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Mainstream Partnership Training for Freelancing

Contributor — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:01:14 +0000

Mainstream Partnership invite you to take part in our first training event of the year on the 18th January 2012, at DEDA, Derby.

This course will look at the world of freelancing, covering the start up, and development as a creative enterprise. Mahmood Reza will enable people considering the freelance world to appreciate some of the main financial and business issues. From planning to pricing, customer needs to cash flow, you will walk away from this day equipped with a wealth of practical information to apply to your unique circumstance.

For more information and to view all our events vist our booking page: http://www.mainstreampartnership.eventbrite.com

£20 Non Members

£10 to Members of Mainstream Partnership

http://www.mainstreampartnership.co.uk

Suits & Saris Workshops Dates

Contributor — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:01:09 +0000

Suits & Saris: Workshops Overview & Dates – all workshops to be held over the coming 2 weeks and it would be beneficial for volunteer reporters to attend all 6 workshops.
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Workshop One: Photography - Wednesday 11th 4.30-6.30pm
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Introduction to basic photography skills based around colour, composition, mood and feeling. Explore how a series of photos can tell a story juxtaposed with one image “saying it all”. Young people looking at photographs “that changed the world” enabling them to see the power of photography and the feelings and emotions they evoke. Develop visual literacy and how this can be applied to the photographs they will create for their magazine.
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Workshop Two: Fusion Fashion & Street Style - Friday 13th 3.30-5.30pm
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Explore the nature of fusion fashion it’s nothing new, western and eastern fashions have been fusing for over 400 years. Look at the migrations of textiles and fabrics from the Indian sub continent. Look at how modern street styles have been influenced by the east a simple juxtaposition of “skinny drop crotch jeans” with Rajasthani Jodhpurs; similarly long shirt and leggings mimic shalwar kameez.
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Look at how high fashion houses like Liberty have been influenced by the silk patterns of South Asia. Look at everyday patterned wears such as Paisley and how it has its routes/ roots in South Asia but was renamed because of the mechanisation of its production in Paisley, Glasgow. We will look at these Fashion Fusions and Street Styles through the young peoples eyes in what they see and wear everyday.
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Workshop Three: Body Conscious & Respectability - Saturday 14th 11-1pm
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We experience different emotional responses to clothing; how it makes us feel, move and behave. Young people to explore the emotional response to how they dress in day-to-day wear and “traditional” wear. What is “traditional wear”? does it exist? Look at clothing we take for granted as “traditional” e.g. how the men in the Sikh community wear their turban is it traditional or has it been influenced by the previous 3 or 4 generations in East Africa and military history.
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Some items of clothing are truly global pyjamas, jodhpurs the Paisley pattern and yet they have their routes/ roots elsewhere. Can we research their heritage?
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Dialogues between parents and their children on the appropriateness of dress are universal, and hold ideas specific to the context in which the clothes will be worn, regardless the cultural background of the family (or: Inter-generational dialogue on dress appropriateness is universal and context-specific, regardless of cultural background).
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Explore that young people will always be pushing the boundaries of fashion regardless of cultural identity whether it be a sari blouse that shows the whole arm or the back or even cleavage to the shalwar that is tight and leaves little to the imagination; but are we still being respectful by the fact that the “basics” of the outfit are “traditional”.
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Workshop Four: Wardrobe Stories & Moving Around - Monday 16th 5-7pm
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Personal style might be informed, but is not determined by our heritage background. Heritage background is just one of the many influences on what we choose to wear. This is true across all communities, who haven’t borrowed their dad’s tie or mum’s skirt or some jewellery or accessories. However males may have doubled a kurtar, Nehru jacket with jeans and females with shalwar and jeans or sari blouses with a skirt etc
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Clothing choices are not about a battle between “tradition” and modernity. Sometimes they can be as a backlash against “tradition” but more often it’s a fusion of old and new.
Wherever you move from to wherever you go to, must the dress of people stay the same; and changes are often informed by practicalities like weather conditions.
Changes can also be informed by the need to be “part of the herd” so they will be socially accepted (this maybe truer of the first generation of migrants). E.g. Sikh men cutting their hair and not wearing turbans (in Britain) whereas they would have worn elaborate turbans when they migrated to Kenya and other parts of East Africa.
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Would like the young people to explore the wardrobes their parents but probably more so their grandparents brought with them and how they dressed in the 50’s and 60’s in Leicester prior to South Asian clothing being accessible or more importantly available.
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Workshop Five: Building a Collection & Early Globalisation - Wednesday 18th 4.30-6.30pm
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Generally speaking maybe taking the exhibition and magazine work to the communities not just through physical exhibitions. Young people involved in the project can take it back to the community to discuss how elders felt about dressing in traditional and western clothes upon their arrival in Britain. For some saris are extremely practical in terms of keeping you cool in the heat and warm in the cold. Young people have an opportunity to engage with their communities through interviews and general chats about experiences of migration for some twice (India to East Africa to Britain, West Indies to Britain)
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Explore early globalisation through textile routes/ roots of Paisley and Muslin; irony of migrant workers coming to Britain to work in the textile industries and now the textile industries have migrated back east to cheap labour.
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Workshop Six: Trading Places & Gandhi – Thursday 19th 4.30-6.30pm
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Explore how the Indian embargo on Japanese saris enabled Indian traders direct access to these saris in the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s. This had a direct impact on the growth of the Indian fashion houses of Leicester alongside the business owners newly arrived from the expulsion from Uganda (2012 is the 40th anniversary of the first wave of Indian Ugandan refugees).
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The majority of the Indian communities in Leicester be it Hindu or Muslim are of Gujarati distraction even if their route/ root has been via East Africa. The Gujarati’s for centuries if not millennia have been traders. (“Gujarati’s were trading when England was still a forest” Jatinder Verma, founder and director of Tara Arts). At times, clothing also involves political statements, such as the Swadeshi movement led by Gandhi; the use of an everyday textile like cotton to make a political statement.
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What other political statements have been made through clothing or textiles?
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The cotton trade moved from India to England specifically North West e.g. Manchester to mechanised mills and thus taking trade away. Let us not forget the textile and hosiery industry that brought the migrant communities to these shores. Gandhi is perhaps the most famous Gujarati and a statue of him stands at the bottom of Belgrave Road yet do we question the impact he had on cotton production in the mills of northern England or consciousness he pricked in the minds of the trades and workers unions?

