About Pixelate

Pixelate is a Lets Go Global project, and since July 2006 has delivered community-led strategic arts projects with a wide range of organisations and groups across Greater Manchester.

Lets Go Global is a pioneering media project, run by and for the diverse communities of Greater Manchester. Founded in 2003, Lets Go Global is based in Old Trafford and forms part of Trafford Council’s Arts & Cultural Development Section.

The Pixelate project is being delivered in two phases. Each phase of the project includes the design, development and delivery of a series of innovative creative media projects with groups of local residents from across Greater Manchester.

An exhibition featuring all the work created on the projects alongside work by many of the artists involved will be taking place at the Waterside Arts Centre Lauriston Gallery in Sale from September 18th 2010.

The main aim and objectives of the Pixelate project are:

Aim

* To increase the creation of new media content across the communities of Greater Manchester in order to combat social exclusion and enable local people to play a more active and creative role in their community.

Objectives

* To increase the production of high quality digital content through creative media project work across Greater Manchester.
* To roll out the Lets Go Global model of producing digital content with local people and artists for live broadcast/archive over the web.
* To combat social exclusion and increase participation in the arts and creative technology, enabling groups who do not normally have access to creative media facilities to create and direct their own work.
* To enable local people to have an active and creative role in their own community leading to the development of more vibrant and proud communities within Greater Manchester.
* To liaise and advise the districts on establishing local authority and/or community online media channels.
* To improve individual employability (particularly in the creative sector) and visibility of the groups and communities involved, helping to reduce the digital divide.
* To develop partnerships with organisations within the districts in order to support their continued growth of creative media and ICT work.

The Pixelate project is funded by the Greater Manchester Strategic Arts Fund through the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities and Arts Council England North West.

More information can on Lets Go Global can be found here.

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