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The Media Workshop worked with the residents of Castle House, Southampton on a photo-mural for their ground floor lift lobby. Castle house is situated in the old town area and the flats have great views of the Solent.

“We have had extremely favourable input from the residents since it has been in place.

There always seems to be something we missed last time we looked and whiles away the time when waiting around,and looks so much nicer when the lift doors open than the old notice board. ”

Brian Willis - Chair
Castle House Residents Association

See also Kingsland Subway Project and Weston Towers Project

Friends of Mansel Park and Millbrook Community Association worked in partnership with The Media Workshop to deliver the Mansel Park Photo Project in June and July 2009.

Members of the local community gained instruction and hints about cameras and photography, before they took up the task of photographing the park.

After collating all the photographs, decisions and selections were made and the results were reproduced and mounted to posters, notices and postcards. These will be used to promote the use of the park, its beauty and facilities across the city.

In total 25 members of the local community were involved in the production of these pictorial records.

The project was funded with a “Grassroots” grant from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Foundation.

The Media Workshop is now able to offer A1 printouts (59×84cm or 23.4″x33″) for a FIVER for Southampton’s Voluntary Sector and charities. Charlie Bloom Chairman of The Multiple Sclerosis Society, Southampton and District Branch who was the first to take advantage of this offer.

£5 price is based on an A1 print out on single weight paper which is good for indoor; time based posters and displays. If you need a poster for the longer term or for outdoor use you’ll need to have it encapsulated at a cost of £4.

Find out more on our Large Format Printer page.
Please ring 023 8023 1977 or email us for details

The London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games are about more than just sport. They help to bring people together to celebrate different cultures and ways of life. With singing, dancing, making and displaying and encouraging an appreciation of heritage, the Cultural Olympiad is happening - now - all over the UK, helping people take part in London 2012 wherever they live or whatever they’re into. Southampton is playing its part in the Cultural Olympiad too, by organising and helping local people to put on events that offer something for everyone. Look through this brochure to find out how you can be part of the celebrations in Southampton.

Remember, this is just one stop on the journey to London 2012. If you have any ideas that you would like to develop with us into possible projects for the Cultural Olympiad please contact steve.hill@southampton.gov.uk

SHAPe is for groups and individuals: anyone involved in a cultural activity, whether educational, voluntary, professional, self-employed or otherwise, is welcome to join. For more information on SHAPe see www.southampton-partnership.com/partners/SHAPe or contact steve.hill@southampton.gov.uk 023 8083 2810.

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Open Weekend -Southampton Brochure

In an exciting project funded by the ‘Find Your Talent’ initiative, The Media Workshop worked with young people from Romsey Youth Theatre and Forest Forge Theatre Company. The project explored the theme of youth fashion/culture past and present. The project involved a trip to the fashion exhibition ‘Dressed to Express’ in Alton and an opportunity to take part in a fashion photo-shoot, during which the young people dressed up in costumes from different decades. The photographs produced were used to design large scale banners using Photoshop, depicting the styles from these decades. The banners created the backdrop for a play, performed and devised by the youth theatre in collaboration with Forest Forge Theatre Company, which took the audience on a journey through youth culture from the fifties to the present day.

Find Your Talent is a Government initiative to give children and young people the chance to try out different cultural activities. The scheme being run in 10 pathfinder areas and offers every young person a sustained engagement of five hours a week of quality arts and culture both in and out of school, whatever their age and whatever their ability. For more information visit us at: www.findyourtalent.org

An Investigation into the Long Term Impact of Participatory Arts in Southampton

Research investigating the long term impact (more than five years) of participatory arts activities with arts organisations in Southampton. 

Seeing Sense

The Media Workshop has continued research into the Visual Literacy development of Primary age children.  This latest project was in partnership with Creative Partnerships, St Mary’s School, Ryde and St Thomas’s School in Carisbrooke.

The Media Workshop is currently assembling an archive of the organisation and our project work over the last 30 years. As part of this we are also linking together other information on the history of other related projects.

Funded by the Arts Council, Daniel Meadows was able to embark on a utopian community project, touring England in a bus for a year during 1973-74.

“Once upon a time I lived in a double-decker bus, reg. JRR 404, better known as the Free Photographic Omnibus. She was my home, my travelling darkroom and gallery.” - Daniel Meadows