stop the traffik ~ set the captives free

Not for Sale Sunday 2009 May 17th

2009-04-18T05:57:00.001-07:00

http://tinyurl.com/nfss09resources

here are some great new
~ ideas
~ prayers
~ display and creative ideas
~ liturgies and litanies
~ poems
~ and some other resources.

CHASTE & Not For Sale UK's archive of resources produced before 2009 are held here:
http://www.tinyurl.com/nfss-resource-archive

Wow

2007-03-28T16:58:00.000-07:00

Pretty much two full houses from where I sat. Maybe a handful free on Wednesday.
Tremendous sense of our young people growing up through this, growing into maturity and discovering gifts, talents, abilities, confidence and sometimes the 'nowse' to bodge through...

Great!

My email to praying friends

2007-03-28T16:57:00.001-07:00

Stop the Traffik “Esther’s Story”

Thanks to those of you who heard my ten-minute presentation on Tuesday and later prayed for an audience to come to experience “Esther’s Story”.

We had a full house on Tuesday evening and only a handful of spare seats on Wednesday.

One of our church members prayed for a wave of response to the Spirit so that the anti-trafficking message would not end tonight.

CHASTE, CMS, Stop the Traffik, and TEAR Fund were promoted to those who attended with literature.

Stop the Traffik and Unesco had videos included as part of the performance.

Phil’s Story

Tonight I told two women the story Phil Evans told us, so movingly on Tuesday, of the difference that “Breaking the Chains” and the G8 lobby had made to people in Madagascar.

They said they had not signed cards for Stop the Traffik as they felt disconnected from any real result after Jubilee 2000 etc. They both signed petition cards then and there.

Our J Team of young people were ecstatic after the first night and euphoric after the second night.

Since Free for All and Big intent came several of them have advanced rapidly towards maturity and in discovering talents while taking on roles in the production.

Wonderful!

2007-03-28T16:40:00.000-07:00

Just when I thought Jonny wasn't going to add us into his blog

I finally surfed the right search and here is his entry.

slavery 200 years on...

this coming sunday (25 march) is 200 years since the abolition of the slave trade bill was passed in uk law through the house of lords. i confess my knowledge of the history is pretty thin. but one of the groups heavily involved in the campaign were the clapham sect who also founded cms. william wilberforce is the best known member of that group. amazing grace the film that tells the story of the abolition through his life is out this coming weekend and the preview is tonight.

the current issue of yes magazine focuses on the issue of slavery (15mb pdf).

the irony is that there are more slaves today than 200 years ago with child soldiers, sex trafficking, and forced labour. this is tragic. lots of groups are making the most of the anniversary to focus attention on the issue of slavery today. these are a few things i am aware of. feel free to add any others in the comments and i'll paste them in...

african snow - a play that cms has sponsored
free for all - the cms youth team are undertaking a huge tour round the uk
ending slavery resource pack - education pack for cizitenship, RE, and history
the truth isn't sexy - i love this simple campaign to raise awareness of trafficking through some fairly full on beer mats in bars and pubs. there's a parliamentary launch tomorrow - well done guys!
stop the traffic - coalition of organisations, with a particular campaign focused on chocolate.
chaste - churches alert to sex trafficking across europe
set all free - churches together site
anti-slavery
rowntree uk slavery report

all this can be a bit overwhelming. find something that touches you, or grabs you and get involved. an example of a group getting involved that inspired me is a youth group from st pauls and st barnabas in oldbury who are working on a production esther's story. as part of the promotion for it they put a video together and it got aired on channel 5 news - amazing! the play blurb is...

Shocked by the imprisonment of young women in a nearby brothel a group of teenagers from an Oldbury Church are actively and creatively highlighting the modern day evils of human trafficking and sex traffiking through a youth theatre production at Leasowes Community College Theatre, Kent Road, Halesowen, B62 8PJ.
The performance will be on 27th and 28th March at 7.30 p.m. with doors open at 7.00 p.m. Tickets are reasonably priced at £2.00 for adults and £1.00 for under 16’s.
Tickets from Paul and Barnys 0121 4226700

Meetings at P&B 1st March

2007-03-03T10:21:00.000-08:00

Meetings continue with the young people and older helpers planning the publicity.

A synopsis has now been completed and now the script, too.
Colourful banners as part of the stage set have been made also.

The first advertising poster went up in to Quinton Library today 3rd March.

2007-03-03T10:04:00.000-08:00

Artistic Group Mtg 9.1.07

2007-01-11T08:05:00.000-08:00

Minutes of ARTISTIC GROUP meeting held on 9th January, 2007 at Paul and Barny’s Shop

Present: Pete Corser
Mark Heath
Sadeh Gayle
Beth Walker
Lynn Todd
` Karen Denny
Dave Hunt
Dan Carter

Copies of the synopsis that Pete has written were circulated to all members prior to the meeting to enable them to read it and come to the meeting with their comments.

