Digital cultural mapping
With our local partners we are training a network of Indigenous communities to document their cultural resources.
Our digital media workshops bring together elders, young people and Indigenous landowners to document and map significant places and traditional knowledge.
Environmental advocacy youth forum
Pacific Black Box worked with two local NGOs in Bougainville to hold a forum with young people from areas directly affected by climate change.
The forum focused on the young people from the Carteret Islands atolls, who are currently relocating to the mainland due to sea levels rising. Local facilitators held workshops about the impact of climate change on their communities, and Pacific Black Box trainers worked with the young people to translate these issues into media productions.
The six short films created by the youth premiered at the UN Conference on Biological Diversity in Bonn and have been screened at the Expo Zaragoza in Spain and the Pacific region's inaugural Climate Change Film Festival in Suva, Fiji. They have also have been screened at primary schools across Bougainville, at World Environment Day events in Buka, and will be used by the PNG national TV channel in science courses throughout PNG.
One of the films, An Uncertain Future, also received the Community Prophets award at the 2008 Human Rights and Arts Film Festival (Australia).
Projects
Health messages 2011
In October this year Pacific Black Box will work with young people in Bougainville to respond to local health issues through the production of their own audio and visual resources.
These resources will include short videos, radio stories and digital 'pop-up' posters that promote key health messages supported by health experts.
The resources will be distributed through local radio, screenings, aid posts, primary schools and secondary schools.
To make this project happen, PBB is partnering with a local NGO in Bougainville, Hako Women's Collective.
As we are an entirely volunteer-run NGO every dollar makes a big difference to the projects we deliver. Please donate using a secure website here, or attend PBB fundraising events, coming up over the next few months in Melbourne, to make this project happen.
Monitoring and Evaluation and Participatory Video (PV)
PBB designed and delivered training for NGO workers in the Solomon Islands in the use of Participatory Video (PV) and the Most Significant Change (MSC) monitoring and evaluation technique.
