Wednesday, the group left the Leeds hotel early for a breakfast at the Kalasangam Centre in Bradford, where the group enjoyed a mini exhibition about the Black Butterfly Photography Project. Black Butterfly was a project organised by Everything is Possible and funded by the ‘Youth in Action’ Programme from the European Union. It involved 150 young participants from Europe and Latin America, who thought about intercultural and cross-ethnic dialogue and captured it in photographs.
Then the group went to the Media Museum of Bradford (where we were joined by Robert of ECORYS) for the second part of the Lizzie’s Photography workshop. This time, Lizzie taught the participants how to set up a photo exhibition. Each participant selected three photographs which they edited with Lizzie, before preparing and designing & decorating frames for a photography exhibition at the media museum.
After the lunch in a professional catering training restaurant in Bradford college, where all chefs and waiters are undertaking vocational training to join the hospitality industry, the participants came back to the National Media Museum where they prepared a mini exhibition of their pictures and frames in this prestigious venue.
After an hour and a half visiting exhibitions on the history of photography and interacting with various radio and television filming activities, some participants went to see in a private film screening booked for the group, a documentary called ‘’Making of a Blockbuster’’ where they followed the pre-production, shooting and post production techniques of a James Bond Film ‘’The World is not enough’’. Some participants (particularly those with lower linguistic skills) choose to spend more time discovering the museum. They discovered a special exhibition about a Swedish photographer and the many interactive activities about film, photography, television, animation and new media. Some of the participants enjoyed particularly the part dedicated to television, where they were able to present a broadcast show or read a teleprompter for a News programme.
After the museum all the participants participated in an intercultural evening, during which, each group presented their country, their region, their customs and foods. Each group did a very interesting presentation which they had prepared before the Grundtvig Learner Workshop during the preparation meetings arranged by support organisations . For example, France created a special video about their region for this evening.
INTERVIEWS:
Kristof, participant from Hungary, says that the photography workshop at the Yorkshire sculpture park was his favourite as well as the frames creation.
Transcription:
“I preferred Yorkshire photo making because it was interesting, the nature was beautiful and all kind of things and objects what we can make photo. It was interesting. I liked the exhibition of the frames because I can drown my own style frame, I can make my own feeling to the frame and to the photo and I can choose my best photo, it was good I liked it. ”
The presentation of the Black Butterfly Project.
The Participants choose the pictures tu use for the exhibition.
Then they prepared frames for their 3 pictures.
One of the participants reading the news while the others are watching him on the screen, at the National Media Museum.
One of the participants trying to play a comedy using an other interactive attraction at the National Media Museum.
