FreqOUT! News

Signs of the City

Signs of the City employs digital photography and new media in a 15 month international project. The project explores sign systems in European Cities by creating a visual inventory of Berlin, London, Sofia and Barcelona.

As part of the London consortium FreqOUT! set up workshops alongside 3 other leading arts organisations; Watermans, Independent Photography and Space Media. Young people worked with award winning artist Melissa Bliss to take photographs of their urban environment using mobile phones. The images were then uploaded to a social networking site www.citipix.net. The dialogue takes place virtually and physically through the images on an internet database, and as an exchange between young people, artist, youth art organisations and cultural institutions. FreqOUT! worked with young people from Cardinal Hume, Centrepoint, Marylebone Bangladeshi Society and Churchill Gardens to deliver the work shops.

The project runs from October 2007 to December 2008 with exhibitions of the work being displayed in public spaces and galleries in each of the participating cities. Final images from the FreqOUT! workshops will be displayed as part of the London exhibition at Watermans during October this year.

Innovation Exchange - Share Your Idea

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The innovation Exchange is dedicated to fostering innovation within the third sector and as part of this, finding ways of improving relationships between third sector social innovators, public service commissioners and investors. The Exchange works through events, research, facilitation and online exchange. The Next Practice programme, provides the best innovations with support and access to a £200k fund from NESTA. This programme will enable evaluation, knowledge-sharing and seek to draw in further resources, helping cutting edge projects to develop and grow. FreqOUT! have launched a blog on the Innovation Exchange website where you can see an overview of our project: FreqOUT! Innovation Exchange

'Street Experience- Growing up in North Fulham'

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A final showcase of films produced on the 'Street Experience' Film Course was held on Saturday 29th of March at Hammersmith Town Hall. The event was a huge success with 80 people attending, the majority being young people keen to see their work on show.

You can view at: FreqOUT! Films

Vital Regeneration is delivering a new and exciting Film Project with the North Fulham NDC.

'Street Experience- Growing up in Fulham' is a innovative film course for young people between 14-19 to explore the issues that effect them. The workshops managed by charity Vital Regeneration empower young people from North Fulham to have their say about the world in which they live. The workshop aimed to change the perceptions of young people to show their audience they have positive comments to make on life in mature and considered reflection. The sessions were led by a professional film maker who helps them explore their ideas and storyboard their influences. Each participant edited their own footage to tell their story and the final films were then showcased in a high profile final event in March 08. The showcase linked students from the Studio + music course, in which the participants will got to share their ideas and creativity in an event attended by family, friends, local community and local businesses. Following the event the films will now be entered into national film festivals, to gain national exposure for the project and the participants and further boost the confidence of the young people involved.

The workshops ran in 2 series with 10 young people on each. The sessions were held at The Brunswick Club, Haldane Road and were open to young people from across the borough from January 08. The workshops were accredited and lead to an Open College Network accreditation in Video, helping the young people improve their skills for future education and employment opportunities.

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A FreqOUT! Christmas!

Project Manager Jenny Irish and Artist Melissa Bliss worked with a group of young people from the Cardinal Hume Centre to film the festivities taking place on Oxford Street during its pedestrianisation on the 1st of December. The young people documented the days festivities using mobile phones and produced their own short films which could be blue toothed at the end of the day. The event showcased the talents of Westminster based performance groups and FreqOUT! offered something a little different for the crowds.

'Editing footage on the mobile phones ready to be Bluetoothed'

FreqOUT! Project Manager Amy Robins has been interviewed by Regeneration and Renewal for an Innovations article covered in the 18th August edition.

Read the online version of the article

FreqOUT! goes National!

FreqOUT! has been commissioned by BBC Blast to run 8 workshops for young people to learn creative video making with mobile phones. The workshops will form part of the BBC Blast National Tour around the country with dates and locations to be confirmed. Young people will organise their ideas into a storyboard, shoot and edit footage on mobile phones. The workshops will be lead by award winning educator and mobile phone video artist Melissa Bliss.

Find out more about BBC Blast

Futurelab - Digital Inclusion

As part of the Museum of the Moment- Harrow Road project- Futurelab has included FreqOUT! on its website as part of their Digital Inclusion review. You can find out more on the Futurelab website:

Futurelab Digital Inclusion

FreqOUT!'s flagship project for 2007 was the 'museum of the moment' which involved young people from youth clubs local to the Harrow Road gathering to form a team of researchers. The team worked across May and June to discover and record information, stories and sounds from the Harrow Road area. The recordings were then edited together by artist Jennie Savage to form a public broadcast along the Harrow Road in September 2007.

View the flyer here

The MUSIC CLASH UP!

Young people who play music, sing, MC, DJ or write urban poetry were invited to perform live in a musical documentary of the Harrow Road. This was broadcast on the street in September 2007 as part of the ‘museum of the moment’.

In March 2007 FreqOUT! won the National ICT hub award for the ‘Most Innovative Use of ICT’. The ICT Hub is a national organisation that aims to help charities make better use of ICT, rewarded Vital Regeneration at the national awards ceremony in London, which celebrated the brilliant work being done by charities and community groups in the field of ICT.

http://www.icthub.org.uk/ICT_Hub_Awards/

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