NVTV SCHEDULES

2004 (In Black)

2005 (In Red)

2006 (In Green)


Beginning Monday 9th February  2004
Welcome to NvTv

(6 minutes)

 

The School Trip

An inventive and quirky exploration of what the future might hold for a young person leaving school with a disability, in terms of employment, finding a home, maintaining friendships, relationships and a social life without the day to day support of school. Made with Fleming Fulton School, Belfast in association with Open Arts.

(13 minutes)

 

We’re Here Too

Children from Belfast’s Jewish community exhibit photographs they have taken in order to further people’s knowledge and understanding of Jewish traditions. Interviews with children, Rabbi Avraham Citron and older members of the Jewish community in Belfast. Also a chat with the Hon Lord Mayor of Belfast, Cllr. Martin Morgan.

 

Katie Radford: Organiser of “We’re Here Too”

“I think its important that all children have their rights recognised in the North of Ireland ….. sometimes it can be difficult for people to remember that children from minority ethnic communities have the same rights and need the same access to provisions and services.”

 

Hon. Lord Mayor of Belfast, Cllr. Martin Morgan

“Its important that children from different faith groups and different cultural backgrounds are given the same opportunities to flourish and develop in the City of Belfast.”

(9 minutes)

 

MAP2 Photographic Exhibition

Participants from 12 community groups, North and South, talk about photography, video and peace building at the launch of their interim Photographic Exhibition at Community Visual Images in Belfast. Project continues until 2005 when the completed works will be presented at a Media Access Festival.

(10 minutes)

 

Our Wedding Video

Set on either side of the peace line at Short Strand/East Belfast, this “fly on the wall” documentary, gives a unique insight into community theatre in Belfast. From inception to final performance the film charts the highs, the lows, the tantrums, as community theatre groups from all over Belfast merge in a theatrical pilgrimage performing in terraced houses, a church and an hotel. The play, which explores the issues around a marriage between a Catholic and a Protestant, was the surprise hit of the Belfast Festival at Queens and went on to win two Belfast Arts Awards. A wedding video with a difference!

Devised and scripted by

Ballybeen Community Theatre

Stone Chair Community Theatre

Dockward Community Theatre

Shankill Community Theatre

Tongue n’Cheek Theatre Company

Real World Theatre Company

with Martin Lynch & Marie Jones

 

(53 minutes)

 

Tuesday 10th February

Quality Control

Featuring Morph “Bad case of Tramp” and “City Song” and local filmmaker, Hugh McGrory, on his involvement with the successful Apache Tribe digital filmmaking and musician collaboration.

(30 minutes)

 

WheelWorks

Profile of the organisation, which provides artistic and creative opportunities to young people, particularly those who experience barriers to participating in the arts. The development of partnership with local communities is central to the work of WheelWorks and the providers of services to young people.

(30 minutes)

 

With

 

Pathway for Change – interview with Gavin O Connor, Director of Wheelworks in response to the recently released government document Pathways for Change on resourcing the voluntary and community sector.

(30 minutes)

 

Wednesday 11th February

Youth Lyric "Teechers"

Members of the cast tell us about their latest performance and how others can get involved.

 

"I think because I am in my last year of school and I am going to be in the position, that my character 'Gail' finds herself in - leaving school, in a few months. It is a wake up call, hearing her saying goodbye to her teachers and you think these are your last few months of school, so make the most of it, do what you want to do, don't leave thinking I wish I had tried this, I wish I had been a bit nicer to him - No Regrets!"

(10 minutes)

 

The Green Living Fair

Living in balance with nature and the planet. A celebration of alternative lifestyles and sustainability at the annual fair held at Castle Espie.

(13 minutes)

 

Houl yer Horses

Bertie Hanna of Saintfield is one of the last true exponents of horse ploughing. Since the advent of the tractor at the beginning of the last century, the art of ploughing has been dying out. Today, there are only about 10 ploughmen who practice the art and about 20 plough horses. This first film by one of NvTv’s volunteers was shot at Blaris in Lisburn, at Bertie’s stables and at Listooder & District Ploughing Society, the oldest ploughing society in Ireland, formed by two neighbours disputing who was the best ploughman, 114 years ago.

 

This is a first film by a member of Northern Visions Volunteers.

(50 minutes)

 

Thursday 12th February

Our Town Too

Magherafelt has grown substantially since the 1994 cease-fires because it is seen as an idyllic rural location with easy access to both Belfast and Derry, but how idyllic is it for young people growing up in the town? A film made by Magherafelt Youth Drama Group.       

(10 minutes)

 

NV Fashion TV hits the Belfast Style Awards 03

Diane Comerton goes to the Style Awards at the Northern Whig, to see what's hot and what's not!

"If I win most Stylish Male tonight, it's one for TK Maxx."

"Always start with a good pair of shoes, after that it really doesn't matter."

"For me the sign of a developing city is when people can dress themselves and not have to wear head to toe labels. Head to toe labels is boring. It's all about being an individual."

(20 minutes)

 

Hector McDonnell

Internationally acclaimed Glenarm artist, who was born in Belfast and studied in Munich and Vienna, tells us the stories behind his paintings at the Ulster Museum. 

"One of the problems of being an artist is that you lead an entirely hedonistic existence. Just sitting at home painting what you like. I get frustrated on occasions and I do like there to be some social importance to what I am trying to say. I offered my services to CONCERN shortly after the Rwanda Genocide, It was a wonderful experience" 

Listen to Hector's accounts of Rwanda and 9/11 as well as his amusing stories on other paintings. The work is profiled in a retrospective at the Ulster Museum until 28 March 2004.

