Black History Month: Black British Film Night
Photo credit: © 2022 Verve Pictures Ltd. All Rights Reserved. The secret world of a generation and the birth of a reggae genre. An Our Version Media and MAST Mayflower Studio event for Black History Month. Lover’s Rock, often dubbed ‘romantic reggae’ is a uniquely black British sound that developed in the late 70s and…
We’re celebrating Black Joy this Black History Month
This Black History Month, we’re celebrating Black Joy! Black Joy will be an evening showcasing and celebrating stories from Southampton’s African, Caribbean and black British communities. It will be the culmination of a month-long Mobile Storytelling programme where participants learned to create, film and edit stories using a mobile phone for the very first time.…
Watch our mobile storytellers on BBC News
Our work empowering people from Southampton’s black and ethnically diverse communities through mobile storytelling appeared on the BBC this week. Three mums who were part of our Our Voices, Our Stories training programme shared their stories with BBC South News. Helen Jackson, Laura Racioppi and Hafsat Bello were three of eight local residents in Our…
Black British films are the focus of our new movie nights
Our Version Media and MAST Mayflower Studios have teamed up to bring Black British films to the big screen in Southampton. Our quarterly Black In Focus films nights launches on Saturday 18th June with a film called REAL – filmed right here in Hampshire, details below! Join us at MAST Mayflower Studios, 142-144 Above Bar Street, Southampton SO14 7DU on Saturday 18th June from…
Subscribe to our channel for stories, made-by-mobile, by learners on our training
We’ve launched our YouTube channel! It will be a place where we’ll share the ever-growing number of videos made by Southampton residents who’ve taken our Mobile Storytelling training. Real Southampton people and real Southampton stories showcasing the diversity of those who make up our city! Click the button below to go to our YouTube channel…
Equipping social housing tenants with digital media skills to combat stigmatisation
Thanks to a new pilot project with social housing provider, Aster Group UK, we’ll be helping to show the real stories of people living in social housing. A 2021 report titled Stigma and Social Housing in England found that “every day in England, people are judged negatively and even actively discriminated against because they rent…
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