Name: Sphera Media Lab — Independent Effect
Start: 2025-01-23T09:30:00+01:00
Location: LaVallée

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INDEPENDENT EFFECT
Sphera Media Lab is coming to Brussels and bringing together media actors from across Europe for a day of talks, workshops, live recording and screenings to celebrate independent media and their impact as essential pillars of a functioning democracy.
Jan, 23rd 2025 — La Vallée, Brussels
Rue Adolphe Lavallée 39, 1080 Brussel, Belgium
All formats are free, registering is recommended.
Registering links: linktr.ee/europeanlab
Sphera Media Lab is powered by European Lab & Arty Farty, in collaboration with Sphera.
10:30 – 12:30
WORKSHOP · HACKING SOCIAL MEDIA ALGORITHMS TO PUSH INDEPENDENT MEDIA COUNTER-NARRATIVES
10:30 – 12:30
WORKSHOP: RETHINKING THE NEWSROOM AND ITS BIASES
10:30 – 12:30
WORKSHOP · HELPING YOUNG EUROPEANS TO BREAK BOUNDARIES WITH CROSS-BORDER JOURNALISM
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10:30 – 12:30
WORKSHOP · ENGAGING COMMUNITIES THROUGH COOPERATIVE MEDIA MODELS
14:30 – 15:30
TALK · THE PODCAST COUNTER-NARRATIVE: TOWARDS A HEALTHY PUBLIC SPHERE
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15:00 – 18:00
RADIO SET · VOICES IN EXILE: STORIES FROM AFAR
�In partnership with Voix en Exil, Les Contistadors & Hôtel71
15:00 – 18:00
SCREENINGS · SPHERA DOCUMENTARIES IN CONVERSATIONS
15:00 – 15:45 | Climate Activist LOTTA by VD News�
16:00 16:45 | Popaganda with Transistence,
17:00 – 17:45 | StreetPress with KOP (Episode 2: Looking for Neo-Nazi Supporters in Poland)�
15:45 – 16:45
TALK · FRONTLINES OF THRUTH: DISINFORMATION IN REPORTING ON AGGRESSIVE POWER STRUCTURE
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17:00 – 18:00
TALK · DEMOCRATISING THE INTERNET WITH INDEPENDENT MEDIA: THE NEED TO BUILD NEW SPACES FROM SCRATCH
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18:15 – 19:15
TALK · INDEPENDENT MEDIA: A CONTINENT AT THE CROSSROADS
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This discussion is part of the Reset! Live Podcast series.
19:30 – 22:00
NETWORKING, DRINKS & DJ SET