Last year I had a great time working with Kate Chapman and others in Frankley – helping children at Reaside School use podcasting to develop some varied radio dramas. Kate’s grown up job is as a radio drama producer for the BBC here in brum. She’s just been in touch to tell us there’s a …
Citizen Snitch? Nah
The headline isn’t mine (thanks Jon Bounds) and neither is the story (thanks for the pointer from Pete Ashton again), but photographer Pete Marshall (troutmask on flickr) captured this pretty image of the Lord Mayor making fulsome use of the double yellows outside the side entrance to the Mailbox in Birmingham. Citizen Snitch was the …
Barcelona Graffiti – the answer?
Last month I posed a question about graffiti in Barcelona. Why did it seem that the taggers were avoiding tagging the fabric of buildings. Was this a communal understanding or something else? Roger Tallada has come up with an answer. He says it’s because of an intense long term cleaning policy by the city council …
Northfield Young People’s Forum "Leaders of Today" – a new podcast on the Grassroots Channel
Jenni Rowley and Selina Okunnu of the Northfield Young People’s Forum talk to us about how power is shifting towards the young in Birmingham. From April 2007 the forum, run by 11 to 19 year olds, will have up to £80,000 to offer as grants to the young people of this south Birmingham constituency. There …