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SPEAKING OUT OF PLACEVoices and Vignettes

from e15 to e20

a LiVingmaps project in partnersHip WitH

fieLd study community pHotograpHy exHibition scHooLs programme pubLication symposium youtH project

speaking out of pLace: etHnograpHic fieLd study/pHoto-project 2

contents

summary 3

making sense of tHe territory 5

east ViLLage fieLdWork study 6

metHodoLogy 6

youtH project 7

community pHotograpHy project 8

muLti-media exHibition 10

pubLication 11

scHooLs programme 11

LauncH eVent & symposium 11

internsHip and VoLunteers 12

asset management & project Legacy 12

project management & deLiVery 12

apx 1: tHe curators 14


summary the proposal is to fund a socio-ethnographic field study working with incoming residents into east Village e20 supported by youth and community photography projects. Secondly, to produce from this work a multi site exhibition accessible to a broad public including local communities, visitors to the Olympic P0ark and users of the Westfield Shopping Centre.

The findings and issues raised will be of particular interest to agencies working with the incoming residents of East Village, especially those concerned to promote community health and well-being and the social integration of young people. The work will also provide valuable insights into the process of building a new community and place identity on a multi-tenured site at a crucial moment in its development. This will be explored in a Symposium in 2015.

This is a participatory project in which professionals and residents collaborate to identify concerns, develop skills and co-produce outputs.

A framework paper outlining the theoretical approach and methodology of this project is available separately on the LIVINGMAPS website: http://www.livingmaps.org.uk

immediate impacts

• capacity buiLding: enhances individual communication skills and creates unique local knowledge base

• community deVeLopment: brings together social and private tenants in a common project and strengthens connections with established communities in E 15.

• youtH participation: Involves young East Villagers in a project design to strengthen their sense of belonging

• pLace making: helps construct a strong narrative identity for East 20 supplementing the Olympic Legacy story

• tHe pubLic record: Captures an important moment in the regeneration of East London

• media buzz: exhibition and symposium adds to public profile of East Village as vibrant neighbourhood and cultural quarter

• connectiVity: Strong synergy with other LIVINGMAPS projects in Olympic Park in partnerships with local schools, community centres and regeneration agencies.

“ i have always liked challenges

and the idea of moving into a

completely new part of London

and being part of the olympic

story was what motivated me to

move... i see myself as a kind of

pioneer, building a new kind of

place here in east 20.”

Henry alexander

neW east 20 resident


Longer term benefits

• Report serves as a follow up to the Smith Institute (2012) study

• Provides leading edge knowledge of residential choice patterns and neighbourhood formation

• Identifies best practice in estate management and youth/community development

• Evidence base for future multiple tenure rented housing projects

• Adds an important chapter to the London 2012 Legacy story

• Platform for public dissemination of research findings and community participation.

time-scaLe

• october - december 2014 Fieldwork in East Village and surrounding area.

• january - apriL 2015 Community Photography Project Completion of fieldwork and writing up.

• easter HoLiday 2015Youth Project

• may - juLy 2015Preparation and launch of Exhibition Schools programme Symposium and publication


making sense of tHe territory “ the olympic community and especially its research community are going to be looking at what happens in London’s olympic park with very great interest. Will the legacy of the 2012 games be unique in building a sustainable community, where people from many different cultures and backgrounds live, learn, work and play together? or will it be the same old story of benefits for the already privileged few and the worst-off losing out?”(john gold author of olympic cities)

at present east 20 presents something of a paradox. already internationally famous as an olympic heritage site, what it will come to mean to east Londoners has still to be realised. although heavily populated with public expectations, the area awaits the imprint of the lives and stories of its first residents. our project will document this unfolding process. We aim to ensure that the new communities that form in and around the park can from the very outset take a lead in this transformation. at the same time the impact of these developments on already established communities in stratford needs to be documented and a framework of dialogue created between ‘old’ and ‘new’ east Londoners.


tHe east ViLLage fieLdWork study “ community is what happens when people forget their differences and come together around some common purpose. it may be about celebrating something, like the olympics, or it may in dealing with shared problems... my hope for east Village is that it bring out the best in us.”margaret strong (stratford resident and local activist)

the study will focus on the processes through which incoming residents construct a sense of place, identity and belonging, the factors which shape their mode of attachment to the area, and their patterns of interaction with the built environment and each other. The aim is to add depth to the Olympic Park story and contribute to the creation of a local interpretive community around East 20 composed not only of the usual suspects (viz academics, policy makers, regeneration professionals and community activists) but also a wider and more representative spectrum of people and opinion.

