More Films by the River Bank Programme_FINALCOPY

MSW_Film afternoon flier_8th June 2013

We are running an afternoon of Frome-themed films as part of the extension to the Multi-story water project. The event is entitled: ‘More films from the River Bank’, and will take place in GlenFrome Primary School (Eastville, Bristol) on Saturday 8th June, 1-4 pm. On request, this is a re-run of the films shown under the M32 during the Multi-story-water Performance weekend in September 2012, with some new additions. Additions will include a new film made by a local filmmaker in the Eastville community that draws on local water stories, and digital stories created from the oral history interviews we gathered as a key part of the Multi-story water project. The event is free and there will be free tea and home-made cakes and refreshments. Please join us if you can, and feel free to pass this invitation on.  The draft programme of films is provided as an attachment to this post.

Best wishes, Lindsey, Jess, Jo and the project team

Due to several requests from people in Eastville, we are going to have a repeat showing of the Multi-Story-Water-Eastville films and audio (originally screened underneath the M32) in Glen Frome Primary School (tbc) on Saturday afternoon 8^th June 2013. There will be free refreshments and homemade cakes.  We are working with a local film maker to produce a new film about Eastville and the River Frome in the spirit of some of the early films by Mervyn Upton. We are also adding some new digital stories (short audio clips with images), produced with Eastville residents focusing on their memories and local knowledge of the River Frome.

We are now looking for community members to help us with the development of the film and the film showing on the 8^th June.  You can help in a variety of ways: by suggesting scenes and stories about the River Frome at Eastville that could form part of the new film; by offering photographs of Eastville and the River Frome that could be included in the digital stories; or by offering to be part of the film.

We are working to ensure that the Multi-Story-Water-Eastville project provides a legacy of resources that can be accessed and added to.  With the individual’s agreement all digital stories will be lodged on the Multi-Story-Water-Eastville website and also on the Bristol Stories project website.

Please get in touch at .  We look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes, Lindsey

Lindsey McEwen, University of the West of England, Bristol.

 

We continued working with GlenFrome Primary School on river project-work up to Christmas.  The children had a river day on the River Frome above Eastville Lake on 8^th  November 2012 and put on a great show of their work at the School on 10^th December 2012.  Thank you to everyone who supported that event.  The following week, the children staged the same exhibition at the Create Centre, in central Bristol.  Many thanks to Glen Frome School, and Lisa Worgan and Alys Parker (Real Ideas Organisation) for their work on this part of the project.  A practical toolbox (A River Topic: How can we tell people about the power of Rivers and Flooding?) produced from this school work is now being shared with other Bristol schools.  Please get in touch at if you would like further information.

All the photographs from the Performance Weekend are on the project website.  Many thanks to Jess Allen (Arts Facilitator) for getting these posted.

We now have copy of the oral history excerpts/ community narratives that were interwoven with music during the Promenade Dance-Circus Performance on Sunday 30^th September 2012.  If anyone would like a copy on CD, please contact: .  The music has been removed for copyright reasons.  In November 2012, Ali Crowther (Streets Alive) contacted some residents about their memories of the Performance Weekend and the project more generally.  If you have any further feedback that you would like to add now – looking back at the activities and your engagement with living with the River Frome – please email us at .

Please come along and join us at this street art workshop this Sunday – we’ll be at the Cottrell Road entrance to Eastville Park (other side of bridge from Merchants Arms/Hungry Horse on Stapleton Road) from 12-4… you can drop in for as much or little time as you’d like.

The deadline for our extreme weather photography competition has been extended to Friday 14th September. Please do send us your entries – it is FREE and you could win a prize including £20 Amazon/iTunes vouchers!

The competition details are given below. Good luck!

Calling ALL photographers of Eastville, whether you use a disposable camera, phone or SLR! The Multi-Story Water Project invites you to submit your photographs on the theme of Extreme Weather in the UK. From last winter’s big freeze to this summer’s flash floods – how did you record or experience the weird and wonderful weather patterns that have frustrated, flummoxed and fascinated us over the past few years? Or, thinking completely outside the box, what else does ‘extreme weather’ mean to you?

Your entries will be displayed outdoors at the celebratory Multi-Story Water Weekend, 29-30^thSeptember.

You can submit up to 3 photos per person. Please state when and where taken, plus a sentence or two about what inspired you to take it/them. (The Guardian In Pictures weekly competition is full of great examples of creative photographic responses to a theme)

PRIZES will be awarded to a winner and a runner-up in each competition, and include£20 Amazon/iTunes vouchers.

CLOSING DATE
Friday 14^th September

SUBMISSION Entries should be submitted by email or post with name and contact details  to  or
Multi-Story Water Project
c/o Nancy Campbell
Faculty of Environment & Technology (FET)
UWE Bristol
Frenchay Campus
Coldharbour Lane
Bristol
BS16 1QY

Remember, the competitions open to all ages. Winning photos will be selected by a judging panel that will include representatives from the local community, the Environment Agency, UWE and Bristol City Council.