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
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)
Produced and Presented by Royce Harper
(30 minutes)
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)
Plus an exclusive interview with Augusto Boal
on the theory of theatre in a community context by Tom Magill. Full transcription of Augusto Boal interview available at
http://www.northernvisions.org/boal
(40 minutes)
Tuesday 17th February
Gala Celebration + Second Helpings
Featuring performances from Caroline Herald,
Trevor Lemon, Hubert McCormack, CandoCo Dance Company at the Gala Celebration
Event held by the Office of the First Minister & Deputy First Minister at
the Island Arts Centre, Lisburn. The event was to mark the end of the European
Year of People with Disabilities 2003 and to launch the Employers Recognition
Awards (www.efdni.org)
Also featuring Joel Simon's Award Winning Animation Second Helpings
Yvonne, a chubby Belfast schoolgirl is caught
between the dream of becoming a supermodel and her mothers' stodgy cuisine.
This is about to change on her Holy Communion day, as her search for weight
loss leads to a shocking encounter with her alter-ego... an animation from East
Belfast based, Flickerpix, which forms a part of the British Film Institute's "Story Shorts" educational
package, teaching primary school
children about the basics of storytelling in short films. http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/index.html
(30 minutes)
Conflict: The Irish at War
With Trevor Parkhill, Keeper of History at the Ulster Museum
The Ulster Museum attempts to catalogue 6,000
years of conflict in Ireland from Mesolithic stone bats and decapitated
skeletons, to rubber bullets and Long Kesh memorabilia. A thought-provoking exhibition - does it hit
the mark, and why now?
“The fact that
there has been five years of political progress replacing the violence of the
last 30 years has encouraged us to seize the hour.”
(22 minutes)
The Bookshop with a Soul
A visit to John Clancy’s
John McKimmon drops in to John Clancy’s
bookshop in Smithfield to hear stories from John and his friends. A few local
authors join in with the craic and reminisce about their past with Jimmy
Doherty telling us about the cinemas and music halls of old Belfast.
“I can’t imagine Belfast without bookshops”
John Clancy
(30 minutes)
Wednesday 18th February
Cuban Night
Teresita Trujillo, from the Cuban Embassy in Dublin comes to Belfast to give a
talk before a Cuban Film Screening at An Cultúrlann.
"Culturally
speaking, and historically as well, there is plenty of similarity between the
Irish people and the Cuban people, which is why we now have an increase of
Irish visitors in Cuba, as well as people here having an interest on what's
happening in Cuba."
(6 minutes)
Quilted
As part of the Commemoration Events for National Holocaust Day BIFHE Performing
Arts Students created "Quilted" under the River Lagan. The Students
take you on a journey, showing images, which make you question your beliefs and
encourage you to become a more active citizen.
"They are
telling stories that have to be told. Stories about Murder. Stories about Rape.
Stories about Discrimination. Stories where people have turned away, and looked
away. But we are not giving them the chance to do that. They have to
listen."
"Little
things help, little things make a difference."
"Everyone is a human being, everyone has
the right to live, to be free and express their own opinions and to be their
own person, and that's one of the things that everyone needs to wake up and
realise."
(25 minutes?)
Global Club
1400 excited Belfast school-goers pack the Waterfront for an electric show
featuring boy band Broken Hill as Global Club, the young people’s online club
is launched in Belfast. Global Club’s
Board of Directors is made up of young people, elected by young people,
for young people, and excitement reaches fever pitch as the 12 youth directors
are announced.
(15 minutes)
“In Focus”
Zimbabwean Solidarity Campaign
Produced & Presented by Paul Barnes
This show highlights the pro-active lives of political refugees from Zimbabwe.
These women and men have come to Northern Ireland to escape abduction or death
at the hands of Mugabe’s teenage troops.
They have used their time here to raise the profile of their native land
–Zimbabwee, a place where freedom is limited to a privileged few and the rights
of women are abused in the extreme. The refugees hope to use their experiences
here in Northern Ireland as a blueprint for when they are given the longed for
chance to return and re-build their country.
(30 minutes)
Thursday 19th February
Getting Busy!
Youth Enterprise of Northern Ireland Workshop
A fun and fact filled
workshop for budding entrepreneurs from 12 schools in the Belfast area, run as
part of the “Start a Business Week”.
(12 minutes)
Time Trap
A Made in Belfast production by Amanda Dunsmore and prisoners at Long
Kesh/H.M.P. Maze 1999
Amanda Dunsmore was
invited to Long Kesh/HMP Maze as a visiting artist by the Prison Arts
Foundation. Trained as a sculptor, it took a little while to decide the focus
for this particular project but Amanda decided to take a risk and attempt to
create a work using a creative language she had never used before – animation.
Over the period she worked with all but one of the organisations and they are
represented as individuals or in the case of the UDA, as a group. Prisoners
always had the final say as to the content and edit of the work and the
completed work is a true collaboration.
“The notion came to me that time for the men and women in
gaol is viewed in a completely different way than people on the outside. Time
is counted. Time is wasted. I don’t think that lack of freedom is the greatest
punishment, the real punishment is the taking of an individual’s life – time.”
“Prisons are cold, windy places on the
outside, isolated and hot on the inside. An experienced visitor wears many warm
easily removable layers, wrapped in a waterproof. Once inside the walls seem
overly thick and the cells are very small. The tea, like prison humour, is very
strong, verging on black”
(5mins)
The Marrowbone
A film by Malachy McCambridge which looks at
how this community in North Belfast is looking to regenerate and develop the
area, and the emergence of the Marrowbone Community Association where many
interested individuals and groups pooled their energies and acquired the
Marrowbone Community House as a centre for the neighbourhood.
(25 minutes)
Divine Issues
Produced & Presented by Darren Carson
Darren Carson chats to international country music star Charlie Lansborough
about his music, his life and his faith.
(30 minutes)
Friday
20th February
East Belfast Lantern Parade
On 5th December 2003 the BEAT Initiative created the First East Belfast
"Making Light" Lantern Parade. It was the result after months of various
arts workshops carried out in various community centres and with different
community groups. Christina Nelson, tells us about the background to the event
and shows us how to make your own lantern. Diane Comerton walks us through the
parade chatting to performers and onlookers bringing all the excitement to your
screen. Finally we get to watch highlights of the Final Performance.
"It's
going to be a fantastic event. It's something for everybody of all abilities
and all ages. It's great for families, for aunties and uncles, grannies and
granda's for the whole family to get involved. It celebrates that there is so
much talent out there and that everyone can get involved."
"It's
a real positive thing for people to go out on to the streets and have fun, to
show off the beautiful things they have made."
"It
is brilliant"
"It
is beautiful, it's spectacular, it's lovely to see all the youngsters really
enjoying themselves. The organisers are to be congratulated, I think it's
great."
(44 minutes)
The Artery
Produced and Presented by Royce Harper
Regular arts series which this week features
two very different art exhibitions at the Golden Tread Gallery. Photography
machines, installation, climbing frames, Dan Shipsides and Flax Art Studios
graduates. Also featuring “Spiritualized”, live at Mandela Hall, Queens and a
poem from Home: The Gasworks and Donegall Pass with an “archive” performance by
Royce.
(30 minutes)
Saoirse
“In
a race against time before returning to prison Kathleen searches for someone to
look after her daughter and is forced to confront her past”.
During the making of the film, local primary
schoolgirl Joanna Farnan made her debut playing the starring role and Ardoyne
residents came out in force to line the streets in an ambitious recreation of
the day of the ceasefire.
The Ardoyne Film Project gave participants from
the local community the opportunity to be creatively involved in the filmmaking
process from conception to completion.
Directed by Ardoyne man himself……Brendan J.
Byrne. Photography by John T. Davis.
(30 minutes)
Monday
23rd February
Dino Birds
Did all dinosaurs become extinct – or did some
evolve into birds?!!
In 1861 the question was first raised with the
discovery in Germany of Archaeopteryx: a fossil with feathers and dinosaur features. Then in 1996, farmer fossil hunters in
Liaoning province, northeast China, discovered a 124-million-year-old fossil.
It marked the beginning of a startling journey of discovery. Fossils
found soon after would confirm a theory that has been argued for more than 100
years.
Now on display in Europe for the first time, “Dino Birds: Feathered Fossils from China”
recreates a lost world where dinosaurs took flight. We explore this fascinating exhibition showing exclusively at the
Ulster Museum.
“This exhibition explains how scientists have
used these fossils to argue that our modern garden birds are nothing more than
flying dinosaurs!”
Dr Peter Crowther,
Keeper of Geology, Ulster Museum
Rainbow Warrior
The Greenpeace Campaign ship Rainbow Warrior II visited Belfast in 2003 when
the public were invited on board for guided tours. If you missed your chance of
that you can watch the tour from the comfort of your own living room.
“I saw
thousands of dolphins surrounding the ship as far as the eye could see. It’s
moments like that, that make it so wonderful to work for Greenpeace”
Meredith Adams, Greenpeace Activist.
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)
Writer’s
Stories
Ros Young, UN office for the Co-ordination of
Humanitarian Affairs talks with Karen Haston about the impact of the Israeli
wall on the occupied Palestine territories.
(25 minutes)
Tuesday
24th February
NV
Fashion TV - Form & Fusion 1
Catwalk action from the Northern Irish heats of
Coca Cola's Form and Fusion Design Awards. Witness the amazing catwalk
creations from schools through out Ireland and join NV Fashion TV Style Guru
Diane Comerton as she talks to the Models and Designers and gets all the behind
the scenes gossip. Programme 1 of 4.
(30 minutes)
The
kindest cut – RSPB on hedgerows –
“If you have
hedgerows and you’re planning to cut them – cut them now before the birds start
nesting in March” says Stephanie Sim-Doran,
Media & Events Officer, RSPB NI.
This is because after February birds such as
the mistle thrush start nesting and any cutting then would seriously disrupt
their activities.
"February
is best because most berries have been eaten and the birds are not yet nesting." Hedgerows form important 'corridor' habitats and we have an
extensive network in NI, something that we can be proud of. On farmland, birds
like the yellowhammer and linnet nest in and around them, while songbirds breed
in those found in the gardens. In addition to shelter, they provide food and
protection from predators, and a little care and forethought can have a
beneficial countrywide impact.–For more information regarding the sensitive
care of hedgerows, call the
RSPB at 028 9049 5147.
(10 minutes)
For Stephen
For Stephen is a story about the tragic death through solvent misuse of a young
man from West Belfast. The film was made by a group of Stephen’s family and
friends and is a harrowing account of the loss they feel.
(20 minutes)
Writer’s Stories
Raj Chakraborti interviews the author William Dalrymple at the Edinburgh Book
Festival in 2003 about his work, including White Mughals (Scottish Book of the
Year) and about the Brits in India before the British Raj, a world almost
entirely unexplored by history when poor Westerners travelled to India “wanting a Green Card”
http://www.williamdalrymple.uk.com/
(15 minutes)
Thales
An ancient Greek protests about the use of his name for missile defence.
(7 minutes)
Wednesday
25th February
Quality Control
This week’s show features local digital musician Michael Sampson and “Mnaeoic”
and Helen Sloan, photographer and digital video artist.
(30 minutes)
A night from the New Lodge
The Ashton Community Trust was established in 1991, a community led
organisation intent on regenerating the New Lodge. Nine peace lines engulf an
area where over half of the economically active population is unemployed and
89% of young people leave school with no formal educational
qualifications.
Despite these negative factors, the Trust developed and expanded, working to
reduce unemployment, provide training and education and social regeneration. It
is the largest employer of local people and hosts a wide range of concerns from
a corner shop to day care to a doctor’s surgery.
Pathways for Change - Interview with Jim Deery, Chairperson New
Lodge Community Forum in response to the recently released government document
Pathways for Change on resourcing the voluntary and community sector.
Doc in a Day –
young people make a documentary in a day as the build up to the Brian Kennedy
concert reaches fever pitch.
Pim Street – The
life of a saint as you have never seen it before – Ed Rice animated by P7s from
the New Lodge Pim Street Primary School…….a brilliant ten minute film that
makes you wonder what eleven-year-olds can’t do.
(50 minutes)
Thursday
26th February
NV Fashion TV - Form & Fusion 2
Catwalk action from the Northern Irish
heats of Coca Cola's Form and Fusion Design Awards. Witness the amazing catwalk
creations from schools through out Ireland and join NV Fashion TV Style Guru
Diane Comerton as she talks to the Models and Designers and gets all the behind
the scenes gossip. Programme 2 of 4.
(30 minutes)
“In Focus” Zimbabwean Solidarity
Campaign
Produced & Presented by Paul Barnes
This show highlights the pro-active lives
of political refugees from Zimbabwe. These women and men have come to Northern
Ireland to escape abduction or death at the hands of Mugabe’s teenage
troops. They have used their time here
to raise the profile of their native land –Zimbabwe, a place where freedom is
limited to a privileged few and the rights of women are abused in the extreme.
The refugees hope to use their experiences here in Northern Ireland as a
blueprint for when they are given the longed for chance to return and re-build
their country.
