Word Power & Tommy Goes Caracas

For those of you bored by the Edinburgh Festival’s corporatised version of contemporary culture, various strands have arisen in the past couple of years in opposition. For the first year of the Edinburgh Fringe Word Power has organised a series of events throughout August including:

- 60th birthday event with TOM LEONARD who launches his new poetry collection
- JAMES KELMAN in discussion with psychotherapist Peter Kravitz former Editor of the Edinburgh Review in the early days.
- SCIENCE FICTION and POLITICS EVENING

POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS:
- Editors of 'We are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism'
- NEIL DAVIDSON on 'Scottish Imperialism and National Identity'
- MIKE GONZALEZ on 'Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution'
- TERESA HAYTER on 'Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls'
- HOUZAN MAHMOUD, UK Representative of The Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq
- BILL DUNCAN, author of The Smiling School for Calvinists, on his website the haar - journey through a North-east post-fishing community

All events are free or by donation - Wordpower has no corporate sponsorship!!

Other treats are “Tommy Goes Caracas” by the Camcorder Guerilla Group that screens at the Cameo as part of the Film Festival on the 23rd / 24th August.

For those who can't make it through to Edinburgh check out the VENEZUELAN NIGHT A night of Venezuelan Films, Debate, Music and Food in Mono (Glasgow) on Thurs 12th August from 8pm - Midnight for a sreening plus a chance to find out about the controversial referundum taking place there later this month. For more on the situation try here at Venezualan Analysis.