Date: June 3rd 2008

Dear Friends,

its been a while since our last newsletter, but we were working on all different sides of our project. In the next days, we'll publish a hard copy of our newspaper, which will be in serbian/english and used for our this weeks presentation in Belgrade and Novi Sad on Saturday, June 7th, 2008 [CULTURAL CENTAR DOB / debate room, Belgrade] and on Sunday, June 8th, 2008 [YOUTH CENTER CK13, Novi Sad] with the beginning at 6 PM.

We are very excited to present our project in Belgrade, as you might know, there would and could be a lot of work for a project like ours.

News, more connected with Mathare, you'll find as usual on our blog.

There was an very good report on our slum-tv for peace screening by the BBC, which you can listen if you click here:
http://www.slum-tv.info/?p=67

Information on the MTAA Film Festival we did:

24 young filmmakers, from 4 different organizations working together for the first time to create 3 short films in 48 hours, the Mtaa Film Festival promised to be an exciting event…and it certainly was.

We all met at the Slum TV offices on Saturday morning, fairly close to the scheduled 9 am kick off. Biki Kangawana, a Kenyan film producer, introduced the idea, and stressed that the key to success when working with such tight deadlines is simple ideas and sticking to the script. As he said, the allotted time of 4 minutes is about how long it takes him to smoke just one cigarette! continue to read here:
http://www.slum-tv.info/?p=66

Here we introduce our member Peter Ndolo:

My name is Peter Ndolo. I am 21 years old, fashionable and creative. I am the seventh born in a family of ten that is father, mother and eight children. I was raised and born in the Mathare slums, in the Eastlands of Nairobi, which is refered as the home of crimes, where the worse happens daily, every hour with robbery, prostitution, rapes, murders, violence etc. With more than 700,000 inhabitats there is bad infastructure, no roads, worse environment and and people experience difficulties to fulfill their basic needs. continue to read here: http://www.slum-tv.info/?p=63

and go on, and explore more of our acitivities. In the next two weeks, we'll upload few more newsreels, in the last months we faced a lot of difficulties in Kenya but in Austria too. We were attacked by right wing party in the Vienna City Hall for our activities, who believed that we are sugarcoating the situation in Kenya, that we only show the beautiful sides of Kenya. Unbelievable but true.

Last but not least, for all you guys in Vienna, on the 5th of June, we'll present at the „net culture lab – make your own thing“ in Vienna's Museumsquartier at 7 p.m. more information about that: http://diy.netculture.at

hope this newsletter finds you all well,

cheers
alexander nikolic