Our study can be regarded in part as a follow up to the study carried out by the Smith Institute ‘New Urban Living for London: the making of East Village in 2012’, but it also addresses a number of additional issues not raised by that report concerning the conditions of well being – or alienation- associated with different strategies of inhabitation.

our questions:

• What expectations do incomers have in terms of homes, amenities and neighbours?

• What patterns of neighbouring are developing within East Village?

• To what extent do incomers identify with East Village as a place?

• In what ways are incomers’ neighbourhood relationships, notions of place and belonging influenced by their backgrounds, current housing tenures and the physical design and layout of East Village?

• How do incomers’ perceptions of place and community compare to visions and representations put forward by local development agencies (including LLDC)?

• What are the immediate barriers to the sense of community and shared belonging? What might help to remove these barriers?

• What kinds of relationships might develop between incomers and established residents who live nearby viz in Stratford and Hackney Wick, and with visitors to the Queen Elizabeth Park?

metHodoLogythe study will draw upon a variety of ethnographic methods: interviews, fieldwork studies and focus groups

interVieWsWe will recruit 32 incoming adult residents, as far as possible evenly distributed between Delancey and Triathlon tenants. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted wherever possible in participants’ homes.

“ ...to be honest at first i was

a bit doubtful...but when i actually

went down there, saw the schools

and the park i changed my mind.

if you want open spaces... you’ve

got the park, and if you want the

urban buzz you ‘ve got Westfield

on your doorstep.”

joyce mcdougal

neW east 20 resident

“ What expectations do you have here in terms of places to meet, shop or relax?”


these interviews will cover:

• residential histories including information about previous locations and tenures

• motivations and expectations of the move to East 20

• first impressions of the new environment

• relations with neighbours

• use of the local area (leisure, shopping etc.)

Informants will be prompted for stories illustrating these different aspects of the arrivant experience.

The interviews will conclude with a professional photo-portrait of each participant and include, where possible, other members of the household and the material culture of the home.

We will also conduct face-to-face and telephone interviews with 12 representatives from key agencies. These will be people responsible for the planning, design, maintenance, amenities and future development of East 20, for example LLDC, housing officials, community workers, local politicians, estate managers or caretakers, people working in the educational and health sectors.

fieLdWork obserVationsWe will attend residents’ meetings and public events staged in the park during the course of the project.

focus groupthe initial findings will be presented and discussed with a meeting of all informants and also to the east Village residents association.

youtH projectin order to address some of the issues and concerns which have arisen over the summer in which children and young people’s presence and activities in the courtyards has become a source of friction between social housing and private tenants, we are proposing to undertake an additional piece of fieldwork with young east Villagers aged 14 to 19. This will take the form of a visual ethnography project involving the young people in a series of video walkabouts through the area and to-camera interviews exploring their sense of territory, place identity and belonging, their peer relations, and their perceptions of Stratford, the Olympic Park and East Village itself. The aim is to co-create a space of representation in which the young people’s views and viewpoints can fully expressed and valued and to encourage them to reflect on and evaluate some of the adult reactions to their presence.

“What makes east Village a real

neighbourhood for you?”


The video material will be edited into a short film which it is proposed to present to the East Village Resident’s Association (EVRA) at a special meeting and at other appropriate venues. The material will also be subject to analysis as part of the wider East Village Fieldwork study and we would also hope to interview some of the youth workers who have been involved.

To supplement and support the video work it is proposed to involve the same age group ( though not necessarily the same young people) in a short mapwork exercise.

The work with young people will be carried out at the same time as the fieldwork with adult residents and the adult community photography project described below.

community pHotograpHy pHoto-diaries of pLace and beLonging by aduLt residents of east ViLLage a series of photo-diaries will be produced by east Villagers (e20) to explore place, identity and belonging from their different perspectives. Through a series of ten workshops, this mixed group of social and private tenant will work with professional photographer and researcher, Debbie Humphry, to represent their everyday experiences of home and place, friendship and family, change and community. This project will raise a range of personal and political issues related to community, housing and public space, and will run in parallel with the research field study in East Village.

