A presentation on The Right to Share and The Promise of Open Video.
What
* Roadshow
* Open Content
* Open Access
When Dec 17, 2009 02:30 PM onwards
Date: 17th December, 2009 from 2.30pm onwards
Venue – National Law School, Bangalore
Contact Name Radha
Contact Phone 080-40926283

CIS in association with different institutions across India invites you to join in the Free Culture Roadshow: A presentation on The Right to Share and The Promise of Open Video.

A Brief Abstract of the two discussions and the profile of the speakers are given below:
The Right to Share: What Does Copying Have to Do with Freedom?

The Internet has unleashed the potential to communicate and collaborate like never before, and the result has been an unprecedented flow of culture and information. Millions of individuals are now sharing and creating culture: copying, cutting, remixing, and participating in new and different ways.
Sometimes this activity is transformative. Sometimes it’s straight copying. In either case, there is a clear connection between this sharing of culture and personal freedom.
This talk will explore how various conceptions of “freedom” have shaped the social movements for free software, free culture, and free knowledge, and how this ideology has manifested itself in real action. It will connect theory with practice, exploring the cultural innovations and political changes that have spawned forth from these movements. Lastly, it will make the case that the broad-based availability, accessibility, and abundance of culture is a good thing for our global society.
Speaker Profile:

Elizabeth Stark is a leader in the global free culture movement. She is a Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and a Lecturer in Computer Science at Yale University. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stark founded the Harvard Free Culture Group and served on the board of directors of Students for Free Culture. While at Harvard, she was Editor-at-Large of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and worked on using new media to promote human rights with the Harvard Advocates for Human Rights. Elizabeth has worked extensively with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and has taught courses in Cyberlaw, Digital Copyright, Technology and Politics, and Electronic Music. She recently produced the inaugural Open Video Conference in NYC, garnering over 8000 viewers across the web. Elizabeth regularly gives talks around the world on free culture, and has collaborated with myriad organizations on promoting shared knowledge and the open web.

Elizabeth Stark
The Revolution Will Be Recorded, Remixed, and Redistributed: The Promise of Open Video

Between news, cinema, television, and documentary film, we find ourselves swimming in a sea of moving images. This has been the story of the 20th century. Yet in this age, the tools for creating and sharing video are becoming widely distributed in the hands of millions of individuals. Desktop video editing software is pervasive; webcams and video-equipped mobile phones abound. Video now belongs to everyone. It is becoming a powerful medium for self-expression, a kind of cultural currency.
How will this phenomenon change the Internet? How will it change society? What questions persist for the architecture of the Internet, and how will public policy address this ultimately political transformation? This talk sets forth a vision of networked video as a truly participatory medium, one that will power the next 10 years of innovation on the web. Dean Jansen and Ben Moskowitz introduce some core technologies for open video, and the obstacles they face on the road to mass adoption.
Speaker Profiles:

Dean Jansen is a Free Culture activist and guerrilla artist based in New York. He attended Harvard University and was a leader in the Harvard Free Culture Group. Dean assisted in teaching media studies and law courses at MIT and Harvard, and has organized numerous academic conferences.
He currently serves as outreach director at the non-profit Participatory Culture Foundation, makers of the Miro internet TV player. His art projects can be viewed at www.notthemessiah.net.

Dean

Ben Moskowitz is general coordinator at the Open Video Alliance, a coalition to democratize the moving image. Ben co-founded the UC Berkeley chapter of Students for Free Culture and taught a seminar on the politics of piracy at Berkeley’s School of Information.
He currently serves on the board of directors of the international organization Students for Free Culture, dedicated to promoting access to knowledge, technological freedom, and participatory culture.

* What: Wikimeetup Bangalore — Dec 2009
* When: Sunday, 20 December, 2009 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM
* Where: The Centre for Internet and Society ( CIS), Bangalore
* Who: Wikipedians from any part of India or the world and anyone who is interested in Wikipedia! Meetup is open to members of all Wikimedia projects and wikipedians from all languages.

