November 07, 2011
Media Democracy Days are on their way!
By
Katherine Dodds
This year MDD is plural! So check out our table on SATURDAY. Lots of great panels, speakers and info tables will be there. Check out their program, and plan your weekend around this inspiring and FREE event. You do need to registier though...
Last year we had a table, we rolled out our own poppy icon stickers -- to remember the vicitims of the drug war. This FIVE petalled opium poppy is available in sticker format. This year Hello Cool World will have a table again, where we will be featuring all our projects, giving away poppy stickers, and showing off our LACE. And if you want to buy our cool poppy stickers AND the new posters we've done for The Corporation, we now have them all for sale on our webstore!
I am hoping to catch the Friday Night talk by Sut Jhally, I've been following his work since my Adbusters days.
Here's the info from MDD site:
DR. SUT JHALLY
Founder of the Media Education Foundation, and world-leading media scholar, filmmaker and analyst, Dr. Jhally brings tremendous insight to the task of understanding the media’s role in shaping our social identities through gender and race, commercialism, violence and politics. He is the producer and director of various films and in explaining the power of documentary media to help us understand and confront our fears he notes that: “In a state of fear, citizens are vulnerable to manipulation by opportunistic politicians and a sensationalist media.” Speaking on Remembrance Day, as well as the tenth anniversary of the US Air Force bombing of the Kabul office of Al-Jazeera, Dr. Jhally is an ideal speaker to open Media Democracy Day and introduce the film War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning us to Death on November 11th, 2011 at the Pacific Cinematheque.
There are LOTS of other great speakers so check it all out! See you there!
All events are free, but seating is first-come, first-serve. For MDD planning purposes, please pre-register online for Friday and Saturday here: http://mediademocracyday2011.eventbrite.com/
Sunday registration here: http://mddworkshops.eventbrite.com/
Friday November 11th from 6:30-10:00pm at the Pacific Cinematheque for a screening of War Made Easy and keynote talk from Dr. Sut Jhally, founder of the Media Education Foundation.
Saturday November 12th from 12-5:00pm at the Vancouver Public Library, Central Library for a keynote talk from Judy Rebick, founder of Rabble.ca; seven discussion panels throughout the day; a media fair of +30 media organizations on display; +much more. Then walk to the W2 Media Cafe for a reception + party from 7-11:00pm.
On Sunday November 13th, get a chance to participate in media production workshops + dialogue titled Mapping Media Democracy: A Launchpad for Action from 12-4:00pm at SFU Woodwards. To round out the weekend, join us Media Democracy for Mental Health at Gallery Gachet for music and laughs from 6-10pm.
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Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
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