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IFSOFLO Friday: The Power of Local

Fri 13 May 2011, 5:30pm

Free Word Hall

The second of two roundtable events for literature organisations and all those interested in the future of the word.

 

This event will bring together community activists and literature organisations. Does the Big Society mean stripping away bureaucratic impediments to communities’ creativity and self-determination, or leaving the disadvantaged to sink or swim? How does it relate to libertarian community politics – and what possibilities do social media provide to disrupt power relations and create radical new forms of community publishing, that span the distance between the local and the global? This event is free but places are limited.