SisterVision: Informational Videos

Cowley Road Matters - East Oxford Action

In 2003 the Department for Transport awarded Oxfordshire County Council 1 million pounds to improve the safety and environment of the Cowley Rd. Cowley Rd is a busy arterial route with lots of buses and shops. The question the DfT wanted to know was can a busy road and a community both exist at the same time? They wanted innovative ideas to make a good environment where people, buses, cyclist, cars and shops could all work well together, safely. East Oxford Action have been working in East Oxford for several years as a community run social enterprise scheme.

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“We use the video all the time! It’s fantastic! It’s our main marketing tool and we also use it for training purposes. We show it to everyone from the local authority to planning students. People love it. Its color and dynamism brilliantly convey the ethos of our project.”

- Clare Symonds, Community Participation Officer, East Oxford Action

Mapping Matters - East Oxford Action

Mapping Matters is a consultation process. We use maps and other techniques to raise awareness of local issues and resources. Our aim is to increase community involvement in decision making. We made this video to explain about the techniques and methods we’ve used so that people can use them themselves, copy them or adapt them to whatever their needs might be. www.eastoxford.com/projects/mappingmatters.htm

The Garden Video - The ArkT Centre

In November 2004 staff from Barclays Bank and Edmund Gibbs accountants joined with Aspire Oxford to transform the garden at the ArkT centre as part of ‘Make a Difference Day’. The ArkT centre is a community project which offers space for people to take part in music, dance, drama the visual arts and food.
www.ark-t.org

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Playing… the Spaces in Between - Footloose Community Arts

Footloose is a group of community artists who work with children using expressive arts. Children increasingly lack the time and space to experiment, improvise and play creatively. Through play they can acquire new skills and learn to enjoy cooperating in a group. This film shows some of the activities jointly organized with Calth orpe Community Gardens in Kings Cross over the course of a year.

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The Workers’ Educational Association is a national organization with volunteers at its heart at all levels. Many people volunteer in local branches and are usually interested in attending courses as a learner. WEA members can also volunteer to be Voluntary Education Advisors or VEA’s. VEA’s support tutors and learners and this video explains more about how they do it.

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The Interaction Program - FOCUS

This video has been produced to help you get a clearer picture of FOCUS and its’ Interaction Program. We hope it’s going to help you decide whether you’d like to get involved and join us on an Interaction Residential. To us at FOCUS personal development means developing new skills, growing in confi dence, feeling good about ourselves and realizing how we can make things happen for ourselves.

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Film Express - ArkT Centre

Whats it like to be your age? The young people on this summer project made this video and accompanying sound track in just one week. They found that most people quite like being their age. www.ark-t.org

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