Southwark.TV Roade Show

SOUTHWARK.TV
POSITIVE ROAD SHOW

Launched at Damilola Taylor Centre
Friday 16th January 2004
Venue: East Surrey Grove
off Commercial Way SE15

Presented with Southwark Young People's Magazine Project

It had begun at a meeting last September when a group of local filmmakers and local media practitioners met up and discussed what they might do about gun crime. One of them, Damien Bent, had made a film with touched on the complex issues that affect lives when drugs and guns get involved.

The idea emerged of touring the Borough and Southwark.TV partners where appropriate with the film and video material that was coming to light. Young people might be inspired to take creative routes to expressing their feelings on the large, often unwieldy subjects that dog lives, sometimes badly, sometimes tragically.

Along with a good turn out of young people and others attending the Centre, Lucy Cope of Mothers Against Guns took part in this inaugural Road Show and spoke passionately and controversially about gun crime. In particular she addressed the many young black men in the audience and urged them to wake up to what was going on around them.

Let us know if you would like these films and speakers to visit your youth club or school.

If funding is secured for the next phase of the project, in the autumn the Road Show will present films, videos and speakers on Body Image & Healthy Eating, as well as Teenage Pregnancy. Southwark.TV partner, the Young Parent Project, will be in a strong position to contribute to this and is currently having a film made by CTVT.

Southwark.TV/Community TV Trust are looking for locally made films and videos on these two issues to include in future Road Shows. If you have something that might fit the bill, please let us know and send us a viewing copy.

Community TV Trust
10 Denman Road
London SE15 5NP

filmmakers meeting