Sadeh felt that her original idea from her storyline presented at the previous meeting had been incorporated well into the synopsis.
She felt that the synopsis might need more “umff” i.e. made a little more lively and dramatic.

Lynn expressed a concern that as poverty was the underlying cause of many problems, particularly “trafficking of people” that poverty should get a mention early on in the drama when our main character (Choi) tells the TV Chat show host about her home life in Africa.

It was unanimously agreed that the drama would be performed in two sets, i.e. split the stage with one half being the TV Studio and the other for the drama cameos/action scenes.

Everyone present (with the exception of Pete who had not been at the workshop) agreed that it would be good to capture some of the dramatic interpretation style that Hasna applied when she delivered her dramatised piece last Saturday.

Mark Heath emphasised that the “shock element” should be included in the drama.

Everyone liked the way that Pete had included both song and dance into the storyline and it was felt that drumming would fit very well into scene 2 and probably into other areas of the drama once the script is finalised.

It was generally agreed that scene 5 should be rewritten with the emphasis on trafficking only. Mark suggested that we could plant people in the audience who could contribute to this scene. Everyone was in agreement with this.

Scene 6 – Lynn suggested that there is no need to identify where the occupants of the van are from as the audience could make up their own minds about this.

It was unanimously decided to drop scene 9 and to either add a little extra to scene 8 or re-write scene 9 with the guard/trafficker either talking to the van driver or on his mobile phone.

Scene 10 All agreed that this scene lends itself to a dramatic interpretation which could touch the audience deeply.

Scene 12 – All agreed that we do not want a happy ending as we want to push home to the audience the seriousness of people trafficking.

Dan explained that there would be two screens either side of the stage at Leasowes Theatre onto which material could be projected.

Lynn asked the meeting to consider the possibility of having a break in the production for a “News slot”. This would give an opportunity to show/tell some ‘real stories of trafficking’.

Pete agreed to go away and begin writing a script for the dramatised sections.

The TV Studio scenes might be written/interpreted by the young people chosen to play those parts.

WORKSHOPS
It was agreed that a meeting should be set up with all the young people who have signed up as a result of Saturday’s events.

Lynn Todd
10.1.07

vimeo

2007-01-03T09:54:00.000-08:00

VIMEO

Kill your darlings

2007-01-03T09:52:00.000-08:00

Kill your darlings

Is a post with a download of an exercise on how to judge the quality of photos.
Could be a useful thing to do for later int he project.

Meetings yesterday all afternoon

2007-01-03T09:07:00.000-08:00

Karen, Dave, Wendy, and Lynn met for hours at Paul and Barny's place and sorted out items like the budget, the planning team structure for March, and made a lot of agreements on buying kit some of which mey be available and here for Saturday.

The Lynn left and Colin arrived followed by Megan.

Colin had spent a long time on the phone with Anita from CMS.
Anita - supposed to be on holiday - was trying to finalise agreements with the Big Intent actors. Looks like they had a clear idea of what would work, Anita had a clear idea and we had a clear idea of what we thought they were going to do and these three pieces of data had never been fully knitted together. For a while things looked dodgy. A day later and it seems that this may open up the way for something better than we had imagined as another actor and trainer may be able to come and join us.

More later.

roller coaster

2007-01-03T08:24:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we prayed Lord be the Way and today it seems like
i> more people are sick
but
ii> the programme is coming together
and
iii> there is an exciting new possibility

we ll the nearer we get to Jan 6th the more this feels like a roller coaster
with problems and people ill, planning difficulties, agreements that are unclear and people who did not realise the exact implications of saying what they were saying yes to. in this all there is an exciting sense of things coming together and I will try to put up an account of the last few days tonight.

One very exciting thing has come from the BigIntent team coming later than expected and this may be the involvement of "Sarah I" .... it looks like she might be able to come and fit into either the afternoon gap or the morning session or maybe both. She has some exciting material on trafficking and Bangladesh. :-)

This means that we could have some very exciting input while the cameraman is here recording stuff for the proposed feature on Channel five community news.

Meanwhile 80% or more of the organising team are sick one way or another . . . .
Help Lord!

parental consent forms

2006-12-24T11:32:00.000-08:00

Hi all, I have given Wendy a consent form to be given to interested young people before 6 Jan plus delivered 35 copies to Stella Woolvin. She is going to mail these out along with invitations and a specially devised letter that I wrote for her to sign to ask members of Monday Club if they would like to take part in the workshops on January 6th.