(30 minutes)
Divine Issues
Chatting with Sheila Smyth and her producer Kenneth with highlights from the
Sheila’s concert in Lisburn Civic Centre. Darren also meets with Rev. David
Boyland of St. Hilda’s Parish Church, Dunmurray…..plus Darren’s take on the
divine issues of the day.
(30 minutes)
Friday
27th February
Shpresa’s Birthday Party
This is a story about coming home to a place where you have never been before.
Shpresa made a long journey from Kosovo to Belfast to find a home. Here she met
friends, some of whom travelled to Belfast from other parts of the world as she
did, some of whom were born and brought up here. Together these young people
talk about Belfast, the place where they belong – home.
(10 minutes)
The Insider
Presented by Peter Bleakley of the
Shankill Mirror
with Billy
Patterson Manager of Greater Shankill Community Council & Billy Boyd, Greater Shankill
Partnership Community Sports Development Unit, Spectrum Centre
“On
the Ropes”, the story of Cairn Lodge amateur boxing
club and the fear that the young people will not meet their full potential
through lack of funding.
“What we have
here are some of the best young boxers in Northern Ireland today. Their hard
work has allowed them to take the lion’s share of the medals at last month’s
County Antrim championships” says head coach Tommy
Waite “Our next logical step would be to
progress to the all-Ireland Championships in Dublin in April, but at the moment
we simply don’t have the funds to make the trip”.
If you would like to offer sponsorship contact
Tommy Waite (028 90 715761), evenings and weekends.
(25 minutes)
The Artery
“Never….never…..never” (or to give it its original title: Three Screaming Paisleys).
Latest piece of contemporary (classical) music from Belfast-born composer
Stephen Gardner. Our boy made good! Premiered in Dublin. Commissioned/played by
the RTE National Symphony Orchestra. The roar, the rancour, the return ……the
review.
Exhibition of stone sculptures from Zimbabwe
showing at Belfast Central Library and Mossley Mill with an interview with
Priscilla Mkomera, Director of Soko Art.
Poem from the Pass “I was born here, beneath the shadow of the Gasworks wall.
Where chimneys, tanks and perimeter gates loomed frighteningly tall. Poverty
towered above them all” Royce Harper. Filmed in 1987 by Belfast Independent
Video….fifteen years later our paths converged again…….
Is nothing sacred? Seems not. Laughing at ART
and frankly anything else we can lay our seductive, seditious and
shielded claws upon! “Those who can’t” The Titter of Wit Commandos of olde
Belfast Towne. While at the same time……d’boys ‘n bitches in d’hood. No
apologies asked for or offered from Stephen Beggs, Rachael McCabe and John
Kelly.
(30 minutes)
A Visit to Lawrence Street Workshops
A film made by 16-18 year olds in the Young People’s Documentary Unit.
Paddy Bloomer, inventor and Martin Carter, founder, discuss innovation in
recycling and the making of new inventions.
(10 minutes)
Showing throughout the week
Teenage Suicides
A film by Sarah McCaffrey and Maria Murphy.
Two teenage filmmakers from BIFHE have made a
documentary about this very topical problem. They visited organisations at the
front line of this terrible and tragic issue. Representatives from Childline
and the Samaritans talk about the situation in Northern Ireland and give advice
on whom to contact for help.
Monday
1st March
………and then there was Silence
Documenting the experiences, feelings and needs of people who have been closely
affected by the violence of the Troubles. Through personal accounts of
interviewees from varied backgrounds and experiences of the conflict, this film
illustrates the complexity and horror of reality for many who have been
bereaved or injured.
The video is
based on in-depth interviews and survey work conducted by the pioneering Cost
of the Troubles Study. It is part of the effort to document the extent of the
effects of the Troubles and the requirement for a variety of responses to meet
the needs of those affected.
(70 minutes)
Writer’s Stories
Raj Chakraboti interviews George Monbiot at the Edinburgh International Book
Fair.
(15 minutes)
Tuesday
2nd March
Form & Fusion (Part One)
Catwalk action from the Northern Irish heats of Coca Cola's Form and Fusion
Design Awards. Witness the amazing catwalk creations from schools through out
Ireland and join NV Fashion TV Style Guru Diane Comerton as she talks to the
models and designers and gets all the behind the scenes gossip. Programme 2 of
4.
(45 minutes)
After
the Flood
(Cube Media, Commedia Millennium Awards,
Community Media Association &
Millennium Commission).
Nicholas Fletcher's video documentary is
about the floods that occurred in the Malton/Norton areas of North Yorkshire in
November 2000. The programme features interviews with local people directly
affected by the crisis and incorporates original footage filmed at the time of
the floods.
Directed by Christopher Spence.
(23 minutes)
Archbishop Tutu Speaks in Belfast
In
November 2002 Desmond Tutu was invited by the Committee on the Administration
of Justice to Belfast to speak on the Bill of Rights. A packed audience enjoyed
his memories from the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, full of jokes
and wisdom. He brought a great deal of hope and good advice for our own peace
process here.
(30 minutes)
Teenage Suicides
A film by Sarah McCaffrey and Maria Murphy.
Two
teenage filmmakers from BIFHE have made a documentary about this very topical
problem. They visited organisations at the front line of this terrible and
tragic issue. Representatives from Childline and the Samaritans talk about the
situation in Northern Ireland and give advice on whom to contact for help.
(4 minutes)
Wednesday
3rd March
Windsor
Women’s Centre
‘This is Me’ series by New Belfast Community
Arts Initiative
From “Orr to Ayr”
A group of young women bemoan the way their
area has been run down in recent years. They decide to investigate the links
between County Antrim poet James Orr and the celebrated Scottish poet and visit
Burns’s cottage in Ayrshire. Their trip to Scotland takes in Scotland and
Girvan.
(15 minutes)
The Arts Revisited with Community Arts Forum
A look back at the Arts Revisited with Heather Floyd, Director of Community
Arts Forum and the phenomenal growth of community arts over the last ten years.
The film captured the enthusiasm of the thousands of people who take part and
demonstrates the positive impact that community arts can have on people’s
lives.
The film is followed by an interview with Heather Floyd in response to the
recently released government document Pathways
for Change on resourcing the voluntary and community sector.
(60 minutes)
Thursday
4th March
Form & Fusion (Part Two)
Catwalk action from the Northern Irish heats of Coca Cola's Form and Fusion
Design Awards. Witness the amazing catwalk creations from schools through out
Ireland and join NV Fashion TV Style Guru Diane Comerton as she talks to the
Models and Designers and gets all the behind the scenes gossip. Programme 2 of 4.
(30 minutes)
The Gay Commemoration (November 2003)
PA McLaughlin and Nathan Kripz attend their own special memorial service at the
Cenotaph in Belfast City Halls Grounds. They have to attend on the Sunday
before the normal celebrations as they wish to commemorate the gays and
lesbians who died at the hands of the Nazi Party as part of their 'Final
Solution'. This is a moving tribute to
the forgotten men and women who were victims of the Nazi party and who to a
large degree remained silent all these years with reflections and readings.
(20 minutes)
Divine Issues
Produced and presented by Darren Carson
Chatting with George Hamilton IV about Patsy Cline, Nashville, country
music and life itself.
(30 minutes)
Teenage Suicides
A film by Sarah McCaffrey and Maria Murphy.
Two
teenage filmmakers from BIFHE have made a documentary about this very topical
problem. They visited organisations at the front line of this terrible and
tragic issue. Representatives from Childline and the Samaritans talk about the
situation in Northern Ireland and give advice on whom to contact for help.
(4 minutes)
Friday
5th March
Prokick
A visit to an all-inclusive non-sectarian kick-boxing gym in East Belfast, with
membership drawn from across the city. Prokick has produced a string of Irish,
British, European and world champions. In February, President Mary McAleese
paid an historic visit to this thriving club, founded by Billy Murray, himself
a world champion kick-boxer…
“We do not
tolerate intolerance here… Kickboxing is a perfect sport for young people in
Belfast to find a new way forward… The Prokick club draws young people from all
parts of Belfast – north, south, east and west – from all communities.”
Billy Murray, Prokick Founder.
“I
think it is a wonderful thing that there are people who give their time to make
our young people grow up strong, fit and ambitious. That is a wonderful gift….”
President Mary McAleese.
(15 minutes)
The Insider
'The Car's The Star'
Produced & Presented by Peter Bleakley of the Shankill Mirror with
Wesley McCready (Chair of Lyndhurst/Westway Residents Group), local DUP
Councillor Elaine McMillen and Inspector Stephen Knowles of Tennent St PSNI.
This week focusing on organised car theft from Lyndhurst/Westway area of
Greater Shankill. For 8 months cars have been 'stolen to order' from this
affluent suburb - thugs break into houses between 3.00 am-5.00 am, take keys
and drive cars away.
(30 minutes)
The Artery
Produced & Presented by Royce Harper
Berlin/Paris/Vancouver/Belfast……..ze cabaret is in town! “The Right to Dream”
Camille O’Sullivan sings, nay lives the songs of Jacques Brel. Three salacious
pieces of lyrical and musical seduction from the Chanteuse and the band.
Recorded at OMAC.
Exhibition of monochrome photographs in the Lyric Theatre “Five Fourra Poun”,
pictures by John Baucher.
Cleaning up after Art! Victoria Gleason and Marcus Neil brush the still-warm
seats of Belfast’s theatres and arts centres, bringing their own personal
dramas and passions to the empty stage.
Like stills from her dreams…….paintings by Paola Signoretto “Once upon a Time”
in C.V.I’.s gallery.
On the cabaret circuit again, this time from the North American colonies! The
inimitable Geoff Berner, recorded live and kicking at the John Hewitt in
Donegall Street. “We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on ‘til the end”
songs, banter and biting social commentary from this Canadian, Jewish
singer/songwriter who plays the accordion. Touch songs to light up your life
with.
(30 minutes)
Monday 8th March
Giants
Hazel, Rowan and Ivy’s playtime is halted by the
arrival of a strange vehicle from which emerge two giants performing tricks and
magic. They charm the children away to a colourful carnival land…….but all is
not what it seems.
(10 minutes)
Form
& Fusion (Part Three)
Catwalk action from the Northern Irish heats of
Coca Cola's Form and Fusion Design Awards. Witness the amazing catwalk
creations from schools through out Ireland and join NV Fashion TV Style Guru
Diane Comerton as she talks to the Models and Designers and gets all the behind
the scenes gossip. Programme 2 of 4.
(30 minutes)
To Dream Whilst Living in a Nightmare
Featuring
artists Tom Bevan & Liam De Frinse
Mark Alexander's film was made over a year with
a Hi 8 camera, no crew and virtually no budget. It is a testament to two people whom he admires for their
audacity, creativity and undoubted talent.
Liam de Frinse served his time in the
shipyard. Within that pragmatic culture
of building the world's biggest and best ships there existed a small subculture
of fellow painters, poets, and musicians and it should be of no surprise to
anyone that Liam was in there promoting debate. Liam has always used his creative talents to subvert the mundane. It is impossible to go for a long walk with
Tom Bevan. Every few yards, like a
magpie, he bends down to pick up something that attracts his eye, later to be
incorporated into his sculptures.
Having been brought up in East Belfast, Tom understands its complexities
and never uses the iconography of Orangeism in a cliched vicious way but
exposes its underbelly with wit and humour.
Mark Alexander is the eldest son of a mixed
marriage, which collapsed under the weight of sectarianism at the beginning of
the Troubles in 1968. His childhood was the classic one of trouble torn
Belfast....burnt out of a home, intimidation, fear, together with a brutalising
education at the hands of the Catholic Church. His interest in 'counter'
information led him to collaborating on television programmes both in front of
and behind the camera for various films shown on Channel 4.
(35 minutes)
Tuesday
9th March
Ballyhackamore
– “Town of the big horses”
How do the traders feel the area has changed
over the years and what does the future holds for Ballyhackamore? The area
around Ballyhackamore was once the centre of racing in Ireland and the Sandown
Road was in fact part of the course.
NVTV takes a closer look at this urban Belfast village, meets some of
the traders and listens to their stories of how Ballyhackamore has changed over
the years, from its earliest beginnings of horse racing to the new and changing
businesses taking root in the area. –(30 minutes)
Belfast Film Festival launches
The 4th Belfast Film Festival supported by Orange launched its
programme of activities for 25th March – 2nd April in the
Belfast Exposed Gallery at Exchange Place to great excitement. This year’s
programme will see 80 events in 10 venues throughout the city and one of these
venues can’t be too far away from your doorstep so go along and enjoy!
Featuring a human rights strand, world and European cinema, film workshops and
master classes….watch out for a screening of the Shining at the Laganside
Drive-In at the Talbot Street car park (behind St. Anne’s Cathedral).
Nathan Kripz chats to those attending the launch:
Indie filmmakers: Brian Drysdale,
Stephen Mullan, Chris Bond, Kristoff and Richard Williams, CEO of the Northern
Ireland Film and Television Commission.
Agent and actor: Patrick Duncan
Festival organisers: Michele Devlin, Michael Benor Scott, Lawrence McKeown,
Brian Henry Martin
Film stars of Songs for a Raggy Boy: John Travers and Michael Sloan
plus Maureen Harkin, City Council officer Siobhan Stevenson and the Man from
Orange, sponsors of the festival.
