Speak out for your community!
Why not be a voice for your people and represent your community in the media?
Join a NEW 8-week course in your area, aimed at equipping you with the skills to be part of the media coverage on Travellers, and which costs nothing.
If you can commit to one day a week, team up with Jake Bowers and Damian Le Bas, who are the Gypsy journalists dedicated to the Gypsy & Travelling communities, and receive training covering research, interviewing, recording and film-making.
Throughout the course you will get the opportunity to see your work published online and potentially in the forthcoming popular Travellers’ Times publication!
Selected advocates from across the UK will get the opportunity to win the equipment required to create a short news piece (laptop/camera/recording device) at the end of the project – and that could be YOU!The first course started in Brighton on October 13th and will run for one day a week for 8 weeks.
For further information on how to enrol contact Emma at Friends, Families and Travellers on 01273 234777 (basic IT skills required)
Here's what some of our participants have got to say about the course.
WHAT GYPSY JOURNALIST SEES FOR THE FUTURE by Patricia Knight
Jake Bowers is one of a small number of media savvy Gypsies. He is currently working together with Travellers' Times colleague Damian Le Bas to compile their skills and experience into an accessible education module on media for their community, called Travelling Voices.
The pilot course is underway in Brighton, and there are plans to roll out the course across the country to groups of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers.
Jake said he aims to empower others to obtain the skills necessary "to begin the process of improving representation of the GRT communities which remains stereotypical and negative".