Visible Voice A Threevoices Website
Flavio and Helena, from Viramundo , are working with a group from the Rocinha favela on a photo journal project, supported by a small research grant from the University of Cumbria.
This week week I was at the World Social Forum in Brazil interviewing people attending the Forum for a film about visual activism and demonstrating Viramundo and Visible Voice approach to participatory research and health improvement.
Post Graduate Studies in International Health
A new MSc International Health is available via Online or Campus based study at the University of Cumbria.
Our first Visible Voice project took place in the villages of Kokjar and Tolok in April 2006. During that project we linked with the Ak Terek Public Fund, a local NGO working on community actions to support biocultural sustainability. At the end of May 2008 I returned to Kokjar and Tolok to follow up on our earlier work in the villages.
The project is part funded through a Christensen Fund award to Ak Terek.
Salford Refugee Link
Things have been moving along in the UK too. The group from Salford Refugee Link are continuing to develop their film making skills and have produced a film about refugee lives. The film deals with some common issues facing French speaking African Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the North West.
We have added some English subtitles to the film and you can watch a web version here.
Cumbria Multicultural Women’s Network: Alien Films
Lilli, from Cumbria Multicultural Women’s Network has recently completed a new film. She will launch the new film at an event on 28th january which, we hope, will be linked via a video chat between South Cumbria and Brazil. We hope to use iChat to enable a discussion between Viramundo and the Alien Films group.
More women, from the Network have joined in and are now in the middle of initial training as film makers. We hope to have something to post here in the next couple of weeks.
Moving Images 2009
Community Arts Northwest are sponsoring a series of video skills workshops in Salford.
You can watch the films here:
