'Be the Media' at the Big Green Gathering
big green gatherer | 06.08.2007 11:17 | Indymedia
As the Big Green Gathering (BGG) 2007 programme explained, the 'Be the Media' tent in the Campaigns field hosted "a series of presentations, discussions and practical workshops around DIY media in all its forms: from print publications, radical radio and video activism, to the 'new' media of internet websites, blogging, podcasts and streaming" and also covered "less conventional media such as street art, graffiti, stencilling..."
The BGG 
http://www.big-green-gathering.com attracts a diverse mix of individuals, groups, campaigns and organisations working on green issues with a focus on green lifestyles, technology and activism. This year's gathering at Fernhill Farm near Cheddar ran from 1-5 August, during which time the 'Be the Media' tent offered over 30 sessions, amply demonstrating that anyone can become the media. The full programme can be viewed here: http://www.big-green-gathering.com/index.php?pageid=227
The tent was also home to two photo exhibitions - photographs from this year's G8 protests in Germany and billboard subvertising - along with an indymedia dvd, book and information stall and a free shop.
Podcasts from the daily field recording and editing sessions by Flash Radio will soon be available online. Check them out at http://flashradio.wordpress.com
It was inspiring to see so many people using this space in so many different ways over the five days. While the radio podcasters worked quietly in one corner and passers-by browsed at the stall and free shop or admired the photography, all sorts of workshops happened in the middle. These ranged from discussion on various aspects of the future of alternative media to practical media-making in the field (literally), and when the subvertisers moved in on Friday afternoon you couldn't see the ground for people, paper and paste.
Anyone like to post reports from workshops they attended or ran?
http://www.big-green-gathering.com attracts a diverse mix of individuals, groups, campaigns and organisations working on green issues with a focus on green lifestyles, technology and activism. This year's gathering at Fernhill Farm near Cheddar ran from 1-5 August, during which time the 'Be the Media' tent offered over 30 sessions, amply demonstrating that anyone can become the media. The full programme can be viewed here: http://www.big-green-gathering.com/index.php?pageid=227 The tent was also home to two photo exhibitions - photographs from this year's G8 protests in Germany and billboard subvertising - along with an indymedia dvd, book and information stall and a free shop.
Podcasts from the daily field recording and editing sessions by Flash Radio will soon be available online. Check them out at
http://flashradio.wordpress.com It was inspiring to see so many people using this space in so many different ways over the five days. While the radio podcasters worked quietly in one corner and passers-by browsed at the stall and free shop or admired the photography, all sorts of workshops happened in the middle. These ranged from discussion on various aspects of the future of alternative media to practical media-making in the field (literally), and when the subvertisers moved in on Friday afternoon you couldn't see the ground for people, paper and paste.
Anyone like to post reports from workshops they attended or ran?
big green gatherer
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