With support from Wales Arts International, our Film Development Workers Tracy Pallant and Amy Peckham travelled with Gerald Conn from Cinetig to work with Gem TV and Gem Art on a 2 week animation project in Ethiopia. Related Articles

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As part of her Arts Exchange with Darwin Community Arts, Alyson Evans is keeping a video diary of her experiences. Her fourth entry comes from Darwin, Australia where we meet Sarah, Alyson's counterpart at Darwin Community Arts. Related Articles

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Everyone in Darwin nearly passed out when I said was going to Melbourne, cries of 'you're going to freeze!,' 'you'd better wrap up warm!' and 'but it's winter down there!' were made. I don't think they realised that I'm used to to the cold, and 17 degrees (which was what Melbourne was) isn't actually that bad! Related Articles

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The Betws Dance and Drumming project AKA The Betws Bingo Bango Dancers and Drummers began with our Dance Worker Issie and the children experimenting with a variety of movements to the beats of the drum. Related Articles

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From 28th June to 2nd July, we ran our exciting Growing Together Digital Storytelling project, pairing older people in the Garw Valley with young people from Archbishop McGrath Comprehensive School to make short films together to celebrate the industrial and rural heritage of the Garw Valley. Related Articles

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When I heard that I had been successful with getting onto the Ken Swift Pioneers course I quite literally jumped around the office with pure excitement! The realization that I was going to learn the foundations and techniques of Break Dance from one of the original old skool B-boys took a while to sink in. Related Articles

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We recently received funding from the Community Cohesion Fund (Safer Bridgend) to devise and produce a film about Teen Dating Abuse. The project is in partnership with Bridgend Women’s Aid, who will be using the film in their outreach work with young people. Related Articles

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"It's week two of my Theatre of the Oppressed workshops, and it went really well. The project was initially set up (although now open to anyone) as community theatre training for people who work with the Long Grass, who are homeless people, mostly indigenous, that live in Darwin." Related Articles

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We're now building virtual worlds online. So fire up your avatars and join us in the Open Metaverse. We're running an Open Simulator[1] server connected to the OSgrid [2]. To visit our virtual worlds, use the Hippo OpenSim Viewer [3] or another viewer capable of connecting to OpenSim, then connect to the "osgrid" grid -- you need to sign up as a member with OSgrid before you can connect. When you've logged in to osgrid, go to the "DCA" region. We are also developing a megaregion called "YouthBeat". Its still early days; we hope to develop our regions more in the coming weeks.

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Canberra Playback Theatre is running a one day introduction to playback workshop. The workshop will ...