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08.11.2023
We are delighted to announce the Melbourne launch of our new book Radical Intimacies, Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities (Intellect). The book will be launched in a special series of talks and conversations in collaboration with the Melbourne Free University in November and December. Read more about the talks and find out the dates below.
See more about the book here: http://www.memefes…
05.02.2020
This OPENBLOG 2020 theme is for all MEMEFEST MEMBERS to freely participate in.
The idea is to help each other on MEMEFEST get to know and understand what you represent in 2020 on MEMEFEST. What identity you have and through this, knowledge can be shared and collaboration may form between people that you may never have considered talking to or collaborating with.
Discovering similar intere…
04.02.2020
With strong feelings we are announcing the world premiere of Thieves in Our Home!
Thieves in Our Home shows Aunty Hazel, the founder of the Grandmothers Against Removal, as she explains how it feels when Aboriginal children are forcibly taken away as part of an ongoing process of colonization in Australia. This film is an exploration of radical intimacies inviting us to listen and see a whole …
06.01.2020
We're launching the first edition of the Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaigning Manual, a culmination of two years' worth hard work from our core group of 20+ helpers and includes field wisdom from over 100 kickass organizers and campaigners who contributed.
A bit more promo before we get to downloading:
14 detailed how-to guides on cutting-edge approaches to progr…
25.10.2019
This year seven members of the international Memefest network from Slovenia, Australia, USA and Canada will meet in Baltimore (Nov 4.- 22.), invited by Goucher College, to collaborate with Black Yield Institute, Goucher students, academics and members of the community.
Memefest has in its 17 years history a rich experience of implementing its methodology in various contexts, cultural setting…
02.09.2019
24.06.2019
A CALL TO RESPOND
Issue six of the Equal Standard finds us delving into the world of extremes. Let us know what you think! We are now accepting written and artwork submissions until 5 AUGUST, 2019. To find out more, visit the submission page of the website: https://theequalstandard.wordpress.com/call-for-submissions/
How do we as a society make space for the “extreme”? How could we come to a…
09.06.2019
We have lately again become interested into Culture Jamming, a practice we have been very involved in in the early 2000' and have been nurturing for many years. At the very start of Memefest Culture Jamming was central to our understanding that we can reclaim the media and that media interventions should to be fun.
Lot's has happened since than and Culture Jamming became for a while very popul…
11.02.2019
The Situationists had an immense influence on Memefest from its very beginnings in 2002. The concepts of détournement and dérive played a big role in developing our own tactics and are still part of Memefest arsenal of tools when we develop public interventions or teach about them.
One of the very important tactics Memefest used is publishing, which we see as a intervention into the public sp…
24.12.2018
Food democracy is sold out and is now being reprinted. The only change will be a slightly thicker cover. Thinking of the undisciplining and extradisciplinary nature of our intellectual cullture, methodology, pedagogy, our activist history and not at least the very publishing culture behind this book we like to think of this as a great achievement. This would not be possible without the deep colla…