Some of you may already know that Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) and Lawrence Lessig (CEO Creative Commons) are on their way to South Africa in April as part of the Free Culture tour organised by iCommons.
This tour will culminate in a live music event on the 20th April entitled “Bring & Braai“. The name refers to the social aspects of burning music and other content on CD’s and sharing it with friends.
It’s being held at the Armchair Theatre in Obs on the 20th April (this venue was chosen because of it’s vociferous support for free artistic culture in SA).
The Muso’s have organised a kickass music lineup of some of SA’s hottest new bands, who will lead the way in freely licencing some tracks on the SA Free Music Database.
Bring & Braai is about more than just entertainment and speeches though, as Heather Ford (Executive Director of iCommons) explained (<< video) at the recent 27dinner. The Free Culture cause is a matter of protecting our rights to create and share content online, which are currently under threat from the old guard who are scared by the emergent online culture of open-access citizen media.
iCommons is looking for some sponsorship of the event, as well as a bit of help with the publicity. Us bloggers can do help by writing about it and linking to the Bring and Braai blog. The buttons I’ve used were created by Shinjuku for this purpose, you can use them too.
oh waily waily waily!
why not gauteng!?!?!? I want to see it tooo!!!! unfair unfair unfair!
Good job to you & the crew bru, Shinjuku too (for the gorgeous graphics but DOESN’T HAVE A BLOG – how do we link to him!?)
SOOOO looking forward to the fun
Event of the year. Is the armchair big enough?
Where will we braai? Can we burn the armchairs?
Adrian, lol… Sorry bru but Joburg actually did have the last CCsalon event. You okes can’t have it all.
Maxos! You link to Shinjuku’s Flickr profile… but the genius IS getting a blog very soon
Graham! The Armchair is a highly exclusive venue where only 300 of our closest friends will fit in… but only if we don’t burn the seating!
This 20th of April thing sounds great!! I’ll kill music critics and narrow minded producers to be there! hehe.. joke..
I’ve got my own feelings about CD burning… isn’t it funny that the term is ” burn” ? When you burn something, you destroy it, right? Something to think about so long…
Until the 20th…
Peace
Roelof
Ok Roelof… We’ve got to chat then! Looking forward to it!!
See you there Dave. Thanks for letting me know
Nice Al! Will be good to see you there mate.