[ELECTRON] Fwd: Access to Culture and Knowledge in the Digital Era

[Simon Yuill]

It's in Spain but wil be online as well.

best wishes
Si




Yes, OXCARS (The biggest free/libre event ever) and the International
Forum on
Access to Culture and Knowledge in the Digital Era – Organization and Action
(FCForum) are back!

(Barcelona & online)

Oxcars: 28 October, 21ºº h – Sala Apolo, Nou de la Rambla, 113, Barcelona.
Metro:
Paral.lel
Fcforum: 28 -31 October, http://www.fcforum.net/10

Like every other year – and this one more than ever – EXGAE invites
everybody to
participate in the 3rd oXcars edition, the greatest free culture event of
all times,
in collaboration with Conservas and Telenoika -also EXGAE members- and
this year
with the help of Red SOStenible and the social networks.



Artists from all the spheres of national and international culture
participate in a
full surprise gala for demanding that culture stop being a merchandise of the
cultural industries lobbies. In the name of the “artists” they put
obstacles on our
access to  knowledge even though artist don’t support them. The civil society
reclaim the lost profit to all knowledge that is being retained and steal
from the
public use in the name of  private benefits. We don’t want to nurture
generations of
cultural parasites, we want a cultural field, alive and productive.


Over 100 artists will contribute on this 100% SGAE-free event (SGAE = Spanish
General Society of authors and editors), including the writer José Luis
Sampedro,
member of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), the writer Belén Gopegui, and
the famous
gastroblogger Txaber Allué, as well as At Versaris, Kate Madison, Akram Khan,
Ploomba, Koulomek and other surprises that we’re not going to give away,
like an
starting appearance of the Pinkertones.


October 28th, 21ºº hrs.- Sala Apolo, Nou de la Rambla, 113, Barcelona Metro:
Paral.lel


Tickets for the oxcards: Help bonus already on sale (3,55€)
 here; http://www.codetickets.com/sala-apolo/es/sala-apolo.com/566/  Or
buy them at
Calle Sant Pau 58 Bajos – Barcelona – Monday to Friday 10h to 14h and 17h
to 20h –
Phone 933020630


And, then
 The FCForum 2010


Citizens will continue to work on the task of conceiving a digital era
that is
sustainable and benefits everybody. The oXcars will be followed by the 3-day
FCForum, the 2nd  International Forum on Access to Culture and Knowledge
in the
Digital Era, which is organised by EXGAE together with the international
FCForum
platform, in collaboration with Arts Santa Mònica.


The FCForum 2010 will assemble the main organisations and active voices in
the world
of Culture, free/libre knowledge and the new forms of cultural production and
distribution..

Among the more than 50 participants, will be Johanna Blakley, an American
researcher
on global entertainment with the exciting thesis that the key of the
success of the
fashion industry is no intellectual property.


Notorious examples of New Cultural Entrepreneurs will come, like the
Americans
Kickstarter, whose business model is being the facilitators between the
artist, fans
and producers. Their most recent commercial prodigy: raising 30.000
dollars in 3
days for the production of the documentary about The Pirate Bay, “The
world’s most
resilient bittorrent site”.


The former creator of the legendary The Pirate Bay will also come: Magnus
Eriksson
and Peter Sunde, who recently created Flattr.com, a micropayments system for
downloading content that works like  an Internet tip jar.


The Germans from Freibank will also come. After the experiences on the
famous band
Einstürzende Neubauten, they set up a distribution cooperative of copyright.


We will also count with the presence of Peter Jenner, best known as Pink
Floyd’s
manager. He also represented artists like T Rex, Ian Dury, Roy Harper and
The Clash.


The FCForum is a open space to all citizens, to everybody who is seriously
working
towards achieving a legal and economically sustainable future. For
citizens and for
artists. The SGAE has always refused to participate.


Check out the programe: http://2010.fcforum.net/program/

See you there!

How to join the Fcforum online?
OXCARS 2010: http://oxcars10.exgae.net/en/
FCForum 2010
: http://2010.fcforum.net/en
Contact: contact[a]exgae.net

Live streaming:
oXcars: http://oxcars10.exgae.net/en/live/
Fcforum: http://2010.fcforum.net/live/

Microblogging:
Identi.ca at @fcforum
Twitter at @fcforum_net
http://twitter.com/exgae
Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/FcForum?ref=ts