Cafesociety.org and The Afro Carribean Centre are holding a mid summers night of riddims beats and ryhmes in support of the schools in Shashemene. All money raised will go direct to the JRDC  school in Shashemene - Ethiopia. We are hoping to purchasea 2  laptop computers for video editing and 2 digital video cameras to enable the shooting of film.

This last weekend 11th & 12th June saw a collection of very talented artists come together at the Kingston Youth Centre on Beverley Road . Hull.

The Graf / Hip Hop festival saw some outstanding murals designed and sprayed to the exterior walls of the youth centre, while dj’s such as Redlox and Fast T supplied the beats and backgrounds to a truly street weekend.

All the films which were made by students from The International School and National College for the Arts were shown yesterday at the School as a mini end of project film festival.

It’s always a good buzz to see the kids reactions while they’re watching their films on a large screen in front of an audience. I think every single student felt proud of what they had achieved in such a short space of time.

We think the content is tremendous and by the end of the week we should have uploaded all the short films to our Cafesociety.org gallery

click here to view the videos on youtube.com

It’s not stopped raining for almost three days. Paradise is beautiful but when you can’t even leave the hotel beacuse of the mass downpour it gets a little upsetting.

I just heard back from friends in the UK today saying how nice the blue skies were. Please can we have some in the Seychelles..

So just to remind you of how nice these islands can look in the right weather, please click the link below and enjoy a true paradise :-

Enjoy the pictures..

We are currently preparing the final edits with the kids from The International School & National College For The Arts.
The project is coming to a close now and we have the film screenings for parents, students and invited guests on Tuesday 7th June @ 4pm at The International School.

The TV station is coming down as well as the newspaper and a selection of invited guests who have been instrumental in organising and funding this project.

The kids have produced 10 short films in total over a period of 14 days. They range in themes from environmental, political and cultural to healthy eating & beach life. The quality of work produced has really impressed us. The committment from the kids at the very start of the project led us to believe the end content would be something very special, and it is…

We arrive back in the UK late Thursday 9th June and as soon as we have a stable internet connection we will upload the kids films to Cafesociety.org website for all to see.

I hade a great time on the past 3 days we spent with John and Murray, working on the project. I learnt a lot especially on editing the movies we made. We used a program called Adobe Premiere. The program is great to use and it is very experiencing. It was great fun that I won’t mind doing it again. Actually I’d love to do it again because I learnt a lot.

Carlos

Before the visit of Jon and Murray, I hadn’t got the slightest clue of how to operate such equipment, so this has really been an experience.
I had expected it to be very difficult and complicated, but to my fortunate surprise the equipment and we had good, devoted instructors to do the filming, especially to witness the reaction of people to a film crew and a professional camera, and also to hear some of the answers people gave. I think we also made many acquaintances with the people we interviewed and talked to along the way.

I am delighted to have participated in the workshop as it has proved knowledge for something I knew nothing about, and it was great fun. I hope I, or something like it happens again.

Peter Purvis

It was great fun, but was very tiring because along with all the fun came a lot of hard work, the programme was easy to use and came naturally and we got to meet some interesting people when in search of interviews.
 
Working as a team, I think we finally managed to stumble onto something very powerful…

A message to the waiting world.

Justine Manley

I was in group three of the café society project; a film making experience.

Overall, I made two full movies with film and editing and cut and edited a third. It was all good fun; I took to being a cameraman and filmed all but one of the interviews four our groups main project, this project was the best I made and was very proud of the professional-looking, finished product.

It was a documentary about the life of a Seychellois person from the perspectives of different people. The whole experience was great fun and I enjoyed all the sectors of the production and found that the equipment was easy to use once we were shown the basics. Jon and Murray were both great help and patient, they made the experience very enjoyable.

Charles Blagbrough

The digital workshop was lots of fun and hard work, it’s amazing how many things happen behind the scenes of films we watch every day, although it was hard to find people to cooperate with us, in the end we created a masterpiece, learning to handle the equipment although we messed up sometimes, overall it was really good fun and I wouldn’t mind doing it again.

KC Rose