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The Carnival is returning to Handsworth this August and the anticipation and excitement from local residents in the build up to the big event is now at boiling point . The next edition of the Hands on Handsworth magazine features a great story on the Carnival with Professor Black, a carnival costume designer, giving a real …
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The latest edition of the hands on Handsworth magazine written by a team of local community journalist is out now You can down load a copy here Hands on Handsworth Community Magazine Issue 4 You can also get a copy from Handsworth Library or other outlets accross Handsworth
This week the team have been working hard editing the stories, getting pictures together and designing the April edition of the Hands on Handsworth magazine. Two of the journalists, Alex Clarke and Michael Deacon have been working tirelessly on the design and have done an amazing job in designing the magazine with the help of …
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The community journalism project is going from strength to strength as we now have a core team of talented and knowledgable journalists to generate content for both the magazine and the blog. I know we’ve been a bit quiet on the blogging but I and the team will be uploading a lot more content over …
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The community journalist group that wrote and produced the third issue of Hands On Handsworth magazine had their first meeting in their new office on March 17th. The office has been provided by City College as part of their support for the group and is in the old Handsworth Town Hall building above the Library …
We have just published in the latest Hands on Handsworth Magazine a feature on Photographer Liz Hingley. The Guardian last Saturday 26th Feb also ran a much longer story about faith along the Soho Rd and printed one of Liz Hingley’s photos
Back in September and October we ran a range of workshops to try and encourgae local people to get involved in a new community journalist project. The aim of the project is to take forward the idea to create a community magazine for Handsworth written by local people. Through the neighbourhood management programme, Tracey Thorne …
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In may the first edition of the Hands on Handsworth Magazine was published. I got lots of postive feedback about the magazine and residents continue to be interested in getting a regular local publication with news and stories about Handsworth. I am interesting in getting ideas for this next edition and welcome contributions of stories …
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