Date and Venue

Date: : Sunday, 20-Dec-2009 3:00 PM IST

Venue:
The Centre for Internet and Society
No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers
14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore,
Karnataka 560052, India
Phone: (+91)-80-4092-6283‎

(Update – Venue confirmed with CIS for 20-Dec-09 — Tinu Cherian – 10:25, 23 November 2009 (UTC))
[edit] Getting there

Directions to Cunningham road

* From Shivaji Nagar Bus stand , come to Indian Express Bus Stop Junction, and go straight to Cunningham Road.
* From Vidhan Soudha/GPO come directly to Indian Express Bus Stop Junction from there left turn into Cunningham Road.

Directions from Cunningham road to Venue

On Cunningham Road, about half a kilometre from the Indian Express Junction, Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is located behind Wockhardt Hospital (on the same building). This building is right next to Sigma mall.

Register on wikipedia

Yours truly theatre
Presents
Theatre Sports
(For the First Time in India )

Theatersports is comedy, improv, theater, and sports all rolled into one!
Teams of improvisers create scenes based entirely on audience suggestions.

This show is similar to the popular TV show “ Whose Line Is It Anyway “.

The show is result of intensive workshop by Adam Dow
(Originally from Seattle Theatersports) .

.So join us for an evening of theatre and sports!

Date – 20th Dec, Sunday (20/12/2009) | 7pm |  100/- tickets
Nayana Auditorium | Venue Map http://www.yourstruly-theatre.com/nayana.jpg

For telebooking call 9845243051/9845853093 or email yourstrulytheatre@gmail.com

Yours Truly Theatre
Presents
“DON’T MAKE me laugh”
An interactive theatre show
Date with us saar & madamu on 12th Dec 2009 ( 12/12/2009)
at  7pm saarp uu.
Since you are not a celebrity nor page 3 personality,
we will charge you wonly hundred rupueesu.

Venue – swami come to JC road, if you daant know that valso,
Come to corporation circleuu, within Ravindra kalakshetra, you will findu Nayana Hallu.
Still gotteelaa!!! click maplinku http://www.yourstruly-theatre.com/nayana.jpg
 
Yen show ri! Wat show is this da! 
aiyooo we also daant know sir, you come, we will listen
 to your isstory and performu some natakka and you full maaja maadi!
 
Yeen Sir! Still doubta ?? callu 9845853093/ 9845243051 or mailu yourstrulytheatre@gmail.com
and ticket book maadi! yella wokay! Life serious yake!
 
Dan’t forgetu to check namma situ – www.yourstruly-theatre.com

Yours truly theatre
Presents
MUSHAIRA THEATRE
(an interactive theatre in Indian style)

Date – 13th Dec, Sunday( 13/12/2009) | 7pm |  100/- tickets
Nayana Auditorium | Venue Map http://www.yourstruly-theatre.com/nayana.jpg

Online booking – http://indianstage.in/
For telebooking call 9845243051/9845853093 or email yourstrulytheatre@gmail.com | visit yourstruly-theatre.com
A perfect blend of poetry, theatre, audience interaction & Indian-ness, Mushaira theatre aims to celebrate the rich tradition of mushaira & kavi sammelan in totally young & contemporary setting.

In India Sher’o shayari has crossed the boundaries of all language or religious biases and has truly become a ‘language of expression’ for many Indians. We are excited, to have created this perfect platform where the common man like us could  share self composed shers and shayaris, listen to others creation and appreciate these forgotten treasures hidden in dusty books of individuals.

Interactive theatre is very widely popular in west, however India is just waking up to this new revolution in theatre. Yours truly theatre is very proud to present a format of theatre which will adapt interactive theatre in a completely Indian avatar.

So time to open those old diaries where you wrote your heart out or just come & share your favorites compositions or choose to just sit back and enjoy this unique evening.  However don’t forget to say ‘Wah wah’ at the end of the day.