Celebrating the Oakfield animators in Liverpool

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.

 Now, back to thinking how to comply with regulators’ requirements that individual achievement data is neatly recorded in non-accredited learning!