Events

Tell All Printing Press
Visitors submitted their own confessional short story to the Tell All Printing Press, a modern printing press housed in a purpose built factory. A pamphlet will be produced by BAD IDEA editors using your contribution and distributed on the evening.

Soapbox Documdrama’s
The opportunity to sit at a school desk and write a personal anecdote. A group of roving improvising actors from The Lab dramatised your life in front of your eyes.

The Modern Confessor
The confession booths in the Cast Courts offered new age gurus, mute marionettes, and bellowing queens from art collective ContainerPLUS offered realistic, modern solutions for your everyday problems.

Screenings: The Art of Confession Film
Short confessional films created in collaboration with BAD IDEA magazine and 4Docs.

Living Novel
Performers, courtesy of The Fix comedy magazine, acted out scenes from famous contemporary novels amongst the crowd.

Workshops
VIsitors learned how to storyboard non-fiction comics and illustrate real life experiences with BAD IDEA artists. The best entries will be chosen to be included in the Tell All Printing Press pamphlet.

Blog Master Class
The art of online confession, and how to turn your personal stories into a compelling and entertaining blog. Lead by professional bloggers from BAD IDEA and Guardian Unlimited.

Talk: The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard
A discussion about the future of publishing in the digital age, where literary editor Tom Bromley (Portico) and agent Charlie Campbell (Ed Victor) went head to head with web evangelicals.  Is the ‘democratisation’ of literature and journalism via the web leading to more puerile and amateur content? Or are the literary elitists out of touch and holding back the art form? Selected panellists discussed, chaired by author Mil Millington.

Plus DJ sets by Rough Trade DJ’S Green Gartside (Scritti Politti) and Geoff Travis.

BAD IDEA magazine
www.badidea.co.uk

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