community media south west, uk

UK Organisations working in Community Media / Arts

 

 
Merthyr Media Project - www.merthyrmedia.org.uk
The Merthyr Media Project is a two-year ESF funded initiative starting on the 1st of April 2006. The Aim of the project is to encourage people from the Merthyr area to consider possible employment in the film, media and multi-media industries.

Merthyr Stories - www.merthyrstories.org.uk
Merthyr Stories is an initiative developed by the Glamorgan Gates project. Glamorgan Gates is partnership between the University of Glamorgan, Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council and the Communities First Programme of the Welsh Assembly Government. It is based in Merthyr Tydfil with the aim of developing imaginative and innovative methods of learning through activities and events.

Firstborn Creatives - www.firstborn-creatives.co.uk
Works with educational and community organisations, broadcasters and publishers to produce creative, experiential and challenging media projects.

Calling The Shots - www.callingtheshots.co.uk
Digital production company based in Bristol, UK. They produce large scale media projects and programmes for a wide range of clients including broadcasters, charities, local authorities and arts organisations.

Knowle West Media Centre - www.kwmc.co.uk
Have built a reputation for producing high quality work, raising the profile of arts and media and providing exciting experiences for young people in the Knowle West area of South Bristol.

Suited and Booted - www.suitedandbooted.org
Offer innovative digital film and video making and project activities, including corporate videos, short film production, community based projects, educational resource production, documenting, and exhibition and screening events.  

Acta - www.acta-bristol.com
Empowers people to create their own original theatre and delivers quality participatory arts projects with excluded communities in and around Bristol. 

Creative Partnerships - www.creative-partnerships.com
Creative Partnerships provides school children across England with the opportunity to develop creativity in learning and to take part in cultural activities of the highest quality. It is not a funding body but aims to establish genuine collaborative partnerships to enable the development of projects that reflect the interests, specialisms and shared vision of those involved.  

dShed (Watershed Media Centre) - www.dshed.net/navigation/index.htm
Established to provide a platform for artists and media producers in the South West region and beyond and to act as a focus for distribution, discussion and learning about online creativity. 

Multi Media - www.mobile-media.org.uk
Mobile Media is a groundbreaking digital media facility, the outreach arm of cre8 studios. Since 1999 Mobile Media has enabled 3000 young people to work with professional media artists and equipment in and around Swindon. 

Plug-in Cinema - www.plugincinema.com
Aim to provide you with all that you need to create your own films. There is a film school with interactive exercises, a glossary explaining all the technical aspects you will come across, links to suppliers for equipment and books as well as bulletin boards, articles, news, and films.  

Bristol Wireless - www.bristolwireless.net
Volunteer run co-operative committed to social improvement through the building of a wireless computer network. Freely distributable and alterable software is promoted by providing training, support and advocacy. 

Poeticize - www.poeticize.co.uk/index1.htm
Poeticize Arts & Media is committed to reaching out to all sections of the community with the aim of providing supportive and stimulating environments in which people of all cultures and backgrounds can explore and develop the full range of their creative talents. 

Somerset Film & Video (The Engine Room) - www.somersetfilm.com
A registered charity who for the past seven years have been dedicated to inspiring encouraging and supporting moving image projects in Somerset.  

UK IndyMedia - www.indymedia.org.uk
Indymedia UK is a network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.  

AS IT IS tv
A video magazine that brings life on the streets as it is to you. AS IT IS tv is real. Not staged like most who say real tv. AS IT IS –is real tv.
Email: as_it_is_tv@hotmail.com
Text: 07745667104

Exploding Pictures
Based in the Coach House in St Pauls, Exploding Pictures produced the award winning short film ‘‘Black Tiger’, in conjunction with BS5 and Big State Theatre, at the First Light Awards 2004.

Undercurrents - www.undercurrents.org
An antidote to everything that’s wrong with mainstream television news.

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