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Hidden Cities PECKHAM - a film by Chris Haydon, exhibiting in Istanbul as part of the International ArtExpo videoart & photography exhibition - discusses the image of Peckham in the media as opposed to the identity known to its inhabitants.


Southbank Centre are creating a new social space to welcome hundreds of artists and performers from around the UK and the world participating and collaborating in the Festival of the World this summer. see ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/festivals-series/festival-of-the-world The Festival Village is being designed and built by volunteers from all walks of life in London. Every Wednesday and every Saturday up to 28th May we need your help to design and build the Festival Village. It's free and you don�t need any experience to participate. see festivalvillage.wordpress.com/ The site is located underneath Queen Elizabeth Hall, behind Southbank Centre Skate Park. To find out more, take a look around the website, visit the blog to see our progress: festivalvillage.wordpress.com/blog-2/ checkout the forthcoming events: festivalvillage.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/festival-village-schedule/ and find us on Facebook and Twitter.

The Great Southwark Dragon Quest organised by Mental Fight Club explored the history and presence of dragons in our midst. With a little help from the Confucius Institute and some young knights. John Constable, who devised the clues and led the Quests, is a local writer and performer, and author of The Southwark Mysteries and Secret Bankside - Walks in the Outlaw Borough, both published by Oberon Books. The Southwark Mysteries was performed in The Globe and Southwark Cathedral in 2000, and again in Southwark Cathedral in April 2010. This short film captures the spirit and fun of the Quest ... do you know where to find a dragon on Southwark Cathedral ? It's been there a while. www.southwarkmysteries.co.uk http://www.southwarkmysteries.co.uk www.crossbones.org.uk johnconstable@mysteries.eclipse.co.uk


A GOOD HIDING Gary is an ex-offender visiting schools. Some laugh but others listen to what he tells them. This is part of the SOUTHWARK KNIFE DVD produced by Community TV Trust in 2005.


LONDON YOUNG VOICES films were screened at NFT2 in July as part of the Flipside Film Festival ... featuring "DECISIONS" by Bede Youth Adventure Project of Bermondsey, films from Goose Green Primary School of East Dulwich, and a hard-hitting revenge drama from St MIchael and All Angels Academy of Camberwell. Community TV Trust's 3-year project of facilitating positive media from, by and about young people has so far created eighteen films in total.


	London Young Voices Community TV Trust showed a wide range of LYV films at the PECKHAM SPACE screening on 16 June. The new art space was packed with participants from Goose Green Primary School and St Michael & All Angels; with key staff from Southwark Council, two people from Crimestoppers, Decima Francis (founder of From Boyhood To Manhood), Evolution Quarter TRA, with friends, trustees and associates of Community TV Trust. The event served to track the journey of young minds from primary school into turbulent mid-teenage youth. Two films stood out: DECISIONS by Millie Cook and Bede Youth Adventure Project, and CHOICES from St Michael & All Angles Academy. LYV is a 3-year venture managed by Community TV Trust who run Southwark.TV and is designed to celebrate positive media made by and about young people and their issues, loves, fears, challenges and hopes.

	Southwark.TV Archive We are planning an archive of local media, short films and documentaries, both from Southwark.TV's partner groups and schools but also from local people generally, of all ages and abilities. Local history, local representation ... you name it. If you have a film to offer for people to access in this central repository, send it to Community TV Trust, 10 Denman Road SE15 5NP.

Here is "COSSALL NEW AND OLD", a film made locally in Southwark as part of the Well London project, by Amanda Egbe with support from Arts Express -