37minutes
Orange Box Office 028 9032 5917
www.belfastfilmfestival.org www.orange.co.uk/belfastfilm
(30 minutes)
Writer’s
Stories
Raj Chakaraboti interviews Tariq Ali at the
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2003.
(15 minutes)
Teenage Suicides
A film by Sarah McCaffrey and Maria Murphy.
Two teenage
filmmakers from BIFHE have made a documentary about this very topical problem.
They visited organisations at the front line of this terrible and tragic issue.
Representatives from Childline and the Samaritans talk about the situation in
Northern Ireland and give advice on whom to contact for help.
(4 minutes)
Wednesday
10th March
Waterworks
A leisurely tour of the Waterworks park in North Belfast. A city centre
sanctuary for a surprising number of our feathered friends.
(30 minutes)
Form & Fusion (Part Four)
Catwalk action from the Northern Irish heats of Coca Cola's Form and Fusion
Design Awards. Witness the amazing catwalk creations from schools through out
Ireland and join NV Fashion TV Style Guru Diane Comerton as she talks to the
models and designers and gets all the behind the scenes gossip. Programme 4 of
4.
(30 minutes)
Knife Culture
A short film made by the Young People’s Documentary Unit on the incidence
of knife culture in Belfast.
(10 minutes)
Thursday
11th March
Belfast
Film Festival
A look back at the highlights of the Belfast
Film Festival in 2003.
www.belfastfilmfestival.org
(33 minutes)
Quality Control
More showcasing of the visual artists and musical talent that “they” never show
you.
(30 minutes)
Splitting
In an articulate and heart rending introspection, Peader Orderley from
Belfast, talks of the physical torment he suffered at the hands of his father.
Although his father was materially generous, Peader says that he would have
given everything back in return for a little affection. At the age of 17, he
fled to Australia where, with space to consider his upbringing, he believed he
might make sense of the past and his relationship with his father. Therapy
helped him to release his demons and he believed he might be able to do the
same for his father but in a bizarre fulfilment of a childhood wish, he never
got that chance.
Directed by Paula Crickard.
(10 minutes)
Friday
12th March
Busy Women!
The Women in Business Network
Research has shown
that women tend to look at owning their own business as a last resort, and that
women in Northern Ireland lack confidence about starting in business or growing
their businesses. In October 2002,
Women In Business was set up to address the problem of effective networking for
women as research also indicates that women do not have the same access to
business networking as men. The Women in Business Network draws its members
from the public, private and voluntary sector.
It is a cross community outreach initiative, which provides an
all-inclusive support network to assist, encourage and support women in
business. NvTv sits in one of the many
seminars run by this dynamic network, and finds out how and why women are
really starting to get busy in Belfast!
“It’s an opportunity
for all business-women… As well as the factual part, there’s also the informal
exchange of information…. You don’t
feel that you are just in your business on your own – there are other people
who are in the same boat!”
“We’re
doing our best to lobby government and we’re raising the profile of women in
business.”
Dolores Vischer Women in Business
“We
want to get women out there – give them confidence, help them to do business!”
Roisin Boyle
Women in Business
(15 minutes)
The
Insider
Produced and Presented by Peter Bleakley of the
Shankill Mirror
Social commentary from the Shankill Road and the issues which affect the
community.
(30 minutes)
Teenage Suicides
A film by Sarah McCaffrey and Maria Murphy.
Two teenage
filmmakers from BIFHE have made a documentary about this very topical problem.
They visited organisations at the front line of this terrible and tragic issue.
Representatives from Childline and the Samaritans talk about the situation in
Northern Ireland and give advice on whom to contact for help.
(4 minutes)
An ARTERY extra: the Artery Interview
Produced & Presented by Royce Harper
This week, the Artery interviews the playwright Martin Lynch.
The Big Questions, the big answers !
You’d
think I’d have had a sack-load of visual & verbal ideas waiting impatiently
in a Disorderly queue, shouting for time and space on camera. … No !
I spent the first six weeks or so, after being asked to produce ‘The Artery’ for Television, in some
form of mental Limbo! A blank landscape stretching out before me, the
occasional wind-bush blowing across the dusty ground.
Then ‘WHOOSH’ the lights came on. I
contacted all those people who I respect and admire.
The inspirational, the fighters, the artists
and writers who have ploughed their own furrow, made their own rules, who
brushed aside all the negativity hurled at them from whatever quarter. I
brought them in to the studio, we sat down, head to head, I asked what I
considered to be All
the big questions. I got some pretty big answers!
First up in the hot seat is a man who I’m proud
to know. We worked in parallel for many’s a year often without knowing.
Championing Community Arts in all it’s variations and permutations. Fighting
snobbery, ignorance, apathy and downright hostility.
Martin
Lynch
doesn’t mince his words, he gives straight answers from the heart. They are the
living story of the actions he took. It’s a David and Goliath thing. When many
ran, he not only
Stood……..he charged !
Royce Harper
Martin Lynch
Born and brought up in Belfast, Martin
started his writing career in 1976 with the Fellowship Community Theatre at Turf Lodge, West Belfast. There he
wrote several plays and toured Belfast Community Centres and Social Clubs for
six years.
Working as a professional playwright since
1980, Martin has written plays for the Lyric
Theatre, Arts Theatre, Charabanc Theatre, etc., (all Belfast) and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. His plays have
been produced all over Ireland, the UK, Europe and the USA. He has written
several plays for BBC Radio 4, the
odd pilot sitcom for the BBC, Granada
etc and the screenplay for the film, ‘A
Prayer For The Dying’ starring Mickey
Rourke, Bob Hoskins and Liam Neeson.
Martin wrote the ground-breaking community
play, “The Stone Chair” in 1979, set in Short Strand and performed at the Grand Opera House. More recently, he collaborated with Jo Egan to conceive and co-write with Marie Jones and The Company, The Wedding
Community Play - a story of mixed marriages in Belfast, where the audience
was bused into the actual houses of two families in East Belfast.
In 2000, Martin’s short play, What
Did I know When I was Nineteen, was produced at Crumlin Road Courthouse
as part of Tinderbox’s highly
acclaimed CONVICTIONS production,
and later toured to Rome. Martin co-wrote with Mark Dougherty, The Belfast Carmen, a large scale
theatre Opera, starrng James Ellis and Alan Oke, for the
Grand Opera House, Belfast as the centre piece of The Belfast Festival @
Queen’s, 2002.
Martin’s latest play, ’The History Of The Troubles (accordin’ to my Da)’ has been a
runaway success playing to sell-out audiences all over Ireland and at the
Tricycle Theatre, London.
When he wakens up
unexpectedly in the middle of the night, Martin continues to write his first novel, ”Here Comes The Night”, based on his
teenage years in Belfast in the 1960’s.
(30 minutes)
Monday
15th March
Rathenraw
A revelation on one community’s amazing regeneration of their estate with the
worst reputation in Antrim. From druggy dive to des res this film celebrates
the achievement of the residents.
(15 minutes)
Close to Europe, Close to Youth
Produced
in association with An Cultúrlann & CLOTRTV-San Martí, Barcelona
Language: Irish & Catalan with English subtitles
A report on whether Europe is changing the
outlook of its citizens, broadening horizons and lessening the parochial in
favour of a more open and global culture. Ireland has an Anglo Saxon/American
culture and the trend is for that to invade global space. How can politics and
advocacy strengthen identities? Would Britain’s entry into the Euro have
profound effects both economically and culturally? How are we directly affected
by Europe’s institutions?
(15 minutes)
Welcome to Tommy’s
Directed by Paddy McCoey
Tommy Mallon was born in the New Lodge, and has
lived there all his life. Now in his
sixties, he lives alone in a small flat in Spamount Street. His first love has always been music; for
many years he played in the showbands. In the 1990s with the establishment of
Dockward Community Theatre Company Tommy proved a knockout with local audiences
in his comic roles on stage. Welcome to
Tommy’s tells a simple story about a local man and his life and tries to focus
the imagination on some of the smaller moments in life.
(30 minutes)
All The Way To Memphis
Produced & Directed by Paul Clarke
Composer - Dark Horse
Funded by Institute of Local Television,
Commedia Millennium Awards, Community Media Association, Millennium Commission
A video targeted at young people, the programme
follows a unique international youth theatre co-production between a theatre in
Dundee (Scotland) and one in Memphis (USA), both regarded as declining
industrial.
(13 minutes)
Tuesday
16th March
"Up
Our Way" - meet the people and places of Belfast
Ballyhackamore
(Part Two)
The
Little Town of the Big Horse - The new traders pull into town.
After meeting the established traders in the
area last week, we go in search of the newcomers to Ballyhackamore Village. We
meet Denise Shields & Karen Gibney of Barrista, who tell us what attracted
them to setting up their coffee shop in Ballyhackamore. Fiona Newell of Fusion
Florists gives us a few tips on keeping fresh flowers, as well as showing us
how the area works for her.
(30 minutes)
NV
TRAVEL TV - Holiday World eXperience 2004 (Part One)
Diane Comerton beats the Winter Blues in
Belfast by visiting the Holiday World eXperience 2004 at Belfast's Kings Hall to
see what holidays are on offer to the Belfast holidaymaker. So notepads at the
ready, and see what hot travel tips Diane and the travel experts have for you
this year.
(30 minutes)
The
Chattering Classes
The late and popular Sunday night satirical radio
show – The Chattering Classes –, which aired on NVR100.6FM makes its
migration to the tv screen. Three and sometimes four, wise or not so wise men
do the rounds of events and happenings in Belfast, chatting to anyone who turns
up….first show sees them at the Belfast Beer Festival….taking the piss.
(40 minutes)
Wednesday
17th March
“Welcome to West Belfast”
Féile
an Earraigh/Spring Festival West Belfast
As part of Féile an Earraigh, Féile an
Phobail West Belfast organised a “Welcome to West Belfast/Failte go Béal
Feirste Thiar” event for all ethnic minorities living in West Belfast. Gerry
Adams MP officially welcomed ethnic minorities to the West Belfast area, amid a
feast of ethnic and Irish food, culture and craic.
“What we’re doing is sending a message, a very clear message that we are
against racism…under the skin we’re all the same”. Gerry Adams MP
“We have always been inclusive and encouraged ethnic minority participation in
all our events, we welcome and celebrate cultural diversity”. Glen Phillips,
Community Development Worker.
(35 minutes)
Belfast Community Circus
Profile of the organisation, which was
established in 1985 thanks to the enthusiasm and generosity of Donal McKendry
and Mike Moloney who found themselves introducing community circus to Northern
Ireland during a time when there was a desperate need for positive shared
experiences for young people from different communities. Belfast Community
Circus acts not only as a vehicle for teaching children and young
people in some of the most needy communities in Northern Ireland,
but also as a training school
for professional teachers and performers of circus arts. In addition, the
Circus acts as a promoter for performers and as a venue
to host visiting and indigenous circus productions.
With
Pathway
for Change – interview with Will Chamberlain,
Director of Belfast Community Circus in response to the recently released
government document Pathways for Change on resourcing the voluntary and community
sector.
http://www.belfastcircus.org/
(60 minutes)
Thursday
18th March
Belfast
Anti War Movement hosts George Galloway & Eamon McCann at the Grosvenor
Hall, Belfast.
Insight into the reasons why people will be
demonstrating all over the world on Saturday 20th March, against the
occupation of Iraq and Palestine.
(30 minutes)
Taxi Trips
The West Belfast Taxi Association conducts tours of North & West Belfast in
traditional black taxis. Taxi drivers become tour guides as their colourful
opinions turn each historical journey into an unforgettable experience. As part
of the West Belfast Féile an Earraigh, people were invited to take a free
guided tour of West Belfast in the black taxis. NvTv decided to join the queue,
flag a cab, grab a camera and get the low-down on a West Belfast black taxi
tour straight from the cabby’s mouth
“We don’t ask to be born any colours or
religions, it’s just the card you’re born with” Seamus Sullivan WBTA Taxi
Driver
(35 minutes)
Attention Drumming Wannabes, wannabe a stick flicker? Then tune into NvTv’s
Rough Guide to Drumming
For the young’uns, 17 year old Bristolian
Richard “The Machine” Johnston shows wots'it all about….
Streetwise “Rich” helps you spend your loot
wisely with advice on buying the right equipment with descriptions and demos of
all the elements in detail. Judge for yourself as the “Decibel Kid” strips the
gears raw with only 18-month’s experience…
As musical benchmarks go there is none better
than local ace Stephen Hobson, drummer for top group “bad boat”. He spills all
the beans and with a skinful of experience in more than twenty bands over ten
years “you get exactly what it says on the tin”….memorable music ten feet high…
Richard “the machine” Johnston and Stephen
Hobson were filmed at the New Rhythm Initiative Rehearsal Studios in Belfast,
which is a registered charity, set up by Biggy Bigmore. The studio provides
training and music workshops for young people and rehearsal space for
established musicians.
“Cream of the North” is the promotional element
of the charity and incorporates a motorcycle association which raises much
needed funds….of more later!
