A new series of talk and discussion, from the People Powered Press. The idea is simple - Local people, doing good stuff, talking about in and inviting discussion on a theme.

First up - How do we change our world?

Featuring Mek Summat founders Jenna & Adam; activist Ludi Simpson and community producer & strategist Naji Esiri.

Pay as you feel on the door.

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Our first event features local speakers looking to make a change in the world, each going about it in a very different way and from a different place;

MEK SUMMAT: a Bradford based endeavour into the arts, headed up by Jenna Greenwood and Adam Blackwood. Dedicated to a DIY approach to making good things happen and underpinned by a no-guff guarantee.

Jenna & Adam discuss their adventures in art and DIY community projects, their Pins for Peace collaboration with the Peace Museum and the day-to-day realities of meking summat happen.

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‍LUDI SIMPSON: Ludi hasn’t changed his drive to change the system for 6 decades, which could make him uninteresting. A refugee mother from 1930s Germany and a year in Cuba as a teenager set the tone of his politics. After 40 years in Bradford, understanding climate collapse changed his direction on retirement.

He has been secretary of the Bradford-Shipley Travel Alliance, and then arrested multiple times for raising the heat of climate crisis publicity with Just Stop Oil – including *that* soup Van Gough soup-throwing incident. On most issues he says he is ‘just a spokesperson for United Nations policy’.

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NAJI ESIRI: Naji has spent past decade decoding what makes impactful communities, advising the likes of Monzo, the BBC and Nike on engaging meaningfully with their audiences. He’ll be talking about the unique role digital communities assume in shaping tomorrow’s social and cultural landscape.

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We hope you can join us for what we hope will be a really interesting evening shared with interesting people with good hearts and something to say.

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