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Award Winning Project Provides Opportunity For Young People
great northern youth voices
Our FREE
programme of documentary-making training workshops
offered a diverse group of young people a unique
opportunity to get involved in documentary-making.
great northern youth voices
was a citizen journalism project providing
documentary-making training for young people currently Not in Employment,
Education or Training.
In December 2014 great
northern youth voices
won an an outstanding flagship project award from
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of
Sustainability (UNU-IAS).
Our programme of workshops is currently on hold while we apply for further funding
but we hope to resume soon.
If you are under 25 and interested in future projects of this type
contact us on:
or telephone/text O779O 47O846.
Visit our Vimeo channel here!
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great northern youth voices
is a citizen journalism project providing
documentary-making training for young people currently Not in Employment,
Education or Training (NEET).
It is a project for the YouTube generation focused on giving a voice to
young people.
Participants are encouraged to formulate their own thoughts
social and environmental issues through exposure to expert and lay
opinion and knowledge. Critical reflection on what part their generation
may play in ensuring a better future is a key element of the process.
A series of documentaries capturing the reflections of participants and
those in their communities on the realities they face will be produced,
given a public première and published online.
The project was developed by The Great Debate in partnership with
North East
Centre for Transformative Education and Research (NECTER), a
network recognised by the United Nations as a Regional
Centre of Expertise (RCE) in Education for Sustainable Development
that brings people together in partnership at the regional level
to promote better access to quality education, social justice, and an improved
quality of life.
Workshops facilitated by
Caspar Hewett,
Director, The Great Debate
Jackie Scollen,
The Great Debate film-maker in residence
Charlie Winstanley,
Secretary, The Great Debate
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History
great northern youth voices
was built on the success of the experimental Living in a Changing World
documentary-making project for young people not in employment, education or
` training, held in 2010 and our 2009 workshop
Don't Shout
at the Telly North East.
In 2011 The Great Debate won a successful bid to
Big Lottery Fund's
Awards for All scheme in 2011 which
provided the funds for professional quality film-making kit and a series
of pilot workshops. This project established a film-production
team and made a series of short documentaries.
At the close of 2011 we obtained follow-on funds from
The Dulverton Trust which enabled us to
continue to offer film workshops to disadvantaged young people into early 2012.
Thanks to
NECTER
our team were able to continue to provide training workshops through
the HYPODS project,
which ran from March to September 2013.
A further grant from Big Lottery Fund allowed us to resume our programme in 2014.
While the programm is currently on hold we hope to resume this programme soon
- watch this space for dates and details.
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Links
The Great Debate: Facing the Future
The Future of
Energy for the North East
Economic Growth: Bane or Boon? Video of
head to head debate between Daniel Ben-Ami and Jonathon Porritt, October 2010
What is Sustainable Culture? by Caspar Hewett.
Proceedings of a debate between Jonathan Dawson, Alex Hochuli and Clive Lord,
August 2010
Limits to Growth in the 21st Century. Video of debate between Daniel Ben-Ami,
Richard Dyer and Phil O'Keefe, August 2010
Living in a Changing World. [Video] March 2010
Food & Water Security. Video of debate between Tony Allan, Jennie Barron,
Julia Brown and Ben Campbell, March 2010
Don't
Shout at the Telly North East. [Video] March 2009
The
Great Sustainable Energy Debate 2008, by Caspar Hewett.
Proceedings of a debate held in October 2008
Keeping Africa Small debate [Video] March 2008
I'm a Subsistence Farmer ...
Get Me Out Of Here! debate [Video] March 2008
Proceedings of the Third Conference on
Development, Sustainability and Environment, 2007
Proceedings
of the Second Conference on
Development, Sustainability and Environment, 2005
Proceedings
of the First Conference on
Development, Sustainability and Environment, 2003
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