Talkaoke

Talkaoke will be outside Tate Modern on the water front under our new gazebo gathering chat and discussion from visitors and passers by. This event is in association with Southwark Council and we will have some potential new young hosts having a go in the middle of the table.

We will be in west London at the Creative Futures Launch party. Creative Futures is a new initiative dedicated to new thinking in the creative industries. If that’s you sign up for the event at http://www.creative-futures.co.uk/

There’ll be games, music, dj’s, interactive art installations, a Talkaoke mobile chat show and plenty of opportunities to meet new people, organisations and clients.

Come and explore, discuss, make new connections and find out how Creative Futures can help you build your creative business in 2010. Drinks for the early birds courtesy of Creative Futures and Great Western Studios.

The event will be taking place at: Great Western Studios, 65 Alfred Road,London,W2 5EU

Talkaoke carries on in it search for new and exciting hosts as well as improving the skill of current chat show hosts. This training session will be at FIX COFFEE, 161 Whitecross Street, London EC1Y 8JL. So come down and join in the discussion and help some of our new hosts, or simple listen and enjoy the conversation.

If you are interested having a go at hosting Talkaoke please contact Asia: asia@thepeoplespeak.org.uk

After the excitement & success of the 13th Anniversary, Talkaoke got back into the flow of it’s Host Training Sessions; and, to continue the change of location theme, was at The Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston.

The two Errey sisters were the main hosts for this session having both not hosted a Talkaoke for a while. And being a host training session in a bar allowed for wild conversations on topics such as the area Dalston and it Argos which apparently is like no other Argos, and there was Fernando and his amazing 80’s drum machine fresh out the box.

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For the first time Talkaoke will be at ‘Late at Tate’ at Tate Britain, as part of the Great British Art Debate, talking about all things Art and all things not but it’s also a chance to discuss topics around the questions:

1. Is British Art a British fantasy?
2. Should the public have a say in what’s in museums?
3. Should Art be good for you?
4. Is Art too popular or not popular enough?
5. What does the Art of the past say about today?

Talkaoke will be in the David Hockney (room 28) on the ground floor.

If you can’t be there you can still take part via our live stream at justin.tv/thepeoplestream and twitter.com/thepeopletweet

In association with Tate, we will be at the new Westfield Shopping Centre in Shepherds Bush as part of the Great British Art Debate. Talkaoke, as always, is an place where people can talk about what ever subject people want to talk about, but this is also a a chance to think about some questions on art such as:

1. Is British Art a British fantasy?
2. Should the public have a say in what’s in museums?
3. Should Art be good for you?
4. Is Art too popular or not popular enough?
5. What does the Art of the past say about today?

Currently the times of the event are unconfirmed.

In the build up to The People Speak’s ‘Planetary Pledge Pyramid’ game Talkaoke drummed up some interest and debate to get the ideas flowing as part Cop15 campaign to stop climate change in Copenhagen. Arthur hosted the debate as people discussed what needed to be done to help combat climate change. The setting was the marvellous complex of DGI Byen which had been seeming taken over for a week of protesting and discussion.

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It’s the 13th Anniversary of Talkaoke! That’s right on this day 13 years ago the very first ever Talkaoke mobile talk show session took place in the vibe bar, brick lane. The table may have changed designs over the years but the concept hasn’t. And to mark this momentous occasion Talkaoke was in the Dragon Bar on Shoreditch High Street.

This video is a few snippets from the evenings session and, being a host training session as well, a few of the participants got their chance to ave a go in the middle of the table.

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The Global Talkaoke Portakabin at Rådhuspladsen

In preparation for the Planetary Pledge Pyramid game show on the 18th December, the Talkaoke table returned to the big globe at Rådhuspladsen for another day of public brainstorming and perspective-widening chit-chat.

We streamed the event live from our new Justin.tv account, and there was tweeting to @thepeopletweet

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