Bristol Photography Festival
We had been keeping an eye on this festival for a while and had thought that we would give it a miss for a study visit. However, when we saw the programme we knew we simply had to squeeze it into the schedule. In order to give students the maximum notice we have decided to go for the final day of the festival, Thursday 31 May. Jesse Alexander and I will host the visit from 11am to 3pm, and we will probably visit three locations. We will start at the Philadelphia Street Gallery which will be showing Radio Days by Paolo Woods.
The festival programme describes this exhibition as follows:
More than 50% of Haitians are illiterate and only 25% have regular access to electricity. But 97% of the population own a radio, and they all listen to it, all the time. Since the 1960s Haitians have used radio as a political tool, and a public service; when the cholera epidemic broke out in 2010, radios bombarded listeners with instructions on avoiding the deadly disease and getting help for their sick. Low setup costs have made broadcasting widely accessible, closely mirroring society in almost all its political, religious, and social variations. Paolo Woods documents the voices of Haitian radio, highlighting it’s importance as both a form of entertainment and a crucial method of communication.
To book your place please email: enquiries@oca-uk.com
Image © Paolo Woods
I’ve written two comments for this post since it was put up on 1st May and they have both disappeared…
so have mine Stephanie … some techie error I guess !??
Hi Amano, yes i hope so. I spent ages writing the one today.
Apologies. An apparently innocuous upgrade by our hosting company turned nasty and after a lot of effort by Paul today to sort things out we took the decision at 3pm today to roll everything back to before the upgrade.
Thanks – it’s good to know it wasn’t because you disapproved of what I wrote… 🙂 Maybe a comment in the next ebulletin would help as there may be others who thought their comments were being rejected (it also happened at the beginning of the month.
Gareth – apologies for ‘tone’ of my other reply (re. ebulletin), which wasn’t at all what I intended 🙂
My previous comment was a mention of an event that from the festival that I attended last night … my blog is already up at …
http://amanostudy.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/simon-norfolk-talk/
Yes I read it and I wrote a response with my thoughts about what we heard.
Just added a couple of photos and Eileen has kindly commented.
Would you like to repeat you comment Stephanie? it was a response to the evening not my blog but did strike a chord.
I would of course but it took a while to compose and I’ve lost my thinking cap.
Stephanie, it was just a couple of lines … something about the authenticity of the event as I remember.