Venue: I’m waiting for confirmation of the room booking at Adult Education. We also have use of the public space in the old library on Belvoir Street (now run by Adult Education) that houses the Leicester People’s Photographic Gallery and the Citizens Eye run Community News Point.

Please meet at former library (entrance on Belvoir Street) on Wednesday 11th at 4.20pm for a prompt start at 4.30pm. If you have your own camera and laptop that you wish to use please bring them along. There is public wifi available in the building.

Thank you for your interest in the Suits & Saris Project. If you have any questions or queries please contact me direct or one of the co-editors Kristina or Abi. These sessions will be facilitated by Dipak Mistry.

I hope you enjoy the project.

John Coster

M 07734 305595

Green Roofs Leicester Masterclass

Contributor — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:41:25 +0000

Cover a roof with soil and plants and you have a green roof. Do this to a shed, outhouse, garage, small roof extension or office/community building and you will have a wildlife habitat that also provides rainwater management, a cooling energy conservation system and of course something that is great to look at!

This inspiring one-day course gives you a great introduction to Green Roofs. It is being organised locally by Transition Leicester, with support of Leicester Friends of the Earth and Leics & Rutland Wildlife Trust, and will be delivered by UK Green Roof pioneers Dusty Gedge and John Little.

The day will include the design, construction and theory of small scale green roofs, and will engage you in new ways of thinking about design! Guaranteed to be inspiring and fun.

There will be a practical workshop to make a mini green roof that you will be able to take home with you.

For more information and to register download the booking form below, or contact Kay Snowdon on kaysnowdon@yahoo.co.uk or 07913 630 291. Cost starts at £50.

For more visit:http://transitionleicester.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/january-25th-green-roofs-one-day-masterclass-in-leicester-area/

Free Equality Law Workshop at African Caribbean Centre

Contributor — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:52:21 +0000

From the African Caribbean Citizens Forum:

We are hosting a FREE Equality Law workshop on 30 January 2012 from 10am-12pm at the African Caribbean Centre on Maidstone Road, Leicester, the details are below

Equality – what it means for businesses.