So beware, “Blink 182”, “Metallica”, “Led
Zeppelin” and “Korn” are recognised musical diseases.
Catch them all on NvTv’s Rough Guide to
Drumming…… a new drum kit could be the ultimate cure……
(25 minutes)
Friday
19th March
NV
TRAVEL TV - Holiday World eXperience 2004 (Part Two)
Diane Comerton beats the Winter Blues in
Belfast by visiting the Holiday World eXperience 2004 at Belfast's Kings Hall
to see what holidays are on offer to the Belfast holidaymaker. So notepads at
the ready, and see what hot travel tips Diane and the travel experts have for
you this year.
(30 minutes)
The
Insider “Secret History”
Produced
& Presented by Peter Bleakley of the Shankill Mirror
A visit to Fernhill House Museum, the People’s
Museum, with (Curator) Bob Foster. Opened officially in July 1996, the museum
depicts the social, industrial and labour history of the greater Shankill, the
tradition of military service and aspects of cultural identity. The museum
offers a search facility for those wishing to trace relatives who died in
either of the two World Wars.
The museum is situated in Fernhill House, which
was once owned by the Cunningham family. It is situated beside the Glencairn
estate, one of the most deprived areas in Belfast and known for its high
unemployment rate. There are few recognisable resources in the area and the
needs of the community are great and varied.
As a step towards economic regeneration, a community museum was
established at Fernhill House by the Glencairn People’s Project providing local
jobs for local people, and educational and recreational opportunities for the
children and young adults both from the local area and further afield.
Those members of the public wishing to support
the museum financially or donate artefacts for future exhibition may become
"Friends of Fernhill".
Fernhill House Museum
Glencairn Park
Belfast–BT13 3PU
[tel] 028 9071 5599
[fax] 028 9071 5582
–
Open 10.00am to 4.00pm, Monday to Saturday and 1.00pm to
4.00pm Sunday. Group bookings are available outside these hours. There is an
admission charge.
(30 minutes)
The
Artery V1
Produced & Presented by Royce Harper
Not only a street in south Belfast “Chlorine
Gardens” is also an Electro-Acoustic Opera in one act by Jason Geiswedt. Performed
at the Hardy Room at Queens, based on the creation myth in (Early Christian)
Irish History. A small cast of big players singing their respective parts – Adam and Eve, The Angel Michael, Jehovah, Satan…oh yea and it’s sung in
Middle Irish!
Post modern paintings to live with … exhibition
of vividly colourful work by Slovakian artist Natalia Black in her first solo show at The Mullan Gallery. She
sold more pictures in the first week than almost anyone who has shown in this
town in the past eight to ten years!
T.W.C.
Stephen Beggs, Rachael McCabe and John Kelly make pleasant mockery of the
precious, the powerful and the self-deluded in “De Lete Show” and other
unsuspecting arenas of high culture.
Exhibition of original photographs by American
artist Kelly Morris, who recently
showed her work in the Belfast Bohemians Gallery (above Cathedral Records).
The Artery is preceded and punctuated by any
amount of visual inventiveness that I can cobble together from the melting pot
of living a wondrous life.
Maxim for the week “Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to
account for the curious attractiveness of others” O.W.
(30 minutes)
Monday
March 22nd
Paying
through the Nose
A film by Dean Hagan
Documentary is about the impact of fuel duty on the rural community. The
programme makes the case that a higher cost of living combined with a lack of
amenities and poor public transport has resulted in social exclusion for many
people living in rural communities.
Funded by Commedia Millennium Awards, Community
Media Association, Millennium Commission.
(30minutes) –
NV
TRAVEL TV - Holiday World eXperience 2004 (Part Three)
(Cyprus,
Continental Airlines, Scotland Harvey's Point Donegal)
Diane Comerton beats the Winter Blues in Belfast
by visiting the Holiday World eXperience 2004 at Belfast's Kings Hall to see
what holidays are on offer to the Belfast holidaymaker. So notepads at the
ready, and see what hot travel tips Diane and the travel experts have for you
this year.
(30 minutes)
Accessing
the Future
Laurie Ardito's video looks at access,
availability of information and the mobility of people with disabilities in
North East Lincolnshire.
Funded by Immage, Commedia Millennium Awards,
Community Media Association, –Millennium Commission
(14 minutes)
Tuesday
March 23rd
Multi-Cultural Food & Arts Festival
(for Anti-Racism Week)
A look back to 1997 and the Food and Art Festival
held to celebrate European Year Against Racism which offered 25,000 portions of
home cooked food cuisine from more than 30 different cultures living in Belfast
(China, Colombia, Holland, Hare Krishna, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Iran, Iraq,
Italy, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Austria,
Nigeria, Sudan, South Africa, Jamaica, Barbados, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Croatia and
Poland), dances and music from around the world (some for the very first time
in Northern Ireland). See the spectacular display of traditional costumes and
gain an insight from listening to people from a different traditional
upbringing.
Sixth
Annual Multi Cultural Food and Arts Festival featured:
Multi Cultural Resource Centre Northern Ireland
She She Sherwani performing a classical dance
from North India
Anne Reid Irish Dancers
Filipino Carinosa Dancers
Jean McCadden Scottish Dancers
Finaghy Youth Group
Cony Ortiz and friends performing Salsa dancing
Filipino Tangyaw Dance
Priyanka Nayar and friends performing Irish
dancing
Royal Tara School of Irish Dance
Yun Chen singing songs from China
Funded by NIVT,
Belfast City Council & Making Belfast Work
(63 minutes)
Rwanda
This year, Trocaire’s Lenten campaign appeals
to the Northern Irish public to remember the survivors of the 1994 genocide in
Rwanda, on Rwanda in which almost 1 million people were slaughtered. As
part of the campaign a number of visitors came to Belfast to visit schools and
other like-agencies. With the support of Trocaire, Northern Visions interviewed
Jane Gatete, a trauma counsellor in
the capital, Kigali. This is a unique Trauma Counselling Service set up to
heal some of the psychologically damaged people. Since 1994, Trocaire has built
233 new homes for survivors, rehabilitated 29 primary schools and rehabilitated
and provided teacher training for 15 secondary and technical schools. Resources
have also been invested in healthcare, the justice system, agricultural
training and peace building.
People can make donations to Trocaire by phoning
Freephone 0800 912 1200 or www.trocaire.org
(15 minutes)
Wednesday
March 24th
Greater Shankill Youth Group
New Belfast Community Arts Initiative “This is Me” series
Facilitator: Camille Watson
Looking at the problems confronting young people in the are...and a dream
fulfilled with Hollie Atkinson, Steven Beck, Kiera Dollin, Lewis Henderson,
David McQuade, Ross Mullan, Andrew Scott and Gary Shields and youth workers
Margaret McClean, William Mitchell and Mark West.
Funded by
Joseph Rowntree Trust & ACNI National Lottery Fund
(13 minutes)
An
evening from Albuquerque
Flicks
on 66 Wild West Digital Shootout
Flicks On 66 is no ordinary film festival, in
fact it has been called "the world's strangest little film festival”. It’s
a hands-on, frantic week which uses local acting and film producing talent, as
well as help from real-life Hollywood mentors as each contestant shoots and
edits their 11 minute film in five days.
"We bill ourselves as the world's only digital film-making
festival, which means that instead of watching other peoples' movies, we bring
people to Albuquerque for a week and they shoot, edit and premier their short
films in a week," says Chairperson Tony DellaFlora, who also works as a
reporter for the Albuquerque Journal. "This is a different kind of film
festival. We see it as marketing for the film industry in New Mexico. We are
finding people and getting movies made”.
"This gives people a good grounding and a good idea of what the
business is all about. This is a grassroots effort."
Flicks is financially supported by Albuquerque
businesses. The festival provides digital equipment, cast, crew, mentors and
other resources to help the filmmakers bring their vision to the screen. On Sunday morning, the filmmakers and their
crews are set loose in Albuquerque. They have until mid-day Wednesday to
complete their filming. Then they have from noon Wednesday until noon Saturday
to edit and complete their films and turn them into Flicks' judges. The short
pieces are aired Saturday night.
Short films showing on NvTv tonight are:
Clown
Camp written by Dan Borengasser and directed by
Ryil Adamson
The
Family Sausage written by Katie Landon and directed by
Matthew Watkins
Medicine
Wind written and directed by David Stebbins
Lifters written and directed by Faisal A. Qureshi
Blueberry
Muffins written and directed by Suzie Bohannon
With an interview with Executive Director of Flicks
Jim “Grubb” Graebner, Executive Producer Michelle DuVal and the Director of
“Lifters” Faisal Qureshi.
(70 minutes)
Thursday
March 25th
NV
TRAVEL TV - Holiday World eXperience 2004 (Part Four)
(Singapore,
Tower Hotel Group, Ireland, Blackpool, Israel & Spain)
Diane Comerton beats the Winter Blues in
Belfast by visiting the Holiday World eXperience 2004 at Belfast's Kings Hall
to see what holidays are on offer to the Belfast holidaymaker. So notepads at
the ready, and see what hot travel tips Diane and the travel experts have for
you this year.
(30 minutes)
Where
Do I Play?
There’s another battle for the streets of
Belfast - it’s the kids v the rest. N.Ireland has some of the highest road
accident statistics for children in Western Europe. The demand for safe, high
quality play space is seen from the child's point of view in this half-hour
documentary. A group of 8 to 14 year
olds did the research, wrote the script, they present the film and did most of
the camera and sound. ‘Where Do I Play?’ is their film.
Funded by ACNI National Lottery, Belfast City
Council, Making Belfast Work
(30 minutes)
Anti War Protest
Belfast Anti War Movement held a march against the occupation of Iraq and
Palestine on Saturday March 20th joining millions of people around
the world on the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
(10 minutes)
Friday
March 26th
Disability Awards
Northern Visions recently followed the adult drama group from the Suffolk Day
Centre to the Arts in Disability Awards at the Ramada Hotel. Watch as “Reach
for the Sky!” drama group scoop their well-deserved awards at this moving and
entertaining ceremony.
(10 minutes)
The Artery VII
Produced and presented by Royce Harper
Art from the Four Corners of the planet…
Contemporary Bronze sculptures. Four inch… to
four foot high pieces shown at The Mullan Gallery by several artists from North
and South. Including comments from one of the youngest sculptors, Cheryl Brown.
“Crucial Ible” Comedic Careerists T.W.C (Stephen Beggs, John Kelly and Rachael McCabe) take on the great Twentieth
Century Texts. First slaughtered, sorry reinterpreted “The Crucible”.
Wake up and smell the Desert! North African
music from Abdullah Chhadreh and his
six-piece band, live at the NTL studio, Waterfront Hall. Expansive stuff from
this master of his instrument, The Gunan….like a Zither, only larger!
Interview with Eoin O Broin, Chair of the Arts
Sub Committee of Belfast City Council in the Gallery at OMAC…
Where a few short weeks earlier, I had the
pleasure of watching and filming Sandra
Harnisch-Lacey (Ger) and our own Anne
Gilpin. Performing a multi media dance work entitled “More than just a
Jelly Baby” based upon attempts by young people to escape to the West from East
Germany, when the Wall was strong and long!
Maxim of the week –
“You always win……when your heart is in the
right place”. Gabriel Smyth
(30 minutes)
The
Insider “Secret History”
Produced
& Presented by Peter Bleakley of the Shankill Mirror
(postponed from March 19)
A visit to Fernhill House Museum, the People’s
Museum, with (Curator) Bob Foster. Opened officially in July 1996, the museum
depicts the social, industrial and labour history of the greater Shankill, the
tradition of military service and aspects of cultural identity. The museum
offers a search facility for those wishing to trace relatives who died in
either of the two World Wars.
The museum is situated in Fernhill House, which
was once owned by the Cunningham family. It is situated beside the Glencairn
estate, one of the most deprived areas in Belfast and known for its high
unemployment rate. There are few recognisable resources in the area and the
needs of the community are great and varied.
As a step towards economic regeneration, a community museum was
established at Fernhill House by the Glencairn People’s Project providing local
jobs for local people, and educational and recreational opportunities for the
children and young adults both from the local area and further afield.
Those members of the public wishing to support
the museum financially or donate artefacts for future exhibition may become
"Friends of Fernhill".
Fernhill House Museum
Glencairn Park
Belfast–BT13 3PU
[tel] 028 9071 5599
[fax] 028 9071 5582
–
Open 10.00am to 4.00pm, Monday to Saturday and 1.00pm to 4.00pm
Sunday. Group bookings are available outside these hours. There is an admission
charge.
(60 minutes)
Monday
March 29th
Belfast
Film Festival Roundup
What’s on with Marketing Manager Anne-Marie
Murphy
The Belfast Film Festival is supported by Orange.
www.belfastfilmfestival.org
(3 minutes)
Whose
Quarter is it anyway?
A short film made by the Young People’s
Documentary Unit on developments for Cathedral Quarter.
