29/02/08 Our Place: MK Pioneers and Heroes Exhibition
Now in its second year this two day exhibition took place on Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd January 2008 in Middleton Hall, at thecentre:mk. Sponsored by English Partnerships, thecentre:mk, Milton Keynes Citizen and Routeco and managed by Living Archive, the exhibition highlighted the many great achievements by people connected to this area...more
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08/01/08 Our Place: MK Pioneers and Heroes Exhibition
From Lord Campbell and famous codebreakers to business leaders and sports stars. This exhibition celebrates the many great achievements by people who contributed to the rich heritage of Milton Keynes...more
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09/11/07 Identities
Over the last 4 months, 6 filmmakers have been engaged in producing short individual documentary films with local people in Milton Keynes. Each film is different and unique in the way in which it portrays the life of its subject. Told with equal measure of sadness and humour, humility and grace, this collection of 6 short films stand testament to the resilience of humanity and the essence of individual identity...more
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07/11/07 'The Story of the Original CMK'
This is the story of how Central Milton Keynes happened, told by the people who shaped the inital ideas of 'CMK'. Commissioned the Central Milton Keynes Project Board (part of English Partnership) and published (Oct 2007) by Living Archive of Milton Keynes, ths book is illustrated with over 150 full-colour and black-and-white photographs, many never before published...more
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01/09/07 Milton Keynes History of Football Project
Funded by a ‘Your Heritage’ Lottery grant this project will collect personal testimonies, photographs and memorabilia to document the history of football in Milton Keynes over the last 100 years. The primary source material collected will be used to create a website, exhibition, book and digital stories...more
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30/08/07 Co-Operative Young Film-Makers Festival 2007
Success for three young filmmakers from The Walnuts School in Milton Keynes - Their six minute animation film, ‘Horror Land’, has been selected from 270 entries for screening at the prestigious Co-operative Young Film-Makers Festival 2007. The festival will take place at the National Media Museum in Bradford on 12th and 13th October 2007...more
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21/05/07 My Roots My Music
Young people celebrated their music, their own films and the launch of their website www.myrootsmymusic.org.uk at the Premiere in Cineworld MK on Monday 21st May...more
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16/03/07 Development Grant
Living Archive are delighted to have received the news that we have been awarded a Milton Keynes Community Foundation Development Grant...more
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07/03/07 Darkness Visible
made by young people aged between 15 and 17 working with Chris Bradley from Living Archive, has won the award in the Best Documentary category of the First Light Movies Awards 2007 - the UK's very own Mini Oscars®...more
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11/09/06 Where the Lines Meet
This was the culmination of a two years’ Local Heritage Initiative funded project carried out by project workers, volunteers and schools in the Bletchley Area. During this time members of the community were interviewed for their memories, hundreds of photographs were collected and scanned, children from two local schools, Knowles Junior and Eaton Mill Combined, also researched the railway history, interviewed several ex-workers and with funding from the Spotlight on Bletchley’s Community Chest Fund, worked on a textile banners project, two of which are now hanging in Bletchley Library...more
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08/09/06 Big Screen 2
Three stories written by young people and one very moving documentary will hit the Big Screen at Cineworld on Monday 18th September at 6pm. Big Screen 2 is a celebration of short films made this year by young filmmakers in Milton Keynes, funded by the Lottery through the UK Film Council’s First Light initiative and produced by Living Archive Young People’s Film Productions...more
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10/07/06 Music That Moves You
Young People from Milton Keynes will be researching how Garage music has become a common language bringing communities together, thanks to a £23,400 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Young Roots programme...more
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05/07/06 Where the Lines Meet
is a unique collection of reminiscence and photographs collected by our teams of volunteers to record and celebrate Bletchley’s distinctive heritage of being the railway crossroads of the London to Birmingham line and the original Oxford to Cambridge branch lines...more
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14/06/06 My Webpage website
A new website mywebpage launches on Monday 10th July. It is the end result of a project funded by the Learning and Skills Council to give people an opportunity to learn new IT skills, CV writing and job search skills...more
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17/05/06 Business Excellence Awards 2006
Living Archive was one of three nominations in the Contribution to the Community Award - Voluntary Sector at the Chamber of Commerce Awards Ceremony held on 11th May. The event was held at Whittlebury Hall and attended by over four hundred local dignitories and business people. A short film was shown of each nominee and this helped to raise the profile of Living Archive at this prestigious even.
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07/03/06 UK Film Council’s First Light Awards 2006
Living Archive's films nominated for national award...more
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04/01/06 My Home Front website
This website is a collection of people’s memories, stories and extracts from taped interviews of life on the Home Front during World War Two. We held a 'Down Memory Lane' event and invited people to bring their photographs, memorabilia and most importantly their story...visit website
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