General Election Q&A for Brighton Pavilion – April 2010

March 31, 2010

Interested in reporting on the crucial contest to win the Brighton Pavilion seat in the forthcoming General Election?
Sonia Grant, a community reporter, is involved in organizing a hustings (Q&A session) for the Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs). The event will be hosted by Power2010 a national grassroots campaign to promote democracy and ‘clean up’ British politics.
The [...]

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UK Nuclear Non Proliferation Flame Of Hope – 8 April, Brighton Pier

March 22, 2010

Community reporters wanted for this event – feel free to go down!

The Flame of Hope for the global abolition of nuclear weapons will pass from Brighton to Worthing on Thursday 8th April on its way to New York.
It starts at Brighton Pier at 10am with speeches from Caroline Lucas and Bruce Kent (tbc).
People are invited [...]

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Samba spices up the Spring Forward festival

March 20, 2010

A video from community reporter Ron Sharatt.
To see more photos, videos, interviews and content from Spring Forward 20-21 March and Learning Festival events, go to our new site dedicated solely for the Learning Festival coverage: http://bhlf.wordpress.com/

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Spring Forward -Jubilee Library

March 20, 2010

We’re at the Spring Forward Adult Learning Festival with our Community Reporters team already out getting all the news and gossip from outside Jubilee Library.
Are you curious about what Community Reporting is? Come along and chat to us at our stand and talk to Yvonne, Claire and Ron about what being a community reporter is [...]

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Launch of Duke of York’s Centenary – Jubilee Library, 18 March

March 14, 2010

Attention all movie buffs! Community reporters are invited to report on a launch event held on Thursday 18 March in honour of the Duke of York’s 100th birthday this year.
The movie memorabilia event, Show and Tell”, is being held in Brighton’s Jubilee Library, Conference Room 2, from 6pm-8pm.

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Cabaret Fundraiser for Brighton Naked Bike Ride- 13 March, West Hill Hall

March 12, 2010

Fancy a night of cabaret & possibly a naked bloke on a bike?
Community reporters are wanted to review this Saturday evening fundraiser for Brighton Naked Bike Ride 2010. The group are looking to raise their profile in advance of the world-wide ride on 13 June 2010, and your blog, writer up, footage or photographs would [...]

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What equipment and software I use for video and audio editing

March 12, 2010

On Saturday 6 March, I ran a taster session that focused primarly on video editing. As a number of people expressed interest, but couldn’t attend, I thought I’d share the equipment and sofware I used during the session.

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Come and help us Spring Forward

March 12, 2010

Sunday March 21st marks the climax of the Brighton & Hove Learning Festival. Brighton & Hove Community Reporters are joining a host of people in celebrating learning as part of Spring Forward, a two-day extravaganza of learning activities. We’ll be based at Jubilee Library in the centre of Brighton, and are looking for reporters to [...]

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Brighton and Hove Marathon

March 11, 2010

The first Brighton Marathon is taking place on April 18th along the seafront. 12,000 runners will be taking part.  Some streets will be holding street parties to celebrate the event. Will you be joining in or is it going to be one big traffic problem for everyone?
Does a big event like this bring a city together [...]

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Digital Inclusion Conference

March 11, 2010

Joined all the key people interested in the world of digital inclusion yesterday. While I have heard the phrase digital inclusion, the conference deepened my understanding as speakers outlined how many people’s lives will be impoverished if they cannot keep up the digital revolution.  Some jobs are only available online, so much information on local government [...]

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