(10 minutes)
NV
TRAVEL TV - Holiday World eXperience 2004 (Part Five)
(Hungary,
Barbados, SK Homes/holiday homes in the sun, White Sands Hotel, Dublin)
Diane Comerton beats the Winter Blues in
Belfast by visiting the Holiday World eXperience 2004 at Belfast's Kings Hall to
see what holidays are on offer to the Belfast holidaymaker. So notepads at the
ready, and see what hot travel tips Diane and the travel experts have for you
this year.
(30 minutes)
On
the Threshold
(From the Archives)
Peace in times of transition with participants from Donaghcloney, Shankill,
Ballyoran, Beechmount and Alexandra Park. This film (1998) was produced by the
Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust and the Foundation for a Civil Society.
Tuesday
March 30th
Belfast
Film Festival Roundup
What’s on with Marketing Manager Anne-Marie
Murphy
The Belfast Film Festival is supported by Orange.
www.belfastfilmfestival.org
(3 minutes)
Treehouse/Parkside
Community Association
“This is Me” series, New Belfast Community Arts
Initiative
This beleaguered community off the Limestone Road, takes a look at the history
of the area as well as a look at the current state of things and their hopes
for the future.
Funded
by Joseph Rowntree Trust and Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery
Fund
(12 minutes)
Belfast
Festival Opening Night 2004
NVTV's Diane, crashes the opening reception of
the Belfast Film Festival down at the Odyssey. Diane chats to festival goers and
film buffs and brings some of the Festival Buzz to your screens. Miss it and
miss out! NVTV will be carrying extensive reports through out the festival.
(30 minutes)
I
remember my Death Sentence
A Medi-Able Production
A rare interview with Peter Pringle who talks about his experience as the last
person sentenced to death in Ireland, how he struggled to clear his name while
dealing with the trauma of serving time for a crime he didn’t commit, and the
problems he faced when he was eventually rehabilitated into a changed society.
“I wasn’t going
to plead for clemency for something I didn’t do.”
(25 minutes)
Wednesday
March 31st
Belfast
Film Festival Roundup
What’s on with Marketing Manager Anne-Marie
Murphy
The Belfast Film Festival is supported by Orange.
www.belfastfilmfestival.org
(3 minutes)
St. Patrick’s Day – Highlights from Dowmpatrick
Follow “The Beat” as they take the Pied Piper of Hamelin to Downpatrick. Watch
Streetwise Community Circus build a giant witch.
(15 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.
(38 minutes)
Tibetan Art (subtitled)
Carvings and Statues at Kagyu Samye
Ling
With artists Lama Thubten Kunsal, Pema Dorje, Gyamtso Tashi. Karpu,
Interpretation by Ani Lhamo, Dolka Lhamo and Pema Dorje.
Produced in partnership with the Institute of Local Television.
Community Media Association. Millennium Awards
Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre was established in 1967 and
is the first and largest of its kind in the West. It is located in a peaceful
valley on the banks of the river Esk among the scenic rolling hills of the
Scottish borders. As well as a centre of Buddhist wisdom and learning, it is
also a centre for the preservation of Tibetan Buddhism, arts, medicine and
culture.
http://www.samyeling.org/
(16 minutes)
Thursday
April 1st
Belfast Film Festival Roundup
What’s on with Marketing Manager Anne-Marie Murphy.
The Belfast Film Festival is supported by Orange.
www.belfastfilmfestival.org
(3 minutes)
St Patrick’s Day
Highlights of the events in Belfast in the company
of one of Northern Ireland's busiest comperes, Robin Elliott.
(15 minutes)
Up Our Way - Meet the
People and Places of Belfast - Falls Road / St Paul's (Part One)
On the Falls Road, opposite Dunville Park and
The Royal Victoria Hospital, lies a cluster of shops, A Beauty Salon. The
Devine Mercy Shop, F&B's Pound Shop, Mc Peak's Hardware Store, Pat's Barber
Shop, to name but a few. We drop in and chat, listen to some stories from catch
up on the craic up our way.
(30 minutes)
Turning
the Tide
A film by Ben Jones
Supported by Northern Visions, Community Media Association and Millennium
Awards
Despite its rural setting, Ballynahinch suffers
from many of the same social problems as inner city Belfast. With an unusually
high rate of suicide and a general sir of isolation and religious division, it
makes an intimidating environment for any young person to grow up in. This film
documents the issues that young people deal with and how this affects their
personal development, aspirations and expectations, purpose and identity in
their lives.
(26 minutes)
Friday
April 2nd
Belfast
Film Festival Roundup
What’s on with Marketing Manager Anne-Marie
Murphy
The Belfast Film Festival is supported by Orange.
www.belfastfilmfestival.org
(3 minutes)
The
Insider
Produced and Presented by Peter Bleakley of the
Shankill Mirror
Exposing the secret world of fitness
fanatics…
This week’s focuses on Andi Black, a
professional dancer who grew up on the Shankill Road in her attempt to win the
2004 Miss Fitness NI competition, held recently at the Park Avenue Hotel. This
‘fly-on-the-wall’ documentary follows Andi in the critical fortnight leading up
to the competition, as she hones her body with trainer Harry Stewart, from
Ballysillan.
“It was quite
an eye opener documenting Andi and Harry’s countdown to the competition,” said programme presenter and co-producer Pete Bleakley. “I think when viewers see the sort of
dedication and ‘suffering’ required at the pinnacle of the bodybuilding and
fitness game, they’ll look at the participants with fresh respect.”
The
Artery IX
Produced and Presented by Royce Harper
Alan “How long do I have to live” Cesare “Until dawn”
Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)
Robert Weine’s sinister 1919/20 movie. The dark
father of German expressionist cinema, influencing, from then until now, film
noir, horror, science fiction, animation…
Lately Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. Shown at
the NTL Studio/Waterfront Hall. Accompanied by a live soundtrack from
musician/composer Geoff Smith. A visonic Belfast Film Festival event!
“Sizing Thoughts” an exhibition by Samantha
McKee, Originally from Dorset, Sam has been living here for a decade. Her
one-woman show is the current offering from the Golden Thread Gallery, whose
output is always worth checking out. Samantha, Kelly Morris and Royce talk
about the work, its origins, life and death itself. The fragility of existence
unravels in her delicate and deliberate pieces.
Postponed from last week, an interview with
Eoin O Broin, Chair of the Arts Sub Committee, Belfast City Council at OMAC on
attitudes, progressions, changes and future plans from the BCC arts budget.
The (sour) cream of Ireland’s short filmmakers.
Royce gave out a general call in both the first and sixth editions of the
Artery, for short ART films, well now they are trickling in….entries from the
South outweigh those from the North by four to one!!!! Up first are “Severence”
by Dainne Nic Aoidh and Glenn Marshall’s “Sit down, Stand Up”.
Maxim of the week: “Better to live and for it,
than not to live and pay for that”
The
Way Ahead
Directed by Robert Sternberg, Produced by
Robert Sternberg, Ashley Taggart & Peter West
Cinematography Alan James, Editor Emily West, Music Simon Whiteside, Writer
Ashley Taggart
This film borrows its title from “The Way Forward”, the proposed blueprint for
Northern Ireland’s political future, but the film’s politics are more personal
than social, focussing attention on the close knit lives of three characters.
These men have been battered and corrupted by sectarianism, it has corroded
whatever political idealism they may once have had and now, lacking any moral
ballast, distinctions between right and wrong have become impossibly
blurred….almost.
(30 minutes)
Monday
April 5th
St. Patrick’s Day – Highlights from
Downpatrick
Follow “The Beat” as they take the Pied Piper of Hamelin to Downpatrick. Watch
Streetwise Community Circus build a giant witch.
(15 minutes)
Kite Surfing
For adrenaline junkies.
Belfast boys go south and fly the waves like naturals on Ireland’s West
Coast. Exciting footage of Extreme Sport Kite Surfing shot and edited by Mark
Hutchinson and Kurt Savage.
(4 minutes)
Hyped Adverts - One Size Does Not Fit All
For
Community Relations Week
Asking how many beauty products are aimed at
black women and asserting that one job, one product, one size does not fit all!
Made with young people from the African
Caribbean Centre as part of the Hyped Project at Soft Touch Arts, Leicester.
Supported by
Leicester City Council. The Arts Council of England, East Midland Arts, The
Allen Lane Foundation and the National Foundation for Youth Music
(52 seconds)
A Million Bricks
It seems hard to believe now but
Catholics and Protestants once lived side by side in harmony in West Belfast. Springfield
Park was the area's last religiously mixed development. It was swept away by
one of the worst gun battles of the Troubles on August 9th, 1971, following the
introduction of Internment.
Producers Frank Martin and Seamus Kelters, who as children both lived in the
street, tracked down and interviewed more than twenty of their former
neighbours.
The documentary outlines the attraction of the street, with its semi-detached
houses and gardens, to young working class couples in the mid-1960s. It then
charts their experiences with the onset of the Troubles and tells how the
residents of Springfield Park, both Catholic and Protestant, attempted to keep
their world secure - forming joint vigilante patrols and sitting alongside each
other on their tenants association.
"It's really a story of ordinary
people who saw their hopes realised, then dashed within the space of less than
a decade. It's a snapshot of one street prior to the Troubles and how the
violence changed everything for whole families."
(90 minutes)
Tuesday
April 6th
Creative Youth Partnerships
www.cypni.org
The Arts Council, the
Department of Culture, Arts & Leisure, the Department of Education and the
Education & Library Boards launch initiative aimed at creating, developing
and sustaining arts programmes for children and young people throughout
Northern Ireland. A main aim of the scheme is to ensure that as many children
and young people as possible have the opportunity to participate in programmes
of creative arts activities, in contexts of their own choosing, and across all
art forms. A CYP web site database of programmes and activities links youth
organisations to short term projects with artists and arts organisations.
(15 minutes)
Hyped Adverts - Protect Children from
REAL Violence
Short video advert asking us to protect children from violence and making
creative use of images, original music and appropriate graphics to challenge
stereotypes and raise awareness.
Made with young people from Crown Hills Community College as part of the Hyped
project of Soft Touch Arts, Leicester.
Supported by Leicester City Council.
The Arts Council of England, East Midland Arts, The Allen Lane Foundation and
the National Foundation for Youth Music
(50 seconds)
Taxi Trips
The West Belfast Taxi Association
conducts tours of North & West Belfast in traditional black taxis. Taxi
drivers become tour guides as their colourful opinions turn each historical
journey into an unforgettable experience. As part of the West Belfast Féile an
Earraigh, people were invited to take a free guided tour of West Belfast in the
black taxis. NvTv decided to join the queue, flag a cab, grab a camera and get
the low-down on a West Belfast black taxi tour straight from the cabby’s mouth
“We don’t ask to be born any colours or
religions, it’s just the card you’re born with” Seamus Sullivan WBTA Taxi
Driver
(25 minutes)
Up Our Way - Meet the People and Places
of Belfast - Falls Road / St Paul's (Part Two)
On the Falls Road, opposite Dunville Park and
The Royal Victoria Hospital, lies a cluster of shops, A Beauty Salon. The
Devine Mercy Shop, F&B's Pound Shop, Mc Peak's Hardware Store, Pat's Barber
Shop, to name but a few. We drop in and chat, listen to some stories from catch
up on the craic up our way.
(30 minutes)
Wednesday
April 7th
I remember little Jerusalem
A Medi-Able Production
Reminiscing on the Jewish quarter of Dublin. Raphael Siev talks about his
childhood memories in the old Beth Hamedrash Hagodel Shul in Walworth Road, now
the Irish Jewish Museum. Viewers may be interested to know that the great
character actor, Barry Fitzgerald, was born just three doors down from the
museum on March 10th 1888.
(10 minutes)
Open
Up - Dublin's Temple Bar
(Part
One of Four)
NVTV travels down to Dublin for the "Temple Bar Open Day" to see what
really goes on in Dublin's cultural quarter. Over 40 cultural organisations are
based in the area, and NVTV take a closer look to see if this could be a
glimpse of the Future for Belfast's own Cathedral Quarter. With Interviews from
The Ark (Cultural Centre for Children), Cows Lane Market, Cultivate Sustainable
Living Centre, Gaiety School Of Acting, Gallery of Photography, Irish Film
Institute, Fishamble Theatre Company & Temple Bar Properties.
(30 minutes)
Art
in Scotland
Institute of Local Television production
Claire McVinnie’s film of Marcus McDermott introducing his computer animations
outside his studio in the Sidlaw Hills, north of Dundee.
(14 minutes)
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)
Thursday
April 8th
Festival
of Fools
– Street
Theatre in Belfast –
Launch of Festival of Fools at the Quarter Wine
Bar. Extraordinary frivolity will hit Belfast City streets from the 29th April
to 3rd May, as Northern Ireland’s first international street theatre festival
gets underway. Bringing artists from as far a field as the USA, Sardinia,
Denmark, UK, Ireland and France to Belfast to work alongside local artists of
the highest calibre to create over 80 shows of the funniest and most bizarre
spectacles ever seen on the streets of Belfast.
www.foolsfestival.com
(26 minutes)
Hyped Adverts - One Size Does Not Fit All
For
Community Relations Week
Asking how many beauty products are aimed at black
women and asserting that one job, one product, one size does not fit all!
