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Perth’s Channel 31 Leave the Airwaves
In sad news for Community Television in Australia, and in Perth in particular, it seems that community broadcaster Access 31 has shut its doors in Western Australia. As TV Tonight reports:
Access 31, Perth’s community television station, has this afternoon gone off air. The closure follows ongoing financial difficulties for the volunteer-run station. Despite promises of government support and securing of a financial backer, today it closed its doors at 5pm. TV Tonight understands a number of staff have been resigning in recent weeks, leaving the place dangerously under-manned. … Sources say none of the independent program producers, who comprise the bulk of production, were informed ahead of time.
Oddly, though, despite the goodbye message currently being broadcast, the Access 31 website still makes it look like they’re open for business.
Update: There is a vitriolic article on PerthNorg today, suggesting the Board may have played a large role in Access 31’s demise.
UWA Student News on Channel 31 THIS FRIDAY
With Perth’s community broadcaster, Access 31, alive for a while longer, it’s my great pleasure to announce that the eight best news projects from students in my Digital Media (Comm2203) unit this semester will be screening as a half an hour programme this Friday night (11 July, 2008) on channel 31 at 8pm. There are some very impressive segments in here, including several news stories which engage with critical issues for Perth right now, and about larger issues such as media and the upcoming Olympics. If you’re near a TV (and in Perth) this Friday at 8pm, please tune in and take a look!
For a sample of what’s going to be screened take a peak at this post.
Sculpture by the Sea – Cottesloe 2008
Last night Emily and I enjoyed the 2008 installations for Sculpture by the Sea which is in its final few days this year. For those of you unfamiliar, this wonderful annual effort sees one of Perth’s best beaches suddenly populated with all manner of installation art and sculptures for a couple of weeks – it’s always a great event which really does mix art and beach culture in a really engaging way. While I didn’t take that many pictures list year (unlike 2007 where I went a little nuts!), you can find a few more photos of this years sculptures on Flickr.
Anyone in Perth who hasn’t made it down to Cottesloe yet, tomorrow (18 March) is the last official day, so get your skates on!
UWA Science Fiction/Fantasy Discussion Group
For any interested Perth folk, a SF/F discussion group re-emerges:
After a long hiatus, the UWA science fiction/fantasy discussion group is restarting in 2008. Meetings will be held on the last Tuesday of each month in Arts G.05, and undergraduate students, postgraduate students, staff and anyone else interested are welcome to attend.
We have two speakers presenting papers in the next two weeks, but are looking for volunteers to fill the rest of the year. Please contact Karen Hall if you would like to give a paper.
26 February (Next Tuesday)
Gotham Central
Presented by David Medlen
A short lived award winning comic set in the world of superheroes but not about superheroes. What does this short lived title tell us about the genre in the 21st Century? A summary of the comic is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_Central, and source material will be available in the Scholars Centre at UWA’s Reid Library.4 March
“Against heritage: Invented identities in science fiction film”
Presented by Dr Sky Marsen, Victoria University of Wellington
Pre-reading material for this talk is available from Karen Hall.
Podcamp Perth Wrapup
Last weekend was Australia’s first Podcamp, right here in Perth. It was pretty good with an engaging mix of tech, talk and interesting folks. I don’t have time to hunt down all the many, many blogposts and photos from Podcamp, but Simone van Hattem links to most of them in her blog, or else you can check Technorati or Flickr. I was intending to add audio to my presentation slides, but the audio didn’t quite eventuate. However, Stewart Greenhill did an excellent job capturing video of many of the Podcamp sessions, and so if anyone wants to hear the session on Podcasting in Education which was led by Sue Waters and I, here you go:
(Yes, I do use a lot of gestures!)
For those who prefer a static image, here’s one picture of me attempting a ‘Presentation 2.0’ style of slides mainly because I wanted to try something a bit different (but also to keep my co-presenter Sue happy):
I also rather like this photo, of white and black Macs at play:
(Photos by CW.)
PS Yes, it’s October 31st, but, no, most Australian don’t celebrate Halloween. However, if we did, I’d definitely give the most candy to anyone who knocked on my door who was geeky enough to be wearing this.
Podcamp Perth
So, as I’m sure you remember, Australia’s first Podcamp happens today in Perth. It’s a free event and is held at Central TAFE in East Perth, so if you’re just remembering now, please still feel free to come along! Sue Waters and I are facilitating a session on Podcasting in/as Education at some point during the day (we sort the actual schedule out first thing in the morning). Here and the few slides I’ll be using:
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There aren’t that many slides, as the whole point of an unconference is that everyone participates, so the sessions should be a lot more like a conversation that just presentations. My understanding is that the short presentation bits are really to help focus the conversation, not dominate it.
To check in on the blogging and podcasting during the day, and afterwards, watch the tag “podcampperth07“.
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