Oska Bright On The Road
We are the Oska Bright steering committee and in this blog you will find about our experience of taking our film festival across the UK and abroad. Go to the dao directory for a link to the Oska Bright website. You can also read about the next Festival, which takes place in November 2009, and find details of how to enter your own film.
Oska Bright On The Road – at See Documentary Film Festival, Brighton, 21st February 2010
By Matthew Hellett, Sarah Watson, Chris Love, June Hall and Maggie Dadswell It was really, really early on a rainy Sunday morning and we made our way to The Old Ship Hotel in Brighton to show some...Comments: 1
Oska Bright On The Road – Dublin, axis arts centre February 2010
By Matthew Hellett We arrived at Gatwick and flew to Dublin, going to a part of Dublin called Ballymun. We went to axis arts centre as soon as we got there to check out the venue and...Comments: 0
Matthew Hellett gives a talk at the Independent Cinema Office at the British Film Institute, London
Today I went to the British Film Institute to do a talk about Oska Bright Film Festival for the Independent Cinema Office, who were running a training course there that was called, “Cultural...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland
By Chris Love and Sarah Watson We are feeling great! Our Festival On The Road in Ballina, County Mayo was very successful. It was a very busy festival. The people at Arts and Disability Ireland...Comments: 0
Oska Bright Film Festival 2009
Oska Bright Film Festival 2009 17th, 18th and 19th November 2009 By the Oska Bright Steering Committee We are really shattered, spent the whole weekend in bed after the festival but we are very...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road – Learning Disability Today Conference, London
By Chris Love Simon picked me up at 5.50 am, then we went on to pick up Matthew. We drove to Brighton Station where we met up with Sarah and Mark. We also met up with the Shut Up And Listen Radio...Comments: 0
Three weeks to go until our fabulous 2009 Oska Bright Film Festival, have you bought your tickets yet?
If not then you could miss out on our biggest ever collection of amazing animations, comedies, documentaries, dramas, soap operas, dance films as well as the exciting awards ceremony and party. Oska...Comments: 0
Oska Bright Outreach - Presentations to Day Centres and others By Matthew Hellett
Oska Bright 2009 starts on Tuesday the 17 November and runs through to Thursday 19 November. It is at The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, BN3 1AS. You can see what is going on by looking at...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road – Newcastle Tyneside Cinema, July 2009
On Monday 27th July we arrived at Newcastle Train Station – our train was 6 minutes early! We settled in to our Premier Inn Hotel, and went out for a quiet drink and a meal. It was very...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road – Cardiff
Wales Millennium Centre – Unity Festival By Matthew Hellett and Sarah Watson We left Brighton at 12 mid day. We arrived in Cardiff at 5.30 pm and checked into a Travel Lodge in the relaxing...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road – University of Kent, Canterbury, May 2009
By Matthew Hellett Simon and Mark picked me up at 10.00 am on a beautiful sunny day and we drove at top speed in the direction of Canterbury with just enough time to stop off at FAB’s...Comments: 0
Oska Bright – ‘On the Road’ – Picture This Film Festival
Calgary, Canada. 6th – 11th February 2009 By Matthew Hellett Friday 6th February An early start, barely awake we caught the bus to Heathrow. The flight left 1.30pm and the plane was half full...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road
Oska Bright On the Road began with a trip to Penzance in November 2007 and continues until the end of 2008. Oska Bright team inside the Cutt Theatre We are the Oska Bright steering committee and we...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road – Richard Attenborough Centre, Leicester
By Stephen Firshman We drove in our hired car to Leicester. I was the only Oska Bright committee member working on this event, so I knew I would have to work hard. We checked into our hotel and it...Comments: 0
5 December 2008
Oska Bright On The Road – Dance for Camera Festival, Brighton
By Matthew Hellett We chose some dance and performance films from the Oska Bright Library to show at this festival, organised by South East Dance. We were very honoured to be invited to show some...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road – Learning Disability Today Conference, London
By Sarah Watson and Chris Love We met at Brighton Train Station at 8.30 am and went straight to Kings Cross and St Pancras, then on to the Angel station on the underground. Then we went over to the...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road – Prague, Czech Republic
By Matthew Hellett On Tuesday the 11th November we arrived in Prague and were taken to our Hostel. We unpacked our things and went to lunch. That evening we went to the Aero Cinema for the Opening...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road – Cineworld in Hull
by June Hall and Chris Love We left Brighton for Hull, driving up the M1 to our Premier Inn Hotel. The next day we got up early and went to Cineworld to get ready to show the films. The cinema was...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road - Salisbury Arts Centre
By June Hall Mark, Simon and Luke picked me up from my house in the van. After that we went to Redhill to get Stephen. Then we drove to Salisbury to Salisbury Arts Centre. Stephen ran the Master...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road – Torbay
By Chris Love We left Brighton and drove to Torbay, picking up Stephen from Redhill on the way. It was a long way to drive, but we enjoyed it. On Tuesday the 23rd of September, we drove to South...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road – The Watershed, Bristol
By June Hall and Matthew Hellett We arrived in Bristol on Tuesday the 9th September to run our Master Class at a place called the Arnolfini. An extremely enthusiastic and lively bunch of 19 artists...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road – DadaFest, Liverpool
By Matthew Hellett We travelled to Liverpool after we finished our exciting screening with Prism Arts in Carlisle. On the first day we ran the Master Class at a place called The A Foundation. 25...Comments: 0
Oska Bright On The Road – Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle
By Matthew Hellett We arrived in Carlisle to meet Peter Telford from Prism Arts. He took us out for a nice meal. We talked about Oska Bright and winning the National Lottery Award 2008 for Best Arts...Comments: 0
Winning our National Lottery Award for Best Arts Project 2008 at the BBC Television Studios, London
By Matthew Hellett We were shortlisted for the Best Arts Project 2008 by the National Lottery Awards, along with two other fantastic arts projects. We went along to the BBC Studios on Saturday the...Comments: 0
Cardiff Millenium Centre
By Matthew Hellett and Stephen Firshman We did our screenings at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff. We had a good audience of just over 130 people. We interviewed and talked to audiences for our...Comments: 0