PECKHAM PODCAST is offering its fifth edition – Ben Sturge is a businessman and entrepreneur, a deep thinking man who rebuilt life after time in prison. He has a lot to give.
Ben can be viewed here:
Probably PECKHAM PODCAST’s most unusual guest to date is Fernando Carrillo, Peckham’s newest vicar. He was born in a Miami prison and ordained in St Paul’s Cathedral! Joining the breadcrumbs is amazing.
Community TV Trust [CTVT] was incorporated 25 years ago and offers media training & filmmaking in schools and PRUs and in workshops for the disabled and marginalised. Engaging young people in open-ended creative work, links Community to Education.
In addition we produce documentary films, in the past educational DVDs and a large web-based local media venture called “Southwark.TV”.
“An open-minded, fun and accessible community ‘TV’ service, run as a forum for debate, the supply of information and promotion of local initiatives, talent and needs, has a vital role to play in multi-cultural, multi-faith C21st century Britain. Digital/cable TV and new media will be playing their part in urban regeneration and social cohesion.”
Community TV Trust from its launch in 1999 sought ways to innovative in community media. How might engagement be achieved?
Southwark.TV – a ‘horizontal’ community project – ran from a pilot in early 2003 to 2014 when the site was archived. You can find it under the CTVT Projects menu or click HERE to read it. Once you have read the report you can also browse the Southwark.TV website from HERE
It foresaw the rise of social media and online activity, shifting away from mainstream media to portable/mobile devices and citizen journalism.
organised by Community TV Trust with Elevated Minds CIC & Michelle Baharier FRSA
12-16 February 2024
for young + old alike … Southwark films & videos … celebrated 20 years of local people speaking out
FESTIVAL THEMES:
YOUTH | MENTAL HEALTH | COMMUNITY | FILM & LOCAL MEDIA
Monday 12 Feb: 6-8pm LAUNCH Film “from Local to Social” [cert 12A, 2023] Q+A followed VENUE: Peckhamplex cinema, 95A Rye Lane SE15 4ST.
Southwark from 2003
Tuesday 13 Feb: 11-2pmASPIRATION: 3 x 60mins* [recorded for podcast, see below] Three approaches to stimulating purpose and self belief in life, with Stephen Akinsanya, Rachel Duncan and others. These events were aimed especially at young people. Presented by Festival partner Elevated Minds CIC.
Tuesday 13 Feb: 12.30-2.30pm LARGACTYL SHUFFLE was led by Festival partner, Michelle Baharier FRSA who reflects on the housing and some of the famous who pass through. It came in a long tradition of Southwark Walks that for mental health sufferers symbolised their journey towards wellbeing and were social too. VENUE for the start: Theatre Peckham
Michelle Baharier muses on the Southwark she passes through
Tuesday 13 Feb: 3-5pm Two creative interventions Taking Control with key life skills: first was Peer Mediation with Mel Bruce of Calm Mediation:
Peer mediators from Bacon’s College
This was followed by entrepreneur George Osei-Oppong Junior with a presentation on Financial Education. These represent two creative interventions in young lives.
Wed 14 Feb: 11.30-12.30pm “Why the change, be the change!” Bias comes in many forms: how do we deal with it? Stephen Bourne, the local author of Black British History, joined Doreen Sinclair-McCollin and others. An Elevated Minds event.
Stephen Bourne, British Black History author
Wed 14 Feb: 2pm-3.30pmCommunity & f/Faith* [event recorded for podcast] “In a multicultural society does belief have a role?” A round table discussion with some of Southwark’s leading thinkers was recorded for podcasting. Guests included former Mayor Althea Smith, current local top cop DCS Adjei-Addoh, legendary community activist Eileen Conn (Peckham Vision), two young people from Elevated Minds, retired judge Marcia Levy, former director of Bede House Nick Dunne, and long serving local police officer Nsikan Etuk from Southwark’s Faith & Engagement team.
Thurs 15 Feb: 10-11.30amShort films for Year 4-6 A mixed bag of funny and challenging films made by young people over the years from 2003.
