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11th May 2007 M For Media Malarkey
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ACCOMMODATION |
FOOD - there will be vegan food served during the weekend in the Cowley Club.
CRECHE - will be running Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday 11am-5pm - but please contact now so we've got an idea of numbers.
LAPTOPS - if you are bringing a laptop which you want to connect to the video projector for a display/screening/talk please bring your stuff also on CD, just incase it goes pear shaped.
For more logistical/organisational details click here
For more info email schnews@brighton.co.uk
tel 01273 685 913
Here is the current schedule - watch
for updates...
(the timing of some sessions overlap because there will be two
discussion spaces plus video projection room). If you have arranged
to do a workshop, but it doesn't appear - please email us now.
Click here for full list of Collectives attending.
FRIDAY |
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7pm - welcoming shenanigans, sorting accommodation, creche, equipment etc 7-10pm - Stalls and screenings |
SCREENINGS 7-8pm - SchMOVIES
V for Video Activist. The video arm of SchNEWS.
Short campaign and direct-action films from 2006/2007. |
SATURDAY |
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| TALKS | |
| 10-11am - Crystal Balls opening blurb, go-round, forum/discussion about the role and future of alternative media. As organisers, people from SchNEWS will describe what we hope to get from the weekend, while everyone will be welcome to voice opinions about what are the key discussion points. |
Screenings - films featured during the weekend will also be repeated at various times, as well as other unannounced short films inbetween, and films which people have brought along. Film listings will be posted up on the day. |
| 11am-12pm - Radio - Pennie Quinton will talk about making Indy Global Reports for Resonance FM 104.4 and radio production in Palestine for IMEMC.org (The international Middle East Media Centre), as well as grass roots journalism in conflict zones.. | 11am-1pm - Photography indepth practical workshop in photojournalism looking at use of digital cameras, photography skills, editing and preparing photos on computer and online publishing. |
| 12-1pm - P for Peer2Peer VISIONonTV talk about the beginning of the end for mainstream media, with high quality people2people TV over the web. How can we make the current dotcom boom into a media revolution? | |
| 1-2pm - Lunch | |
| 2pm-4pm - Sourcery - Discussion
addressing all media: what can we learn from journalistic and
investigative research methods. This will be a chaired, open
discussion featuring people with a range of tactics and approaches
including a covert campaign-based researcher, corporate research
from Corporate
Watch, and journalists involved in investigative and
localised research.
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2.30-3.15pm - Talk and Q&A session with Ben & Becca from S2S - who made the film Taking Liberties - about detailed film/video research - how to source information, copyright, and cataloguing it. |
| 3.15-4pm - IndyPhonics - discussing ideas for an Indymedia Audiobook Project. As well as reading and recording books published under free license, looking into ways of making the feature content of Indymedia websites possible to listen to. | |
| 4-5pm - Mobile Indymedia - setting up remote media hubs for an event such as the G8 protest in Scotland in 2005, or last year's Climate Camp, as well as the role of Indymedia as part of - or as a 'service provider' for - the protests. | |
| 5-6pm - Indymedia - a discussion of the future of Indymedia, and what some of the regional groups have planned, as well as a general discussion open to all about how Indymedia relates to other alternative media. | |
| 6pm onwards - buffet food | |
| . | SCREENING - 6-6.45pm - VISIONonTV - The Future of DIY TV - Some of VISIONonTVs shows plus the best and worst of internet shows from around the globe |
| SCREENING - 6.45-8.15pm - Camcorder Guerillas The Scottish film collective screen two new films: Salud Y Solidaridad (Health and Solidarity) - Zapitista film to raise money for a Health clinic in Mexico, and Those Left Behind - Asylum film focussing on the traumatic effect on local residents after the forced removal of a family in Scotland | |
| SCREENING - 8.15-9pm - Revolt Video Collective - the second video compilation from the Ireland based film collective. With the current news from Rossport. | |
| 9pm - Live Music - surprise
special guest pisstaking singer-songwriter. |
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SUNDAY |
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| 11am-12pm - Sex It Up A critical look at flyers/leaflets and other print media evaluating what works best, from a design and content point of view. | Screenings - films featured during the weekend will also be repeated at various times, as well as other unannounced short films inbetween, and films which people have brought along. Film listings will be posted up on the day. |
| 12pm-12.30pm - Desktop Publishing (DTP) practical workshop looking at page layout, design and software | |
| 12-1pm - Video Outreach without YouTube - VISIONonTV show you how to encode and upload screening quality video over the web to 100,000s of people. | 12pm-1pm - Setting up a community radio station, from OX4FM, an Oxford-based group who have grown out of sound systems and pirate radio in the area. |
| 1-2pm - Lunch | |
| 2pm-3pm - Promoting Campaigns - activists involved in such campaigns as the Titnore Woods protest camp, Smash EDO, and others will talk about how they have generated the publicity needed to raise awareness about the issue in their local communities and beyond - including making their own media, using the usual alternative medias, as well as the mainstream. | |
| SCREENING - 3pm-3.30pm - 'Community Action' - made by residents associations in Haringey, about how ordinary people in a London borough are organising to empower their communities to improve their lives and the environment. | |
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3.30pm-4.30pm - Mobilising Communities - following on from the screening of 'Community Action' people from Haringey will talk about ways they work within a broader community, which will follow onto a discussion open to all about everyone's experiences with reaching outside political circles. |
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4.30-5.30pm - Closing discussion - feedback about all the sessions, and plans for the future. Is alternative media getting out to enough people outside the bubble, or are we just an inhouse information service for those in the know? |
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| 5.30pm onwards - buffet food | |
| SCREENING - 6-7pm Undercurrents - Eco Village Pioneers - latest film about how people have come together to build their own homes, grow their own food and create their own sustainable commmunties | |
| SCREENING - 7-8pm - Cine Rebelde - Reclaim Power - Voices from last year's camp for climate action, in preparation for the camp this year with a talk about this year's Camp for Climate Action | |
| SCREENING - 8-9pm - Rice'N'Peas Films - Bang Bang In Da Manor -a hard hitting documentry film on gun crime in the black community, described as one of the most disturbing documentarys made in Britain. | |
| SCREENING - 9-10pm - rolling short film compilation - bring your films to be screened here. |
* Undercurrents will be recording a live TV programme over the weekend to be webcast on VISIONonTV
Keep checking this webpage for updates.
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