Tomorrow the Under the Mud Bus will be parked outside John Lewis at Liverpool One. Cast and crew will be there signing posters and talking about their amazing journey from Garston to Cannes and Hollywood! It will be decorated with images of the film – you won’t miss it!
Facebook, tweets, video, podcasting – Free digital Media Workshops
If you are involved in a voluntary arts group you can receive FREE communications training from Media Trust as part of Up For Arts.
All workshops are FREE but places are limited so book quickly by calling The A Team at BBC Radio Merseyside: 0151 794 0984.
Here are the goods…
March 6th: Maximise Social Media.
Facebook, Twitter and more. Get to grips with social media. Learn about the tools, concepts and best practice to get the most out of digital spaces.
Venue: The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX
Time: 10am – 1pm.
Please note places are limited to 15 people.
March 10th: Community Newswire (60-min opening session + bookable appointments.)
Find out what makes news, how journalists think, and an easy way to get your press release out nationally, regionally and locally. One to one help available for your press releases.
Venue: Performance Space, Hanover Street, BBC Radio Merseyside, Liverpool
Time: 10.30am-11.30am – What Makes News? One on one sessions: 11.45 until 3.15.
March 11th: Introduction to digital photography.
How to use digital photography to promote your group. Participants will develop a clear understanding of the photographic camera through practice.
Venue: The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX
Time: 10am – 1pm.
Please note places are limited to 8 people.
March 13th: Getting Your Message Across.
Communicate the right messages to the right audience, whether raising awareness about your activities, campaigning or updating current members with your latest news.
Venue: The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX
Time: 10am – 1pm.
Please note places are limited to 15 people.
March 20th: Writing for the Web.
Get a head start with our writing workshop for websites, learn how to write well for blogs, emails, newsletters, wall posts, tweets and get the right people following you.
Venue: Tate, Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4BB
Time: 10am – 1pm.
Please note places are limited to 15 people.
March 27th: Producing Podcasts to tell your story
Podcasting offers a simple and effective method of getting your message across to thousands of people that visit your website. Learn about the software you need for recording and uploading your podcasts.
Venue: Tate, Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4BB
Time: 10am – 1pm.
Please note places are limited to 8 people.
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Open Culture – brilliant!
Have a look at Open Culture’s site and get involved.
Phil Redmond explains what it’s all about…
Open Culture – a resource that is designed to allow anyone to engage in and create culture – whatever that is – rather than just consume it.
It’s your online space to use as you want. Share your culture be it an event, photo’s, artworks, poems, rants – you name it.
It is not perfect nor, I suspect, will it ever be, as one of the key roles, perhaps characteristics, of the term culture is to question. To challenge. To be disruptive in the way technological innovation is disruptive by changing the way things have always been done.
It should, at the same time be reassuring. Reinforcing both traditional cultural values while at the same time reaffirming the right to think differently. To depict the world in both recognisable ways but also taking new and different angles. Or should it?
The debate should be endless as it should be timeless, having been around as long as the first guttural sounds became language and cave paintings were open source. Use it how you wish. Comment and post as you wish. Suggest improvements. It’s only a start.
The debate should be endless as it should be timeless, having been around as long as the first guttural sounds became language and cave paintings were open source. Use it how you wish. Comment and post as you wish. Suggest improvements. It’s only a start.
There are no real rules, just principles. At the moment it is funded. In the future it needs to be
self-sustaining. When is not clear. But in the cultural world, what else is new? For now, it is here and will be around through 2008 and designed as a legacy project. But what is that? Discuss?
The over-arching principle though is Open Culture. You can be as controversial, cutting or as critical as you wish while remembering two things. The law of the land and no pseudonyms. Who cares what Scottydog or Mysticman or whoever thinks? Be open. Be honest. Be prepared to be challenged. If you can’t, don’t. You’re missing the point. Start a blog.
So tell us what you think. What you want. What you don’t want. How it can help, or even how it can hinder. Open Culture should be a central resource that will point and redirect to other endeavours. It is not designed to displace but to facilitate. It is there for everyone to use as they wish, moderated only by its user community.
You can access as individuals or you can rent space as an organisation. It will show you how to set up your own site, or direct traffic to your existing site. You can come looking for information or you can post information. Look for something cultural to do, or promote your own event. You choose.
It’s not perfect, but it’s a start. And it will grow and get better through 2008. It can be as big or as unused as its cultural community chooses. Working together.
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Free Screening of Under The Mud
UP FOR ARTS & BBC Radio Merseyside
Under the Mud Screening
2006, 12A, 85 mins, Dir. Sol Papadopoulos
Wednesday 24 February 2010
6:30pm Performance Space, BBC Radio Merseyside
FREE
UP FOR ARTS is proud to present a free screening and Q&A with director, producer, screenwriter and cast of critically acclaimed Merseyside film, Under the Mud, at BBC Radio Merseyside’s Performance Space on Wednesday 24 February at 6:30pm.
The locally based film was written by Liverpool teenagers in collaboration with award winning Production Company, Hurricane Films (Of Time and the City) will screen in the heart of the city as part of the Up For Arts project. The project is a ground breaking initiative funded through the Learning Revolution Transformation Fund and delivered by Voluntary Arts England and BBC Radio Merseyside.
