View Stockton's International Festival on the Web

The University of Teesside’s Community Informatics Research Applications (CIRA) team will be bringing the best of the Stockton International Riverside Festival to a worldwide audience by running a live webcast of the event. It will be second time that CIRA has carried out a webcast from the festival.

The website address is www.radioriverside.co.uk

A dedicated Internet Radio studio has been set up in the Green Dragon Yard, off the High Street, where “Radio Riverside” will webcast all of the acts performing in the yard during the “Fringe” part of the festival from Thursday 31 July to Sunday 3 August. There will also be interviews with performers and audience members.

The Georgian Theatre, also in the Green Dragon Yard, will house a “video booth” where people can record a short piece about their experiences of the festival to a webcam.

Steve Thompson, CIRA Community Media Co-ordinator, said: “The Riverside Festival webcast last year was so popular with those taking part that we extended our activities to include regular Monday webcasts featuring Tees Valley music, news and interviews, as well as special event webcasts like Middlesbrough Music Live and The Mela from Albert Park. We are delighted to be back at the Stockton Riverside Festival where it all began. The Webcast will be managed by a team of volunteers from various local community groups and Media students from the University and Cleveland College Of Art & Design.”

Visitors to the festival can also see CIRA’s OCTORAMA in the Arc, Dovecot Street. The Octorama features 8 large screens and sound sources and on each day of the festival from 1pm to 5pm four different exhibitions can be experienced. See programme below or view it online at www.tvo.org.uk/octorama.htm

Anyone wishing to become involved in Radio Riverside should contact Steve Thompson on 01642 342786, email: s.d.thompson@tees.ac.uk

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