Films from young and old
Mystery and conflict resolution
Thurs 15 Feb: 2-4pmMental Health Forum* Organised by long time campaigner for Mental Health rights, Michelle Baharier FRSA with guests Dolly Sen and Kym Winstanley. Michelle hung her work at the venue, Theatre Peckham for the Festival and a further three weeks afterwards.
Michelle’s presentation led offSue Elsegoodcampaigner Baroness Jane Campbell
From Bonkersfest to Theatre Peckham
Kym talks and sings at Theatre Peckham (audio only)
Thurs 15 Feb: 4-6pmViolence & Mental Health* With special guest Jonathan Asser about whose therapeutic theory of Shame linking to Violence a film was made in 2013. Asser worked with inmates for 10 years at HMP Wandsworth with positive results but the work was stopped. With Asser on the Q+A panel after a screening of the film were former SVI group member Tola Gisanrin, co-founder and Head of Authenticity at Black Elephant, a social network based on vulnerability, and Andrew Nielsen of Howard League for Penal Reform.
Intro – Screening of SVI film – Discussion/Q+A
Friday 16 Feb: 6-9pmSOUTHWARK’S GOT TALENT 2024 Closing the Festival week with style and decibels was a talent show for local people with serious aspirations in the performing arts. Event organised by Elevated Minds CIC.
This film, produced by Troy, Rachel and Daniel, was two years in the making, partly due to the pandemic. It features three remarkable people each of whom has shown that disability can be an inspiring sphere of human life just as it can be difficult, bullied and disadvantaged. Lisa says,
“It’s shocking the standards that disabled people have to put up with and in this day and age, but to be honest it wasn’t that surprising to me, as someone who cares for a person with a disability. I loved the film’s life affirming message.”
One participant, Ralph, said: “it’s a shame we have to fight so hard to get our voices heard.”
It is the third in the “Belt, Braces & Disability” series dating back to 2010&2017. All three largely autobiographical films were directed by Chris Haydon.
This film features
former Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
campaigning Baroness Jane Campbell, a legendary fighter for disability rights … both sit in the House of Lords on the Cross Benches
former bank manager Mike Newman who was born blind, became a bank manager and now runs a charity for disabled people to try their hand at driving a racing car on a racetrack. He set world land and water speed records in excess of 200mph and 100mph respectively.
It launched on World Disability Day Saturday 3 December 2022.
CTVT’s documentary, produced with Ole Jensen who brought the recent Millwall FC film project, explores the world of minority burial grounds and Victorian foundations of today’s multicultural Britain.
There are powerful stories in this film of migration, sometimes over centuries, of refugees fleeing war, of economic migrants who find they have put down roots and stay, of community, of respect and love.
In the second half of 2021 we produced a film about a sculpture project created in Epsom, Surrey. It was to commemorate the suffragette famous for having died under the hooves of the King’s horse in the 1913 Epsom Derby. This was not the full story of a brave and committed campaigner who played a role in changing British society. The sculptor is Christine Charlesworth. Her work now sits in Epsom Town Centre and is greatly enjoyed.
LET’S TALK filmed is scenes from a musical written, composed and performed by students at Harris Academy Peckham. The script came from real life and the murder of a former pupil in south London when he tried to intervene in a fight.
This formed part of the film screening in autumn 2019 of schools and youth clubs in Southwark.
Filming also took place of “One Road, Two Paths“, a powerful drama by local company Movement Factory, a Peckham-based dance group for 11-19 year olds. Five dancers from the company attended the final LET’S TALK Forum at HAP and performed extracts from their production. Here’s the film:
Community TV Trust is in its twenties and is doing what it set out to do – supporting people and telling stories. Currently we are planning the celebratory Festival of Film & Local Media in February 2024. A year ago we were wrapping up our 4-year knife crime project LET’S TALK which has its own website: letstalkknifecrime.org but has examples of work on this site.
Pictured above, a media group shooting an interview at Freewheelers Theatre & Media Company in Leatherhead, Surrey.
