Goals: To introduce young people to multimedia and modern technology by exploring issues they deal with on a daily basis
Funding: Funding comes from the Youth Support and Development Service, Arts Services and the Creative Neighbourhoods programme through the Arts Council of England, formerly the London Arts Board.
Barking and Dagenham has a high population of refugee and asylum seekers, including 119 unaccompanied young people. The borough's Arts and Youth Support and Development Service has tried to engage with these young people, and others in the borough, through a project called Digitise, based at Beacon Youth Centre in Dagenham.
Young people were given the chance to learn film production, music production, scriptwriting, directing and multimedia design. In the first phase, local artists worked with young refugees and asylum seekers to create a short film for LWT's Whose London? film competition. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow describes the circumstances that led to the young people's arrival in London and their perceptions of life in the capital.
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