The workshop will cover:

The purpose of Equality
Who does the law cover and protect?
Responsibilities under the Equality Act
How does Equality affect you as employer (or potential employer ) and as a service provider?
Steps you can take to provide an inclusive work, service environment

Book now to secure your place on 0116 340 0229 or info@kineticlawservices.co.uk

Please circulate to your contacts

Map to the African Caribbean Centre

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/place?q=African+Caribbean+Centre&cid=7162693725092403255

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Get Digital Courses at WEA

Contributor — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:39:42 +0000

Beginners’ guide to digital archaeology and heritageTutor Ulla Rajala

Fee £40.20 (discounted: £36.20) or Free

Venue WEA, 101 Hinckley Road, Leicester

Spring term Monday 12.30–2.30pm, 6 meetings from 20 February

I’m a gardener, why should I use the Internet? Tutor Catherine Magrath

Fee £33.50 (discounted: £30.15) or Free

Venue WEA, 101 Hinckley Road, Leicester

Spring term Saturdays: 4 and 11 February from 10am–3.30pm

Create your own free websiteTutor John Roberts

Fee £67 (discounted: £60.30) or Free

Venue WEA, 101 Hinckley Road, Leicester

Spring term Wednesday 6.30–8.30pm, 10 meetings from 18 January

Summer term Wednesday 6.30–8.30pm, 10 meetings from 18 April

Digital photography for absolute beginners Tutor Catherine Magrath

Fee £33.50 (discounted: £30) or Free

Venue WEA, 101 Hinckley Road, Leicester

Summer term Saturdays 16 and 23 June from 10am–3.30pm

To book your place or request a copy of the course brochure

Call 0116 255 6614 or email: 101leicester@wea.org.uk

Website: www.emid.wea.org.uk

Or call into 101 Hinckley Road, LEICESTER LE3 0TD

New Horizons for 16-18’s

Contributor — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:59:32 +0000

Are you aged 16 -18, not in education training or employment? Do you want to do something different with your days?

If so, New Horizons is an exciting and creative Interactive Media project for young people, who will learn about photography, video and magazine production, website design and job search skills.

Engage Multimedia Ltd is working in partnership with Saffron Arts Forum a local community arts charity to deliver this project.

Beckie Sanderson of Engage Multimedia Ltd, Director of the social enterprise and project tutor said “We are really excited about delivering this project, as it is the first community based multimedia course for young people which offers a level 1 qualification. We have designed this project to develop young people’s job search skills and keys skills in english, maths and ICT. Those taking part will be creating interactive media content for websites, magazines and videos with careers development and enterprise themes, which aim to widen the horizons and aspirations of young people.

Engage and Saffron Arts will be working with a range of organisations to progress young people taking part to gain valuable practical experience that will help them to progress on to further education training and employment. For example Citizens Eye will be offering a training for young people to become young reporters for the 2012 Paralympics.

Kellie Bugby of Saffron Arts Forum says: “This is a brilliant opportunity for local young people to get creative, have fun and learn new skills in our fantastic new computer suite.”

New Horizons is funded as part of the Connexions ESF NEET Program. The project starts in February 2012, at Unit 9 Linwood Workshops, Linwood Lane Leicester, LE2 6QJ. For more information call Beckie or Kellie on 0116 2249790/ 07900002530. Or email: kelliebugby@yahoo.co.uk

Plan W Mental Health Volunteering Opportunities

Contributor — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:49:11 +0000

Plan W Volunteering Opportunity

This exciting 10 week training and volunteer opportunity aims to provide people with a lived experience of mental health problems the chance to build their confidence and support recovery and wellbeing in themselves and others.

For more information visit http://www.networkforchange.org.uk/news/2011/nov/volunteer-training-opportunities-plan-w or contact Fiona Kinsey on 0116 2470335

Takeover Radio Host Media Conference

Contributor — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:03:11 +0000

Takeover Radio is to host a national media conference this weekend which will explore ways of engaging, educating and inspiring young people through media and broadcasting opportunities. The event will bring together media professionals, teachers, youth workers, the voluntary sector and community groups to share advice and ideas.

The conference will be held this Saturday 12^th November and is organised by COMET – The Children’s Organisation for Media, Education and Training. The event will take place at the Visitor Centre in Leicester’s Abbey Park from 9.30am until 4pm.

Takeover Radio was the UK’s first radio station run by and for young people. It trains young people aged 8-16 in the media and provides broadcasting experience. The station broadcasts from Lodge 1 in Abbey Park on 103.2 FM.

