Learning4Peace/Solomon Islands/Storyboards

=Storyboard workshops at Tataba and Sigana, May 2009=

David Leeming, consultant, with Ellison Gito, Youth Coordinator IPG, Fraser Bako, FM operator for Buala, and Clifton Bazil, Commerce Officer IPG visited Tataba and Sigana (and briefly Kolotubi) between 23rd and 30th June 2009.

One-day workshops were held at each village to develop storyboards for content development for the community radio, for the Phase 2 of the project.

Youtube of the workshops, Tababa and Sigana Community radio and Email stations
 * Access the Youtube video here

=Workshop activities=

The workshop agendas (briefly) consisted of:

=List of participants=

The following participated

Sigana
See list in the gallery below (18 participants)

Kolotubi
At Kolotubi the FM radio has been inactive for one year due to a fault. It is now fixed. However, there is no Youth Coordinator and the FM committee needs to be reformed. The team met with and briefed the operators Selwyn and Janet, and the IPG Youth Coordinator is to help reorganise the committee and youth representatives. It is noted that there is a lot of interest in the station in the community, which is also large in a fast developing part of Isabel with industrial potential.

=Networking=

Networking with the wider community was discussed, and the participants noted the following possibilities for collaboration and thus obtaining support and assistance with content development:


 * Youth stakeholders such as participating members of SIDT have capacities such as script writing, drama, etc.
 * Rolley Bogese, Isabel musician, has volunteered to help develop musical content, i.e. by recording music for lyrics developed by communities about the issues
 * Guguha DLC can aid communities by creating Wikieducator articles and uploading audio content that communities can share
 * One idea already very demonstrable was to share local community news between stations. See the Youtube (above), for illustration of Sigana community radio presenting local community news
 * Text based ideas and content (storyboards, community news, lyrics, drama scripts, transripts etc) can be shared by PFnet email. Audio content can be burned on CD and forwarded to other stations and to Guguha for uploading.

On Thursday 4th June, we held a very useful one day workshop in Honiara, to look at the storyboards that were developed in Tataba and Sigana, and to see how the expanded community can assist in their development. Jody, Ender, Nelson and Andy attended from SIDT and Andre from MWYCA, plus Patteson Khana, Chairman of Susubona, whom we were fortunate to have in Honiara. The workshop venue and lunch was provided by CYP.

The workshop produced the modified, improved storyboards shown below.

Our friends at the workshop have elaborated on the storyboards, for instance SIDT are offering to script the drama in Storyboard 3, after we indicate what the Sigana community wants from the drama. This shows the value that networking and collaboration add to such an endeavour.

We will have another one day workshop on 17th when we can hopefully start to pull things together.

The equipment funded by CSP is arriving, and we will be able to equip ALL the FM stations very soon. Sigana email equipment to reconnect them this week.

David is traveling to Isabel again between 6th and 13th to start the communities on the actual content development. Susubona, Kolotubi and Lelegia communities (Youth Coordinators and FM operators, plus Patteson) will be coming down to the Sigana workshop.

This will be updated soon (written 6th June 2009).

=Storyboard outputs from Sigana and Tataba, modified and improved by participants at the CYP workshop=

=Photo Gallery=