The workshops will be participant-led, and emphasise working together and sharing stories within a safe and inclusive space that aims to foster self-development, critical reflection, self-confidence and solidarity. The medium of photography can bridge language and literacy barriers, and the participants will use a variety of photo-mapping techniques to explore where people come from, what brought them to East London, everyday geographies, practices of home-making, new belongings and future wishes. Participants will learn the skills of taking better photographs, location and documentary image-making, night photography, environmental portraiture, lighting, lenses and perspective, composition and creative presentation. There will be some on-location workshop sessions, and participants will be tasked with taking diary images between sessions.

Bringing together social and private tenants around a common project will be a way of building dialogue between them and creating a supportive framework in which differences of background, life style, experience and values can be articulated through the medium of photography.

The photo-diaries will consist of large demountable panels of images and text, prepared and developed by the group as part of the exhibition curation process.


programme speaking out of place: your space, my space: photo-audio project exploring home and belonging in east Village

• Week one: introduction: find out about each other. Look at still life images of home using different lighting sources, eg torch, fairy lights, room light inside and outside; and take images of own-found objects (eg what people have in their bags.. keys, phone etc)… Give everyone journal to keep notes, ideas, pics etc. During -the-week task: take photographs to represent your home to show class. Not down familiar home sounds. Bring in photos to show previous places you’ve lived in.

• Week tWo: Home and aWay: bring in photos of home (in-week task) and audio notes – feedback and discussion. Discuss your relationship with East London/village, E20 etc - (tape record?). Look at reportage images and do composition exercise (aka Cartier Bresson ‘tricks’)

• in-Week task: take at least one photo a day to represent your everyday life. Bring in a found photograph they like that relates to theme of project. Tape record three typical everyday sounds. Bring a light source and object from home to next class.

• Week tHree: ambient LigHting practicaL: feedback on each other’s images and soundtracks. Lighting practical: using available light and white balance controls on cameras. Discuss object. Take pictures of each other/object using light sources;

• in-Week task: pHoto-Led: One photo a day in different lighting situations at different times of day and night around everyday geographies. Then tape record one minute of each place.

• Week 4: enVironmentaL portrait practicaL: environmental portraiture practical - look at & discuss images; composition & lens use;: look at images, optimizing camera controls. Tape recording interview tips. In-week Task: take an environmental portrait of people significant in everyday lives. (and do relevant tape-recording)

• Week 5: day time practicaL: Shift class to weekend daytime local field trip.In-week task: photograph anything you want to represent belonging in the local area and tape record.

• Week 6: personaL geograpHies: look at environmental portraits and location shots: develop ideas for photos of everyday geographies. tips on photographing places including still lives.In-week Task: take images representing everyday geographies

• Week 7: put togetHer & reVieW: image and audio selections and put together into slide show. Identify gaps and re-shoots.In-week Task: Gaps and reshoots.

• Week 8:nigHt sHoot: taking night pics on location; experiment with light and movement; look at participants new images and text. In-week Task: put together image and audio.

• Week 9: put togetHer & reVieW: image and audio selections and put together into slide show. In-week Task: putting work together, filling gaps.

• Week 10: finaL exHibition pLanning: put together sound and image; plan and delegate tasks for exhibition & curation. Participants can then be involved in further exhibition and curation.


muLti-media exHibition an exhibition will be organized to showcase the findings of the fieldwork study and the youth and community projects. it will also include a number of elements generated by other Living maps projects in and around olympic park and funded from other sources.The exhibition will run for two months and take place at a suitable site in the area such as Chandos East Community Centre, an East Village Flat, Timber Lodge, Chobham Academy School, View Tube, Delancey Showroom, or a location within Westfield Shopping City.

our kind of pLace: instaLLation This will be housed in a large pantechnicon, or alternatively in a show flat in East Village. The narrative focuses on what makes a community and a home. It will work with the idea of the ‘show home’ but brings this to life, ‘making a house a home’. The installation will play with the material culture, domestic appliances and surroundings of modern living. Visitors will be encouraged to sit, watch TV, listen to the radio etc. as the individual narratives and images of East Village residents speak out from the surroundings and through projected texts and images.

