Checkout the newest offering from the Neighborhood Story Project in New Orleans: “After a season of writing workshops on the backside of the Fair Grounds, the Neighborhood Story Project has produced an exhibition of open letters written by jockeys, trainers, grooms, hotwalkers, veterinarians and track employees… Each year, more than 700 workers arrive in...
Out of South Australia comes the newest incarnation of Big Stories Small Towns, a project in which resident film makers have made portrait films about people in the communities of Port Augusta, Murray Bridge and Raukkan. There are also some films made by community members themselves, these are well worth having a look at,...
Have a look at the latest posting from the Stories Project - “Villawood Mums” is a powerful film telling the stories of the mothers of two young refugee film makers living in Sydney that contrasts the experience of the two women who arrived in Australia as refugees with their families, a decade apart. Nothing...
One thing I love about the interweb is the way that people are sharing their skills, knowledge and methods with each other to further creative practices, rather than focusing on profit… Using creative commons licenses Curiousworks has developed an online toolkit for artists, educators, media makers, community organisers with very practical step by step...
Check out a cool project that is using participatory video making to link communities in the western desert and the western suburbs of Sydney. The Stories Project – hosted by Curious Works in collaboration with Martu Media has brought together young film makers from the western desert and refugees living in western Sydney to...
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...
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...
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...
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....