Made with young people from the African
Caribbean Centre as part of the Hyped Project at Soft Touch Arts, Leicester.
Supported by Leicester City Council. The
Arts Council of England, East Midland Arts, The Allen Lane Foundation and the
National Foundation for Youth Music
(52 seconds)
Crashing
The Wake
Including
an interview with local filmmaker Chis Baugh & Arnstein Dybvik from Norway,
the films writer/directors.
Hot off the screens of the Belfast Film
Festival, Crashing The Wake, this short film shot entirely in and around Omagh,
is a short dark comedy about death and the complexities associated with a
traditional Irish wake. The film examines the conflict and rivalry, which
develops following the death of local businessman Frank McCabe. Battle lines
are drawn between the deceased’s son played by Philip Campbell and the
deceased’s employee played by Chris McMahon. Seamus Ball, known for his work
alongside Douglas Henshall in Peter Mullan’s “Orphans” plays the part of the
undertaker.
Produced by international award winning filmmaker Chee Keong Cheung “Great British Hope” The Times “A
Shooting Star” The Guardian and Stephen Follows. Casting by Patrick Duncan.
www.crashingthewake.com
Supported by Omagh District Council.
(41 minutes)
Friday April 9th
What’s
left of the Flag?
First solo exhibition by young Belfast
photographer David McIlveen from Killinchy, Co. Down running in the Safehouse
Art Space Gallery, What’s left of the Flag? who discusses his work ranging from
portraits of flag bearers to the political institutions which have shaped Loyalism.
Sponsored by Laganside Corporation
www.safehouseartsspace.org
(15 minutes)
The
Insider
(Part
Two)
Exposing
the secret world of fitness fanatics…
Produced and Presented by Peter Bleakley of the
Shankill Mirror
This ‘fly-on-the-wall’ documentary follows Andi in the critical fortnight
leading up to the competition, as she hones her body with trainer Harry
Stewart, from Ballysillan.
(25 minutes)
Hyped
Adverts - Protect Children from REAL Violence
Short video advert asking us to protect
children from violence and making creative use of images, original music and
appropriate graphics to challenge stereotypes and raise awareness.
Made with young people from Crown Hills Community College as part of the Hyped
project of Soft Touch Arts, Leicester.
Supported by Leicester City Council.
The Arts Council of England, East Midland Arts, The Allen Lane Foundation and
the National Foundation for Youth Music
(50 seconds)
The
Artery
Produced
and presented by Royce Harper
Contemporary art on the local scene and further
afield.
(30 minutes)
Monday
April 12th
From the Archives
The Kickhams
Directed by Brendan J. Byrne
The local GAA club in Ardoyne, The Kickhams, has been present in the
area since 1907 and is an integral part of the community. This film tells the
remarkable story of the club. Frank is the football team coach and Pat its
goalkeeper. The camera is present with these two men, and many others during
several highlights throughout the club's calendar: The annual Dinner Dance, St.
Patrick's Day, at various local matches and culminates in a trip to the All
Ireland football final, the most prestigious sporting event in the country.
Interview with Brendan J. Byrne about the
making of the film.
(65 minutes)
Tuesday
April 13th
Belfast
Salsa - The Rhythm is going to get you!
The Belfast Spring Salsa Festival kicks its
heels into Belfast the 3rd and 4th of April, filling the air with Latino beats
and rhythms. Dance Diamond, Dean Maynard sets the dance floor alight as we
watch the unique dance style is based on bundles and bundles of fun wrapped
around crowd pleasing turn patterns and awesome footwork. Move back the
furniture and clear some space in front of the telly, join in the party in your
own living room - Viva la Fiesta! Arriba Arriba!! Olé!!
(30 minutes)
Hyped Adverts – Prison is it working?
A video advert about young prisoners and
re-offending, which tells us that 76% of young prisoners will re-offend. Made
by young people from the Glen Parva Young Offenders Institute as part of the
Hyped project of Soft Touch Arts, Leicester.
Supported by Leicester City
Council. The Arts Council of England, East Midland Arts, The Allen Lane
Foundation and the National Foundation for Youth Music
(57 seconds)
Play in Belfast
A Belfast City Council Production
Mark Carruthers discusses play facilities in Belfast.
(14 minutes)
Ecocity
40 eleven year olds from Ligoniel and
Ballysillan spent 4 days in the Waterfront redesigning Belfast. A monorail, a
flake factory, sensible housing and a bucketful of fun fairs, theme parks and
leisure centres are just some of the delights culled from the children’s
imagination in association with architects, planners and model makes.
(17 minutes)
Wednesday
April 14th
I remember the Titanic
A Medi-Able Production
Looking back on one of the saddest events in the
history of Belfast through the eyes of nonagenarian John Parkinson, whose
father helped to build the largest ship ever to leave the former Harland and
Wolff shipyard. An ill-fated marvel of
twentieth century technology or a misconceived and poorly executed project
doomed to fail? View the various exhibitions, talks from international Titanic
experts, as well as art, drama, film, storytelling, and both walking and bus
tours this week at the Titanic 'Made in
Belfast' Festival www.gotobelfast.com
Brochures from info@belfastvisitor.com
(10 minutes)
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)
Thankga Painting
Institute of Local Television production
Angelika Schnabel talks about the art of Thankga painting and keeping the
tradition alive as part of Buddhist practice and past. Filmed at Kagyu Samye Ling
Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
(16 minutes)
Hyped Adverts – Will She Remember?
This advertisement reminds us that our advice can keep her safe. "If
you're followed, knock on the nearest door confidently". Made with young people
from Girls Breakout as part of the Hyped Project at Soft Touch Arts, Leicester.
Supported
by Leicester City Council. The Arts Council of England, East Midland Arts, The
Allen Lane Foundation and the National Foundation for Youth Music
(49 seconds)
St. Kevin’s
The
Long Goodbye
It’s the end of an era for the old St. Kevin’s
Primary School, which has served the communities of St. John’s Parish and the
Falls Road since 1933. The old building is being demolished and the school is
re-locating to a brand new building on the same site. A St. Kevin’s Farewell
Committee, made up of past pupils and past and present teaching staff has been
set up to organise a number of functions, lectures, exhibitions and open days
to celebrate the multi-faceted role that St. Kevin’s school played in the lives
of the surrounding community and in the lives of the thousands of students who
passed through its doors over the past 71 years.
NvTv’s Trish Lynch visited St. Kevin’s as the
Farewell Committee held a press conference to announce their plans to say a
final poignant goodbye to the building that was so much more than a school to
so many.
“We all have
memories of school, some people have happy memories, some people have bad
memories, but the one thing we share on this committee is that we have this
great affection for St. Kevin’s and we are not just gathering here to
commemorate the school, we’re also coming here to celebrate the school. When
the building is razed to the ground and all the rubble is trundled off in the last
lorry, we’ll have our memories and those memories are indelible and
imperishable.”
Billy Donnelly, ex pupil and Chairperson of St.
Kevin’s Farewell Committee.
(26 minutes)
Thursday
April 15th
Quality Control
Continuing the showcase of some of the best in
local digital music and filmmaking talent with the Apache Tribe project which
was the first step in a collaboration between Northern Ireland digital
filmmaking and electronic musicians: part of a commitment to breaking down
borders.
(60 minutes)
Hyped
Adverts – Prison is it working?
A video advert about young prisoners and
re-offending, which tells us that 76% of young prisoners will re-offend. Made
by young people from the Glen Parva Young Offenders Institute as part of the
Hyped project of Soft Touch Arts, Leicester.
Supported by Leicester City
Council. The Arts Council of England, East Midland Arts, The Allen Lane
Foundation and the National Foundation for Youth Music
(57 seconds)
Open Up - Dublin's Temple Bar
Part 2
NVTV travels down to Dublin for the
"Temple Bar Open Day" to see what really goes on in Dublin's cultural
quarter. Over 40 cultural organisations are based in the area, and NVTV take a
closer look to see if this could be a glimpse of the Future for Belfast's own
Cathedral Quarter. With Interviews from The Ark (Cultural Centre for Children),
Cows Lane Market, Cultivate Sustainable Living Centre, Gaiety School Of Acting,
Gallery of Photography, Irish Film Institute, Fishamble Theatre Company &
Temple Bar Properties.
(30 minutes)
Friday April 16th
The
Insider
Exposing
the secret world of fitness fanatics…
Produced and Presented by Peter Bleakley of the
Shankill Mirror
Final part of this ‘fly-on-the-wall’ documentary which follows Andi in the
critical fortnight leading up to the competition, as she hones her body with
trainer Harry Stewart, from Ballysillan.
(60 minutes)
Hyped Adverts – Will She Remember?
This advertisement reminds us that our advice
can keep her safe. "If you're followed, knock on the nearest door
confidently". Made with young people from Girls Breakout as part of the
Hyped Project at Soft Touch Arts, Leicester.
Supported
by Leicester City Council. The Arts Council of England, East Midland Arts, The
Allen Lane Foundation and the National Foundation for Youth Music
(49 seconds)
The
Artery
Produced
and presented by Royce Harper
Contemporary art on the local scene and further
afield.
(30 minutes)
Monday April 19th
Open Up - Dublin's Temple Bar Part
3
NVTV travels down to Dublin for the
"Temple Bar Open Day" to see what really goes on in Dublin's cultural
quarter. Over 40 cultural organisations are based in the area, and NVTV take a
closer look to see if this could be a glimpse of the Future for Belfast's own
Cathedral Quarter. With Interviews from The Ark (Cultural Centre for Children),
Cows Lane Market, Cultivate Sustainable Living Centre, Gaiety School Of Acting,
Gallery of Photography, Irish Film Institute, Fishamble Theatre Company &
Temple Bar Properties.
(30 minutes)
Short promotion for volunteering from Volunteer Bureaux NI.
Writer’s Stories: Raj Chakraboti
interviews George Monbiot at the Edinburgh International Book Fair. (15
minutes)
–Islam
The Belfast Islamic Centre was established in 1978 by a group of Muslims
from the local community. Today the centre not only acts as a place of worship
but is also a community centre, social-cultural centre, resource centre, advice
centre and a day centre for many of the 4,500 Muslims currently living in
Northern Ireland today. During the recent Community Relations Week, people were
invited to the centre to learn about Islam and Islamic culture in order to help
build a lasting relationship between the Muslim community and other local
communities in Belfast.
NvTv’s Trish Lynch slipped off her shoes and
paid a visit to this extraordinary place, where, among other things, good
conversation; delicious eastern food and a free Henna application were on
offer. Join Trish as she chats with Muslims from all over the world, now living
in Belfast. They speak openly about their customs, their religion and their
lives. They also speak frankly about some of the common suspicions and
misconceptions surrounding Islam and how these have led to misunderstanding,
sorrow and frustration for many Muslims.
“Islam - in Arabic it means “peace” … it is
also a religion of tolerance. We would like to ask people to come and enquire
and to ask questions … to understand …
when people see us outside with the hair covered and the body fully covered,
they think we are backwards ... a woman has the right to own properties, to run
a business … to have her own money -
she has a choice.”
Saida Bouridane, Member of the Belfast Islamic Centre’s Women’s Group
(48 minutes)
Tuesday
20th April
Crumlin United Football & Social Club
New Belfast Community Arts Initiative “This is Me” series
A history of the club which serves both communities and a look at the local
area of Crumlin in general.
www.newbelfast.org
(12 minutes)
“Referee”–Join Stephen & B the lads from local pop band Unity, as they
try to blag their way into a top - secret audience in Belfast’s IMAX cinema,
with the most respected referee in world football, Pierluigi Collina.
–His distinctive look (shiny bald head) and
great repertoire of scary facial expressions when brandishing yellow cards,
doesn’t put the boys off.
–They try their luck and even manage to grab
some goodies before they get sent off, so listen in for the question and if you
know the answer email the boys at: john@northernvisions.org with your answer.
(30 minutes)
–Promotion ad from Volunteer Bureaux NI.
The Marrowbone
A film by Malachy McCambridge which looks at how this community in North
Belfast is looking to regenerate and develop the area, and the emergence of the
Marrowbone Community Association where many interested individuals and groups
pooled their energies and acquired the Marrowbone Community House as a centre
for the neighbourhood.
(15 minutes)
At
Home with the Caveman
The Young Person’s Documentary Unit makes a
house call and visit the home of Steven Caves, AKA the Caveman. Journey with
them to the Springfield Road to see where this environmentalist and veteran
protester spends his “time off”. They also manage to squeeze in lunch at the
local cross-community café.
(10 minutes)
Wednesday 21st April
Play
for All
A
Belfast City Council Production
Based on experiences from a project that Belfast
City Council started in 1987 in partnership with Barnardo’s to include children
with disabilities in mainstream summer schemes, the project developed into the
Play for All project working to enable children with disabilities to be
included in play services throughout the year.
Further information: play@belfastcity.gov.uk
(18 minutes)
Bank
Robbery in Manhatten
By
Joshua Allen (aged 15)
Film Council First Light Initiative
An animation of Joshua’s city of Manhatten. The animation was created by a
young person with Autism Spectrum Disorder as part of Project Ability,
facilitated by video artist Iain Piercy.
