Encounters Film festival Awards Streamed Live
November 22, 2006 Posted by Clare in : Digital Challenge, Media, Events, News, Awards , add a comment
The Awards ceremony of Encounters 12th International Short Film Festival will be streamed live online on Sat 25 Nov 19.15 (GMT) at http://www.encounters-festival.org.ukCombining the very best live action and animation short films Encounters takes place at Watershed, Bristol and is a major celebration of the present and future of short film-making.
If you can’t get to the festival, then join us online to watch the Awards Ceremony live for the announcement of fifteen prestigious awards and an evening of nail-biting suspense, special guests, glittering prizes and cinematic surprises!.
The stream will be live at http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk or http://www.dshed.net/studio/events/encounters/encounters.php on Sat 25 Nov at 19.15 (GMT). In addition a selection of special events will be archived online at the Encounters website after the festival.
Connecting Bristol is the city’s response to the Digital Challenge.
Connecting Bristol is the city’s response to the Digital Challenge.
Eurocities
Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Digital Challenge , 2 commentsI am trying out moblogging (posting messages to this site from my mobilephone). I am using email rather than SMS but still pretty cool ‘if’ it works (I have every confidence in Oliver - the Watershed’s technical guru)
I am heading upto Manchester later today with Cllr Janke (council leader) and Terry Wagstaff, Assistant Chief Exec. We are attending a major Eurocities event.
Bristol’s e-innovation project, Campaign Creator http://www.campaigncreator.org is on the shortlist for a European Participation award. I will post a message from tonight’s awards event if (when?) we win.
Connecting Bristol is the city’s response to the Digital Challenge.
Knowle West Media Centre meets Chris Pickering
November 21, 2006 Posted by Roz in : Education, Digital Challenge, Wireless, Community Media, Media, e-society, Learning, Skills, jobs, Technology , 2 comments26 October 2006
I travelled to KWMC where I met with Chris Pickering, Director of Future Learning, a social enterprise providing training opportunities in Knowle West. Chris told me about his involvement with Knowle West Web and how he has worked closely with Kevin and Diane Jeffries to support them in putting local people on line.
Chris talked about Knowle West and said that the day has gone when you could get local people to go into spaces for training. He told me that he thinks that local people want less consultation and more action. He said that, instead of trying to get people to attend training sessions, the emphasis needs to be on going into people’s homes to work with them.
Chris told me that he has recently obtained funding from UKonline for someone to go around door-to-door to do training in internet and email and also to help people work out how they can use digital technology to ends that are useful to them. He said that Steve Woods of Bristol Wireless has been doing this to a certain extent already.
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What about older people?
November 20, 2006 Posted by Clare in : Digital Challenge, Mentoring, Skills, Connecting Bristol , 2 commentsLast week’s visit from Stephen Dodson and Bert Provan (Chair of the Digital Challenge judges), seemed to highlight the need for us to look carefully at what we are offering older people. There are some fantastic and diverse projects going on already:
Mobile Bristol and CLASS
Members of CLASS, a self-directed group of older people, have recorded and edited their wartime childhood memories based in Southville, Bedminster and Redcliffe to create a landscape of digital stories using mobile technology. The software for the project was provided by Mobile Bristol, a project that enables people to augment their neighbourhood with sounds and stories.
