Real Talks@ April 24th @Hoxton Hall

Thought I'd give a mention to this event coming up next week at Hoxton Hall, called Real Talks. It's curated by friend and Bedsit show director Stef O'Driscol and Kam Sandhu who runs the excellent REALFARE blog). The event aims to highlight important issues, affecting us all,  through talks and performance.

The first event is called A Jobs's Worth and includes a decent list of panellists (have a butchers at the flyer below), all talking about employment, Unfortunately I won't be there as I'm doing another gig, but you can peep my pasty mug alongside a bunch of other superstars in the trailer below..

All In This Together Video

I came across this video today which I'd thought I'd share. One of the things I enjoy about the internet is the little trails I end up going on which lead me to places which can lighten up my day. One of these such trails happened for me when I was looking at some photos that the director of the Bedsit show and friend Stef O Driscol had put on facebook of the Million Mask March, so I ended up having a butchers at the site, subscribed to an RSS feed and saw this today...

It's called "All In This Together." Are Benefits Ever A Lifetsyle Choice? by a group called Dole Animators

I enjoyed it for a number of reasons. The subject matter is serious and I think they get their point across from the start, but what I really liked the way they have gone about it. I like the mix of still drawings, plaster-scene and audio, which is all dealt with sensitively. They could have gone for the big tear-enduing string arrangements that coerce you into symapthy, but they didn't, they used real stories from real people, it made it very watchable for me, and as I said, it's an important issue and deserves a quality video.