Voices and Vignettes from east ViLLage A series of professional photo-portraits and material from photo-diaries produced by residents in East Village, exploring their sense of real and imagined community, the material culture of home-making and the sense of place, identity and belonging. The large panels will be displayed as public hoardings and will be accompanied by personal statements extracted from interviews.

a WaLk in tHe park A multi-media presentation, using images, music, sound and narrative to explore issues of ownership and control over public space focusing on the Olympic Park and its possible futures. A LIVINGMAPS production.

mapWorks*Based on material produced by students at Chobham Academy and will included a permanent map installation located in the Olympic Park. plus videos by Aura Films: Lights on for the Territory, This is Our East 20 and Down our Way (Youth walkabout).

tunneL Visions*A Performance Piece by Young Poets Group Theatre Royal Stratford linked to an audio trail exploring the pre and Post Olympic heritage of the Park. There will also be a number of workshops organized by Guerilla Archaeology.

exHibition guide/ map The different exhibition sites will be connected by an audio-visual trail in which residents’ voices are heard and large scale images installed strategically marking the route (either as flat display panels or back-projected images in windows, doorways and walls). The use of vacant flats in East Village as possible projection windows will be explored as signposts for the exhibition. Extent and reach will depend on the co-operation of local housing providers and business partners.


printed pubLicationA printed publication will illustrate and document the exhibition materials, and provide contextual information and analysis. Its contents will include a curatorial introduction by Dr. Hilary Powell and interpretative essays by Prof. Phil Cohen, Dr Debbie Humphry and Dr. Paul Watt. These will summarise and present the main findings of the East Village Study and draw out implications for the future development of East 20, the evaluation of the 2012 Olympic legacy and community development/urban regeneration strategies more widely. The publication will be presented at a launch event/symposium in July 2015. A downloadable pdf version of this publication will be made available as part of the post-project online archive on the LIVINGMAPS website.

*Note: These elements are being funded from other sources and are not included in the present budget.

scHooLs programmea programme of education visits to the exhibition will be arranged for local secondary schools and for students from new Vic and tower Hamlets college btec/a level courses (arts, media, geography, sociology, ict). As part of the visit we will offer workshops by each of the curators on different aspects of the project. We will prepare an information sheet and linked learning resources for students and teachers. The programme will be delivered by the Building Exploratory who will also design the learning resources.

tHe LauncH eVent and symposiumWe hope that the mayor of London will launch the exhibition and that it will be publicized widely through the auspices of LLdc, delancey, triathlon and other stakeholders. As part of the exhibition launch programme there will be a one-day symposium organized in partnership with the Urban Lab, University College London and the UEL/Birkbeck campus at One University Square,Stratford. The main findings from the East Village study will be presented and debated with an audience drawn from the worlds of architecture, urban and environmental planning, Olympic studies, education, housing and health and a range of academic disciplines. The symposium will be an opportunity to present and review not only the findings of the field study but to consider the wider implications for East London’s future regeneration and housing and urban policy making more generally.

We anticipate that the symposium will be of interest to regional stakeholders as well as academic partners. Residents who become actively engaged in the ethnography and photography work would be encouraged to make their own contribution to this event.


internsHip and VoLunteersWe propose to offer a LIVINGMAPS internship to a local east London art student for the duration of the Olympic Park projects. The intern will assist the curators supporting the workshops in the community photography project and helping in the preparation of the exhibition. The intern will be encouraged to produce his or her own work, which may be incorporated in the exhibition. We also anticipate using local volunteers to help publicise the exhibition.

asset management and project LegacyLong term plans for the location of these resources, issues of ownership and confidentiality and future plans for ongoing work will be the subject of further discussions with key stakeholders once the project is under way. The possibility of archiving this material as part of the content development for the proposed new Museum in Olympic Park will be actively explored as well as the Museum of London.

project management and deLiVerythe project will be administered by the building exploratory and delivered by a team of curators who are members of the LiVingmaps network.

tHe buiLding expLoratory Launched in 1998, the Building Exploratory is one of the UK’s most unique education resources. Activities consist of learning opportunities for a wide cross section of Londoners; schools programmes for primary and secondary pupils, opportunities for adults, a successful programme for older people and community engagement projects engage stakeholders, celebrate local heritage and inform local regeneration and development.

