March 2011
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Oska Bright On The Road – Reel 2 Reel residency...
Wow! Our time here is going really quickly! This week on Monday we met up with Jackie Saunders from Tutti, to make an interview with her for a TV station in Melbourne that broadcasts all over Australia. The programme is made by learning disabled people and it is about learning disabled people. It was really nice to have an informative chat with Jackie about her work with Tutti, and about our work...
Matthew looks at the weather and hopes it gets better for our residency in Barossa next week.
Rain in Adelaide by Matthew Hellett
Today has been our third rainy day in Adelaide since we got here!
Simon and Stephen worked with the Tutti staff to explain in closer details about film making, editing and supporting learning disabled people to remain in control of the process.
Last night we went to visit the Tutti choir at one of their rehearsals. I felt inspired by the creativity of everybody there. Its great to see how other...
Oska Bright On The Road – Reel 2 Reel residency...
Tuesday 15th March until Friday 18th March 2011
By Matthew Hellett
We have just finished our second residency – it was very successful! The 14 young people that we worked with were really lovely and nice. They made a Silent Movie style film that they called “Dr Spot Makes Cat Burgers”. We hope to have it up on the uScreen website soon.
Everyone in the group was very enthusiastic and lively –...
Oska Bright On The Road – Reel 2 Reel residency...
Monday 7th March until Thursday 10th March 2011
By Matthew Hellett
We have just finished a very successful week of our film making residency. 11 young people with a learning disability attended the training from across Adelaide – there were some people from Tutti choir, Restless Dance Company and some independent young people interested in film. We ran the course in the Marion area of...
Day Off - pizza, lager, sun and sea...
Today we’re having a day off, we had a really nice lunch, Stephen had a darling pizza. We’re going to sit and chill, then go for a swim - it’s very very hot and we’re all burning up; we hope it’s nice and warm in England too (ha ha). We’ve got a keg of lager in the fridge so we’re likely to be too busy to blog for the rest of the day, even if we do get...