I have produced numerous live events for clients including openDemocracy, Verso Books, The Dig, Progressive Economy Forum, Politics Theory Other, and Macrodose. I oversaw every stage of production, from speaker booking and ticketing to press relations, communications, social media, A/V capture, and digital curation. Every event listed below sold out.
Macrodose LIVE: The Future of Global Capitalism
Date: July 2024
Link: Listen on Apple Podcasts
Description: A sold-out Macrodose live event at London’s Union Chapel with an audience of 900. Featuring Dalia Gebrial, James Meadway, Thea Riofrancos, and Asad Rehman.
The DIG & Verso LIVE: The Future of Global Politics
Date: July 2024
Link: Listen on Apple Podcasts
Description: A collaboration between Verso Books and The Dig Podcast for another 900-person sell-out audience at the Union Chapel. Eleanor Penny of the Verso Podcast and Dig host Daniel Denvir sat down with writer and academic Laleh Khalili and newly independent MP Jeremy Corbyn to discuss the future of internationalism.
New Media for a New Economy Conference
Date: June 2024
Link: SPACE4
Description: An all-day conference at SPACE4, Finsbury Park, bringing together thought leaders in progressive media and economics. The event fostered critical engagement with new media among key institutions in the new economy movement.
Macrodose LIVE: Budget Breakdown
Date: November 2024
Link: Listen on Apple Podcasts
Description: A special live event to mark the 100th episode of Macrodose. James Meadway was joined by Green Party Co-Leader Carla Denyer MP, economists Faiza Shaheen and Grace Blakeley to break down Labour’s Autumn Budget. This event took place with an audience of 50 people at SPACE4, Finsbury Park.
PTO Live! w/ Gargi Bhattacharyya, Richard Seymour, and Eleanor Penny
Date: June 2024
Link: Listen on SoundCloud
Description: A live discussion at SPACE4, Finsbury Park, where Gargi Bhattacharyya, Richard Seymour, and Eleanor Penny explored the fascism debate, disaster nationalism, and the relationship between fascism and racial capitalism.
openDemocracy: How to Fix the UK’s Crisis of Care
Date: July 2023
Link: Read more on Verso Books
Description: A live event in the Palace of Westminster hosted by OpenDemocracy, Autonomy, Verso Books, and War on Want. This discussion tackled the UK’s deepening care crisis—where unpaid carers and underpaid workers struggle within a broken system. Speakers included Nadia Whittome MP, Helen Hester, Asad Rehman, Emily Kenway, and Adam Ramsay. This event was attended by a sell-out audience of 60 people.
Boomerang Premier
Date: November 2022
Link: BOOMERANG Q&A with Owen Jones, Kojo Koram and Dalia Gebrial
Description: ArtHouse Cinema Crouch End hosted a premiere of the new openDemocracy documentary ‘BOOMERANG: How the legacies of empire breaking Britain’s economy’. Filmed beside Liverpool’s docks, once the site of the largest slave-trading port this side of the Atlantic, the film traces how empire created some of the UK’s most loved institutions but also the unequal Britain seen today. The documentary ultimately explores how an honest reckoning with the legacies of empire can help build an economy that works for all. Following the screening there was a Q&A inside the theatre with the film’s narrator Kojo Koram, writer Dalia Gebrial, and journalist Owen Jones. The full documentary – starring John Barnes, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial and Labour MP Clive Lewis – is available here: BOOMERANG: Empire and Britain’s economy.
Macrodose LIVE: Where Next for the UK Economy
Date: November 2023
Link: Listen on Apple Podcasts
Description: To celebrate Macrodose’s first anniversary, we hosted our first live event at SPACE 4 in Finsbury Park. James Meadway was joined by Labour MP Nadia Whittome, Senior Fellow at the Social Market Foundation Shreya Nanda, author/Guardian columnist Owen Jones, and a live audience of 50 people to discuss the future of the UK economy.
Progressive Economics 2022
Date: June 2022
Link: Progressive Economy Forum
Description: Hosted in partnership with the University of Greenwich, PEF’s first Progressive Economics conference brought together 500 attendees for a day of debates and discussions on the cost of living crisis, the future of work, climate disaster responses, and the political economy of Russia’s war.
Speakers included: Michael Marmot, Caroline Lucas MP, Ed Miliband MP & over 50 more.
Watch recordings of the sessions here.
Nadia Whittome MP’s account of the day.
Freddie Stuart 