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This weekend see’s the 23rd SIRF, with a whole host of performances from international artists including the Circus of Horrors and of course the Fringe Festival with music from the likes of Human League and Calvin Harris.

Check it out at http://www.sirf.co.uk/

I’ll be there taking some photographs for Steve Thompson and the Tees Valley Community Media crew who are responsible for the live feed at the stage side screens and the behind the scenes work down at the main stage.  Photos and story to follow.

If you have a message you’d like to be displayed on the screen tweet with #ssf10

Artist Viva Talbot (1900-1983)
As the last blast furnace on Teesside ceases production, a new exhibition of previously unseen steelmaking images can be seen at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough.
Over 40 woodblock prints have been brought together for this unique exhibition, including 15 depicting the process of making steel. Read the rest of this entry »

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There was a Day of Cultural “Blogcasting” from Destinations in Saltburn on March 4th to tie in with European Get Online Day. A team of community media volunteers worked from a temporary studio upstairs in Destinations to put out a five hour programme of sound, video and images. A couple of clips came in from Latvia. Whilst it was a little disappointing that more content did not come in from our European partners we de get over 2000 viewers on the day and the visitor map to the right (click to enlarge) shows where our viewers were coming from. We even had Community Media students from Brighton University assigned to study our work.

The event was launched by Cllr Barry Hunt, The Mayor of Loftus and was followed by wide and varied content ranging from animations to poetry performances.

Some notable items: A live unedited walk along Skinningrove Jetty followed by Tommy Evans’ update on Otters, Marske Fishermans Choir and the East Cleveland Image Archive

You can see the whole event here or watch it in the order it was transmitted. (Just scroll down and click on “older entries” at the foot of each page. All in all a great sucess and we’ll be running more Blogcasts. If you would like to be involved in the next one as a contributor or a participant then please contact s.d.thompson@tees.ac.uk

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A little while ago a small group of enthusiasts began to meet in Loftus Library where they were digitising an image collection. I set them up with a website and ran a session or two on how to upload their images and so Loftus Digital Village was born.  Over the coming weeks and months the archive grew at an amazing rate. Folks started to send images by email or bring them into the Library for scanning. Others left messages in the comments identifying people and objects in the pictures.