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)