Well, I guess Christmas festivities have put this blog on hold. So it is time to catch up before the year ends.
Good news on the grapevine regarding the Welsh Lottery Fund grant. I understand that an application for a book and web-site will be looked on "favourably". Also in order to qualify for a grant I do not have to have the book written in two languages: English and Welsh.
This stipulation seems only to apply to exhibition material – all captions for both exhibitions had to be printed in both languages.
Meanwhile the exhibition in Brecon has been extended into the New Year and continues to attract an audience who would not normally visit a gallery. The reason is that this is a community based project . So far over 1,000 photos have been submitted and I have selected 120 to be shown for the first time dealing with a piece of social history never seen before – life inside a childrens TB sanatorium.
Have tried and failed to update my introduction since it is no longer accurate about the work I am doing.
For the past year I have been working on an heritage project using new media along with Dr Carole Reeves, Outreach Historian with The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London.
I now have an internet channel documenting the work as it progresses:
www.youtube.com/childrenofcraigynos
Expect to hear later today whether our application for funding for a print on demand book from the Welsh Heritage Lottery Fund will have to be done in Welsh too.
If this is so it will push the budget well above that given under the "Peoples Grants" scheme - for translation costs run at £100 per 1,000 words.
Meanwhile I have uploaded another video to the internet channel I have started for this project:
www.youtube.com/childrenofcraigynos
Still no reply from the webmaster for this site asking if it supports video.
No matter, the internet channel on YouTube -childrenofcraigynos- is developing a small following. This is what is known as the "long tail" effect.
Now working on developing podcasts for the site. Meanwhile Dr Reeves is going to tackle the application to the Welsh Heritage Lottery Fund.
