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Members of Northern Visions have been involved in community based media and arts projects since 1972 and were amongst the first to initiate community video projects in Ireland nearly twenty five years ago. Today we operate a media centre situated in the heart of Belfast.
Over two hundred community-based organisations together with increasing numbers of individual artists and filmmakers use Northern Visions programmes and services.
Northern Visions maintains an independent space which is not constrained by profit led or broadcast interests. This independence leads to a diversity of programme making from fiction films and documentaries for television to low budget community productions. The provision of skilled support services, both people and technical, realises high quality programming and has offered opportunities to local people marginalised by television or denied self and/or collective expression. Northern Visions, precisely because of this independence, has been able to develop long term working relationships with local people and communities and offer genuine access to resources and services. Northern Visions has a history of working with a wide range of community based arts groups. Our experimental workshops involving musicians, poets, actors and artists subsequently led to successful and innovative films. Northern Visions has pioneered the use of mixed media and innovative expression, redefining the use of poetry, theatre, video, visual arts and music. Northern Visions rejects the notion that poetry, drama and visual arts is for the elite or that community arts cannot be widely appreciated by an international audience whilst still retaining its grassroots values and local identity.
No matter what a person's personal motivation may be, Northern Visions Media Centre offers professional support and resources to those who enjoy a keen sense of creative accomplishment. As an access centre it is a vehicle for self expression, providing practical skills for thriving in the telecommunications revolution which is upon us and an open forum to test ideas and dialogue with others. Community Visions offers a clear eyed look at the issues and challenges facing community media and arts and the opportunity to produce high quality films around common cultural interests.
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