The conference will explore ways of using media and broadcasting opportunities to build literacy skills in young people, develop confidence, encourage engagement with the local community and will consider how cross-curricular activities using media platforms can raise attainments.

Takeover’s Co-Director Graham Coley commented:

“We have been working with young people for over ten years now, and many of them have gone on to work within the media. This is a great opportunity for us to pass on our knowledge and to help other individuals and organisations to support young people across the UK with their ambitions to get into the media.”

For more information please call 07899 952241, email news@takeoverradio.com or visit www.takeoverradio.com.

Media Day @ Phoenix Square

Contributor — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:34:54 +0000

11.00am-6.00pm Phoenix Square – Citizens Eye presents a ‘Media Day‘ open to all individuals, groups or community organisations who wish to find out how to use social media to help raise their profile. The day includes:

* Animation workshops (12.30pm & 2.30pm) organised by James Lewis and Andrew Leeke co-Festival Directors of Aniscape Animation Festival 23-25th March 2012 – how to use animation as a tool to help survivors.

* Media Workshops – ‘How To‘ develop new film skills, interview techniques, photography skills and build confidence through broadcasting running throughout the day.

* How can your news agency help us? – find out how the Dzine (disability), HowRU? (mental health), INO Mag (ex-offenders), HAT News (refugee & aslyum), Down Not Out (homelessness), The Human Cost (human trafficking)news agencies could support your campaign.

12.00pm-1.00pm Leicester Heritage News Agency – meeting in partnership with Iain Jaques of Photofinale – the architecture of Leicester and the role of social media in it’s preservation. On this theme Leicester Shire Promotions has launched a new smartphone app for visitors interested in the city’s history and heritage offer. The new Leicester History and Heritage app is available to download for free from Apple’s App Store for users of iPhones, iPads and iTouch devices. We shall be reviewing the iPhone & iPad app during the meeting. If you are interested in being a Walking Guide please click here for more information.

12.00pm-1.00pm Citizens’ Eye Radio – If you are interested in volunteering for local community radio please come down to the Phoenix and find out about the many opportunities available across the city and county. These inlude Hilltop Radio -

Hilltop Radio is a Community focussed internet only ‘radio’ station serving the Borough of Hinckley and Bosworth. The station was established in 2009, with a view to providing mainly speech based community news and features, with a strong community bias.

Hilltop Radio is now looking to create a programme for the recruitment and development of volunteer community reporters, working in conjunction with a range of local partners, in order to provide high quality content for, amongst others, transmission on Hilltop Radio.

2.00pm-3.00pm HowRU? the mental health news agency is holding an open meeting for anyone interested in joining a new group of advocates to act as media spokespersons in Leicester and Leicestershire. The new group is being formed by the HowRU? editor Julian Harrison and John Coster, editor of Citizens Eye.

2.00pm-3.00pm The 2 yp news agency – a workshop covering ‘how to’ set up a school newspaper club. Organised by members of The Ace Project at VAL in partnership with The 2 young reporters.

2.00pm-6.00pm The Third University – volunteers involved in The Third University will be offering ‘free’ workshops to anyone interested in using social media apps or services as tools in their protest toolkit.

Simple Website Building using Wordpress: 1 hour

We’ll show you how you can set up a website using wordpress and turn it into a space to write, to share information or to host your campaign. We’ll go through the basis of using themes, hosting video and audio and writing your first blog post. You do not need to have much technical skills, but you do need to bring your own or share a laptop (this keeps the costs down (free!))

Social Media for Campaigns: 1 hour

This session will take a look at the recent online activist campaigns, the reasons why they went viral and explore the use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and ipadio are a tool for inspiring action and change. Get hands-on experience and advice on how to find, build and maintain a social media community around your cause. Bring your own laptop or mobile phone for additional opportunities to create campaigns, organise supporters and to amplify your message.

Keeping safe when making media: 1 hour

If you are making citizen media on the front line, you need to keep yourself safe. There is a chance that you’ll be more visible to the police or the rioters and with a camera/mobile to your face, there is more chance of being injured. This will be an open discussion to take about the best practice and the legal rights that you need to know if you wish to make media and document dissent.

