**INTERNATIONAL MEDIA DEMOCRACY DAY 2005** by risa
**INTERNATIONAL MEDIA DEMOCRACY DAY 2005**
GLOBAL STORIES: Citizens’ Media from Around the World
A week of events celebrating autonomous, independent media
October 17th to 21st at Concordia University
überculture collective, along with The Link, CKUT, CUTV and Concordia
University, are pleased to invite you to join us for the second annual
celebration of International Media Democracy Day in Montreal.
Centring on the official date of IMDD, Oct. 18th, this year’s week of events aims to
carry on where last year’s conference left off, examining how and where
information is produced and disseminated and how we can build effective, grass-roots
alternatives to corporate dominated media.
This year’s theme, GLOBAL STORIES: Citizens’ Media from Around the
World, aims to look at citizen-based media both in Canada and abroad and hopes to
explore how it has become possible for small, localized, independent media
outlets to develop a global reach.
The week’s highlight will be a keynote address and Q & A on Tuesday Oct. 18
featuring Clemencia Rodriguez, a Latin American media activist who has
extensively explored citizen-based media, and John Downing, founder and
director of the Global Media Research Center and author of Radical
Media.
Kicking off the week will be the Montreal instalment of the cross-Canada
Measuring Security Measures series, co-sponsored by the NFB/
CitizenShift. With events taking place in ten different Canadian cities, MSM will
explore the changing nature of security measures in Canada since Sept. 11, 2001. The
Montreal event, taking place at 7pm on Monday, Oct. 17th, will pay
particularly close attention to the corporate media’s role in shaping the security
agenda. MSM-Montreal will feature screenings of never before seen independent
films examining state-security in Canada and a panel featuring Adil
Charkaoui, Julius Grey and Yasmin Jawani.
Below is a more detailed schedule of events for the week. For more
information and to download the program, please visit http://www.überculture.org
IMDD 2005 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
October 17:
5:45pm: Book Launch – Something New in the Air: A History of First
Peoples’
Television in Canada, by Lorna Roth. Concordia’s School of Community
and Public
Affairs.
7pm: Measuring Security Measures – part of a Canada-wide project co-
sponsored by
the NFB looking at security measures in Canada since 9/11,vfeaturing
security
certificate activist Adil Charkaoui, civil rights lawyer Julius Grey and
Concordia communication studies professor Yasmin Jawani. Room H-110,
Hall
Building.
October 18:
10am – 4pm: Alternative Media Fair bringing together over 30
independent media
organizations from across Quebec and further. Mezzanine, Concordia Hall
Building
7pm: Keynote address by Clemencia Rodriguez (Latin American media
activist and
author of Fissures in the Mediascape: An International Study of
Citizens Media)
and John DH Downing (founder, Global Media Research Center and author
of Radical
Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements). Room H-110, Hall
Building.
October 19:
5:30pm: Building an Independent Media Movement from Montreal to
Beirut, a
presentation & interactive slide show on indymedia in Beirut by media
activist
and CKUT host Stefan Christoff. Co-sponsored by CKUT and ISM & CMAQ.
Concordia
University SCPA.
7:30pm: Security and Surveillance: How big is Big Brother? A public
discussion
with moderator Kenneth C. Werbin (Concordia University) and guests.
Co-sponsored by University of the Streets. Café Esperanza, 5490 St.
Laurent
Blvd.
October 20
6pm: Being Controversial in the Media – Panel discussion organized by
the Link,
featuring Matthew Hays, Linda Kay, Josey Vogels and Jan Ravensbergen.
D.B.
Clarke Theatre, Hall Building.
October 21
7pm: Video for Change – A Witness Book Launch and Wine and Cheese
with Liz
Miller (Concordia University) and Katerina Cizek (Filmmaker and
writer) and
Video Projections from Volatile Works and Les Lucioles. Graduate
Students
Association Lounge.
8pm: Link Alumni party at Reggie’s Pub
10pm: Global Stories wrap party featuring live music, DJs and raffle
at Reggie’s
Pub
http://www.uberculture.org
Ezra Winton
Programming Coordinator
überculture collective
Cell: 514.265.1217
Office: 514.313.3478
überculture Headquarters,
5620 Av. Du Parc, Suite #1,
Montreal, Quebec, H2V 4H1
überculture is a grassroots, non-profit collective committed to the
reclamation of culture. We are concerned with the loss of cultural
diversity due to a commercial culture industry based on the self-
interest and greed of multinational corporations. Through thorough
research and creative action, we expose and resist the
commodification of society.
http://www.uberculture.org
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