This autumn, discover the freshest air of Digital Culture at the Canòdrom, where you'll find all kinds of proposals on digital rights, climate emergency, collective memory, digitalization in cooperative culture, or free video games.
Open Mics! The Canòdrom Celebrates Festa Major | October 3, 7 PM
At the Canòdrom, we hang the banners between the Congrés and Indians festivals and open the Ràdio Canòdrom microphones to community projects from these neighborhoods and beyond, with whom we collaborate throughout the year. In this live podcast, with the Barcelona Community Radio Network, we will feature initiatives focused on reconstructing historical and collective memory, learn about proposals to address the climate emergency, and review the current state of digital rights.
Ràdio Canòdrom returns with the second live podcast for the Barcelona Community Radio Network, concluding with a celebratory live music performance by the band Km.0.
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Unconference on Video Games as Tools for Change in Our Society | September 26, 5-7:30 PM
What capabilities do video games have to shape our lives and the society around us? This unconference, which is a non-conference, will involve collective knowledge to generate a debate on the most interesting topics related to video game creation.
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Deactivating Hate: Combating Discrimination in the Digital World | October 31, 7:30 PM
To what extent is freedom of expression legitimate when it violates other fundamental human rights? Intolerance and hate attacks on individuals and specific groups on social media generate violence. But why are social networks such fertile ground for hate speech? How is money connected to this phenomenon? Is another internet, leaving no one behind, possible?
A roundtable composed of experts from Es País Valencià, cuellilargo, Fembloc, and Proyecto UNA will attempt to answer these and more questions about hate on social media.
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EinESS Debates: Open Technologies and Activism | November 13-20, 7-8:30 PM
The EinESS virtual series is characterized by showcasing projects, platforms, methodologies, and open and free digital culture technologies of high value for cultural environments within the social and solidarity economy (SSE). The goal is to promote and disseminate technologies, services, methodologies, and best practices for cultural ecosystems and social sectors throughout 12 sessions that will blend talks, exhibitions, roundtables, workshops, demos, and artistic actions.
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Godot Engine. An Introduction to Free Video Game Creation | November 18 to December 9, 5-8 PM.
Godot Engine is a multi-platform, free, open-source game development engine. If you want to start creating your own video games with an open tool, this is your workshop, with the guidance of video game developer and university professor Rafa Laguna.
