Pussy Riot, Birgitta Jonsdottir, a "Bill of Wrongs" and Gary Lineker. Engage yourself at the Byline Festival

We were celebrating the rise of the "engagist" (rather than "escapist") festival last week, with our co-initiator Pat Kane's Guardian article, and our round-up of festival gurus on the future of the form.

Coming up next weekend is a paradigm example of festive engagism - the Byline Festival, organised by the journalist's club The Frontline Club, and with an eclectic star line-up of Pussy Riot, Badly Drawn Boy, Blow Monkeys, John Cleese, Gary Lineker and Alexei Sayle (tickets available here, on midday 24th, to 5pm 27th August, at Pippingford Park).

Their theme this year is "The Spirit of '68: Dance, Discuss, Laugh and Change the World" - and looking through the highlights page, they'll do a fantastic job of summoning up the spirit of that era, with activists and incandescents from the present day:

Sara Kendzior on Trumpocracy • Carole Cadwalladr on The Fifth Battlespace: Information Warfare • Putin's World Disorder with Luke Harding • Making Black Lives Matter with Bonnie Greer • and much else here...

We are also intrigued to see the return to the UK of ex-Pirate Party poetician from Iceland, Birgitta Jonsdottir (profiled recently here), who is proposing (along with Jamie Kelsey-Fry of Occupy) to source from the event's crowd a "Bill of Wrongs" (see graphic at top of post, full page on site) They'll convene a "People's Assembly" to do so, assisted by software from citizens.is (the original digital democracy platform). Birgitta will also speak about her "Adventures in Democracy"  and "Fearless Cities" on two other panels.