CMW 2011 – Saturday 5th November

10.00am-3.00pm Sainsburys Fosse Park – a special community news cafe hosted in the store cafe. Includes young people supporting fundraising efforts in store for Paralympian Kenny ‘Mooseman’ Churchill.

* Kenny Churchill – Taking pictures of Kenny to support his run to 2012. Photos to go onto his blog. Pictures of Kenny wearing Sainsburys t-shirts, holding/promoting Sainsburys Paralympic merchandise, pictures with young people and Sainsburys staff.

*Photo Session – pictures of young people wearing Sainsburys t-shirts, holding Sainsburys Paralympic merchandise.

*Interviewing – Interviews with various Sainsburys staff members, Sainsburys customers and others. Interviews conducted by volunteers and young people.

*’How to’ workshops – Small how to workshops for young people or people interested in community media. Eg, how to write an article, how to take a photograph etc…

* Mooseman Fundraising – A big visual on the wall of Sainsburys and encouraging the Sainsburys customers and young people to stick on their spare coins to the visual.

* Pre animation workshop – Having the outline of a simple shape on a piece of paper and having young people/young customers to design their own animation characters. The character can then be handed to James and Andrew to be properly animated at a later date.

Kenny is supporting the Citizens Eye project called CMC2012 – this is a 9 month program of events and activities taking place at Phoenix Square Film & Digital Media Centre. It launches on Tuesday 17th January and will act as a focus for regional 2012 activities.

10.00am-4.00pm ‘Cycles and Suffragettes’ will be hosting an event that includes a led bike ride of Blue Plaques around the city celebrating local women such as Alice Hawkins who were active in the suffragette movement.

At the Phoenix Square Film & Digital Media Centre as part of Community Media Week we will be showing films on women’s cycling.  There will also be talks and an opportunity to find out about current cycling activities for women in Leicester.

A hundred years ago Alice Hawkins would have been cycling around Leicester promoting the suffragette movement and causing a stir for being one of the first ladies to cycle wearing pantaloons in the city.

Now we can celebrate that, as well as having the vote, women are free to enjoy cycling.

• 10.00am – a chance to meet organizations promoting women’s cycling at the Phoenix Square
• 11.00am – start cycle ride around Blue Plaques
• 12.00am - flash mob – watch this space for the city centre focal point nearer the day! Enter into the spirit of the event – suffragette costumes, banners, placards and bicycles are thoroughly encouraged!
• 12.30pm – process back to Phoenix Square
• 1.15pm – talk by Anna Scull of Sustrans & Janet Hudson of British Cycling ‘History of Women Cycling’
• 2.00pm – first film ‘Peddling to Freedom‘ (28 mins) – Screen Lounge screening
• 2.45pm – talk by Peter Barrett (Great Grandson) of Alice Hawkins
• 3.15pm – 2nd film ‘Day I Became A Woman‘ (78 mins) – Screen Lounge screening
• 7.00pm – main film in Screen Room for the event -’2.2 Seconds’ (100 minutes)

Check out the Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/cyclesandsuffragettes

To reserve a place on the Blue Plaque ride email the organisers on cyclesandsuffragettes@gmail.com

6.15pm Dogwoof Ambassador screening of ‘Page One’ – Phoenix Square - With the Internet surpassing print as our main news source, and newspapers going bankrupt, Page One chronicles the media industry’s transformation and assesses the high stakes for democracy. The 2nd DocFilm Festival takes place on 20-22 Jan 2012 organised by Citizens Eye and the ‘Festival Ticket’ goes on sale at the premiere of Page One. Priced £15 the ticket includes access to all film screenings and workshops.

The main film will have a short 3 minute film screened before it as part of a somehwhereto_ ’show my film’ by a 16-25 year old local filmmaker Rosie Johnson.

The film deftly makes a beeline for the eye of the storm or, depending on how you look at it, the inner sanctum of the media, gaining unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom for a year. At the media desk, a dialectical play-within-a-play transpires as writers like salty David Carr track print journalism’s metamorphosis even as their own paper struggles to stay vital and solvent, publishing material from WikiLeaks and encouraging writers to connect more directly with their audience. Meanwhile, rigorous journalism—including vibrant cross-cubicle debate and collaboration, tenacious jockeying for on-record quotes, and skilful page-one pitching—is alive and well. The resources, intellectual capital, stamina, and self-awareness mobilized when it counts attest there are no shortcuts when analyzing and reporting complex truths.

A screening part of the Pop Up Cinema program. Citizens Eye will be extending invitations to local community media colleagues as well as representatives of regional mainstream media. Tickets £5.00 – please book online or purchase at the ticket office.

Filmmakers Showcase in Screen Room – once again for the 7 days of Community Media Week the Screen Room has been secured to offer local filmmakers a ‘free’ 15 minute showcase for new films or host a first large screen viewing for community groups.  Bill Newsinger, Keith Allott, Victor Gonzales, Steve Friendship and James Black have all provided films for screening. If you are a local filmmaker and you want to discuss taking a 15 minute slot please email editor@citizenseye.org

Pukaar News – the news team will be providing filmed coverage throughout the week so check out www.pukaarnews.com

Community internet & FM radio stations will be broadcasting regular interviews and news updates throughout Community Media Week. These include Oak FM, Hilltop Radio, Demon FM, EAVA FM, Kohinoor Radio FM, Sabras Radio …. more joining regularly.

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