(2.5 minutes)
North Street Arcade
Special Programme
Interviews with people who lost their livelihoods in the North Street Arcade
fire at the weekend with a re-showing of Whose Quarter is it Anyway made by the
Young People’s Documentary Unit which was shown earlier.
(20 minutes)
Quality
Control
Features local digital musician Michael Sampson
and “Mnaeoic” and Helen Sloan, photographer and digital video artist.
(30 minutes)
Promotion from Volunteer Bureaux NI.
Thursday 22nd April
Our
Patch
History
of our Culture
NvTv checks out a unique project in North
Belfast, which involved 200 participants aged 8-95 intended to open people’s
perception to the identity of North Belfast.
The result is a moving collection of stories that tells a truth about
North Belfast and the change to people’s lives over the past 100 years.
“It was a
large-scale project that aimed to reach into the heart of the community
allowing the people of the area to express views on their culture and the
change of cultural traditions over the years. I consider the narratives
disclose significant qualities of North Belfast that is all too often ignored”.
Deirdre Robb (Project Co-ordinator)
“The
stories are rich, evocative and sometimes often close to the bone. These are
voices that need to be heard”.
Natasha Cuddington (Facilitator)
History of our
Culture is part of a bigger project ‘Culture
Shock’ that explores all the cultures of North Belfast opening new avenues of
awareness and builds links for the future with all our neighbours.
www.artsforall.org.uk
Promotion from Volunteer Bureaux NI.
Hidden Gems
A film by Caroline Boyle
Did you know that the first public museum in Ireland was opened in Belfast?
In the first of a three part series, Caroline Boyle
visits The Old Museum Arts Centre, right in the heart of Belfast City Centre.
Anne McReynolds, Director of the OMAC tells Caroline what it’s like to work in
such a historic and thought provoking building she is joined by Architectural
Historian Paul Larmour who gives us the background info on this wonderful and
evocative building. The programme looks at the restoration and continued
preservation of the site as a public arts facility for Belfast, continuing in
the tradition of its original use.
(10 minutes)
Divine
Issues
Produced and Presented by Darren Carson
Darren & Nicola take a trip to the Sir Samuel Kelly Residential Home run by
the Salvation Army. This is the first in a series of programmes profiling the
work done by the Salvation Army.
(30 minutes)
Friday 23rd April
The
Insider – “Shankill: The undiscovered Country”
Produced & Presented by Peter Bleakley of
the Shankill Mirror
A half hour taxi tour of the Shankill revealing the hidden treasures,
spotlighting the special places that locals have forgotten and tourists have
yet to discover…a wake up call for politicians and population alike.
(30 minutes)
The
Artery (XI)
Produced & Presented by Royce Harper
Exhibition of colour photographs by Alan
Hagemann. Proving either Mother Nature or the Divine Being can do abstract as
easily as Hyper-realist in form and tone.
Excerpts from Wim Wenders filmatic homage to ‘theBlues’ ‘The Soul Of A
Man’ at The John Hewitt. A Belfast Film
Festival event.
Poems performed by Peter Pagnall, Naomi Foyle
& Dan Eggs from the HOWL evening, part of The Bel’ Literary Festival.
Contemporary dance with soundscape music ‘Out
Of The Forest’ Music by Keith Acheson. Dance by Elli Hepp.
The loss of North Street Arcade has little to
do with bricks and mortar everything to do with the people, the ambience,
indeed the very heart of the Cathedral Quarter… It’s Bohemian centre. Is it all
over….. Will the developers get their own way now. What choices, if any for the
Future!
Dance Theatre of Harlem at the Grand Opera
House.
Short film by Glenn Marshall “The Drop” with
music by Peter Gabriel.
Maxim Of The Week:
‘We’re swallowed up only when we are
willing for it to happen’ Natalie Sarrante
(30 minutes)
Monday April 26th
Operation Shamrock
From the Archives
Fascinating documentary on the German refugee children brought to Ireland after
the Second World War.
(52 minutes)
Tuesday April 27th
Local Canvas: Painting in Ireland since Lavery
After John Lavery passed away in 1941, painting in Ireland saw many
changes. Local artists including Louis leBrocquy and John Kindness were at the
forefront of these new developments. Anne Stewart, Exhibitions Officer at the
Ulster Museum, brings us around this fascinating exhibition where paintings on
display reflect changing styles in the art world, as well as changing times in
Belfast, Dublin and Ireland.
(27 minutes)
I remember Patrick Kavanagh
A Medi-Able Production
Deirdre Manifold reflects on her relationship with the enfant terrible
of Irish literature. As sober as Behan, as devout as Wilde, as handsome as
Bernard Shaw, and as placid as O'Casey, he encapsulated everything that was
prolific, challenging and ultimately boring in so-called great literature. But,
what a character! A film providing some previously unrevealed insights into the
great character's character.
(8 minutes)
Speed
Director Gerard Stratton, Director of Photography Angus Mitchell, Editor
Jane Tubb
Cast: Jaz Pollock, Ken Nelly & Art Corbett
Speed is a silent movie 2001 style. It
is a quirky celebration of the unsung hero of film and television; the humble
sound recordist. Being a film devoid of
actual sound “Speed” experiments with postproduction sound, promoting sound
from being incidental or mere effect, to becoming a strong narrative force.
(Comedy / 5 minutes)
A Visit to Lawrence Street Workshops
A film made by 16-18 year olds in the Young People’s Documentary Unit.
Paddy Bloomer, inventor and Martin Carter, founder, discuss innovation in
recycling and the making of new inventions.
(10 minutes)
Art in Scotland
Dave Rushton talks to Janice Aitken about her video project at the Visual
Research Centre in Dundee.
(15 minutes)
Wednesday 28th April
St. Kevin’s: The Final Farewell
In a follow up to “St. Kevin’s: The Long Goodbye”, Trish Lynch goes back to
this historic school on the Falls Road as it makes final preparations to close
its doors forever. Ex-pupils pay their last visit to the old building, taking
one last chance to walk down the corridors and steps of St. Kevin’s Primary
School, remembering that it was not just a school – it was a central part of
community life in the area. After the final farewells are made, the school will
be closed to the public. Includes interviews with past pupils and staff and the
last recorded footage of the old building before it is demolished.
(20 minutes)
Why?
A Medi-Able Production
A video piece looking at social and medical notions of disability by
highlighting incidents of abuse against people with disabilities. Involving
representatives from the disabled community, the film aims to initiate a
catalyst for change.
(9 minutes)
Trains, Planes, Automobiles & Boats
By Neil Barton aged 17
Film Council First Light Initiative
Brightly coloured trains, planes, ambulances, police cars and boats race across
the screen. The animation was created by a young person with Autism Spectrum
Disorder as part of Project Ability, facilitated by video artist Iain Piercy.
(1.5 minutes)
In Focus – In tune with Dr. Finbar
Produced & Presented by Paul
Barnes
“In Focus” with Dr. Finbar Magee who is not only the first singer
songwriter, with over 50 songs to his name, but also a successful G.P. who
practices “environmental medicine”. He
uses a variety of scientific and complementary methods in detecting the cause
of an illness before embarking on a cure.
(25 minutes)
Thursday 29th April
Festival Fast Facts!
Sarah Hughes gives us a quick-fire run down of the events coming up in the
5th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, which runs from April 29th
to May 9th 2004.
(3 minutes)
Hidden Gems
A film by Caroline Boyle
In the second of a three part series, Caroline Boyle visits McCauslands in
Belfast City Centre. Architectural Historian Paul Larmour gives us the
background info on this evocative building.
(15 minutes)
Titanic at Home
A film by M. Nelson
NvTv visits this annual event at Belfast City Hall and talks to visitors,
residents and enthusiasts about the human story behind the Titanic.
(60 minutes)
Friday 30th April
Festival Fast Facts!
Sarah Hughes gives us a quick-fire run down of the events coming up in the
5th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, which runs from April 29th
to May 9th 2004.
(3 minutes)
The Insider - 'Dog Doo Afternoon'
Produced & Presented by Pete
Bleakley of the Shankill Mirror
Pete Bleakley hears a variety of shaggy dog stories, during a day with the
Dog Warden on the Shankill Road. Going where other programmes fear to tread,
The Insider tackles the sticky issue of 'dog toffee' on our city streets. Also
starring Pete's dog 'Bud' - who will doubtless 'do the business' on
camera...unmissable...unless you watch where you're walking etc!
(30 minutes)
The
Artery
Produced
and presented by Royce Harper
Contemporary art on the local scene and further
afield.
(30 minutes)
Monday
May 3rd
Festival
Fast Facts!
Sarah Hughes gives us a quick-fire run down of
the events coming up in the 5th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival,
which runs from April 29th to May 9th 2004.
(3 minutes)
Open Up - Dublin's Temple Bar
Part 5 – Last in Series
NVTV travels down to Dublin for the
"Temple Bar Open Day" to see what really goes on in Dublin's cultural
quarter. Over 40 cultural organisations are based in the area, and NVTV take a
closer look to see if this could be a glimpse of the Future for Belfast's own
Cathedral Quarter. With Interviews from The Ark (Cultural Centre for Children),
Cows Lane Market, Cultivate Sustainable Living Centre, Gaiety School Of Acting,
Gallery of Photography, Irish Film Institute, Fishamble Theatre Company &
Temple Bar Properties.
(30 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!
(53 minutes)
Tuesday
4th May
Festival
Fast Facts!
Sarah Hughes gives us a quick-fire run down of
the events coming up in the 5th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival,
which runs from April 29th to May 9th 2004.
(3 minutes)
The
Chattering Classes
The late and popular Sunday night satirical
radio show – The Chattering Classes –, which aired, on NVR100.6FM makes it to
the television screen. Three and sometimes four, wise or not so wise men do the
rounds of events and happenings in Belfast, chatting to anyone who turns
up….first show sees them at the Belfast beer festival.
(45 minutes)
“In Focus” Zimbabwean Solidarity Campaign
Produced
& Presented by Paul Barnes
This show highlights the pro-active lives of political
refugees from Zimbabwe. These women and men have come to Northern Ireland to
escape abduction or death at the hands of Mugabe’s teenage troops. They have used their time here to raise the
profile of their native land –Zimbabwe, a place where freedom is limited to a
privileged few and the rights of women are abused in the extreme. The refugees
hope to use their experiences here in Northern Ireland as a blueprint for when
they are given the longed for chance to return and re-build their country.
(30 minutes)
Wednesday
5th May
Festival
Fast Facts!
Sarah Hughes gives us a quick-fire run down of
the events coming up in the 5th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival,
which runs from April 29th to May 9th 2004.
(3 minutes)
“Speak
for Yourself”
Gerard Stratton screens two short documentary
films made by young people under his tuition and speaks to the organisations,
which commissioned them. First up is “Back to the People”- young men from St.
Gabriel’s college speak about their life in and out of school. Plus a second
chance to see “For Stephen” - a story about the tragic death through solvent
misuse of a young man from West Belfast. The film was made by a group of
Stephen’s family and friends and is a harrowing account of the loss they feel.
(45 minutes)
The Artery Interview
Produced
& Presented by Royce Harper
This week, the Artery interviews David Byers,
Chief Executive of the Ulster Orchestra
(30 minutes)
Thursday 6th May
Festival
Fast Facts!
Sarah Hughes gives us a quick-fire run down of
the events coming up in the 5th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival,
which runs from April 29th to May 9th 2004.
(3 minutes)
Up
Our Way – Meet the People & Places of Belfast – Woodstock Road
Part
One
Continuing this popular series where we drop
in, chat, listen to some stories and catch up on the craic – in this two
parter, the people include Jan from Farmers Jewelry, Ivor from Dawson Wright,
Alan from Clarkes Fruit & Veg Shop, Tresence from Fusco’s Ice Cream, Mark
from Cheepers Fancy Good Store & Peter from the Gibson Home Bakery.
(30 minutes)
Going
Global
One World seminar where representatives from
the black and ethnic minority sector organisations are invited to discuss
issues and opportunities relating to global development and education work
within their sector - with guest facilitator Rosemin Najmudin from the
Development & Education Association of London.
(24 minutes)
Conflict: The Irish at War
With Trevor Parkhill, Keeper of History at the
Ulster Museum
The Ulster Museum attempts to catalogue 6,000 years
of conflict in Ireland from Mesolithic stone bats and decapitated skeletons, to
rubber bullets and Long Kesh memorabilia.
A thought-provoking exhibition - does it hit the mark, and why now?
“The fact that
there has been five years of political progress replacing the violence of the
last 30 years has encouraged us to seize the hour.”
(22 minutes)
Friday
7th May
Festival
Fast Facts!
Sarah Hughes gives us a quick-fire run down of
the events coming up in the 5th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival,
which runs from April 29th to May 9th 2004.
(3 minutes)
The
Insider – “Once upon a time in the West”
A
day in the life of Diane Dodds MLA
Produced
& Presented by Pete Bleakley
This week The Insider offers a revealing
behind-the-scenes portrait of new West Belfast MLA Diane Dodds as she tackles
the myriad of constituency issues in one of the city’s busiest wards.
