After three days of marathon digital workshop, let's gather at our #FreedomMarathon closing event in London🇬🇧

📣Meet us at the Tabernacle, Notting Hill on September 18 📣Thoughout the day, we will present the outcomes of the workshop discussions and announce our next steps to build a Union For Democracy 🔛

Join our discussion with pro-democracy figures, leading activist groups face-to-face; feel the struggle and resistance of activists through art and documentary! Join our full-day activities to celebrate the power and resilience of freedom fighters across the world.

Here’s the run-through 

🎊10:00 - 10:30 am | Opening

Speaker: Andrea Venzon, co-founder of Atlas

💬10:30 - 11:15 am | Panel Discussion

Topic: "Authoritarian threat abroad: how it impacts democracy at large"

Speakers: 

• Vladimir Ashurkov, Executive Director of Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation
• Finn Lau, Hong Kong activist 

📣11:15 - 11:45 am | Announcement: Democracy Address

Speaker: Colombe Cahen-Salvador, co-founder of Atlas

🍚11:45 - 12:30 pm |  Lunch break

📽12:30 - 2:00 pm   | Movie Screening: "Dear Future Children"

Watch the documentary "Dear Future Children": follow three young activists in Hong Kong, Chile and Uganda and told their struggles to fight for a fair and equitable world.

💬2:00 - 2:45 pm | Post-screening panel discussion

Topic: "When it's David vs Goliath, how can freedom struggles succeed?" 

Speakers:

• Rajat Khosla, Senior Director, Research, Advocacy and Policy, Amnesty International
• Jacqueline San, spokesperson of Burma's opposition National Unity Government (NUG) campaign UK
• Franz Böhm, documentary director of "Dear Future Children"

🖼2:45 - 3:00 pm | Exhibition

Join this powerful art exhibition to stand in solidarity with freedom fighters from Hong Kong and Belarus, to Venezuela and Sudan! Featuring artwork from Belarusian activist Walery Martynchik, photographers May James from Hong Kong etc! We will also set up booths for you to write and send letters to the political prisoners in Hong Kong, Belarus and more!