Public Meeting about Media!

dawn — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:14:53 +0000

Tue Jun 23

city:

Vancouver

Venue:

VIVO Media Arts

organizer contact:

(604) 875-8455

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http://mddmeeting.eventbrite.com/

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We’ll start the session with a brief presentation about the current
state of media in Canada and then move into facilitated discussion and
visioning.

Co-Presenters:
Maya Rolbin-Ghanie is an independent journalist and Indigenous
solidarity activist living in Montreal.

Kat Norris is Coast Salish/Nez Perce, has lived, worked, danced and
advocated in Vancouver community since 1976 when she became educated
on Indigenous issues by joining the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee.
She contributes to the BC Native Newspaper Kahtou, the St’at’imc
Runner newspaper, and blogs for the Indigenous Action Movement. She
was honoured in the Georgia Straight’s Bright Lights of Vancouver as a
“local hero” and as a “newsmaker of the year” in the Vancouver
Province.

Steve Anderson is the Coordinator of Campaign for Democratic Media,
and an organizer of Media Democracy Day
-Steve will discuss finding from a national study on the potential for
a broader media democracy movement

The visioning process will be facilitated by Reilly Yeo from the SFU
Centre for Dialogue

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-Where do people tell our own stories?

-Which independent or grassroots media do you like?

-Whose voices and stories are missing in the mainstream news?

-how do we keep the Internet open and develop democratic
communications infrastructure?

-What speakers, themes, skills, and values would you be excited to
include in a public event about grassroots media?

-What else would you like to include in the next Media Democracy Day?

Share your thoughts on these questions and more!

Come to this fun and relaxed public meeting to help design the next
Media Democracy Day.

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Background:

Media Democracy Day Vancouver is an annual, volunteer-driven public
forum addressing many different media issues.

In past years, some of the themes and goals at MDD have been: