I was lucky to be invited to attend the premiere of a short animated film at the FACT centre in Liverpool on Friday. The film, made in a WEA project involving a partnership with the care provider, United Response and Mersey Rail, was screened in the cinema in front of an audience of friends, family, workers and the film makers themselves – from the Oakfields Day Centre in Anfield. The film makers received a red carpet reception and the audience enjoyed both the current film – 'From Oakfiends to Ironmen’ see it here along with fascinating short documentaries on how the film, and an earlier one, had been made - see here.
For me, it was the combination of enjoying the film on a big screen with an enthusiastic audience plus the insight into the process that the ‘behind the scenes’ films gave that made this such a celebration of success.
The group are now moving onto a project working with bus staff to look at how access to bus services for adults with learning difficulties can be improved. Another animation is planned.
Hispanics need NOT apply at Clemson University. Clemson has a history of discrimination against Hispanics especially in the Language Department.
Posted by: Plantation University | 11/11/2009 at 06:49 PM
Taking into consideration the endless permutations of life experience that mature students bring with them, can we ever honestly predict the precise course of a non-vocational course (and, dare I say it, its out****s) until we meet the group and discover its own innate strengths?
What if Charles Darwin had not strayed off-topic to go out botanising with Henslow, or Fleming had binned his contaminated Petri dishes instead of digressing?
As well as boring our members with these forms, do we not run a far graver risk of insulting them?
Posted by: chris madsen | 09/19/2009 at 06:18 PM