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BBC Blast Truck Continues to Bring Out Creativity with Ultralab (1990-2006) Team On Board

2006-07-23

I've been incredibly busy these past few weeks on the BBC Blast national truck tour. As I posted earlier, I've been touring with the truck to support the Beeb's workshop facilitation role. Hal MacLean and I worked together on the London event based in White City.

I've been incredibly busy these past few weeks on the BBC Blast national truck tour. As I posted earlier, I've been touring with the truck to support the Beeb's workshop facilitation role. Hal MacLean and I worked together on the London event based in White City. Our role was to teach young people film editing and animation, while supporting the facilitators of the other workshops to achieve Blast objectives. So far I've worked on the truck in Liverpool (with Shirley); Derry (Martin came along); Belfast (our Anthony made good friends with BBC Northern Ireland). Derry and Belfast were Hamish's locations; I helped with the animation classes. In Manchester, our Shirley supported me again. Then, when the truck arrived in Sheffield, it was all Hal's. The truck next rolled into Cardiff, and I ran workshops in English; Geraint ran the same workshops in Welsh. White City, London, was manned by Hal and myself. The White City event was based outside BBC Television Centre in an old car-park. Hamish and Colin brought down the young people from the Anglia Ruskin University Summer School for a day on the truck. On the final day of White City, Ultralab (1990-2006) Director Richard Millwood joined…

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