Bristol Transformed Festival 2020

This weekend, Bristol Transformed Festival returns, organised by Bristol Transformed.

I'll be chairing an event on International Women's Day 2020, Sunday 8 March, from 2pm, about journalism and women's role in making news more radical...

More on this soon and the programme here for now:
https://bristoltransformed.org/index

Bristol Transformed Festival 2020 is nearly upon us! Inspired by The World Transformed, we’re back for our second year of radical politics, art and culture. The full programme is now available on our website: www.BristolTransformed.org Early bird tickets sold out in less than 24hrs, and now we’re on our final release of tickets. Make sure you don't miss out and get your tickets here - there is a sliding scale of prices. There is also a limited number of unwaged tickets made possible by people who bought solidarity tickets.  The festival this year is happening in the shadow of the Christmas General Election, and therefore in the shadow of defeat for progressive forces in the UK. But spring is upon us, and now it’s time to rebuild not retreat.  You can read a piece from one of our organisers in Tribune magazine on the importance of continuing the work we started with our inaugural 2019 festival. We are proud to have Tribune magazine as official media partners this year, along with publishers Repeater, Haymarket Books and Pluto, Red Pepper magazine, media platform Voice.Wales,  as well as Reel Politik and Trashfuture podcasts. We're also partnering with thinks tanks Common Wealth and Autonomy who will be helping us bring alive the ideas we will need to continue to fuel our movement going forwards. In what is becoming a tradition, socialist comedy podcast Trashfuture will be kicking off the festival with a live show on a Friday night (included in main ticket), link here. This year we have crammed even more sessions into the programme, expanding over two full days covering Saturday and Sunday, and an incredible and diverse range of speakers.    Here are just a few:  Lowkey- musician  No Human Is Illegal panel  Zarah Sultana - newly elected Labour MP for Coventry South What Next for the Green New Deal and Economic Patriarchy panels   Sarah Jaffe - writer and forthcoming author   Getting Real With Strategy and Creating Radical Media panels   James Meadway - economist Getting Real With Strategy panel   Ben Smoke - Stanstead 15 activist and Huck Magazine  No Human Is Illegal panel   Thangam Debboinaire - MP for Bristol West Make All Drugs Legal? panel   And Lola Olufemi, Angie Speaks, Jack Shenker, Huda Elmi, Chris Saltmarsh, Torr Robinson, Beth Redmond and almost 100 more! As mentioned above you can buy your ticket here  We can't wait to see you! Yours in Solidarity, The Bristol Transformed Team