Widely recognised as a key contributor to heritage education and engagement agendas across the UK the Building Exploratory has developed a wide range of high profile partnership projects, funded from a number of sources. These include Newington Green ‘treasures’, ‘Religion & Place in Tower Hamlets’ and more recently Panorama East. These innovative projects have wide reaching impact on the local community and have been recognised nationally and internationally. Website: http://www.buildingexploratory.org.uk/

LiVingmapsLIVINGMAPS was founded by Phil Cohen and John Wallett as a network of geographers, environmentalists, oral historians, urban ethnographers, visual artists, designers and educationalists, working with a range of groups in East London on regeneration issues. We currently have two other projects in Olympic Park, and will be drawing on some of this material in the multi-site exhibition:

• ‘THIS IS OUR EAST 20’: a participatory mapping project with school students and young people, funded by the London Legacy development Corporation

• ‘TUNNEL VISIONS’: an audio heritage trail exploring the archaeology and social and environmental history of the Olympic Park, submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund.


Using participatory mapping, narrative interviews and visual ethnography, these projects are developing an approach to citizen social science that will add a new dimension to urban policy making embedded in the experiences and perceptions of several key groups:

• the working people involved in the preparation and construction of the Olympic Park site

• young people who live or study in and around the area

• incoming residents to East Village

• established communities in Stratford and Hackney Wick

• local agencies and organisations.

The overall aim of these projects is to:

• Increase access to and understanding of the 2012 Olympic Park as a heritage site whilst respecting its emerging identity

• Build a platform for civic engagement, especially amongst incoming residents and young people

• Raise public awareness of the regeneration processes that are shaping East London

• Promote better understanding between different communities.

• These projects are pilots for a long term enterprise to produce a new ‘Atlas of London’ generated by its diverse communities.

LiVingmaps also organizes an interdisciplinary seminar series on critical cartography and urban regeneration, currently in it’s second year. the 2014/5 series is organised in partnership with:

• birkbeck coLLege

• tHe buiLding expLoratory

• uaL centraL st martins

• tHe mayday rooms

• tHe uniVersity of east London

• tHe urban Lab at ucL

• queen mary uniVersity London

• tHe young foundation

www.livingmaps. org. uk

TONIGHT 6-8:00

CONSTRUCTING NEW

GEOGRAPHIES

Models of the city as an ‘assemblage’ pose new challenges

for the ethnographer and cartographer... Rhiannon Firth and

Paul Watt consider these tensions in seminar 5.

SEMINAR 5

LIVINGMAPS


appendix 1: tHe curators

pHiL coHenphil cohen will be responsible for overall project co-ordination, carrying out part of the fieldwork and for scripting ‘a Walk in the park’; he will edit and contribute to the exhibition publication and also curate the symposium.Phil is Visiting Professor at Birkbeck and Emeritus Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of East London, where he was the first director of the London East Research Institute. Since the 1980s he has carried out ethnographic research on issues of class, race, and regeneration, much of this work having a focus on East London. Prior to this, his work on youth cultures established his international reputation. More recently he has carried out a five year study into the local impact of the Olympics; ‘On the Wrong Side of the Track: East London and the Post Olympics’ was published in May 2013 by Lawrence & Wishart. He is currently collaborating with Paul Watt on ‘A Hollow Legacy? London 2012 and the Post Olympics’, an edited book about the longer-term Olympic legacy. He is the author of ‘Knuckle Sandwich: Growing up in the working class city’ (with Dave Robins); ‘Rethinking the Youth Question; Finding the Way Home: young people’s narratives race, place and identity in London Docklands and Hamburg’ (with Nora Rathzel), and ‘London’s Turning: The making of Thames Gateway’ (with Mike Rustin). A collection of his academic work, ‘Material Dreams: maps and territories in the un/making of Modernity’ is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.

www.philcohenworks.com

nicoLe crockettnicole crockett will be responsible for delivering the schools programme linked to the exhibition and related learning resources and for the financial and contractual administration of the project.Nicole Crockett, representing the lead agency and fund holder, will be responsible for the oversight of the project budget. She will also be responsible for delivering the schools visits programme and related learning resources. Nicole is chief executive of the Building Exploratory where she oversees a unique programme of education raising the awareness of 1,000s of school children, young people and professionals, adult learners and older people.

