The lovely people at VisionOn.tv are organising a training course tomorrow, “It’s a free short course in fast-turnaround activist news reporting, being held at the Forest Cafe”.
Citizen TV Reporter Training
When: Saturday 24th July 2010 – 10am-6pm Come and meet everyone and watch
some films at 7pm on Friday 23rd July
Where: Forest Cafe <http://theforest.org.uk/>, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh
EH1 1EYCost: Free / donation
Places are limited, so please fill in the
application form at http://visionon.tv/training/application. Lack of
experience is no barrier. Commitment to making social change with video is much more important!
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Video Training for Social Change
These reports can be made by absolute beginners, or by people with skills but little time.
Make watchable and effective films for the widest possible audience.
Our training programme is bold and unique. We have taken away the obstacles to making effective films by radically simplifying the whole process. Come to the workshop to learn how to make fast-turnaround video news reports. Our production templates will enable you to make films with whatever equipment you already possess. You can even make videos with no camera at all!
Please bring the items of portable recording equipment you have – video camera, stills camera, mobile phone, laptop computer. We will use them during the workshop.
Please note: to complete your productions, an extra session on Sunday morning (at Forest Cafe) will be necessary.
Members of Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group recently returned from the Zapatista-controled areas of Mexico, where there’s a Health Centre built using money raised by the group. Their grassroots, all-volunteer effort has raised more than £24,000 for some of the most marginalised people on the planet. That’s some fine aftertaste for your coffee.
This meeting features a speaker from Chiapas on the ever-precarious situation there.
AUTONOMY, REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE
EDUCATION, HEALTH, LAND,
JUSTICE, SELF-GOVERNMENT…
WALKING NEW PATHS
Speaker from Chiapas at Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, 7:30pm, Weds 21st. Admission Free.
Hope to have some comments on the film festival later in the week, but first I’ll draw your attention to 2 fun things happening in town this week.
On Wednesday, there’s a celebration of the life & work of Eduardo “Open Veins of Latin America” Galleano. Starts 7.00 at the Tollcross Community Centre, 117 Fountainbridge. Full listing at Indymedia.
Potluck and film night for the monthly social event of the Edinburgh Anarchafeminist Kollective!
Please bring some food to share, and maybe something to eat it with, to ACE at 8pm on Friday March 26th. Film will start at 8.45pm. We hope to be screening “De Toda La Vida: All our lives” – a film about the Spanish Anarcha-feminists Mujeres Libres who were active in the Spanish Revolution, in the 1930′s. We have a second film about the situation of women in Cuba which we will show if time permits.
The Edinburgh Anarchafeminist Kollective hopes to be holding social events monthly, on the last Friday of the month. Check out our website for more information!
Next week sees a cluster of events under the banner of Edinburgh Feminist Freeschool. See the full schedule here. Most of the events are on the 17th – 19th, and some (those on the Saturday) are women / trans only.
Topics include Self defense, massage, women & the middle east, home schooling, poetry, polyamoury and bike maintenance.
