Today was a blast.  I got to sit in on a session with Elias at the local community centre where Elias has been teaching during the holiday film week.  I got to have a great overview of a brainstorming session between about 15 kids ranging from 9 – 15 years old.

Today, we covered brainstorming, production schedule (preproduction, production and post production), selecting an topic/idea to film (we settled on a Newman TV variety show) and assigning roles.

The kids had a lot of fun with me asking to say things like:

• dollar
• sausage
• recreation

Dropped R’s = Australian accent.  I think.  But I end up sounding British according to Shakthi:)

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This morning, I woke up extra early (5:30) to go and watch the sunrise over the Pilbara alone.

Today, I’ll get introduced to the local neighborhood center (to watch some workshops in session with Elias) and then I;ll go to meet up with Lee – our community contact here who’s currently coordinating a local community festival of work created by kids this past few weeks.

Tomorrow, Shakthi and I take a 3.5 hr trip to Marble Bar (or ‘MAHble BAH’ as they say here:), population, 194.  We’ll be there doing either storymapping, djing or recording workshops (with what ever technology we have/can find) for the next week, than back here to Newman for a week long Cultural Leaders Workshop (community organizing/storytelling with available technology) and then into the classrooms storymapping/digital media workshops until early November…

Now, off to the the Neighbourhood Centre!

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> The adventure for this Curious Worker begins. Will be in flight for > the next 8 hours as I fly out to Newman, Australia.
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> Yeehaw!

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