She devises projects that bring communities and professionals together to creatively explore buildings and public spaces and takes them on journeys of discovery into the design, development and change of some of London’s best-loved areas. Nicole’s ambition to see communities more involved in caring for their local heritage and changes to their built environment is reflected in her former role as chair of the Architecture Centre Network and her current role as a member of the Civic Trust Awards National Panel and trustee of the Greenwich Foundation.

www.buildingexploratory.org.uk


debbie HumpHrydebbie Humphry will be responsible for carrying out part of the fieldwork, for the community photography project and for curating ‘Voices and Vignettes’. she will also contribute to the exhibition publication.Debbie is a photographer, educator and researcher who has worked with a wide range of communities over the past twenty years, including vulnerable and marginalised groups. She has curated innovative group exhibitions as well as exhibiting and publishing her own work widely, including in The National Portrait Gallery and The Royal Festival Hall, London. Her research work has focused on participatory work in London, including working for Goldsmiths, University of London to map young peoples geographies, build neighbourhood relations through action-research and examine diverse use of local spaces according to gender, ethnicity and class – using innovative visual methodologies throughout.

She is the author of ‘Photography’ (Directions in Art Series, Heinemann Library Harcourt Education, 2003), and various academic and journalistic publications, including a forthcoming book chapter on neighbourhood and belonging in ‘Home, Place, Community: Sociological Studies in Europe and North America’ (Peter Lang, 2013). She is currently completing an ESRC funded PhD on social mobility in a North London neighbourhood at the Department of Geography, University of Sussex. She is lecturer in Social Geography and Sociology at City University, London, and the University of Sussex.

www.debbiehumphry.com

HiLary poWeLLHilary powell will be responsible for producing the pop up installation. she will also contribute to the publication and exhibition work. Hilary is an artist working with a range of media from installation and film to printmaking to create projects that consistently explore and re-imagine urban sites and associated notions of time and change. Her most recent work as AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at the Bartlett school of Architecture draws on her background in Scenography to create miniature animated urban environments in the form of movable pop-up books. Housed in kinetic interactive sculptural installations and inspired by the connected histories of moveable books and pre-cinematic devices such as magic lantern and early stereoscopic vision these also formed the basis for animation films using stop frame and green screen techniques. This project lead her both onto the demolition site, into academia, architecture, the history of science and invention and journeys of city salvage and she cherishes this combination of rigorous research and the imaginative adaptation of traditions, techniques and materials.

Hilary’s work is interdisciplinary by nature and shows an ongoing commitment to cross-disciplinary exchange around the sites and materials of the urban landscape. Previous projects and commissions with a range of local communities, institutions and partners include roller-skating light animations in urban precincts and film and food making on the Olympic Park site.

www.hillarypowell.com


joHn WaLLettjohn Wallett will be responsible for the overall design co-ordination of the exhibition, and for curating ‘a Walk in the park’. He will also manage the development of the project brand and event publicity including the production of the exhibition map/guide.John is a designer and educator who has worked with arts, education and campaign organisations in East London for over twenty-five years. Coming originally from the Fine Arts he worked through the 1980’s developing local publishing and exhibition projects in East London.

He has worked on many community photography projects including ‘Exploring Living Memory’; ‘East Side Out’ (1996) for Bethnal Green City Challenge; ‘Excuse Me’ (1998) with Independent Photography/Magnum; ‘Take a Fresh Look’ (2000) for Canary Wharf Arts & Events; ‘Other People’s Houses’ (2002) for LB Tower Hamlets; ‘Viewpoints: Children’s Photo Project’ (2004) for City Hall and The Children’s Fund.

In 2012 he worked with intergenerational arts project ‘Magic Me’ as part of ‘High Street 2012’ to produce a bus-length 9 metre ‘route map’ of artworks by schoolchildren illustrating landmarks along the 205 route from Aldgate to Bow (now estimated to have been seen by over six million passengers and still on view). He is a founder of the ‘Common Knowledge’ network based at 18 Victoria Park Square and is also founder member of the pop-up community cinema project ‘Moving Image’.

www.idz.info

speciaL Video consuLtants: aura fiLmssteve dorrington and tristan syrett of aura films will be responsible for the video walkabout with young east Villagers and for the short film based on it. They have many years experience working on both film production and training work with young people, including unobtrusive interview and work-in-progress documentation. Aura are an extremely adaptable team, able to shoot and sound-record in the most difficult of situations. They have a track record of scripting, shooting and editing effective and imaginative films in very short times and within often limited budgets.

Over the last three years they have also been responsible for setting up and running the very successful Colchester Film Festival, a five-day programme of workshops, expert panels and film premieres featuring and both shorts and full length films.

www.aurafilms.co.ukwww.colchesterfilmfestival.com

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