VIEW, Issue three, 2012


Website: viewdigital.org DIARIES


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ested in the sort of work we are doing. We did eight weeks of filming, which included me talking to the young girls in Ardoyne. They would ask a series of questions about the Protestant community. The video pieces were then sent to the Shankill and they replied with a series of questions about the Catholic community. “The video diaries were sent back and forth. The questions ranged from, ‘Why do you got to Mass? and ‘What was the Holy Cross dispute about’. By the end of the project the questions being asked were more about normal things like ‘What was your day like?’” Lauren, a youth worker with the Shankill Area


Project, who is currently studying for a diploma at the University of Ulster, said: “The same sort of project was done last year with boys, so I was in- terested to see how it would work with the girls.


‘The girls will be able to keep this video diary for the rest of their lives’


“The boys were able to use the medium of foot- ball as something that brought them together as well as something that segregated them. “Although many of the girls do like football


teams, they are very different than the boys. “The whole point of the video diaries was that


they didn’t meet for the first eight weeks. They got to know each other through the videos. “This helped to challenge each other's values and


Brian Pelan with a group of the young girls at StreetBeat offices on the Woodvale Road, Belfast


beliefs in a safe space. After a period the group of girls all met each other for the first time. The girls will be able to keep this video diary for the rest of their lives.”


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