Southwark.TV here publishes an open letter reviewing Government funding aimed at countering violent extremism. PREVENT REVIEW for The Home Office submission by Chris Haydon, Director Community TV Trust Peckham-based Community TV Trust was commissioned to produce a documentary and DVD on the Mosques in Southwark, their history, and the whole culture of Islam in the Borough. PVE funding supported the venture which launched recently at Tate Modern, generated a very strong turnout and received a warm welcome from a diverse gathering of active and influential people. Filming took place with three communities in particular, and included visiting the Mosques they run - Somali, Nigerian and Turkish. Bengalis were represented as well. The project was created by Sadiq Hoque, a practising Muslim, who lives at Elephant & Castle. Over the course of production, which spanned a twelve month period from November 2009, many enjoyable new links were made across Southwark's extraordinarily diverse community, both at a personal level and at an organisational level. It was quite evident that those trying to run a successful Mosque were encouraged by visits from Council managers, for example (and of course our cameras and equipment). There was a palpable sense of the wider community formally accepting these worshippers and their way of life into their midst. The range of voices from within the community of Southwark that are now gathered together on this DVD is impressive: multifaith, Muslim, Buddhist, non-Muslim, young, old, professional, student, political, celebrity ... it forms quite an array. What is most needed now is a little financial push to secure the DVD its role out in the community, engendering debate and reflection. Countering the stereotyping and fear-mongering so persistently createdby mainstream media is an important job. This DVD, so imaginatively funded out of PVE by Southwark Council's Emma Kehoe, can do that job. One can never really know if radicalisation has been prevented. Yet if an aspect of Foreign Policy is judged sufficient by an individual to cause their religious fervour to transform their whole approach to life, then nothing done locally can guarantee deflecting that person from their new chosen path. However, if that individual lives their life in a community which palpably and self-evidently is welcoming, understanding, interested and respectful, this does at least stand a chance of prompting 'second thoughts'. As an ordinary citizen I believe that formal intelligence gathering is powerful 'in defence of the realm', but that it cannot do everything and be everywhere. That would after all be Orwellian. What I equally believe is that money invested in the Common Good, across boundaries of ethnicity, age, culture and faith, is powerful too. PVE has in this instance facilitated an imaginative and wide-ranging project that has begun to touch many parts of our community. It can only lead towards a cohesive future. This is a visionary way of tackling the issue of radicalisation. Bravo. Rumours of 'Cohesion'/'Social Cohesion' being removed from PVE's agenda are therefore concerning. Please contact myself or Emma Kehoe if you would care to view this DVD: "MOSQUE: The Story of Islam in Southwark". With best wishes. Yours sincerely, Chris 07970 970 715 --- Chris Haydon Director Community TV Trust www.communitytvtrust.org

WEB-EVENT-TV ... is the mix that we believe makes robust local media. That's our Southwark Template ... There are 3 ways off this page - via Sitemap, Select A Partner and the navigation buttons - to over 50 groups and schools from the Southwark area. Each runs their own space, making up Southwark.TV. This public space for community voices has no political or religious views of its own, but with our broadcast TV experience and training expertise we encourage all to find their voice and have their say. This venture in open-access community media is run by Community TV Trust who have space on this website as well as their own.

PECKHAM TRAVELLERS was launched at Tate Modern on 22 June 2011. LOOKING FOR SIERRA LEONE was screened at South London Gallery in April 2011. MOSQUE: The Story of Islam in Southwark was launched at Tate Modern in November 2010. "DECISIONS" and "CHOICES", two films under the London Young Voices banner, were screened at NFT2 in July 2010. OPERA FILM AT PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL Southwark.TV's links with Goose Green Primary School, Southwark Pensioners Action Group celebrated in September 2009 when the film "PENSIONS FOR ALL!" was screened at the Portobello Film Festival. BEDE FILM AT THE TATE Also in September 2009 Chris Haydon's film "SUM OF US ALL" for Bede House, the Bermondsey settlement, was screened at Tate Modern.

Southwark.tv has a friend - in Nepal ! See navigation NEPAL to read what Rachana has to say.

	Terry Waite visited Southwark to share his wisdom, when attending September's Peace Breakfast. See separate page in left hand menu.

STOP PRESS Southwark.TV through Community TV Trust which is participating in lobbying Government, was consulted by Brussels agency KEA for a report commissioned by the European Parliament, and also consulted with Liberal Democrat MP Paul Holmes prior to a debate on community television funding. Chris Haydon has worked with the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and has been invited onto a steering group for City University, London. Southwark.TV was represented at two meetings relating to UK policy: one with DCMS and the Parliamentary media literacy group; the other with prominent industry figures.