‘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.

Some people think I’m bonkers, but I just think I’m free

A celebration of campaigners who demand things they know they’ll never get in The Yard Theatre, Hackney Wick.

Yesterday’s eccentricity has a funny way of becoming today’s common sense. This is a celebration of people who campaign for unlikely things. Why do they do it? When will they stop? Are they making a point, or do they really believe that a change is gonna come…? Compered by Ivor Dembina with Henry Hemming author of In Search of the English Eccentric, Ellie Harrison who runs Bring Back British Rail, Campaign for Greater London National Park, British Naturists, Wessex Regionalist Colin Bex and Trenton Oldfield who disrupted he Boat Race in 2012 in a quest to ‘end elitism.’

You can purchase tickets for each event on the lift website

Other Lift events The People Speak will be at:

25 June – This State of Independence Shall Be
26 June – Who Wants to Be …? The Change They Want to See