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Orator at Speakers' Corner in London, 1974 Speakers' Corner, April 1987. A Speakers' Corner is an area where free speech open-air public speaking, debate, and discussion are allowed. The original and best known is in the north-east corner of Hyde Park in London, England.
www.northstarnsw.com was launched in November 2011. It was a community run and built website featuring a calendar of events, Speakers Corner (a page for discussing community issues and achievements), as well as information on the local P & C and CWA fundraisers and events. The CWA were involved in the creation of the website.
John Webster (December 1913 – 15 December 2008), also known as Mo(u)hammed Jon Webster, or more simply just Webster, was a soap box orator and public speaker, primarily at Speakers' Corner near Marble Arch at Hyde Park, London and beneath the Moreton Bay Fig trees of The Domain, Sydney from the early 1950s till the late 1980s.
The Speakers' Corner in Singapore is an area located within Hong Lim Park at the Downtown Core district, where Singaporeans may demonstrate, hold exhibitions and performances, as well as being able to engage freely in political open-air public speeches, debates and discussions.
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Speakers Corner began in 1990 with a video booth outside the Citytv studios in Toronto. [2] The booth's original intent was for viewers to record news commentary and "letter to the editor" segments for broadcast on CityPulse, [1] but the booth soon proved so popular, with many segments being recorded that fell far outside the initial concept, that the decision was soon made to create a full ...
From September 2000, it also serves as a registration centre for anyone who wishes to give speeches or set up events at the Speakers' Corner. In 2005, the Hong Lim Park Open Stage was refurbished to incorporate a modern-looking pure Teflon tentage that preserved the historical stage layout of the 1950s.
After leaving Second City, Howell and colleague Andrew Currie formed the comedy duo The Devil's Advocates; styling themselves as devil-horned spokesmen for Satan, they began regularly appearing on Citytv's Speakers Corner to present sarcastic commentary on videos recorded by other contributors. [5]