Do you have streams of unedited footage?

New Workshop!!!!

If you have un-edited film that you would like to work on for a future contribution to the WwW website, but somehow never got around to doing it, for a limited time period, members of the WwW team will be available to help you with the video editing tasks.

We are offering a one-day video editing workshop in February and another one  in March

Purpose: bring your own footage and come out with a finished 5 minute film

Date : 22nd March (10-5.30)

Lunch will be provided.

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Merry Christmas and a very Happy 2008

We wish all our partners in the project and all of the friends of the WwW project a fabulous festive season and a very prosperous New Year.

We have exciting news for WwW phase 2 which we will be sharing with all our partners. Individual visits will be scheduled in early 2008 with all our Scottish Partners and video conferences will be also schedules with our partners overseas. Please watch this space for more information.

 

The WwW team is out visiting partners

The WwW team will be visiting partners in Scotland in the coming 2008. We will be presenting informational talks about the World without Walls project to congregations throughout the depth and breath of Scotland. If you would like the WwW team to visit your congregation for an information chat about the WwW project please email us asap.

We visited on Sunday 12th of August in KTT Church for an evening of video watching and dissemination about the knowledge gained from the WwW project.

We also be visited Holy Trinity Church in St. Andrews on November 25th.

 

 

Trip to India and live links

Twelve members of our congregation set off to India in mid July. They have been visiting the Indian partners of the WwW. A blog was established so that everyone can follow their advertures. Please follow them and send words of encouragement through the blog.

A live link was established last week with our party in India.

We were able to connect live through the Internet with our partner community in Chennai, see them and talk to them. The live link was established during our Sunday service. it was wonderful to speak with all of them.

Have a look at the recording our our live link in the blog.

View their Blog

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Knowledge Sources: Support for Partnerships

We have been collecting information on ways to support your partnerships as part of an electronic library of documents, preentations and short films. You will find everything from management techniques to make your partnership work, to technical support on video-making techniques. Have a look at the Support Section.

 

 

 

Kiambaa

Fund Raising stall

runs in Carluke every Sunday.

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Kirkton Church in Carluke have been doing a number of fundraising activities on behalf of PCEA Church in Kenya. This is particularly important due to the recent troubles that Kenya has been experiencing. The Friends of Kenya are busy disseminating information about the country in the heart of Scotland.

Here are some of the lovely people who are have been involved in fundraising.

WwW is in YouTube

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We have posted a number of our partner's films in YouTube as a way to reach a wider audience for our films.

We will be having at least one film from each of our partners within this channel.

It is easy to subscribe to the WwW postings within YouTube. You can therefore remained informed everytime a new film has been posted up. If you wish to subscribe for free, please click here to get to the WwW section within YouTube. Once you are in YouTube press the subscribe button. Happy watching!!

 

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Soup and Sweet Lunch

@ Holy Trinity

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Sunday past was Holy Trinity`s Harvest Thanksgiving service at the church and part of the giving were `Jars of Grace` which brought in enough money for our commitment to the end of the year of funds for Our Bolivian Project.

After the service members of the congregation were invited to a Soup and Sweet lunch with videos to be shown of the activities of WwW with of course the emphasis on the work of Ronald and Eliseo, some 80 plus people turned up, we had plenty of soup, thanks to Mrs Cruickshanks and plenty of sweet thanks to a group of `sweet makers` in the church.

 

The minister and his family were in good form and with a great deal of children there it was a wonderful family atmosphere.

After the meal Ron Cruishank was approached by a young student girl, Louise, who has recently spent her gap year in Bolivia and some time in Oruro...more on this later.

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World Without Walls International Film Festival in Pretoria.

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Sunday 14 October at 18:00

St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church

294 Schoeman Street, Pretoria

Free entrance – anyone welcome

Safe parking available, Popcorn and drinks on sale

For more info: Rudi Sadler – 082 464 2113.

Since joining the World Without Walls project in Scotland two years ago, Rudi Sadler and Hildegard Königk (both young members of St Andrew’s) have been making short films in and around Pretoria. Their films focus on their church and general related events in the city. In 2006 they also participated in the International WWW Film Festival in Bo’ness, Scotland where their entry won the award for Best Editing as well as the overall Best Film at the festival. As part of their centenary celebrations, St Andrew’s International WWW Film Festival will showcase a selection of the films produced over the past two years. Participating countries will include South Africa, Scotland, India, Bolivia, Uganda, Ghana and Zambia. Entrance is free and the festival will be presented in real cinema style, with popcorn and drinks on sale.

 

 

 

 

The Digistory pilot: Storytelling, children and digital technologies

The WwW team is exploring the interaction between storytelling, children and adults who like to tell and listen to stories and technology with which to record those stories and make them available to a wider community. The WwW sponsored a workshop on Digital storytelling. We were very fortunate in having received the advice of the Scottish Storytelling Centre in developing the workshop and helping us secure the participation of Michael Williams, a storyteller, singer songwriter and peace educator who lead us in storytelling techniques.

Nancy Mwaura from our partner church in Kenya, attended the workshop and tested out her newly acquired skills to an enraptured audience of toddlers.

If you want to listn to Nancy's story, please follow this link to her presentation.

The outcome of the workshop was the agreement of participating churches to pilot-test storytelling within their own organisations and to report back to the WwW team in November.

Our own implementation of storytelling was extremely fruitful.

Children ranging from 5-12 participated in storytelling activities as part of the Digistory Club.

They developed their own storyboards, invented stories, told those stories for an audience and also listened to stories.

Parents were happy for children to participate and in the end we produced a DVD for each of the participating children. This was a great accomplishment since some of the footage was taken by the older children and the video editing was done by one of the WwW volunteers.

 

Zomba Action Project

4th General Meeting of the Zomba Action Project.

The WwW team has a greeting to all those involved at the conference.

 

Get Involved

 

Are you and your organisation interested in becoming part of the World Without Walls Project?

Or perhaps, you are interested in one of the existing projects here and would like some more information

Read on for more information...