The Frontline Club is pitching a big tent at the BYLINE FESTIVAL of Journalism, held in Pippingford Park in East Sussex on the weekend of 2-4th June. Come and join us!

Subtitled, ‘A Riot of Free Speech’, Byline is Britain’s first ever festival of journalism. There will be a mix of comedy, music, workshops, screenings, activism and debate. A gaggle of the great and the very-funny: John Cleese, Martin Bell, The Blow Monkeys, Luke Harding, Lenny Henry, Tom Holland, Hugh Grant, Jack Monroe and plenty of other people and bands you admire and love, all in one forest clearing. More details here.

Frontline Tent Schedule:

• Friday midday: First Aid Refresher Course for any freelancer
• From 6:30pm: Welcome Party – JJ running the bar
• Saturday Breakfast with Radio 4
• Norfolk Mezze all day
• Photography Portfolio Reviews, Book Signings
• Saturday 6pm: Tent Quiz with John Sweeny

Be warned: war stories may continue all night; the Frontline tent has a license past 2 am!

Building of Olympic Stadium, Sochi

Photographer Rob Hornstra and writer and filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen have been working on The Sochi Project since 2009. The Sochi Project seeks to document the development of the Black Sea city – and the wider Caucasus region around it – in preparation for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.

The Sochi Project is about working in a challenging region, finding ways of telling complicated stories to a large audience, as well as setting up an independent, crowd-funded and self-published medium.

In the workshop on Saturday 2 November, Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen will guide participants through the production and publishing of a project on this scale. Including:

• How to survive in the ‘everything for free’ age?
• How to set up the project – allowing you to create and publish the stories the way you want, in your own voice.
• Learn to see opportunities and make your future.

Schedule:

10:00 – 11:30am: The Sochi Project – an introduction to the project
11:30 – 11:45am: Break
11:45 – 1:15pm: Setting up the project: On crowd-funding, finding strategic partners and do-it-yourself principles
1:15 – 2:15pm: Break
2:15 – 3:45pm: From travels to book, newspaper or exhibition: finding the right form for every story
3:45 – 4:00pm: Break
4:00 – 5:30pm: How to survive as a writer and photographer through collaboration & experimentation

Portrait of Nikolay, Abkhazia

The infamous village of Gimry, Dagestan

All images © Rob Hornstra, courtesy Flatland Gallery NL|Paris.