OTR 1 Year Anniversary | FSU Guest Speaker
About this Event
🥂Celebrating Off The Record’s First Anniversary with a Guest Speaker from the
Notes from the Hostess:
It is remarkable to think that only a year ago Off The Record hadn’t even existed as Project, let alone a Community or a Platform.
Late in the evening of August 2025, I was finalising the logo, and getting the first domain name (which, I must admit, wasn’t even fully suited to the purpose) as well as making preparations for the first “pilot” Session — without any Guest Speakers as such — and purely advertised as a concept, just to see if anyone would be interested in coming together at all.
About a week later — on the 5th September 2025 — we have held our first “Pilot Session” at Louis Marchesi, where roughly 10 people came together for the first trial discussion of this kind. I am very happy to say that as of August 2026, we’ve now got a Community with a few hundreds of people keeping tabs on the Sessions, a presence on Meetup, Eventbrite, Social Medias, WhatsApp Group, and a Newsletter. We’ve had just under 15 Sessions with politicians, academics, legal professionals, and professionals from a wide range of other fields.
I personally find it quite symbolic and cathartic to be welcoming a Representative of a Free Speech Union as a Guest Speaker of Honour on the date of OTR’s First Anniversary, given the close similarity in foundational values and beliefs.
— Idalia Kulik
We welcome you to join us on this celebration:
🗓️ 27.08.26
🕕 18:00 doors open; 18:30 start
📍St Giles House
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