(23 minutes)

 

Divine Issues

Produced & Presented by Darren Carson

Interview with Aled Jones at the Gala Concert held in Belfast on September 27th 2003 with the Queen’s Island Victoria Male Choir in association with the Bryncoch Male Voice Choir and the Haverfordwest Male Voice Choir.

Aled began his professional career at the age of twelve and as a child star, notched up 6 million sales. As a boy, Aled was an instinctive singer, picking up pieces of music and being able to interpret it almost immediately. But when he started out again in 2002, he had to work at it.

“It was a hard slog. I had to really think about how I’d phrase a piece, whereas now that’s come back to me. And it’s so exciting for me because then it means I can put the emotion into a song”

His first album released as an adult “Aled”, in 2002, went straight to Number One in the classical charts where it stayed for four weeks and entered the pop Top 20. Through all his work the same philosophy applies “I hate this attitude that classical music or the arts have to be highbrow. I want everything I do to be accessible to everyone. It has to be entertainment.”

 

Darren Carson is a Northern Visions Volunteer. He is a first time producer and  presenter with his own series Divine Issues. Darren became a boy soprano at the age of nine in Belfast Cathedral and travelled Northern Ireland performing to local audiences. He joined the Queen’s Island Victoria Male Voice Choir on a part time basis.

 

Friday 13th February

Don’t Call Us  - Venues, getting signed to labels, promotion and advertising. How easy is it for the local music scene to develop and prosper? A first film by 16-18 year olds from the Young People’s Production Unit, featuring Biggy Bigmore, Terri Hooley and Jonny Tiernan of Alternative Ulster.

(10 minutes)

 

C. S. Lewis – WEA launch of the Big Read

Anne Jenkins wrote to C.S.Lewis as a child about his book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and he wrote back to her. That letter became the inspiration for the sculpture at the Holywood Arches.

"I had this letter for years and no one took any notice. Then it got into the hands of Douglas Graham who showed it to Ross Wilson who was inspired to make the statue."

(7 minutes)

 

The Insider

Presented by Peter Bleakley of the Shankill Mirror

and featuring Shankill poet, Albert Hazlett

The Cupar Way Peace Mural is underway and those involved as well as the people from the Shankill community talk of the welcome change this extensive project will bring. They hope it will inject life back into the area and will reflect a more progressive approach to the institution that is “the mural”.

(25 minutes)

 

The Artery

Produced and Presented by Royce Harper

Regular arts series which this week features an interview with Jim Sheridan, a short experimental film and Dance @ Old Museum Arts Centre.

(30 minutes)

 

Afghanistan: Chronotopia

A discussion between Belfast Exposed and Simon Norfolk on his exhibition of photographs, a personal vision of a war-ravaged landscape. “I was reminded of the story of Schliemann’s discovery of the remains of the classical city of Troy in the 1870s. Digging down, I found nine cities layered upon each other, each one in its turn rebuilt and destroyed. Walking a Kabul street can be like walking through a Museum of the Archaeology of War – different moments of destruction lie like sediment on top of each other. There are places near Bagram Air Base or on the Shomali Plain, where the front line has passed back and forth eight or nine times – each leaving a deadly flotsam of destroyed homes and fields seeded with landmines”.

 

Simon was staff photographer for Living Marxism from 1990-1994 covering the BNP, the Poll Tax, Northern Ireland and the Gulf War.

(30 minutes)

 

Programming liable to change

 


Monday 16th February
 
Puccini's Protagonists
Artist Ashley Holmes takes Barbie & Ken to the Opera
"I have been working with Barbie & Ken for a long time, 8 to 10 years now and I thought Barbie would make a great Tosca, Barbie would make a great Madame Butterfly. She could do anything."
"My father took me to see Madame Butterfly when I was 10. it was in Boston in a huge theatre and he got the cheapest seats possible, so we were very far away from the stage, which was just a tiny little square of light. He gave me a pair of binoculars to look through, and through these binoculars there was this kind of magical music box that opened up for me and it was a private and magical experience for me."
(5 minutes)

 
Cinemagic!
Excitement mounts at the Young People’s Television workshop with Dermot O’Leary of “Big Brother” fame – part of the Lagan Reel’s Cinemagic Young People’s Festival in December 2003.
 
“He [Dermot O’Leary] really does want the kids to learn a lot…. The two days with him are totally invaluable to any young person.” Joan Burney, Organiser
 
“Belfast feels like my home once a year!” Dermot O’Leary, Television Presenter
(10 minutes)
 
Augusto Boal in Belfast
with Fern Hill House Museum, Ballymacarrett Arts & Cultural Society, Prisoners Aid in East Belfast, An Cultúrlann and Phoenix Drama Society.
 

An extraordinary day in the life of the Brazilian theatre director, writer and political activist as he is taken on a whirlwind tour sampling Belfast life with all its contradictions, humour, and political diatribe spiced with Augusto's own story.
 
Augusto Boal is the founding father of Theatre of the Oppressed. In 1971 he was arrested at the Arena Theatre and imprisoned for working in opposition to the military regime in Brazil. After his release he exiled himself to Argentina where he resided until 1976. His efforts to transform theatre influenced artists and organisations for social change around the world. His techniques are enthusiastically followed by a number of community drama groups in Belfast.
(35 minutes)