(Monday 7th Oct / 8pm / £5/4 but nobody turned away due to lack of funds)
Indymedia started life during the anti-summit protest in Seattle in 1999 as an alternative to the corporate driven mainstream media and its business as-usual, politician-friendly wilful ignorance. Demonstrating that it was indeed possible to develop our own channels of communication that bypassed those owned and controlled by the ruling class, Independent Media Centres (IMCs) spread around the planet at an unprecedented rate, and Indymedia became an inspiring phenomenon known the world over. Since that time the political and technological context has changed dramatically. Today self-publishing is the norm and the mass adoption of Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other tools for curation and sharing have empowered the production, organisation and distribution of content as never before. Along with other IMCs around the world, it’s time to rethink what Bristol Indymedia can and should be about.

We’ll be showing a selection of clips from some key moments in Indymedia’s history, but this event is primarily to discuss the future of Bristol Indymedia. All welcome!