On Saturday 18th September some of us put on a fund raising event in Jubilee Square in the centre of Brighton. We were trying to let more people know about Carousel's work supporting arts by learning disabled people. We were also trying to raise money so that we can continue our good work helping to show the talents of learning disabled artists.There was the Shut Up and Listen radio show, live music, dancing competitions, an information stand and we were there showing some films from some of our Oska Bright Film Festivals. We showed films in Brighton Jubilee Library, Pizza Express and myhotel...
This month we have been getting ready to do a sponsored event to raise money to help us take Oska Bright to Australia. We need to raise about £6,000 for the air fare. In Bognor, which is near us in England, there is a competition called “The Birdman of Bognor” – it is a crazy thing where people jump off of Bognor Pier to see how far they can get before they crash into the sea. So – we are making an “Oska Bright Bird” and asking people to sponsor us to jump off of the pier! We have made sponsorship forms and are getting everyone we know to give us some money – no matter how small it...
July 2010 Blog by the Oska Bright Steering Committee This month we have been making a short film to go on our website's 'Making A Film' page. We want to make it easier for people to understand how to make films. Today we have been filming about how to write a story for film; especially how to make choices about the type of film to make, the main character, what the character wants, what difficulties the character has to get what they want and what they do about it. We are going to make films for the other five sections of 'Making A Film' including:• Lighting• ...