Oska Bright On The Road
We are the Oska Bright steering committee and in this blog you will find about our experience of taking our film festival across the UK and abroad. Go to the dao directory for a link to the Oska Bright website. You can also read about the next Festival, which takes place in November 2009, and find details of how to enter your own film.
5 May 2012
Oska Bright On The Road – Bradford-on-Avon
Saturday 5th May 2012 By Becky Bruzas and Matthew Hellett It was really good! All of the staff and the lovely audience at the Wilshire Music Centre were really warm and welcoming. It was a...Comments: 0
2 May 2012
Oska Bright On The Road – Bradford, 1st May 2012
By Jason Eade and Sarah Watson We set off to Bradford to visit Mind The Gap Studios and show some Oska Bright films. It was a very damp day and the motorways were misty with rain – so we...Comments: 0
17 March 2012
Embrace Create Connect Conference, Embrace Arts Centre, Leicester
15th and 16th March 2012 By Matthew Hellett and Sarah Watson The Conference began on Thursday the 15th March at 11 am with a great beginning session – everyone together doing stuff – we made...Comments: 0
16 February 2012
Oska Bright On The Road in Israel – our meeting with the Israeli Cultural Affairs Department at the Israeli Embassy in London
Wednesday 15th February 2012 By Matthew Hellett and Sarah Watson We just had a lovely meeting with Iris Ambor and Lark Bieberfrom the Embassy of Israel. They are the Counsellor for Cultural...Comments: 0
14 February 2012
Oska Bright On The Road at Cinovate (www.cinovate.org ), Newport, Wales
Friday 10th February 2012 By Sarah Watson We found the University in Newport very hard to find – the sign for it was so small! It was a big building, and it was hard to find our way...Comments: 0
5 January 2012
Announcement for 'Gold Run'
Happy New Year to you, we hope 2012 is really good for you! It’s Sarah and Matthew here from the Oska Bright Committee – we have some exciting news for you. Over the last year we have...Comments: 0
15 November 2011
Oska Bright Presentation at “Conquering Public Spaces” Conference, City Library, Prague
By Matthew Hellett We went to this conference from 11 - 13 November in Prague that was put on by one of our past partner festival’s in Prague, Czech Republic – The Normal Festival....Comments: 0
16 September 2011
Oska Bright go 'On The Road' to Hastings
By Sarah Watson and Matthew Hellet On 15th September 2011 we did a presentation at the Stade on the Old town seafront in Hastings. It was a lovely beautiful day and we smelt the sea. How...Comments: 1
27 May 2011
Oska Bright On The Road –Upstream, Brighton, 24th-26th May 2011
By Matthew Hellett, Maggie Dadswell and Sarah Watson This week we have been showing films at Upstream, part of Brighton Festival 2011. We've been promoting our work, and showing films that are...Comments: 1
14 April 2011
Oska Bright On The Road – Reel 2 Reel residency project in partnership with Tutti at Clare, South Australia
We've had an enjoyable week with a lively and enthusiastic group of young people. They had loads of ideas and loads of energy – we had to keep thinking of lots of new ideas to keep them all...Comments: 1
2 April 2011
Oska Bright On The Road – Reel 2 Reel residency project in partnership with Tutti at Barossa Valley, South Australia
Wow! We've just finished the best film making week with a lovely group of people in Barossa valley. We worked at Nurootpa Library with 8 people with a learning disability from Barossa Leisure...Comments: 0
27 March 2011
Oska Bright On The Road – Reel 2 Reel residency project in partnership with Tutti. Week 4 of our work here by Matthew Hellett
Wow! Our time here is going really quickly! This week on Monday we met up with Jackie Saunders from Tutti, to make an interview with her for a TV station in Melbourne that broadcasts all over...Comments: 0
20 March 2011
Oska Bright On The Road – Reel 2 Reel residency project in partnership with Tutti at Minda Campus, Adelaide
Tuesday 15th March until Friday 18th March 2011 By Matthew Hellett We have just finished our second residency – it was very successful! The 14 young people that we worked with were really...Comments: 0
12 March 2011
Oska Bright On The Road Australia – Reel 2 Reel residency project in partnership with Tutti
By Matthew Hellett We have just finished a very successful week of our film making residency. 11 young people with a learning disability attended the training from across Adelaide – there were...Comments: 0
3 March 2011
Oska Bright On The Road – The Launch of Reel 2 Reel project in partnership with Tutti at Adelaide International Film Festival
5 March 2011 at Mercury Cinema, Adelaide It was a really great day! We got to Mercury at 11 am ready to set up. Simon sorted out our audio description with the technician there, whilst we rehearsed...Comments: 0
17 February 2011
Stephen Firschman reports on Oska Bright at 'Picture This...' Film Festival, Canada 2011
I arrived in Canada and the first thing that I saw was the snow – it was quite slippery but I enjoyed looking at it. On Saturday 12th February I went to the Picture This ….. Film...Comments: 1
10 December 2010
Oska Bright at St John’s College, Brighton
By Adele King, Sarah Watson and Matthew Hellett We arrived at St John’s College and set up in the Youth Centre there. They had a new plasma screen to show our films on. We started off by...Comments: 0
9 December 2010
Oska Bright at Learning Disability Today, Islington, London
By Sarah Watson and Matthew Hellett It took a long time to get to the Business Design Centre – we ended up having to get a taxi from St Pancras Train Station because there were too many people...Comments: 0
29 November 2010
Oska Bright On The Road – Liverpool
We arrived in Liverpool on Tuesday 23rd November at 5.30 pm ready for Dadafest 2010. We checked into the Travelodge central, just across the road from the fantastic World Museum where were going to...Comments: 0
9 November 2010
Oska Bright presenting an Award at the Flash Forward Film Festival, Oxford on 7th November 2010
We had a really good day out at this Festival. It was an afternoon screening at VUE cinema. There were lots of films that we liked seeing, in particular: “Let Me In” by Arty Party was a...Comments: 0
27 September 2010
Oska Bright put on an event in Jubilee Square, Brighton
By the Oska Bright Steering Committee 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...Comments: 0
30 July 2010
Oska Bright July 2010 news
Oska Bright July news by the Oska Bright Steering Committee We are getting ready to go to Liverpool to show Oska Bright films and run a master class at DaDaFest International 2010. The films will be...Comments: 0
29 June 2010
Oska Bright On the Road – Unity Festival, Cardiff, 28th June 2010
By Matthew Hellett, Sarah Watson and June Hall This year in Cardiff at Unity Festival 2010, we worked with our friends at Disability Arts Cymru, Unity Festival and HiJinx Theatre. We showed some...Comments: 1
22 April 2010
Oska Bright go On The Road to the Hull Film Festival, April 2010
By Maggie Dadsbury and Sarah Watson Maggie and I arrived at Ferens Art Gallery at 9 am. It was sunny but very very cold. We waited ages for them to open the doors so that we could get in to set up...Comments: 1
15 March 2010
Oska Bright On The Road - Cornwall Film Festival, March 2010
By Stephen Firshman and Sarah Watson It took us ages to get to Truro – there were lots of diversions on the roads and we had to be very patient. When we got here we were all...Comments: 0