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Animex Fringe 2011
March 3rd, 2011 | 
Author: If you can’t make it to the event in Saltburn today (Thurs 3rd March) you should still me able to enjoy it online. I say “should” because this is experimental. At http://tvcm.co.uk/animex2011 there is a tweetstream with the hashtag #tvcmanim11 – a chat stream, a live stream and a “blogcast” releasing each film at the same time as the audience sees it.
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The Vikings Are Coming
As part of our (postponed) Animex event in Saltburn, artist collective Hirvitalo from Finand are offering a workshops for schools and community groups as set out below. Our Finish visitors will arrive in time to deliver these on Feb 28th March 1st and we hope to film them and show highlights in Saltburn on March 3rd at Saltburn Community Theatre.
Workshops so far are
28th Feb 1.15pm Whitecliffe Primary, Carlin How 4.30pm St Cuthberts Centre Crook (Juniors) 7.00pm St Cuthberts Centre Crook (Seniors)
1st March 7.00pm Destinations, Saltburn (Upstairs) 7.00pm
JUNIORS – Pirates and Vikings (15-30 min)
We will explore commons and common rights through the dialogue of several characters. Children will be given the chance to share their opinions and thoughts around this subject. Examples from history, present and the future will be explored through interactive theatre.
SENIORS – The Post Industrial World – Dystopia to Utopia (30-45min)
Emptied factories and no jobs. Finland and England have this in common. Paper, steel, coal and other mass industries are history and are being replaced with??? A workshop will give participants an empty factory building and we will try and build a future with it. A new paradigm – a commons industry is the aim and an animation will be made of the process.
NOTE ’The commons are resources that are collectively owned or shared between or among people and can include everything from natural resources and land to software.’
About the artists
Finnish artist collective Hirvitalo initiated last year a project Second Forest which explores the cultural change of globalizing boreal forest in the age of social media by various artistic means including discussions and workshops in both virtual and real world environments.
This year the Second Forest project is focusing on the concept of Everyman’s Rights, a Scandinavian version of Common Rights which has profoundly shaped the relationship between Nordic people and the forest. This concept is currently in a crisis, which is caused by the globalizing industry based on forest products. Also the whole concept of Commons is changing due the growing distrust to privatizing of natural resources and development of the Peer-to-Peer culture in the online world.
Second Forest project team, Markus Petz, Ismo Torvinen and Mikko Lipiäinen are now organizing workshops and discussions in which the past, present and the future of the Everyman’s Rights and the Commons is explored so that we gain a better understanding of the global importance of these concepts.
For more info or to host a workshop contact:
Steve Thompson,
Community Media Manager, Institute of Digital Innovation, Teesside University
M – 07795 826953
E – s.d.thompson@tees.ac.uk
Production Resumed
Production has begun again after the Christmas break on “Tommy and Barry Go Back”. We lost a lot of production days before Christmas to weather condition and ill health so we have postponed the world premiere to March 3rd. It’s the same venue, Saltburn Community Theatre at 7.30pm. We moved our production location to Destinations in Saltburn as a more convenient location. Yesterday we got some very tricky shots in the can including Zeppelin flying and Chilean rescue pod maneuvering!
Next production day is Friday 21st (Destinations Again) when we hope to finish the 1945 Jetty scene. Below are some stills from scene 6.
Smith and Bluster
Tommy and Barry in 1945
Distant Relative
Here’s a sight not seen in Skinningrove for quite some years. Inspector Charlie Bell as you’ve never seen him before. He’s one of his ancestors as he appears in the new movie “Tommy and Barry Go Back”. Eric Bloodaxe will be handing out Viking ASBO’s.
Re-enactment Of Historic Event
On Thursday 18th November children at Whitcliffe Primary School will re-enact a famous event from their Schools history. Actually the story relates to Skinningrove school but both schools have been amalgamated and children of Skinningrove and Carlin How all attend Whitecliffe. Whitecliffe has the logbooks of both schools going back over 140 years and one entry states; “school evacuated on the occasion of a Zeppelin sighted overhead. The children will re-enact this momentous event and Inspector Charlie Bell of Cleveland Police will play the part of the calm voice of authority leading the children to shelter in the mines (this actually took place too – many Skinningrovers took shelter in the mines during both world wars. This will form the audio track of an animated film “Tommy and Barry Go Back” to be premiered at Saltburn Community Theatre, Animex Fringe on February 10th 2011.
