Great chat on the roots and future of democracy, from our Zoom watch party (with Patrick Chalmers and Mary Valiakas) for "Out of The Ruins"

On June 22, we were delighted to host the online launch-event for Out of The Ruins, a 30-minute documentary made by leading “citizen-journalist” Patrick Chalmers (well profiled on these pages) - a meditation on forms of bottom-up democracy and assembly, using material and voices recorded during the Greek elections last year.

Above is the intro and the Q&A session with Patrick, hosted by visionary for the future of Greece (and A/UK friend) Mary Valiakas, and featuring a lot of voices from sign-ups - fascinating and informed content.

We’ve taken the documentary out of the video above, as the recording on the night was a little choppy - but please take the time to watch it, if you missed it, at this link, or click the embedded YouTube at the end of this blog.

Patrick was very keen to stress on the night that if any community or locality wanted to build a film-night around the documentary, their documentary team would be very pleased to assist, maybe even attend (online certainly, and conditions permitting, offline). If you’re interested, please contact Patrick here.