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Harnessing and Enabling Community Enterprises. Orla Flynn Head of CIT Crawford College of Art & Design November 2012. Introduction. Help us achieve a best practice! The Medi@tic project will enable digital materials to be accessible to all citizens.
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Harnessing and Enabling Community Enterprises Orla Flynn Head of CIT Crawford College of Art & Design November 2012
Introduction • Help us achieve a best practice! • The Medi@tic project will enable digital materials to be accessible to all citizens. • Has potential to create new employment opportunities in the region. • Specific interest in voluntary, community-based activities in the Cork region.
Community-based Initiatives • Engage with and/or utilise audio visual tools; • Are typically managed and run by volunteers and community workers; • Have some support from City Council; • Typically have little engagement with private sector;
Cork Regional Film Archive • Established in 2007 as a voluntary organisation for the purpose of providing the citizens of Cork with an archive of the moving image. • Grew from the work of a community group which established the Cork Youth International Film, Video and Arts Festival, over 30 years ago, running workshops and classes on film-making for young people.
Challenges • Preserve the films made by the participants; • Provide a platform for making the materials available to the wider public; • Provide links to other organisations such as educational institutions or private companies, to whom such footage would be of interest; • Utilise the material to stimulate tourism and international interest in the region.
Objective • To digitise and archive the existing film collection and to provide a platform for interacting with the collection.
But … • How best to acquire funding to enable this to happen? • How best to manage the project? • How best to harness the various stakeholders e.g. city council, museums, voluntary sector, educational organisation and private sector to ensure shared vision and delivery? • How best to ensure the growth and sustainability of the project?
Cork Northside Folklore Project • Grew from designation of Cork as City of Culture 2005 • A research project from the Department of Folklore and Heritage at University College Cork • Memory Map project – gathering oral testimonies from people about the places in which they lived and grew up.
Cork Film Festival • The 57th annual Corona Cork Film Festival will be held from November 11th to 18th. • (http://www.corkfilmfest.org) • How to link the festival with events in schools and private industries? • Development of a fringe festival? • Generating start-ups and employment?
Cork Community Television • CCTv established in 2007 (http://www.corkcommunitytv.ie/) • Aim is to enable communities to make, manage and broadcast television programming to reflect the interests, activities and concerns of these communities, in order to effect positive social change. • Some funding, but mostly VOLUNTARY!
Potential • Public engagement from a young age with digital media – and film/video in particular; • Easier pathways to third level education in digital media-related areas; • Improved job creation/employment possibilities via the creative industries; • Sharing rich cultural heritage with visitors to the area.
Challenges and Questions • Commercial engagement critical to ensure sustainability. • Do these voluntary socially-based activities take place in other regions? • How are they funded? • How do they interact with each other and with commercial (private) sector?
Return to Core Aims and Objectives • Preserve the digital artefacts developed/ gathered/made by the participants, many of whom are voluntary and community-based; • Provide a platform for making the artefacts available to the wider public; • Provide links to other organisations such as educational institutions or private companies, to whom such artefacts would be of interest; • Utilise the artefacts to stimulate tourism and international interest in the region.
Transferability • All regions have active communities, with volunteers engaged with social practices through arts, sport etc. • In Cork we are particularly interested in hearing how other regions have possibly already harnessed these synergies to good advantage.
