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<font face="Helvetica">I would like to share with you the latest update from all the team here at InsightShare including information about our latest publication: 'A Rights-Based Approach to Participatory Video: toolkit', which I have just completed writing and would very much welcome your feedback and thoughts upon. You will also find links to other</font><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> practical participatory video publications (free to download from our website) and details of our courses and discussion group. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This is a one-off email just to share these resources with you, which I hope finds you all happy and well.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Best wishes,</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Gareth</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br>
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</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><b><font face="Helvetica">1. A new InsightShare toolkit: 'A Rights-Based Approach to Participatory Video'</font></b></span><font face="Helvetica"></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><font face="Helvetica">This is a practical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wishing to strengthen their work through introducing a rights-based approach to participatory video. Compact and beautifully laid out with illustrations and dynamic links to videos and photostories this toolkit is eminently practical; full of exercises and techniques, facilitator checklists, case-studies, templates, resource lists and copies of key human rights instruments. In it we explain core concepts such as why participatory video favours an overt rather than covert approach to helping groups shape their rights-based video messages and the importance of identifying and valuing what we call "home-known rights" to avoid imposing lists of rights that could be perceived as alien or agitating.</font></span><font face="Helvetica"></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><font face="Helvetica">The stage-by-stage descriptions include some elemental processes (e.g. the storyboard technique) and some well-loved classics have been revised and refined to provide an essential update to our acclaimed practitioners' handbook, see below.</font></span><font face="Helvetica"></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><font face="Helvetica">The toolkit is offered free to the world as a dynamic PDF from our website. Please feel free to download, print and share the toolkit with friends and colleagues or post this message and link across your networks. </font></span><b><a href="http://insightshare.org/resources/right-based-approach-to-pv-toolkit" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Helvetica">http://insightshare.org/resources/right-based-approach-to-pv-toolkit</font></span></span></a></b><font face="Helvetica"></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><font face="Helvetica"> </font></span><font face="Helvetica"></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><i><font face="Helvetica">The publication of 'Rights-Based Approach to Participatory Video: toolkit' was supported by funds from the UNDP Global Human Rights Strengthening Programme (GHRSP) through the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) implemented by the UNDP on behalf of the GEF partnership of agencies.</font></i></span><font face="Helvetica"></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><font face="Helvetica"> </font></span><font face="Helvetica"></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><b><font face="Helvetica">New translations of our handbook available...</font></b></span><font face="Helvetica"></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><font face="Helvetica"> </font></span><font face="Helvetica"></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><font face="Helvetica">Since the 2006 United Nations General Assembly launch of 'Insights into Participatory Video: a handbook for the field' - the first practical guide to using participatory video in the international development context - the handbook has passed through the hands of over 10,000 practitioners worldwide. It has now been translated into Spanish, French, Russian and Bahasa Indonesian. The original version and the translations can all be downloaded for free from our website here - </font></span><a href="http://insightshare.org/resources/pv-handbook" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Helvetica">http://insightshare.org/resources/pv-handbook</font></span></span></a><font face="Helvetica"></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><font face="Helvetica"> </font></span><font face="Helvetica"></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><b><font face="Helvetica">'Introduction to Participatory Video' course</font></b></span><font face="Helvetica"></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><font face="Helvetica"> </font></span><font face="Helvetica"></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><font face="Helvetica">Our 'Introduction to Participatory Video' courses continue for the 6th consecutive year with the next round scheduled for the 20th - 24th September 2010 and 14th - 17th June 2011. We also continue our new and very popular 2-day 'Editing for Participatory Video' course on the weekend immediately following the introductory course (25th & 26th September 2010 / 18th & 19th June 2011). To download a course brochure and booking form, visit: </font></span><a href="http://insightshare.org/engage/courses" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Helvetica">http://insightshare.org/engage/courses</font></span></span></a><font face="Helvetica"></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><font face="Helvetica"> </font></span><font face="Helvetica"></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><b><font face="Helvetica">Finally....why not join our Google Group?</font></b></span><font face="Helvetica"></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><font face="Helvetica">We have started a Google Group for all those who are interested in exchanging ideas, challenges and learning about participatory video. The page is at: </font></span><a href="http://groups.google.co.uk/group/insightshare-followers" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span><span style="color: rgb(42, 0, 255); text-decoration: none;"><font face="Helvetica">http://groups.google.co.uk/group/insightshare-followers</font></span></span></a><span><font face="Helvetica">. Please join with us or invite other people to do so. To those already signed up, great to see so much energy and dialogue in just a few months, and more than 160 members taking part!</font></span></div>
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