‘Social Media and Social Change’ at 16th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
OOTB Drill Hall, Dalmeny Street, Leith
The 16TH EDINBURGH INDEPENDENT RADICAL BOOK FAIR opened tonight at Out Of The Blue Drill Hall in Dalmeny Street, Leith and runs until Sunday 28th October. As always its chocabloc full of diverse events, films, speakers, theatre, spoken word, and books, books, books. Organised by the good people from Word Power Books (Follow them: @WordPowerBooks ) the EIRBF has become an important annual gathering of radical thinkers and activists.
On the Sunday (28th Oct) at 3.15pm Bella Caledonia’s Mike Small chairs a round table discussion on ‘SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIAL CHANGE’ with a panel of four bright young things of the cyberazzi: Nick Higgins, Pat Kane, Kate Higgins and Lauren Currie.
Or as it says in the programme: “How does social media effect social change? Are we kidding ourselves that online activity has an impact, or is this an important new frontier in political action and participation shaping the debate and reclaiming the media?”
NICK HIGGINS is the Creative Director, Northern Lights Film Project
PAT KANE is a musician and author on digital media and politics
KATE HIGGINS blogs at A Burdz Eye View
LAUREN CURRIE, of We Are Snook
Hopefully a few of you will make it along. Here’s the full programme to feast your eyes on, and its a good one:
RICHARD GOTT, author of Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt, opens the 16th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
24/10/2012 19:00
School Students’ Workshop with SUE REID SEXTON, author of Mavis’s Shoe, at the 16th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
25/10/2012 10:30
KATE JOESTER, LORNA J. WAITE and Others from Women for Independence speak at the 16th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
25/10/2012 18:00
DONNY GLUCKSTEIN discusses A People’s History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire, at the 16th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
25/10/2012 19:00
TESSA RANSFORD and IYAD HYATLEH read from A Rug of a Thousand Colours: Poems in English and Arabic, at the 16th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
26/10/2012 17:00
DAVID SPAVEN discusses the Waverley Route: The Life, Death and Rebirth of the Borders Railway, at the 16th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
27/10/2012 10:30
HSIAO-HUNG PAI discusses Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants, at the 16th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
27/10/2012 12:45
KATE GOULD discusses Exposing Phallacy: An Exploration of Flashing in a Contemporary Culture, at the 16th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
27/10/2012 16:45
ALAN BISSETT performs his latest one-man show, The Red Hourglass, at the 16th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
27/10/2012 20:00
ALF YOUNG and IAN COOKE discuss The New Road: Charting Scotland’s Inspirational Communities, at the 16th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
28/10/2012 10:45
RICHARD RODGER speaks on his latest book, Edinburgh’s Colonies: Housing the Workers, at the 16th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
28/10/2012 11:30
DAVID GRAEBER speaks on Debt: The First 5,000 Years, at the 16th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
28/10/2012 14:00
SELMA JAMES, DAVID FEATHERSTONE and DAN TRILLING discuss Race, Sex, Class, and Solidarity, at the 16th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
28/10/2012 16:30
Richard Gott’s talk was great, really nice guy and very pro-independence! Would be great to get an article from him on here, he’s very approachable. Any one who gets the chance should get along to the radical book fair, so many amazing books you’ve never seen before, allot on subjects you’d never even thought of, really nice people and atmosphere too. Can’t recommend it enough.