(30 minutes)
The
Artery
Produced
& Presented by Royce Harper
Royce burns the candle at both ends to ensure
the cream of this year’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival is aired on The
Artery. Up first is Jacqui Dankworth (imagine a Norah Jones only with more
attitude, sex appeal and better songs), plus fabulous images from Gerald
Gribbon. Comedy from Scott Capurro – a man not to mince his words!
(38 minutes)
Monday May 10th
Pitch Idol
Writers and filmmakers compete for first place in this story-pitching event.
(20 minutes)
Off the Record
Young filmmakers’ fly on the wall
documentary follows the story team at Children’s Express as they leave no stone
unturned in examining the controversial issue surrounding the suspension of
over 4,000 pupils from school each year in Northern Ireland.
(10 minutes)
The Story of Geordie Wirrell
Mark Edmondson
Nothing much happens to Geordie in
life until he investigates a meteor and bursts into flames. The animation was
created by a young person with Autism Spectrum Disorder as part of Project
Ability, facilitated by video artist Iain Piercy.
(1.5 minutes)
Middle East Stories
Part One
Sean ‘John Boy’ Ó Muireagáin visited Palestine last summer. Everything was
going so well until he got arrested.
(32 minutes)
Writer’s Stories
Raj Chakraborti interviews the author William Dalrymple at the Edinburgh Book
Festival in 2003 about his work, including White Mughals (Scottish Book of the
Year) and about the Brits in India before the British Raj, a world almost
entirely unexplored by history when poor Westerners traveled to India “wanting a Green Card”
http://www.williamdalrymple.uk.com
(15 minutes)
Tuesday May 11th
My Belfast
From the
Archives
Monsieur and Madame MacBeth’s video diary of Belfast.
(70 minutes)
Wednesday May 12th
Simon Community
Short films and interviews made by residents of the Simon Community in
Belfast showing that Simon is more than accommodation – it is a way of life, a
community not an institution. Living in Simon gives people from the streets the
opportunity to explore and develop their talents and strengths, as they take
part in community life.
(40 minutes)
Up Our Way – Meet the People & Places of Belfast – Woodstock Road
Part Two
Continuing this popular series where we
drop in, chat, listen to some stories and catch up on the craic – in this two
parter, the people include Jan from Farmers Jewellery, Ivor from Dawson Wright,
Alan from Clarke’s Fruit & Veg Shop, Terence from Fusco’s Ice Cream, Mark
from Cheepers Fancy Good Store & Peter from the Gibson Home Bakery.
(30 minutes)
Thursday May 13th
Going Global
One World seminar where representatives from the black and ethnic minority
sector organisations are invited to discuss issues and opportunities relating
to global development and education work within their sector - with guest
facilitator Rosemin Najmudin from the Development & Education Association
of London.
(24 minutes)
Cinemagic
Michael Staley introduces a selection from this year’s Cinemagic Young
Filmmaker 2004 competition:
A Stranger called Star – Botanic Primary School/Wheelworks
New Lodge – Corner House Production
999 Emergency – City Kids Scriptwriting Club
The Day the Music Died – Sam Nutt/Wheelworks
Hanging About – Ballymac/OMAC
(32 minutes)
Friday May 14th
The Insider – “Once upon a time in the West”
A day in the life of Diane Dodds MLA
Produced & Presented by Pete
Bleakley
Second chance to see a revealing behind-the-scenes portrait of new West
Belfast MLA Diane Dodds as she tackles the myriad of constituency issues in one
of the city’s busiest wards.
(25 minutes)
The Artery
Produced and presented by Royce
Harper
‘The Book’ exhibition from around the world, shown beneath the Lagan in the
weir underground galleries. Poetry from Belfast, Glasgow, Australia and
Edinburgh at the Poetry Slam, Duke of York. Expo of paintings by Brian Mullen,
from his Cave Art and Shimmering Landscape series. Interstellar music from
those Warriors at the End of Time….HAWKWIND.
(30 minutes)
Monday May 10th
Pitch Idol
Writers and filmmakers compete for first place in this story-pitching event.
(20 minutes)
Off the Record
Young filmmakers’ fly on the wall
documentary follows the story team at Children’s Express as they leave no stone
unturned in examining the controversial issue surrounding the suspension of
over 4,000 pupils from school each year in Northern Ireland.
(10 minutes)
The Story of Geordie Wirrell
Mark Edmondson
Nothing much happens to Geordie in
life until he investigates a meteor and bursts into flames. The animation was
created by a young person with Autism Spectrum Disorder as part of Project
Ability, facilitated by video artist Iain Piercy.
(1.5 minutes)
Middle East Stories
Part One
Sean ‘John Boy’ Ó Muireagáin visited Palestine last summer. Everything was
going so well until he got arrested.
(32 minutes)
Writer’s Stories
Raj Chakraborti interviews the author William Dalrymple at the Edinburgh Book
Festival in 2003 about his work, including White Mughals (Scottish Book of the
Year) and about the Brits in India before the British Raj, a world almost
entirely unexplored by history when poor Westerners traveled to India “wanting a Green Card”
http://www.williamdalrymple.uk.com
(15 minutes)
Tuesday May 11th
My Belfast
From the
Archives
Monsieur and Madame MacBeth’s video diary of Belfast.
(70 minutes)
Wednesday May 12th
Simon Community
Short films and interviews made by residents of the Simon Community in
Belfast showing that Simon is more than accommodation – it is a way of life, a
community not an institution. Living in Simon gives people from the streets the
opportunity to explore and develop their talents and strengths, as they take
part in community life.
(40 minutes)
Up Our Way – Meet the People & Places of Belfast – Woodstock Road
Part Two
Continuing this popular series where we
drop in, chat, listen to some stories and catch up on the craic – in this two
parter, the people include Jan from Farmers Jewellery, Ivor from Dawson Wright,
Alan from Clarke’s Fruit & Veg Shop, Terence from Fusco’s Ice Cream, Mark
from Cheepers Fancy Good Store & Peter from the Gibson Home Bakery.
(30 minutes)
Thursday May 13th
Going Global
One World seminar where representatives from the black and ethnic minority
sector organisations are invited to discuss issues and opportunities relating
to global development and education work within their sector - with guest facilitator
Rosemin Najmudin from the Development & Education Association of London.
(24 minutes)
Cinemagic
Michael Staley introduces a selection from this year’s Cinemagic Young
Filmmaker 2004 competition:
A Stranger called Star – Botanic Primary School/Wheelworks
New Lodge – Corner House Production
999 Emergency – City Kids Scriptwriting Club
The Day the Music Died – Sam Nutt/Wheelworks
Hanging About – Ballymac/OMAC
(32 minutes)
Friday May 14th
The Insider – “Once upon a time in the West”
A day in the life of Diane Dodds MLA
Produced & Presented by Pete
Bleakley
Second chance to see a revealing behind-the-scenes portrait of new West
Belfast MLA Diane Dodds as she tackles the myriad of constituency issues in one
of the city’s busiest wards.
(25 minutes)
The Artery
Produced and presented by Royce
Harper
‘The Book’ exhibition from around the world, shown beneath the Lagan in the
weir underground galleries. Poetry from Belfast, Glasgow, Australia and
Edinburgh at the Poetry Slam, Duke of York. Expo of paintings by Brian Mullen,
from his Cave Art and Shimmering Landscape series. Interstellar music from
those Warriors at the End of Time….HAWKWIND.
(30 minutes)
Showing all Week: People Talking About ….
Vox pops with locals about the themes
and issues raised in this week’s schedule.
Monday
17th May
Barrack
Street (30 minutes)
From the
Archives
Barrack Street Christian Brothers School closed
in 1998 after 69 years. Through interviews with teachers and past pupils the
film is a fascinating insight into the history of this West Belfast
institution.
Middle
East Stories
Part
Two
Sean ‘John Boy’ Ó Muireagáin visited Palestine
last summer. Everything was going so well until he got arrested. (32 minutes)
Tuesday
18th May
Full
Circle – Winner of Belfast Film Festival Short Film Competition (14 minutes)
Director
– Simon Fitzmaurice
A chip shop worker and a security guard watch
each other every day from the safety of their private worlds. Some day though
things will change
Sudden
Thaw (35 minutes)
Interview with the poet Peggy O’Brien on the
publication of her first collection, which explores the universal themes of
grief, loss, family relationships and personal identity.
Hidden Gems (8 minutes)
A film by Caroline Boyle
In the last of a three part series, Caroline Boyle visits the Strand
Cinema. Architectural Historian Paul Larmour gives us the background info on
this art deco building.
Splitting
(10
minutes)
Directed by Paula Crickard
In an articulate and heart rending introspection, Peader Orderley from
Belfast, talks of the physical torment he suffered at the hands of his father.
Although his father was materially generous, Peader says that he would have
given everything back in return for a little affection. At the age of 17, he
fled to Australia where, with space to consider his upbringing, he believed he
might make sense of the past and his relationship with his father. Therapy
helped him to release his demons and he believed he might be able to do the
same for his father but in a bizarre fulfilment of a childhood wish, he never
got that chance.
Wednesday
19th May
Up Our Way – Meet the People & Places of
Belfast – Newtownbreda (30 minutes)
Part
One
Continuing this popular series where we
drop in, chat, listen to some stories and catch up on the craic – with Richard
from the Fishing Tackle shop and Eddie from Edwin’s Hair Salon.
Northern
Ireland Film & Television Commission (40
minutes)
presents
Premiere
Short films made by local filmmakers with an
introduction by Andrew Reid.
Thursday
20th May
2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games (27
minutes)
The 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games, kicked off in spectacular fashion
with an exciting Opening Ceremony in Dublin's Croke Park. 7,000 athletes and
3,000 coaches and officials from over 160 international delegations arrived in
Ireland to participate in the largest sporting event in the world that year.
Featuring organisers and participants from Northern Ireland who give an insight
into the opening ceremony and the preparations that led up to it. The Lord
Mayor of Belfast holds a presentation ceremony outside City Hall for the
competing athletes.
Up Our Way – Meet the People & Places of
Belfast – Bloomfield (30 minutes)
Part One
Continuing this popular series where we drop in, chat, listen to some
stories and catch up on the craic with people and shopkeepers from the
Bloomfield area of Belfast.
Friday
21st May
The
Insider – The Forthriver Four (30 minutes)
Produced and
Presented by Pete Bleakley of the
Shankill Mirror
This week’s Insider focuses on the struggle
faced by four residents of crumbling, due-for-demolition maisonettes in the
Glencairn Estate, as they battle with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to
be rehoused in the area they have lived in for twenty years. The residents, who
are refusing to leave their homes despite rat infestations and dangerous
demolition just yards from their front doors, put their cases for staying, as
the Executive offer them new homes, some distance away from the estate. Local
community activists and politicians put their positions on record, concerning a
human issue which has caused tension throughout Glencairn.
The
Artery (30 minutes)
We are pleased to announce that the Artery will
be introduced in five languages as we loved to do on NV Radio. This week’s show
contains B&W pics of Irish writers by John Minihan, humour and song from
Ria Lina. Blossoms bursting in Botanic Gardens … yes, it’s the high summer.
Poetry, and at least one great short film… plus lots more, all with music to
live your life by!
Monday
24th May
Up
Our Way-Meet the People & Places of Belfast – Bloomfield Avenue (30 minutes)
Part Two
Continuing this popular series where we drop
in, chat, listen to some stories and catch up on the craic with people and
shopkeepers from the Bloomfield area of Belfast.
People
talking about…(2 minutes)
Vox pops with locals about the themes and
issues raised in this week’s schedule – fishing industry.
Lotus
(3 minutes)
This
Week’s Featured Artist & Filmmaker
– Glenn Marshall
A computer animation expressing the universal
symbol of spiritual awakening found in almost every religious tradition, the
Lotus. Taking it’s inspiration from Oriental art - from the star mosaics of
mosque ceilings to the dazzling weaves of Persian rugs – Lotus
Ulster
Fisherman Blues (26 minutes)
A
film by Laurent Bassaler
Laurent Bassaler was concerned that in a few
years time, there is the danger that the Northern Irish fishing industry has
disappeared if changes do not happen now. He wanted to record an everyday
fisherman’s life for future generations. Featuring fishermen from Kilkeel and
Portavogie.
Tuesday
25th May
People
talking about…(4 minutes)
Vox pops with locals about the themes and
issues raised in this week’s schedule – racism.
Strange
Brew (7 minutes)
Director
– Ciaran McCabe, Producer Andrew Freedman
A flat tyre …. an unexpected encounter. Two Black Brothers make a stop in a local
village. This is a story about
identity. Set against a rural backdrop,
it tells the tale of Fintan and Finbarr, two black brothers, who travel to a
Single’s Night in your average rural village.
Pat is their reluctant host.
Ciarán McCabe
ciaranmccabe13@hotmail.com
Andrew
Freedman
freedman@venom.ie
To Dream Whilst Living in a Nightmare (35
minutes)
Featuring
artists Tom Bevan & Liam De Frinse
Mark Alexander's film was made over a year with
a Hi 8 camera, no crew and virtually no budget. It is a testament to two people whom he admires for their audacity,
creativity and undoubted talent.