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30 questions to put community into film
Are you wanting to use film/video as a tool in community development or community engagement? Check out this post from the Community Media Activist blog for some questions to help shape your project… »
Exhibition of Participatory Video by Palestinian Refugees
Side by Side Online Gallery is pleased to present the Stars of Bethlehem Exhibition. Stars of Bethlehem is a participatory video project that worked with young Palestinian refugees in camps in Bethlehem in 2007. This exhibition features 3 of the films made by young film makers during the project, representing their experiences and lives... »
Marie-Eve Leduc – Participatory Video Practitioner (Part 2)
In Part 2 on Marie-Eve Leduc’s work with Participatory Video and her 2007 work running a PV project with 6 Palestinian youths in Bethlehem, Marie-Eve talks about her motivations and approach to PV and reflects on how her own identity as foreign facilitator may have influenced the direction of the youth’s films, despite efforts... »
Marie-Eve Leduc – Participatory Video Practitioner (Part 1)
This is the first in what I hope will be a series about artists and practitioners who bring together collaborative ethnography and art. This first feature is about Participatory Video practitioner Marie-Eve Leduc. It is accompanied by an exhibition in Side by Side Online Galleries of 3 of the films made by young Palestinian... »
Participatory Video Handbook
For those interested in practical tools to help undertake Participatory Video projects, you can download a free 129 page handbook on using Participatory Video in the field made by InsightShare, an organisation experienced in using Participatory Video in diverse settings, with a focus on development. Click here to link to the handbook, which is... »
PhotoVoice Charity turns 10 years old
Interested in global movements in participatory photography? Check out the newsletter from PhotoVoice marking their 10 year anniversary… »
Online images from “Places I Carry With Me” exhibition
For those of you interested in seeing works from my recent exhibition at ANCA Gallery in Canberra, Australia, but couldn’t make it in person, there are now a selection of images from the show on display in the Side by Side online gallery. »
searching for eldorado
In the growing tradition of using participatory photography as a tool in the empowerment of marginalised young people, the searching for eldorado project (procurando eldorado in Portugues), which happened in Sao Paolo, Brazil in 2004/05, got young people (10-18 yrs) from that community to create a picture portrait of their community using digital photography.... »
More on digital storytelling…
On the theme of digital stories (see previous post) I realised that I have not posted anything about some of the foundation organisations of the digital storytelling movement- for example the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkley California which has established a model of digital story telling that has been widely taken up and... »
Digital Stories about experiences of mental illness
Launched this week at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, Australia was a series of short films (digital stories) made by people who have experienced mental illness about their paths to recovery. They have been posted on the Mental Illness Education ACT website as part of their community education and storybox program.... »