The Birth of a Poet

• Speaker
• Polar Bear

In a talk that spans the generations, Polarbear discusses everything from receiving inspiration from his Jamaican nan as a boy, honing his craft (and his romantic skills) as a young…

Charlie Dark: We Run the Night

• Speaker
• Charlie Dark (Run Dem Crew)

In this inspirational talk about his experiences taking swathes of young Londoners “from sofa to finish line”, Charlie describes how RDC became a dining table of sorts, where ideas could…

Hack Attack

• Speaker
• Nick Davies

Nick has gone where countless politicians, journalists and police officials dare not tread: the Murdoch Empire.

Shit London

• Speaker
• Patrick Dalton

London has been getting pretty big for its britches recently, with skyrocketing property prices and euphoric editorials declaring it to be the world’s most popular destination. Thankfully, Shit London is…

Documenting the Imagination

• Speaker
• Christine Cynn

Christine outlines her mission to ‘document the imagination’. In her view, filmmakers (factual or otherwise) are here to explore and capture the fictions we live by just as much as…

Transforming the Media

• Speaker
• Paris Lees

Paris is joined on stage by friend Dr Kate Stone, a Cambridge professor who recently waged war against transphobic prejudices in the media. The two candidly discuss their experience of…

Flex Is Kings

• Speaker
• Deidre Schoo & Michael Beach Nichols

Flex are a troop of urban, street dancers performing in Brooklyn. Faced with dwindling prospects, and harsh economic conditions, they turned to dance as a constructive channel for their energy.…

Joseph Cox: The Deep Web Isn’t All Dark

• Speaker
• Joseph Cox

Joseph offers a brief survey of the Deep Web’s varied offering: crowd-sourced hit men, jihadists and esoteric drugs. Yet he invites us to look beyond the pixels, and sensationalist newspaper…

Barbara Nitke: American Ecstasy

• Speaker
• Barbara Nitke

“I feel like my work is a salute to the sex workers of the world. And how much I care about them.” Barbara’s talk looks beyond the ethics of porn…

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• Speaker
• Simon Chinn