‘Lift throws open a window to the world, bringing global stories to London and transforming the city into a stage…’

Throughout the festival The People Speak will be running, or working on, various events. They are hosted by the likes of Amy Lamé and other London notables. Mikey and Zsolti will be at each, knocking up instant visualisations and harvesting ideas for the concluding Who Wants to Be…? session on 26th June.

Children of The Revolution

Young people can’t breath because baby-boomers are sitting on them.

Somehow they’ve got to wriggle free. This event looks at how the next generation takes power, bringing together young councilors, occupiers, housing militants, agitprop TV makers, an MEP and genuine, bone-fide revolutionaries.

Does anyone offer change we can still believe in? Compered by Amy Lamé, including the Pirate Party’s Amelia Andersdotter (Europe’s youngest MEP), Mike Harris who became a Lewisham Councillor aged 27, Adebusuyi Adeyemi of the Young Fabians, Clapton Ultras, Lili Dmitrovic of People’s Republic of Southwark, Holly Baxter of the Vagenda, Emma Mulqueeny who runs Young Rewired State,Heather Kennedy from Hackney Renters and Duncan O’leary research director of the think tank Demos. We have also recorded an interview with Jolyon Rubinstein and Haydon Prowse of The Revolution will be Televised for this event.

You can purchase tickets for each event on the lift website

Other Lift events The People Speak will be at:

12 June – With the Lights Out it’s Less Dangerous
18 June – Some People Think I’m Bonkers But I Just Think I’m Free
25 June – This State of Independence Shall Be
26 June – Who Wants to Be …? The Change They Want to See