Carlin How

The prize draw number CH129 has still not been claimed – the time to claim this prize has been extended until March 25th 2010, if still unclaimed the DVN research will kindly donate the money to Carlin How Community Center.

The community animation event in Saltburn on Thursday was a tremendous successes with a full house for the matinee (in which we hooked up with children and police in Latvia) and around 80 people for the evening event. We even made it onto Latvian National TV !

You can relive the event on the blog at www.saltburn.org.uk or if you really want to re-run the event in the order it happened click here ( it builds slow but quickly gets media rich) – just read each page, scrolling down and then click “older entries” at the bottom. As well as the hook-up with Latvia, the event was followed by people in Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey, Sweden, Finland and the UK.

The event saw the world premier of “The Force is With You” which you can enjoy below.

With the assistance of Northern Film and Media and the UK Film Council there will be a Fringe Animex event in Saltburn featuring community produced animations. This will take place at 7.30pm on February 11^th at Saltburn Community Theatre, Albion Terrace, Saltburn, TS12 1JW.

Featured this year will be World Première of “The Force is With You” which has been produced in partnership with the Institute of Digital Innovation, the Skinningrove Community, Whitecliffe Primary School and Redcar & Cleveland Community Safety Partnership. The school children will get their own matinee screening at 1.30 on the same date.

During a recent International workshop in Vienna one of scenes in “The Force is With You” was “voiced” using the services of some of the workshop attendees. The film clip below is a sneak preview of one of the scenes and a behind the scenes look at how it was put together.

Trouper 1 is played by Markus Petz from Finland, Trouper 2 by Thomas Chepaitis the Minister of foreign affairs of Uzhupis Republic (Lithuania) Arthur Vador is played by Steve Thompson and Barry Hunt the Mayor of Loftus is camera operator.

In the background is Laura Pakalne, Senior Officer in the Public Relations Department in the Ministry of Justice, Latvia who is most interested in our working with the British police and the movie production team on more collaborative projects. Markus has delayed his return to Finland to travel to Saltburn to assist with a hook-up with Latvia during the event on the 11^th. It’s quite possible that people all over the world will be able to participate in the event. More information on this will be released closer to the event.

The Carlin How survey draw has now taken place. The winning number is :

C129

To claim your prize, please contact Paul Davies at 01287 626432 or email post@digital.village.org.uk

Thank you for taking part.

Carlin How in the snow

Happy New Year , and by the looks of things a very  snowy one.

A working party is looking into the possibility of an Internet Cafe for Carlin How. We feel this would be a valuable asset for the village and indeed the Digital Village with benefits for social life as well as Digital Inclusion. It’s early days but a variety of possible venues is being considered.

On Saturday the 6th of December the lights on the tree at the Community Centre were switched on.  There was a good turn out to enjoy the usual Christmas carols and a special apperance of Father Xmas. Mulled wine and other refreshments were served along with craft activities for the children. A lovely night was had by all.

At our friendship club held in the community centre on the first Thursday of the month I am the youngest member and Ivy is the oldest so I was asked to present a bouquet of flowers to her.

Ivy ferguson the oldest lady in the village turned 100 in October and celebrated with all her friends.