harnessing and enabling community enterprises
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Harnessing and Enabling Community Enterprises. Orla Flynn Head of CIT Crawford College of Art & Design November 2012. Introduction. Help us achieve a best practice! The Medi@tic project will enable digital materials to be accessible to all citizens. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Harnessing and Enabling Community Enterprises
Orla Flynn Head of CIT Crawford College of Art & Design
November 2012
Introduction
• Help us achieve a best practice!• The Medi@tic project will enable digital
materials to be accessible to all citizens.• Has potential to create new employment
opportunities in the region.• Specific interest in voluntary, community-
based activities in the Cork region.
Community-based Initiatives
• Engage with and/or utilise audio visual tools;• Are typically managed and run by volunteers
and community workers;• Have some support from City Council;• Typically have little engagement with private
sector;
Cork Regional Film Archive
• Established in 2007 as a voluntary organisation for the purpose of providing the citizens of Cork with an archive of the moving image.
• Grew from the work of a community group which established the Cork Youth International Film, Video and Arts Festival, over 30 years ago, running workshops and classes on film-making for young people.
Challenges
• Preserve the films made by the participants;• Provide a platform for making the materials
available to the wider public;• Provide links to other organisations such as
educational institutions or private companies, to whom such footage would be of interest;
• Utilise the material to stimulate tourism and international interest in the region.
Objective
• To digitise and archive the existing film collection and to provide a platform for interacting with the collection.
But …
• How best to acquire funding to enable this to happen?
• How best to manage the project?• How best to harness the various stakeholders
e.g. city council, museums, voluntary sector, educational organisation and private sector to ensure shared vision and delivery?
• How best to ensure the growth and sustainability of the project?
Cork Northside Folklore Project
• Grew from designation of Cork as City of Culture 2005
• A research project from the Department of Folklore and Heritage at University College Cork
• Memory Map project – gathering oral testimonies from people about the places in which they lived and grew up.
Cork Film Festival
• The 57th annual Corona Cork Film Festival will be held from November 11th to 18th.
• (http://www.corkfilmfest.org) • How to link the festival with events in schools
and private industries?• Development of a fringe festival?• Generating start-ups and employment?
Cork Community Television
• CCTv established in 2007 (http://www.corkcommunitytv.ie/)
• Aim is to enable communities to make, manage and broadcast television programming to reflect the interests, activities and concerns of these communities, in order to effect positive social change.
• Some funding, but mostly VOLUNTARY!
Potential
• Public engagement from a young age with digital media – and film/video in particular;
• Easier pathways to third level education in digital media-related areas;
• Improved job creation/employment possibilities via the creative industries;
• Sharing rich cultural heritage with visitors to the area.
Challenges and Questions
• Commercial engagement critical to ensure sustainability.
• Do these voluntary socially-based activities take place in other regions?
• How are they funded?• How do they interact with each other and
with commercial (private) sector?
Return to Core Aims and Objectives
• Preserve the digital artefacts developed/ gathered/made by the participants, many of whom are voluntary and community-based;
• Provide a platform for making the artefacts available to the wider public;
• Provide links to other organisations such as educational institutions or private companies, to whom such artefacts would be of interest;
• Utilise the artefacts to stimulate tourism and international interest in the region.
Transferability
• All regions have active communities, with volunteers engaged with social practices through arts, sport etc.
• In Cork we are particularly interested in hearing how other regions have possibly already harnessed these synergies to good advantage.