Assignments

Upcoming 2010 events to cover

• Spring Forward events, 20 & 21 March
• Brighton chocolate festival, New Road (pedestrian zone), Brighton, 20 & 21 March
• Launch of Duke of York’s Centenary, Jubilee Library, 18 March
• Fiery Foods UK Chilli Festival, Hove Lawns, 3 – 5 April
• Brighton Marathon, Sunday 18 April
  
• The Great Escape Festival, 13-15 May
• Brighton Festival & the Fringe, the whole month of May
• London to Brighton bike ride, Sunday 20 June
• Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival, 18 & 19 September
• Duke of York’s 100th Birthday, 22 September
  

Want to cover other food & drink events in Sussex? Check out the Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival website for dates all year long. http://www.brightonspringharvest.com/

Got an event you want covered by one of our reporters? Get in touch.

How assignments work

We have a list of events to cover. You choose one to report on and register your assignment with us. Publish your story in whatever form you prefer, whether it’s blogging, taking photos, tweeting, or writing about it in your newsletter. Just be sure to tag it with #bhcr & #communityreporters.

If you get stuck or want further training, you come along to our free Taster Sessions to get help and meet other Community Reporters.

1) First decide what to report: January – March 2010: Core Theme is Learning

All the assignments we are using in the next three months will be about learning and will relate to the Brighton & Hove Learning Festival, which runs from October 2009 to March 2010. The Learning Festival celebrates learning in the city and includes a large number of events, many which you can view by downloading the Festival brochure, or check the Festival website, such as this list of events being run by Friends Centre.

• You may want to attend an event and then report about what you learned, or you could interview people about what they learned, or produce a profile of the main speaker.
• Or you may use the event as a way of exploring a related topic and reflect on what you think about it.
• As we build up a library of reports you may well find something to inspire you from how other reporters approach the assignment.

2) Register with us now

Once you’ve decided what you’d like to do, please tell us about it – use the form on this site to register your assignment (and choose a Taster Session to come to.) Or just tell us that you want to keep in touch.

Register by going to this page: http://bhcr.scip.org.uk/?page_id=47

THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN REPORTING ON AN EVENT

Whatever you choose we suggest that you will need to consider three issues:

• People
  • Who is the story about? Is it about your own learning? Does it link to other people’s views? How will you find and connect with the people involved in the story?
• Voice
  • Who’s voice will we hear in the story? Is it your voice and your opinions, or will you be reporting what other people say?
• Media:
  • How will you share your story and what help do you need to do it? On paper or online? In writing, through photographs, as a video, or as a podcast? Where do you want it to appear? In a local community newsletter or The Argus reader’s pages? Do you have links with the media providers you’re interested in using? Or do you you want your own space to publish your story?

NEED HELP? JOIN OUR free TASTER SESSIONS

You might be able to hit the ground running with your assignment, but if you think you’d like to improve your skills or make sure you’re ready to take an assignment, you should book yourself on one of our Taster Sessions. They are friendly 2 hour sessions where you’ll meet other people who want to be Community Reporters, and we will help you fulfill your assignment.

At the taster sessions, we can help you with any of the following:

Sign up for a taster session here: http://bhcr.scip.org.uk/?page_id=47