[CMA TV] ‘Assembly in the Marketplace’ – Showing on NvTv 15th November from 5pm

[Michelle McGuire]

Forwarded From: "Marilyn Hyndman" <marilyn at northernvisions.org>

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Press Release

‘Assembly in the Marketplace’ – Showing on NvTv 15th November from 5pm

A short film entitled ‘Assembly in the Marketplace’ will be broadcast  
on NvTv, Belfast’s local television station, this coming Wednesday,  
15th November from 5pm. It will be rebroadcast on the weekend  
omnibus. The film will give an insight into the work of Caoimhghín Ó  
Croidhdeáin, an artist who is currently exhibiting his work at  
Cultúrlann Mac Adam Ó Fiaich on the Falls Road.

The film was produced as part of the annual year-long training  
programme run by NvTv in conjunction with the Irish Language  
Broadcast Fund. NvTv receive annual funding from the ILBF to train  
two individuals fluent in Irish. While on placement with NvTv, the  
two individuals undertake a comprehensive programme of training  
including camera skills, research, post-production and sound.  
‘Assembly at the Marketplace’ will be the first piece of work  
produced by the trainees taking part in this year’s scheme.

“We really benefited from the making of this programme”, said Ray  
Lawlor, one of the trainees taking part in the scheme. “Between the  
two of us, we put the entire programme together”.
“I think it is an interesting programme”, said Chrissie Ní Loinsigh,  
Ray’s partner on this year’s scheme. “Caoimhghín is a political  
artist who really gives you food for thought in his work. But in the  
programme he explains how this can be a problem for many artists  
these days. Artists are criticised if they don’t use political or  
contemporary events for inspiration, yet they are condemned as being  
“exploitative” if they do use contentious images for inspiration”.

The scheme in which Chrissie and Ray are currently taking part  
started in September 2006 agus will finish in August 2007. It is a  
full-time training scheme and the two will continue for the duration  
of the scheme producing Irish Language programming for broadcast on  
NvTv. Ray is an ex-technician who has many years experience working  
in laboratories and factories. He is also part of the Belfast-based  
rock bank ‘Tin Pot Operation’. Chrissie is a new graduate who has  
recently been awarded with an honours BA in English and Irish from  
Queen’s University Belfast. She was a keen radio broadcast enthusiast  
during her days at Queen’s.

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Editors’ Notes

The Irish Language Broadcast Fund
The ILFB aims to train at least 12 individuals on an annual basis  
through its full-time training schemes. As well as the two who are  
currently engaged in the NvTv programme, there are currently 10 on  
placements with companies in the independent production sector. The  
ILBF envisage that all individuals trained through its programmes  
will add greatly to the independent production sector in the future.  
On a wider scale, the ILBF’s main remit lies in supplying high  
quality Irish Language output to a Northern Ireland audience. Its  
twin remit, into which the training programmes tie, it to develop and  
make sustainable the Irish Language independent production sector in  
Northern Ireland.

NvTv
To watch NvTv live streaming www.nvtv.co.uk
For Belfast viewers, NvTv is also available free to air.  It  
broadcasts a terrestrial picture, so a conventional TV aerial is  
needed, with TV sets tuned into Channel 62 (Frequency 799.276MHz)
Further details www.nvtv.co.uk




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Michelle McGuire
Editor, Airflash Magazine
Communications Officer
http://www.commedia.org.uk

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