Date: 17 November 2012
Country: UK, London
During the media training organized by Media Diversity institute – “Let the Roma Youth Be Heard” – 18 young Roma, Gypsies and Travellers residing in the UK, have learnt how to produce a good article for print media.
The event in Islington Museum in London was a follow-up of the workshop in September and was opened by Milica Pesic, MDI’s Executive Director.
MDI’s media training aims to breathe life into the phrase “in order to challenge the media, you have to become the media” by quickly giving its participants the skills to tell their community’s stories.
The selected trainees were taught by the well-known journalist Jake Bowers who was born into a Romanichel family with 17 other siblings. MDI’s guest speaker was Phil Regan from Westway Development Trust.
The participants and their teachers explored the role the conflicts are playing in a good storytelling, as well as the different types of written articles and need for balance and truth in writing articles.
At the end of this MDI’s follow-up workshop almost 15 stories by our trainees were produced.
MDI’s guest speaker Phil Regan gave a presentation about the residential programme of creativity and media literacy that MDI’s participants are encouraged to apply for. The project aims to bring the community together to actively maintain a living archive through film, audio, exhibition, website and book. It will be central to the borough’s Gypsy Roma and Traveller History Month, annually held in June.
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