When: Sunday, 14. March 2010 19:30
To: Sunday, 14. March 2010
Where: London, The Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
More info: www.englishpen.org/events/penevents/thebiglibelgig/

There will be a very eclectic line-up of famous names including Dara Ó Briain, Robin Ince, Tim Minchin, Shappi Khorsandi, Marcus Brigstocke, Ed Byrne, Professor Brian Cox and Professor Richard Wiseman.

The Big Libel Gig will also include a chance to hear from Drs Ben Goldacre, Simon Singh and Peter Wilmshurst, who have all felt the full force of England’s libel laws. They’ll talk frankly about how the libel laws have affected them personally.

Stars of the show will tell the audience that England’s unjust libel laws are preventing free speech and open criticism of big corporations and powerful institutions. They will call for others to support the campaign for a public interest defence and join them in signing the petition for libel reform at www.libelreform.org.

The Big Libel Gig will be the culmination of Libel Reform Week, which will raise awareness of English libel laws and urge political parties to commit to major reforms before the election, in the interests of fairness, the public interest and free speech. The campaign has gone from strength to strength with 197 MPs signing Parliamentary Early Day Motion 423, Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, leading Tories and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg MP all praising the campaign after over 10,000 letters were sent to MPs.

This is a one-off benefit event to raise money for the Libel Reform campaign being run by the Coalition for Libel Reform, established by the charities Index on Censorship, English PEN and Sense About Science.

How to book:
You can buy your tickets online from SeeTickets.com, at the theatre’s Box Office in person and by telephone on 0844 4124657.

We look forward to seeing you at the campaign’s most important, funny, thought-provoking and staggering event of the year so far.

If you can’t make the gig, other ways to support the campaign include donating through the dedicated JustGiving page or email donate@libelreform.org for more information.

http://www.libelreform.org/sign

The Libel Reform Campaign is a coalition of English PEN, Index on Censorship and Sense About Science.

So far, 197 MPs have signed our Parliamentary Early Day Motion calling for libel reform.