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Ride Leicester Media Centre Opened By Lord Mayor

Phoenix Square – the impressive Film & Digital Media centre in Leicester played host last night to the launch event for Sky Ride & 8th Bike Film Festival.


The Media Centre volunteers had set up in the afternoon and the stage was set for the launch event to include live music by The Slowdown Boys.

http://www.citizenseye.org/2010/08/27/media-centre-launched/

John Coster Blog: If you can keep your head…

Another Thursday so it must be time for the Soar Community blog. I thought it might be a real problem trying to write 800 words every week but I’ve found it rather stress-free really and dare I say it, enjoyable!

Today’s blog can only be about one thing. It’s dominated my life since Andy Salkeld, the Leicester Cycling Co-ordinator asked me to run the Media Centre for it at Phoenix Square – Sky Ride!

The mass participation cycling event takes place this coming Sunday August 29th. We are expecting around 12,000 cyclists to enjoy the traffic-free route around some of Leicester’s most famous landmarks; Abbey Park, Abbey Pumping Station, the National Space Centre, Belgrave’s Golden Mile, Curve, Clock Tower, Market and of course the Phoenix


Read more - http://www.soarmagazine.co.uk/2010/08/26/john-coster-blog-if-you-can-keep-your-head/

Thinking About The Community Media Hub You Tube Channel

I've been thinking lately about the You Tube channel we have - CommMediaHub. Some of you may already know we are well into the creation of Citizens Eye TV and now have several distribution channels set up - You Tube, Vimeo, Current TV and Ustream. The BBC Big Screen is also interested in our community generated programming so things are looking great.

This went from a dream to a reality when Gareth Morgan of Zenith Films agreed to take the lead on its creation so I'm looking forward to covering the 8th Bike Film Festival and Sky Ride cycling events.

This interesting news item appeared in the inbox this morning so thought it timely:

Why every independent news site should have a YouTube channel - news item on Journalism.co.uk

http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2010/08/23/why-every-independent-news-site-should-have-a-youtube-channel/

Special Olympics cyclists ready for Sky Ride

Special Olympics cyclists ready for Sky Ride Leicester at Self Unlimited Shangton

http://www.ipadio.com/phlogs/JohnCoster/2010/8/13/Special-Olympics-Cyclists-Train-For-Sky-Ride

Media Hub volunteer briefing session on Saturday

On Saturday 21st August - only a week to go to Leicester's Sky Ride event - I called together any of the volunteer 'Media Hub Reporters' at 11am to be briefed about what's happening at the Phoenix. The whole project is being set up by 5pm on Thursday 26th and is officially to be opened by the Lord Mayor Cllr Colin Hall at the reception party. This starts at 6pm and launches the 8th Bike Film Festival & Media Hub for Sky Ride.

The VIP is Baroness Sue Campbell, Head of UK Sport. Over 20 volunteers turned up and with the further 25 people I know who couldn't make it, because of other commitments, I think we should be well prepared for anything the 3 days throws our way.

The Media Centre will run from 5pm Thursday until the late evening of Sunday 29th (Sky Ride) so hopefully lots of people will pass through the Phoenix to see what we are up to. The plan is to capture as much of the Sky Ride event 'experience' as we can and send it as positive 'community' news around the world using all the FREE resources available to Community Reporters.

Register for Sky Ride http://www.goskyride.com

Timetable of 8th Bike Film Festival http://www.bikefilmfestival.org

Soar Community blog - On your bike, out of pocket and only 708 days

It’s been a crazy week. Sky Ride is now only a week away and the preparations for the Community Media Centre at Phoenix Square are taking up much of my time.

There were two pieces of rather different news last Friday. Firstly, I had a superb visit to Self Unlimited Shangton, where the East Midlands Special Olympics Cycling Team all train, followed by the breaking news of financial problems at the Phoenix.

Now any of you who have been following my blog from the start will know that the excellent Film and Digital Media Centre, known as Phoenix Square, features quite prominently in our community media plans. I’m not going to spend precious words retelling the story here, but suffice to say, I’ve always done my best to bring people into the building – taking Workspace 19 for the Wave Newspaper, running two Leicester Documentary Club events here – I just think they need to be more open about working with partners who work with all the city’s communities. I hope it survives.

http://www.soarmagazine.co.uk/2010/08/19/john-coster-blog-on-your-bike-out-of-pocket-and-only-708-days/