Working with Southampton’s Junior Neighbourhood Wardens and the Central Housing Office. The project focused on positive attitudes to the environment and the local community. The finished work consists of seven photo-murals printed on tiles in the subway between St. Mary Street and Kingsland estate. Access from Johnson Street from either side. A grand opening will take place on Thursday 28th August 2008 at 3pm

Once again The Media Workshop will be running digital photography workshops on the BBC Blast bus in Hoglands Park, Southampton on 31st July and the 1st August.

The BBC Blast Truck offers young people an opportunity to explore a variety of free workshops, surgeries and showcase events whatever their ability.

The truck houses a mobile learning studio, complete with a television studio, VT/audio editing area, digital workshop area and a separate performance space to help users create their ideas.

Industry professionals and local facilitators are on hand to offer expert advice and support.

Details go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/ontour/

Yes Summer is here! and Thursday’s Open Access will be closed for the summer.

Open Access will restart on Thursday 4th September 2008 1-9pm.

Have a good break see you all in September.

The Media Workshop needs your help. Please fill in our Southampton Voluntary Sector Questionnaire and you’ll be entered in a prize draw to win a three panel promotional display for your organisation or charity. Just like the one we did for Kelly from Unity101 FM.

The deadline for responses is 31/07/2008 the draw for the free 3 panel display will take place on 16/08/2008 and the winner will be contacted shortly after.

So what are you waiting for! Fill in our Southampton Voluntary Sector Questionnaire today.

SORRY deadline for the prize draw has now gone.

The Media Workshop designed the cover for Liz Statham’s Counting Them In.

Counting Them In is for schools - and pre-schools and colleges - which have isolated bilingual learners. It offers guidance to staff on appropriate principles and strategies so they can develop and implement consistent good practice and give all their pupils equal access to educational opportunities and success in life.

The Media Workshop summer course timetable is out now. There are a number of FREE places for people who live or work in Southampton (Postcodes SO14-SO19).

We are offering short taster sessions in retouching old photos on your PC, digital collage and getting to know you digital camera. As well as Publisher, Powerpoint, Black & White Darkroom and Photoshop Elements.

Find out more and book online

Building on some of the work created through the Weston Shorescapes project, we designed a series of murals for five of the Tower Blocks in International Way, Weston. We incorporated work from children and other residents to produce images which brighten the foyer area of each block.

Each mural is created out of individually printed tiles which should stand up to the wear and tear of a public space.

As part of Adult Learners’ Week The Media Workshop ran a promotional stall in West Quay Shopping Centre, Southampton on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th of May. We will be offering a limited number of FREE and low cost short “Taster” sessions in digital photography, poster design and black and white darkroom which will take place in June/July 2008.

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Mottisfont Musings

Marcia Taylor is a long standing member of the Workshop and used our Open Access resource to print photographs for her contribution to the open exhibition for people with a empathy for Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire.

Down Memory Lane and A Trip to the Beach are two linked projects being undertaken by The Media Workshop on behalf of the Oral History Unit, as part of the Weston Shorescapes Heritage Lottery funded project. The project has been ongoing in Weston working with many of the residents in the area of all ages

Down Memory Lane has concentrated on recording Oral Histories and photographs from residents in Weston, looking at the changing face of Weston since the 30’s from small country village to the densely residential area it is today. Among the wonderful memories, residents have had stories to tell about the village life in a seaside village during the war, the Rolling Mills, the famous Seaweed Hut and what life was like in the new Tower blocks.

A Trip to the Beach was undertaken with Weston Park Junior School taking children to the beach and then working on projects to learn more about the history and the environment through arts activities. The children made sculptures of their experience of visiting Weston Shore, made informative lift-a-flap posters about the shore and used some of the Oral Histories and old photographs to find out more about the area. The schools work has been collated onto a CDRom to be used as a resource for future work at the school.