The Quare Fellow – New Theatre Production from DCTV on Vimeo.

Running in the New Theatre until September 4th.

Dublin Residents produce a programme on their experience of change. This is an output of the Media Literacy Training delivered by DCTV and supported by DICP.

Below you can read the broadcast times for our Beyond the Classroom project.

Wednesday 3rd March

7pm Beyond the Classroom – The Communities. Episode 1: Kilbarrack

7:20pm Beyond the Classroom – The Practitioners. Episode 1. Video
Footage from wide range of groups (Warrenmount, D8CEC, Tallaght, etc.)

Wednesday 10th March

7pm Beyond the Classroom – The Communities. Episode 2: Tallaght

7.20pm Beyond the Classroom – The Practitioners. Episode 2. Video footage primarily from An Cosan)

Wednesday 17th March

7pm Beyond the Classroom – The Communities. Episode 3: Pavee health
project.

7.20pm Beyond the Classroom – The Practitioners. Episode 3. Video footage from RADE.

Wednesday 24th March

7pm Beyond the Classroom – The Communities. Episode 4: Main

7.20pm Beyond the Classroom – The Learners. 50 minute special.

As well as these initial broadcasts each weeks material will be repeated the following day at 12:30 and then the following Sunday at 12:30 while the programmes themselves will loop at these slots until further notification.

photo credit: UggBoy ( have fun doing it )

DCTV’s PEDAL PROJECT stands as an attempt  to instigate a city wide conversation on the reality and nature of cycling in Dublin, so far it’s proved to be a broad discussion and one where we want to hear your voice.  After releasing a whole slew of media on the subject of the two wheeled life style in Dublin and it’s impact on city planning and politics, we brought a set of guests into our studio last night to add some culminative thoughts to the whole project – you can expect that to hit the screens next weekend as part of the cycling take over of the station on March 6th.

We are still dying for as many people as possible to use the media we’ve created to stir the pot of discussion in their local area.   With that in mind, we’ve produced this guide to putting on a screening.  It’s really easy peasy, and the concepts within apply to any DCTV produced material.  The community bike project, Rothar, have already got the ball rolling with a premiere of the documentary One Less Car on March 24th in the Cobblestone.     Spread the word!

Step 1: Find a Venue, confirm time and date, price and policies

DCTV material has been screened upstairs in pubs, in warehouses and marquees, in the back of community halls and in social centres – just about anywhere people gather and you can dim the lights and keep things quiet for half an hour or so.

Sometimes a venue will have a crowd already associated with it – sometimes you are bringing the crowd so think about this when choosing.

Step 2: Get your Equipment / Media organised

For a small screening you can use an LCD or other Telly or computer screen. You can broadcast from a laptop or DVD player. Remember to think about the sound and also to test everything together before the evening of the screening.

If you have a bigger venue, try and get the best quality version of the programmes. Use a DVD or, if you’ve managed to book a full cinema get in touch and we’ll try and get you a mini-DV version.

Remember – as much as you can test the exact set up you will be using on the night – laptops differ, DVD players differ and projectors differ so make sure its working before people arrive.

Step 3: Select your programming

The Pedal Project has three different documentaries each intended for a s;ightly different audience. It makes sense to choose one of these for your core piece and accompany this with one of the Cycling Shorts – the 3 minute comedy pieces or any local material you may have.

Its good to think of what material will get a reaction from your audience – having a conversation after the screening is much easier if the media engaged people. Remember, you can get DVD copies of the full series from DCTV and these can be sold / raffled / auctioned to cover the costs of the screening.

Step 4: Advertise your screenings

Maybe you already know who’s attending from the venue you chose, or the group you a re a member of. Even so its useful to write an ad to explain to people what’s going to happen, where and at what time. Remember to include any details about a cover charge – generally its OK to charge a few euro for the screening but this is often a suggested charge rather than a fixed fee.

Once you’ve written your advert – as well as sening it to your email lists / facebook friends and printing the notice, let DCTV know and we’ll include it in the list of upcoming screenings of the Pedal Project.

Step 5: Watch your telly

Once everybody has gathered, sit back and enjoy the programmes.

When they’re over we’d really like nto ehar what people think – either about the issues raised or about the programmes themselves. If you give us notice we’ll try and get somebody involved in making the series to attend – if not its still good to have a quick discussion after the screening.

Remember, this is participative media. Your audience should be inspired to act after the screening – either on cycling issues or covering other stories.

Notes:

bikes@dctv.ie will give you advice or support – you do not need to seek permission for a screening!   It’s all released under a Creative Commons License, so fire ahead and do this yourself.

The programmes are licensed for non-commercial use – this means you can charge people to come in, you can sell copies of the DVD but we would expect this not to be the main motivation and the moneys generated will cover costs. If you generate a surplus we would ask you to consider giving a €100 back to DCTV to support other groups.

If you would like to organise regular screenings give us a shout dctv@dctv.ie and we can give you a list of possible content we have.

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As Dublin has grown wealthier we have become carcooned, basing our personal and city transport system on the car. We know this isn’t working – but what is the alternative and how do we get there. Speaking to academics and elected officials, council planners and staff, campaigners and cyclists – Two Wheeled City constructs a convincing case and viable plan to recast Dublin as a cycl

Healthier, cheaper, friendlier, faster – the case for normalising cycling has never been more powerfully put. And as a bonus, in an effort to tear away at sterotypes, a series of ten cycling shorts (get it?) were made alongside the project.

When you go out onto the streets of Dublin looking for bikes, bring the footage you find back into the edit suite and re-mix it with some important words of advice from the past and good tunes this is what you get. Part snapshot of the zeitgeist part cycling agit-prop this is one of the best developed examples of Irish alternative television production.

Despite being fast paced and entertaining One Less Car doesn’t shy away from complex topics and, sometimes ambiguous or contradictory viewpoints. What emerges is the feel of a groundswell, of a phase transition as the act of re-imagining our city starts to see actual impact and gain critical mass. If anything convinces you that cycling is todays most relevant transport issue, it’ll be One Less Car.

Northside Focus is a magazine programme that showcases community events that happen on the Northside of Dublin, alongside sports and hobbies that bring people together in their local communities. It was made with the assistance of Near TV volunteers.

In Episode 2 Stuart brings us up to to the Skerries Road Race where we get an opportunity to meet some of the bikers involved in the event and get a sense of what it means to have the event in the area.

In the second part we visit Black Heath Archery Club to look at this vibrant sport. Then Louise Clancy introduces us to the Howth and Sutton Horticulture club and meet some of the people there.

Finally we get an opportunity to see a spoken word event called Ra that is held in the Cobblestone Bar in Smithfield. And we get an insight into the world of spoken word performance art in Dublin.

The making of this programme has been supported through Sound and Vision, and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.

A DCTV programme for the deaf community.

Crew TV is finally online for your viewing pleasure. This show was completely put together by a group of young people working in the DCTV studio last summer. Read more about it here.