Call for workshops:

The Third University is looking for people to host short (1hr or less) workshops or discussions on the 5th or 6th of November during Leicester’s 3rd community media week (2nd-8th of November) They can be about anything, really, because we just want to learn from you and to be able to share our skills with each other. We have space – we just have to transform it. If you think you are up for a bit of skills sharing (or have a suggestion about what you might want to learn) tweet us @thirduniversity, leave a comment or drop us a line: thirduniversity@gmail.com

Wednesday 9th November is the date set for another series of student protests in London so why not find out if there is anything you can use to report your experiences online for others to follow.

3.00pm-4.00pm HAT News meeting – the news agency reporting on Refugee and Asylum issues has invited representatives of the Leicester based Afro-Innovation Group to meet and discuss issues around access to the internet and social media.

3.00pm-4.00pm DMU Square Mile Community Journalists - 10 members of the local community from Square Mile will be trained by DMU Leicester Centre for Journalism to write reports on the different Square Mile projects which will then be given to the Leicester Mercury who will run the stories both online and in the newspaper and Citizens’ Eye. If you want to be involved in the project, come down and find out more information.

http://www.dmu.ac.uk/square-mile/projects/community-journalists.aspx

4.00pm-5.00pm Eco Eye News Agency – reporting on Green Issues – meeting in partnership with the Woodcraft Folk organisation. Planning to support the creation of a newsletter.

4.00pm-5.00pm “My 5 Week Trip To International Olympic Academy” – a talk by Jennifer Jones with images – JJ is the coordinator for #media2012, web editor for Culture @ the Olympics and PhD Candidate at the University of the West of Scotland, researching social media and the Olympic Games.

5.00pm-6.00pm Paralympics CMC2012 – “what it means to me” session by Hollie Sturgess – “The Paralympics means to me the realisation of someone’s abilities to enable them to do what they want to do and forgetting they are disabled by the things that they can’t do. I got involved in somewhere_to so that they could provide me with a space to carry out a ‘One Year To Go’ event for the Paralympic Games. I felt the need to mark ‘One Year To Go’ because the Paralympics doesn’t always receive the attention that it deserves. I have finished planning three workshops about the issues surrounding the Paralympic Games which is ready to be delivered to a range of ages and abilities in the build up to London 2012.

Dzine Disability Film Festival

Contributor — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:24:50 +0000

Dzine Disability Film Festival – the disability issues news agency Dzine, run by volunteers is organising a film festival to raise awareness of the work being done in Leicester and Leicestershire.

The Screen Room has capacity for 30 people and is fully accessible. Hollie Sturgess is the Festival Director.

Disability & access information – click here

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Film Listing: a detailed program of screenings is currently under development.

See My Ability – 3 minutes.

UK Transplant Games, Leicester & Loughborough 2005 – 11 minutes.

Young Athletes Special Olympics (Touch Rainbow Productions) – 11 minutes.

Leicester’s Journey to 2012 (Slideshow) – 8 minutes.

DCS Shut Your Mouth – 16 minutes.

The Magic Hour 2 – Caterpillar, The Visit, The Beaten, Finding a Sky, The White Wall – 71 minutes. (The Magic Hour 2 is a certificate 15, it contains strong language, sex and suicide references. Viewer discretion is advised and will not be appropriate for all ages).

Dash; Additional Short (To be shown after Magic Hour) – 15 minutes.

Raspberry Ripple – 80 minutes.

Say What Now? – 11 minutes.

The Gathering (Touch Rainbow Productions) – 43 minutes.

Our Side – Our Story – 7 minutes.

Dash, Archive Screening – 73 minutes.

Dash; Oska Bright Part 1 (with or without audio description).

Dash; Oska Bright Part 2 (with or without audio description).

Community Media Week June 2011 - 5 minutes.

‘I’m A Survivor Get Me Out of Here’ - 54 mins – a docudrama with a mission to liberate survivors of Mental Health problems from compulsion. Five survivors tell their Life-Stories and reflect on the causes and the resolution of their problems. Talented young actors from Leicester bring their stories to life so, the audience can appreciate, that Mental Health is all about having choice and control over their lives.

David – 10 mins – a film made about an autistic guy who happens to be an amazing pianist.

My Sister Emma – 3minutes – Part of the ‘Take 6’ Scenarios by the Integrated Advisory Board.

Jungle & South Pole – Stop Motion Animation – By VALUES Arts & Crafts Group Summer 2011

The film festival forms part of the build up to the London 2012 Paralympicsand the Citizens’ Eye organised Community Media Week 2nd-8th November