps of becoming a novelist, playwright or a screenplay writer! Freewriting is a vital tool for total beginners as well as for more experienced writers!
This 4 part workshop will take you through the steps of becoming a novelist, playwright or a screenplay writer! Freewriting is a vital tool for total beginners as well as for more experienced writers!
How to take steps to safeguard your privacy in an age of mass surveillance.
This workshop will explore the brain science of how people become entrenched in their views and how it can help us to deal more productively with the rising divisions and political polarisation in society.
You will learn how and why this area of news culture intertwines narratives of politics, celebrity and self-identity as a mechanism for social control.
In this hands on workshop, Gerry Thompson will introduce you to the essence of stand-up comedy and show you how to quickly produce and perform a short piece of comedy material.
In this hands on workshop, Gerry Thompson will introduce you to the essence of stand-up comedy and show you how to quickly produce and perform a short piece of comedy material.
An exciting opportunity for young authors aged 7-12 to take part in a free writing workshop with Sussex Young Authors founder, Amanda Di Clemente.
This workshop will help you both spot, critique and expose racism in the mainstream media, especially the national press.
Come to this workshop to learn how ‘living like an Italian’ can succeed where other lifestyle regimens do not, and how saying YES instead of NO can help you find your inner Sophia Loren.
Gary Allison, director at POC, explores how we can show solidarity with and provide support to the many brave journalists who have reported on human rights abuses and consequently live under threat for their and their families' lives, are often left indigent and stateless and who deserve support to rebuild their lives in new countries.
This workshop will consider storytelling and strategies of power, who speaks for whom? And secondly, what is documentary truth? The relationship between subject, filmmaker and audience and the construction of truth.
Deeivya Meir, creator of the hit podcast of UNTOLD: The Daniel Morgan murder, will take you through what is needed, from conception to delivery, to making a best selling podcast.
In this session, Sean Pillot de Chenecey, will discuss the interconnected issues impacting brands.
This interactive workshop introduces you to data journalism. Through hands on activities, you’ll learn what artificial intelligence is and isn’t, how robots navigate the physical world and why computers get things right but for the wrong reasons, and how this leads to inequality and social problems.
Martin Burrows and Mat Amp’s workshop will show just how widespread and ingrained these prejudices are through video and paper clippings. They will draw light to the words the media to describe marginalised people and how that impacts the way we think.
In this session, Sean Pillot de Chenecey, will discuss the interconnected issues impacting brands.
Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton are into their 10th year in prison for a crime they didn’t commit. This workshop explains that they were convicted despite evidence being tampered with.
This 4 part workshop will take you through the steps of becoming a novelist, playwright or a screenplay writer! Freewriting is a vital tool for total beginners as well as for more experienced writers!
This 4 part workshop will take you through the steps of becoming a novelist, playwright or a screenplay writer! Freewriting is a vital tool for total beginners as well as for more experienced writers!
An exciting opportunity for young authors aged 7-12 to take part in a free writing workshop with Sussex Young Authors founder, Amanda Di Clemente.
This workshop will help anybody who 'does life' and wants to see ways to improve their perspective, themselves or help others.
You’ll learn basic protest skills, how to stay safe in fast-moving crowds, how to avoid getting trapped in a police kettle and how to break out if you are!
WORKSHOP TENT 4
Create your own “Small Circus Acts of Resistance” and perform it at the festival!
This workshop explores transparent journalism using the wiki-model, where aspiring journalists and curious readers can learn the best transparency practices.
Come and join a panel discussion/Q&A with the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) London Freelance Branch.
This workshop is for everyone who wants to protect the public by protecting whistle-blowers.
Robert Brune and Gen Knoxx will discuss the most powerful tool against police brutality… the camera.
Through analytical discussion, we will examine the obstacles to achieving neutrality and attempt to formulate a solution for solving this problem.
This workshop will explore the challenges of walking the tightrope between accurately representing the “truth” of a true story without sacrificing dramatic tension.
This workshop will share what it was like to support a global movement online and to work with other activist journalists in media tents in the occupy camps.
This workshop aims to discuss how we interact online, and to explore the various types of discourse we see across the web.
In this two part comprehensive workshop you’ll learn how to tell stories by getting hands on producing your own video story from scratch!
In this two part comprehensive workshop you’ll learn how to tell stories by getting hands on producing your own video story from scratch!
As the mainstream media often operates in a way that disrupts the voices of social justice, it is critical to learn from each other’s experiences in reporting on those brave enough to stand up and work for a better world.