Under the Mud, set in Speke and Garston, Liverpool, both areas of high unemployment and one of the worst teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, the feature film is the result of a screenwriting project with Interchill, a youth led community centre in between the two towns.
After two years of workshops, the young writers produced a funny, bright and compelling script, which acclaimed actress and director, Kathy Burke described as ‘a beautiful read’ – advising them not to ‘change a word’. The film stars Drew Schofield (Scully) and Kate Fitzgerald (Brookside), and features stand up comic Keith Carter along with a host of talented new comers to the silver screen.
Under the Mud is set over twenty four hours, depicting a hectic day in the life of a family from hell. The feature centres on the Potts household, home to teenage slacker, Magic, who is such a part of the furniture that his longing for the eccentric beauty Paula Potts goes completely unnoticed. To Paula, the love of his life, he’s just her twin brother’s best mate.
With the family set on a course of self-destruction, aided by an old enemy of dad’s, and Paula arguing with her imaginary friend about running off to Ibiza with the local slime-ball, Magic realises that he only has a few hours to save the family, get the girl and change all of their lives.
A wonderful, magical, uplifting tale…may be the best British film
you’ll never see The Guardian
Little Miss Sunshine meets Shameless. Daily Mirror
Tickets will be allocated on a first come first served basis, to add a name to the guest list call BBC Radio Merseyside’s A-Team on 0151 794 0984
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Celebrate the Chinese New Year with FREE Calligraphy workshops
Friday 19th and Saturday 20th February
So, you might have thought that New Year had already been and gone, but on February 14th it’s Chinese New Year. To welcome you to the year of the tiger, Up For Arts is giving you the chance to try your hand at the ancient art of Chinese Calligraphy free, with artist and calligrapher, Cathy Wu.
Where’s it happening?
Friday 19th February
10am – 1pm
Main entrance atrium, Royal Liverpool University Hospital
For patients, visitors, doctors and nurses alike!
Saturday 20th February
12:45pm – 4pm
Entrance to the market, St John’s Shopping Precinct.
Put your shopping bags down and dabble in something new.
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Things we like
Learn more. Make your brain bigger.
Have a look, get involved. Simple. As. That.
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Free Workshops from our lovely Partners, The Media Trust – Get it whilst it’s hot!
Quick, quick, quick!
If you’re involved in organising or running a voluntary arts group in the Merseyside area, then listen up! We have free, yes FREE communications training available from our lovely partners at the Media Trust.
If you want to learn more about digital media, everything from photography, writing for websites to help promoting your group, then scroll down the list of courses that you can attend… quick though, places are limited.
Media Trust are specialists in helping the voluntary and charitable sector develop its communication skills, is running a series of introductory workshops covering a variety of skills and areas. All the workshops are FREE but places are limited so book quickly by calling The A Team at BBC Radio Merseyside: 0151 794 0984.
Welcome to the revolution; it’s warmer inside.
February 17th: Meet The Media Trust (drop in surgery/pre-booked appointments)
Find out how you can improve your communication, reach new members and share news about your organisation using free services provided by Media Trust.
Venue: Performance Space, Hanover Street, BBC Radio Merseyside, Liverpool
Time: 10.30am until 1pm and 2pm to 4pm: appointments will be available at 30-minute intervals with Adam Perry, Community Channel’s Outreach Manager who will be able to advise you on the options available to you and your organisation.
February 20th: Introduction to photography workshop
This first in a series of workshops aimed at helping voluntary arts organisations find out how they can use digital media to promote their work. If you want to find out how photography could help you this is an ideal introduction to the subject. The aim of this half-day session is to allow the participants to develop a clear understanding of the photographic camera through practice.
Venue: The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX
Time: 10am – 1pm.
Please note places are limited to 10 people.
February 27th: Producing Podcasts to tell your story
This workshop is aimed at helping voluntary arts organisations find out how they can use digital media to promote themselves and their work. A practical workshop providing hands-on experience that will teach you how to create a podcast, offering a simple and effective method of getting your message across to thousands of people that visit your website. You will learn about the software you need for recording and uploading your podcasts.
Venue: The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX
Time: 10am – 1pm.
Please note places are limited to 8 people.
March 10th: Community Newswire (60-min opening session + bookable appointments.)
Are you looking to turn your community’s news into news headlines? Do you want to find out how to write a press release? Community Newswire is a service provided by Media Trust in conjunction with Press Association, find out how you can use it to help your organisation communicate with the press nationally, regionally and locally. Joanna Inskip, Community Newswire Manager will open with a session on What Makes News? And then be available to help you on a one to one basis with your press releases. If you have written a press release and would like advice please bring it to your appointment.
Venue: Performance Space, Hanover Street, BBC Radio Merseyside, Liverpool
Time: 10.30am-11.30am – Opening Session “What Makes News?” Appointments: 11.45 until 3.15.
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On the airwaves
So we have some excellent coverage from our partner BBC Radio Merseyside. If you missed any of them here they are, or have a look at our ‘On the Air waves’ page.
Breakfast from 18th – 22nd January, featuring Wirral Pipeband, Merseyside Guild of Weaver, North End Writers, Purlesque and Ray Jones.
Showcase event, Saturday 30th January
Sean Styles – Pottery Fun!
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Live streaming – The School of everything
There’s an exciting presentation happening now…here http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-learning-revolution-school-of-everything
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