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Borderlines Film Festival

Borderlines Film Festival, Britain’s biggest rural film festival, will take place in Herefordshire and Shropshire from Friday 26 February to Sunday 14 March 2010 at a remarkable 40 venues with over 200 screenings/events.

This year our Borderlines Debate Here Comes Everyone:) Citizen Journalism in the Digital Age will focus on the new world promised by digital technology with a multiplicity of voices heard on affordable mobile and internet platforms, reducing the role and authority of traditional media. Be it images of Iranian dissent via Twitter or local campaigns on council spending by sites like the Kington Blackboard, citizen journalism and social media is having an impact on political life globally and locally.

Recent additions to the line-up include:

  • Emily James, the main producer for CLIMATE CAMP TV, and executive producer on The Age of Stupid in the Go Global session
  • Tim Beech, Editor of BBC Shropshire (radio and online) who is at the forefront of the BBC’s talks about the future of their journalism in Get Local
  • LocalEyes, a new hyperlocal initiative for Herefordshire giving a presentation at the end of the debate sessions

Here Comes Everyone sandwiches inspirational talks and hot debate sessions between two provocative screenings; the unflinching Burma VJ: Reports from a Closed Country and the hilariously inspiring The Yes Men Fix The World.  Christian Payne, aka documentally and ourmaninside, one of the UK’s most recognised mobile media makers will talk about he engages with his immediate surroundings and the wider world, while the Get Local session will pitch traditional journalists and broadcasters against minority voices like Hereford’s only anarchist newsletter The Heckler and online news site Kington Blackboard via the Tory plans for Digital Britain.

The Go Global session will include contributions from Helen Iles, winner of Digital Hero Wales Award 2009 who’ll talk about “the news you don’t see on the news”; Christian Payne about recent work in Pakistan; and Jake Bowers, Romany journalist and Editor of Travellers Times online.

Here Comes Everyone takes place on Wednesday March 3 from 11:00 to 6:15 at The Courtyard, Edgar Street, Hereford and tickets are just £15/£10 for the full day. http://www.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/events_here-comes-everyone.shtml

And if you want to find out how to get your voice heard and use the internet and mobile media as an effective platform, sign up for the TALK ABOUT LOCAL WORKSHOP from 10:00 am – 2:00pm on Thursday 4th March (£15/£10)http://www.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/events_here-comes-everyone.shtml

Tickets can be booked through The Courtyard on 01432 340555 or http://www.courtyard.org.uk/whatson/film/

February 28th, 2010 | Category: Community Groups, Local Services | One comment

Thank You

I would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to The Bad Ass Grandads who made the charity function on 13th February at The Burton Hotel go off with a bang, also to all the people who sold tickets, gave raffle prizes, donations and attended the function.  It was a great success and the money raised was £1,212.

Jayne Fox

February 18th, 2010 | Category: Community Groups | Leave a comment

Fun Half-Term Quiz for all ages (prizes to be won)

Print off the quiz, fill it in and take it to the KLEEN Energy Shop on Kington High Street by 3pm on Saturday 20th February to enter the competition.

Winners will receive £5.  Names will be announced on the Kington Blackboard.

Fun Half-Term Quiz for all ages

February 12th, 2010 | Category: Community Groups | Comments are closed

KLEEN Energy Week Programme

February 12th, 2010 | Category: Community Groups | One comment

Council’s Apology over Lights Fiasco

Today’s Mid-Wales Journal contains the following article:

Kington Chamber of Trade and the town’s residents are expected to receive an apology from Herefordshire Council following the festive lights fiasco.

No sooner had the town’s Christmas lights been put up by the Chamber of Trade and volunteers than Herefordshire Council received a complaint about their safety, together with hard copy photographs, from local resident Barrington Trumper.

Hereford Council instructed its contractors Amey to inspect the lights and they were switched off and only turned back on at the very last minute.

At a town council meeting on Monday, Herefordshire councillor for Kington, Terry James said that the Chamber of Trade and the public would receive an apology from Herefordshire Council regarding the handling of the festive lights.  He said the whole situation had come about following a ‘mischievous complaint’ from a member of the public and the vast majority of the people in the town were extremely angry about it.

Town councillor Tom Bounds who is also on the Chamber of  Trade said there was actually very little wrong with the lights in the end and he said it was very disappointing that they were condemned by a member of the public who supplied photographic evidence.

Councillor James said the intervention by the member of the public has probably cost the town tens of thousands of pounds again, although the bill for the inspections and work had not yet been received.

February 12th, 2010 | Category: News | One comment
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