We’re really pleased to be working with Isle of Arts to help embrace and inspire the young talent on the Isle of Wight. This latest update from Gillian explains more. Ed
Isle of Arts is working with media professionals and an Island artist to provide creative opportunities for young people as part of our core aim of supporting and mentoring new artistic talent right here on the Island.
We will be opening up many of our events to allow young film crews, supported by Wight Film Network professionals and award-winning Isle of Wight news website VentnorBlog, to generate up-to-the-minute news coverage of the festival.
Insightful on-the-job experience
The aim of this collaboration is to give young people looking to make a career in media a chance to get some useful experience. WFN chairman Andrew Wilks, who has worked on Walking with Dinosaurs, Casualty and One Foot in the Grave among others, is keen to provide opportunities that simply were not available on the Island when he was growing up.
“TV media is a collaborative exercise and the great buzz you can get out of it is that team working, bringing people together and learning from each other, and on a project like Isle of Arts where you have an opportunity to interview major stars, which is not going to happen every day on the Isle of Wight,” he says.
Footage to be broadcast over weekend
News clips from the collaboration will be posted on VentnorBlog and will be screened on the Red Funnel ferries bringing visitors to the Island over the weekend.
Keep and eye on VB for videos over the weekend.
Tim Johnson works with Island schools
Thanks to sponsorship from nPower and school meals provider Pabulum, we have been able to support artist, basket maker, photographer and sculptor Tim Johnson as he works with pupils from three Island schools to create an installation inspired by the diversity of the animal world.
Tim explains that the project will draw on the creativity of the pupils and their responses to working with a wide variety of natural and recycled materials. “Expect a variety of exciting creatures imagined and real from the creative minds of pupils aged four to sixteen attending Holy Cross Catholic Primary School, East Cowes, Cowes High School and St Catherine’s, Ventnor,” he says.
The work from this collaboration by Island schools will be on display in the Wight Light Gallery throughout the festival.
Entrance is free.
Image: chrisschuepp under CC BY 2.0
