Here’s a chance to view what over a hundred Bristol school pupils experienced when they came to Watershed in May for the Media Literacy Workshops. With teachers in mind we recorded one of the morning sessions led by David Goldblatt so schools who haven’t attended before but are interested in coming to future workshops, can get an insight into the process.
If you’re interested in finding out more about the Media Literacy Workshops please contact liz.milner@watershed.co.uk
A mini festival of armchair sports – seats (or saddles?!) still available for a great range of screenings, talks and events! But there’s real physical action too at the Rollapaluza on Saturday night, a pedal powered cinema and a cycle treasure hunt – see the full programme here.
Cyclescreen, Bristol’s first dedicated bike film festival, is a season of inspiring cycling films, documentaries, lectures and interactive events celebrating cycling culture in its varied forms. The bike holds a special place in the hearts of Bristol’s ever-growing cycling community and to celebrate the many pleasures to be found on two wheels Watershed is hosting a season of fun, inspiring cycling films, talks and events for riders and non-riders alike.
The Short Cuts programme is working with up to 45 young people (aged 14-18) across Bristol to help them to develop, plan, produce, edit and showcase a short film. Partnering with Watershed to deliver the programme are Knowle West Media Centre, Young Bristol, Connexions West and Encounters International Short Film Festival.
As funding from First Light has come through “Film Nation” – a project run by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – the project will produce three short films (< 5mins) that explore the Olympic themes of “friendship”, “respect”, and “excellence”.
Building on the established and successful format of previous Media Literacy Workshops, writer, broadcaster and teacher David Goldblatt, led the workshops with a World Cup theme to explore the use of language, cliche and meaning in sports’ media
Five Bristol schools each came to Watershed for a day bringing 134 year 9 and 10 students from Bridge Learning Campus, Brislington Enterprise College, Bedminster Down, Fairfield and St Mary Redcliffe schools.
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Excerpt from Media Literacy Workshops 2010 – David Goldblatt on Story making
On 1st April 2001 a group of students from two sports colleges came to Watershed for a special RELAYS screening of Invictus.
19 boys and 6 girls – in ‘troisieme’, equivalent to Year 10, came from Collège Victor Louis in Talence just outside Bordeaux with 3 of their teachers.
The French students were accompanied by a mixed group of Year 10s from their partner school in Bristol, Ashton Park.
The visit was arranged by Debbie Richards, Director of the Académie Aquitaine www.academieaquitaine.co.uk as part of an exchange programme to reinforce links between the two colleges.
News is in the making at the moment, which is why there’s nothing new to read just yet! We’re busy planning events for 2010 so please come and visit the site again in the Spring. We’ll start the RELAYS at Watershed activities in May with the popular Media Literacy Workshops for schools, and our Programming team are currently selecting a choice set of titles for a season of sport and game-related films. There’ll also be talks and feature introductions to some films, and a strong chance of some odd games to take part in!
If you’re new to the site click on the links below to see what we did last year, and go to the photo gallery to see how many people got involved with RELAYS at Watershed last year. See you in the spring!
Igfest is over for another year – it was great! You can see some photos of the games that RELAYS helped to provide here
The city is ours – igfest 09 runs from Thursday 10th September until Sunday 13th September. At igfest we play across the city with Moose, zombies and airborne paint. At igfest we can play in car parks and abandoned buildings, in the streets and shopping centers. This is a festival like no other. We will show you the city as you’ve never seen it.
We will take you to old places with new eyes as you and your friends are set loose in a city liberated by play.
We have new games from across the world. Take a look at this years programme and sign up now to play the games you like the most and with more than 30 to choose from how many can you fit in? Our promise to you is that all the games will be friendly fun and FREE.
RELAYS at Watershed have sponsored a set of family friendly games at igfest 09 suitable for all ages on Sunday morning, 13th September (but please note children must be accompanied by a responsible adult), go to the Igfest site to learn more, see the great programme of games on offer and sign up for the ones you want to play.
This audio-slide show about Watershed’s Media Literacy Workshops uses photographs and audio recordings made during the workshop sessions which were part of the RELAYS at Watershed season ‘Let the Games Begin’ in June 2009.
Excerpts from David Goldblatt’s talk introduce the themes for the workshop and are followed by edited interviews with teachers, BBC film-crew volunteers and the pupils participating in the workshop.
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The voices heard in the sound track do not necessarily belong to the people depicted at the same time in the photographs.
Bristol University and the 2012 Relays Project have teamed up with Watershed and Bristol CYPS to deliver a programme that engages young people in sport and culture by enabling students to produce their own films.
