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Participants in the Pedal Project and Dublin cycling enthusiasts gathered in the DCTV studio to review DCTV’s recent use of the documentary format to instigate a city wide discussion on cycling.

The first episodes of Beyond the Classroom – the new community education series co-produced by DCTV and the Aontas Community Education Network have now been released online. Links are below.

Available to stream (watch in your browser) and download (for viewing later) the two episodes were first broadcast on DCTV on Wednesday 3rd March and repeated on the Fresh block later in the week.

Beyond the Classroom - The Communities. Episode 1 - Kilbarrack

Beyond the Classroom – Communities Ep1 from DCTV on Vimeo.

Directed by Donnacha O’Briain the 4 short form documentaries that make up the “Communities” section of Beyond the Classroom are thoughtful, engaging stories from the depths of another, earlier recession. This first episode tells the story of the young mothers in Kilbarrack who established a community education centre in the early 1980′s, of the learners interviewing the teachers, of the transformations both personal and community. Beautifully told this is one of the many success stories of Dublins Communities.

Introduced by Bernie Brady from Aontas the total piece is 20 minutes long and well worth putting the headphones in and having a cup of tea and watching.

Beyond the Classroom - The Practitioners. Episode 1.

Beyond the Classroom – The Practitioners Ep1 from DCTV on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/10052319

Currently being broadcast in three half hour episodes, The Practitioners section of Beyond the Classroom is the document of a live, 90 minute studio based discussion on Community Education. Inspired by the practices of Community Education the set was modeled on the Learning Circle which is so central to community education. The film-makers brought footage they had shot while researching the series and a group of insightful, experienced and committed practitioners discussed many of the key issues in Community Education using the clips as jumping off
points for an honest, deep and at times challenging exploration.

Facilitated by Anne Louise Gilligan this piece does not just look at the shape and boundaries of community education – it develops a new format of community television based on the tools and practices of community
television.

DCTV would love to hear from people who have viewed this material. A DVD version will be released later in the Spring with Aontas and the series will be released in a number of formats over the next few months. For
the month of March each week will see two new episodes released each Tuesday the week after they have been screened on DCTV – NTL 802. Please help the development of community television by passing these links onto
those you think may be interested.

Contact us at CE@dctv.ie for details on DVD and other media availability, to get help organising screenings or to let us know what you think.

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So, we are getting things ready for the first of our studio shoots for the Storyworld project.  There’s still plenty of room for your school to participate in the project, so if any of this interests you – please get in touch.   We’re still on the hunt for props and materials from our previous shout out, and there’s a new list of “wants” below

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Dublin Community Television is currently looking to collaborate with aspiring set designers for a series of innovative studio discussion programmes due to be shot in late November 2009.

The project has a modest budget for set design & build. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact the Director at donobriain@gmail.com or Production Manager at barry@dctv.ie we look forward to hearing from you .

For Dave Nolan printing is a craft and he is a master craftsman. But the world is changing as low cost, high speed digital printing presses make the old methods redundant. Unable to even turn on a computer, Dave finds himself unemployed and unemployable with a teenage daughter to provide for. When his old school friend Tony asks him to caretake his house while he’s on business in China, Dave jumps at the chance. This is Episode….

Hi All, We are currently looking for some props for a studio piece we are working on and would like the following…

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Our look at left wing publications, produced by the Alternative Media History group, has been one of the successes of the Community in a Studio project. Now they are thinking about making series 2 in the Autumn. One of the things they think is they’ll need more people involved – as researchers, as studio crew, as panelists, as editors etc. If you liked the show or just want a go at making some television contact lookingleft@dctv.ie.

There’ll be representatives of Looking Left down at the Greaves School http://www.greavesschool.com/ with copies of the DVD and you can watch the first series online.