Junk TV are currently editing the video diaries for Brighton and Hove City Council's Nine Lives Project (www.ninelives.tv). Where 9 residents aged 20 - 77, take up the challenge of making their lives more substainable - economically, environmentally, healthily: you name it - over nine weeks.

We have nearly completed work on a DVD for the Body Gallery at Brighton Museum. The Museum's re-opening has now been pushed back to April 2002. The DVD features 10 people reacting to objects in the gallery and talking about their experiences with, and views on, tatoos, piercing, Jean Paul Gaultier 'Six pack' jackets, Chinese bound feet and wigs made of metal. The DVD will remain on a loop in the gallery until it crumbles to dust.

Junk TV are currently making a film with the Sahara group and the Mosaic Multi-ethnic group in conjunction with Hi8tus and Brighton Police. The film concerns young multi-ethnic people's views of police treatment of them and how this relates to their race.

WORKSHOPS:

Junk TV are currently working on an anti-bullying project in Whitehawk, multimedia days on the Knoll Estate, filming interviewee's for a film called 'What about my body?' to be exhibited in Brighton Museum and Art Gallery upon its re-opening in October; making a promo film about a mentoring project in Hackney, holding regular video clubs at Bevendean School, and finishing off projects with the Komedia Theatre, Coalition for Youth and One Brighton and Hove.

We're in the process of setting up the Digital Arts Development Association (DADA) that will be used to put on regular video, animation, web and music technology workshops for everybody in the local community at subsidized rates. Check back for details or get on our mailing list for future information.

Junk TV are taking names for the next round of Thursday Evening Workshops for young people to be held at Old School Studios, 28 Gloucester Street, Brighton, BN1 4EW. Tel. 01273 600811. The evening runs from 5.30pm-8.30pm, costs £10 each week and enables attendees to indulge their filming, editing, acting, animation and musical whims, with the aim of producing a final film at the end. The workshops will start in February 2001 following refurbishment of the studios.

Hove Museum and Art Gallery are now taking bookings for the Make-A-Movie-in-a-day worshop for 8-16 year olds. The workshop will be held on Tuesday 10th April at the Museum. The times run from 10.30 - 3.30pm. Cost is £10.