News & Events

Flicking through my wife’s current issue of OK! magazine, I surprisingly found an article on page 33 that I would have been proud to write myself.  I congratulate whoever wrote it for their social commentary in what is (let’s face it) an otherwise superficial celebfest.  Print media are having to look for new business models in order to survive in a saturated market now online magazines are their competitors, so social engaged commentary could be a good angle for OK!... read more »

So it’s 2010 and Disney have finally given the world a black princess character in their latest film, the Princess and the Frog.  I saw it today and my children loved it.  My wife and I were not so sure.  I went in expecting a cinematic revolution, but all I got was, unfortunately, more of the same old same old... read more »

[Video and Text taken from K3VictorRadio’s Youtube channel - Uploaded 15th January 2010]... read more »

Bill Bartmann is the billionaire that massages your ego with spam.

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Question 1: Multiple choice.

WHO EXACTLY ARE THE REAL IDLE ONES IN THIS EQUATION?

A) The” protesters calling for social change”?
(As quoted in the article on page two of Bristol’s Evening Post newspaper, 19.9.09.  On the front page the paper called the protesters “Idle” to rhyme with ‘Idol’ – see what they did there??)... read more »

I’ve never been that good at selling myself, but if I can’t promote myself on my own blog then I figure I need to just give up now!

Here are details of  new peer reviewed book called ‘Understanding Community Media’ edited by Kevin Howley.  I wrote chapter 16, titled ‘Positioning Education Within Community Media’.

As they say, it is available in all good book shops.  Enjoy!... read more »

To:

Blast Films – One Day Ltd
2 Imperial Works
Perren Street
London, NW5 3ED, UK
T +44 (0)20 7267 4260
www.blastfilms.co.uk

Dear the people “responsible” for the film 1Day

I am not one of these people to complain about a film before I have seen it, (for that matter I’m not really someone to complain about films at all!), so in this letter I can only really talk about the trailer and not the whole film.... read more »

The Plot:

An internationally respected African American Professor (Denzel Washington) returns home from holiday and finds the door to his plush suburban home is jammed.  The taxi driver (Benicio Del Toro) helps him “break” in to his own house.

The neighbors (played by the full cast of Desperate Housewives) get nervous seeing these events, and call the police, who promptly arrive within seconds. [Backstory - the reason the police arrive so quickly is because this is a “good” neighborhood.]... read more »

I recently c0-signed this letter initiated by Steve Buckley, President of AMARC and Director of Sheffield Live fm.  See the letter in it’s original context at http://www.sheffieldlive.org/lettertogordonbrown/

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Here are details of a Graduate certificate course I helped to write at the University of the West of England, which is aimed at people working in community arts & media.

There are three modules, with a wide range of tutors each module;

- Participatory Arts: Practice & Context
Looks at the history of community arts & media, influential theories (e.g. Paulo Freire’s dialogic pedagogy), informal education theories, government influence and evaulation models.... read more »