SandBox

2006-12-23T08:40:00.000-08:00

my friend and colleague has featured us on her blog
sandbox
here is a link
http://words-in-sand.blogspot.com/2006/12/action-at-paul-and-barnys.html

this blog registers quite high up the google tree for visibility
and it means that if anyone puts paul and barny's into google this link to our work will likely be quite high up the list if not at the top.

it also means we are doing the work we got grants for - rasing awareness of the problem of human trafficking and the need for a solution.

Top tips for blogging from a top blogger

2006-12-22T18:22:00.000-08:00

Tall Skinny Kiwi is a top blogger whose blog nests high in the google tree

here are his tips for blogging pastors or perhaps that ought to be more daintily
pastors who blog

heretis:
http://www.churchcommunicationspro.com/2006/10/5-questions-with-tallskinnykiwis.html

one of his posts is here tsk
and another here
http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/2006/12/eurochurch_conf.html#trackback

Paul and Barny's website trial

2006-12-21T08:05:00.000-08:00

Hi
I have created a website at freewebs

http://www.freewebs.com/paulandbarny/index.htm

as a way of simplifying the promotion of this programme
after all this blog is a record and a diary but not really a marketing tool.

Let me know what you think...
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Colin

Interest in 6th Jan

2006-12-19T09:42:00.000-08:00

Messages have been sent with interested people to Warley Baptist, Zion Halesowen, Bearwood Chapel. Stella from Christ Church's Monday Club has 30 leaflets and will post them to all members individually on Boxing day. Lynn gave leaflets out at Christ Church Party, 16th and we plugged event and got 23 people to fill in interest forms at J Team /CG party, 17th. Yrs 5 & 6 Perry Fields Primary have leaflets. Julie Reed (the good Tear Fund Rep) is hoping to come, with 2 young people.

By the way, Liz Johnson (Vicki's Liz) is busy but interested and is doing SCENERY DESIGN at Uni!
A relative of John Shepherd (from Warley Baptist) is at Zion and plays drums.
Our Heather is learning drums and rock guitar and could get involved from a distance.
Vicki could offer poetry, short story and creative writing if anyone's interested.

2006-12-19T09:38:00.000-08:00

Leasowes Theatre Site Mtg 13th December 06

2006-12-19T09:13:00.000-08:00

Sadeh, Meg, Dan, Beth, Karen, Dave and Wendy came.
We looked round theatre and decided it would be a good venue. Leasowes will let us use it 26th March (dress rehearsal), and 27th and 29th for performances. Not available 28th. Being used for fashion show. They'll be in touch and try to minimise problems for scenery etc.

Also decided:
From now on we'll take minutes and use the Blog.
There needs to be an over-all committee to decide all sorts of things as far reaching as venue and workshop leaders through to car parking and refreshments. Initial suggestions for group = all present plus Lynn and Colin.

Also vital = a creative hub of people (all present but eventually not Wendy and Meg, but also to include Lynn, Karen's drama collegue and graffitti artist). Hub will decide story line and how other creative elements eg. music and dance will fit in. They will also give briefs and commissions to satellite creative groups eg. dance and music workshop leaders, computer Power-Point devisers, Accidentally on Purpose Band etc.

This creative hub will meet Tues 19th at Paul & Barny's Place, 6.00 for 6.30 to lay out a web of satellite groups and jobs envisaged on an actual large sheet of paper.
Also to start thinking about story line.

stop the traffik ~ set the captives free

2006-12-19T09:10:00.000-08:00

stop the traffik ~ set the captives free

How do members of P&B and traffikstop team members post here?

2006-12-19T09:00:00.000-08:00

We have to manage the way information is posted here and comments made owing to problems with unsavoury posting by automated web robots.
So, I have sent invitations to P&B folk and TraffikStop team to post here.
If you haven't yet recieved an invite and you want to post please email me at colindarling@freenet.co.uk

Creative Hub Meeting 19/12/06 Paul and Barny's Place

2006-12-19T08:56:00.000-08:00

Karen's Drama and graffitti contacts can't get to meeting till 6.30 so new time is 6.00 for drink and chat. 6.30 to start. Meeting main object. Sadeh's printing off her ideas.

Channel Five!

2006-12-19T08:42:00.000-08:00

Colin approached Five News having seen a community news item on their broadcast.
They are very interested in us doing ten minutes of footage that can be edited down to 3 minutes for broadcast as part of their community news service. It would also go on the web.

Five News

Riccardo Boleto from the Channel Five team said that they want to profile human trafficking but getting stories was difficult. Our activity could be a way of highlighting the issues in a good way.

Lynn Todd will take this element of the project assisting the young people to make the video.
It is likely to be done in January or February for showing in time to profile our March performance programme.

click here for a link to channel five's your news section

posted by Colin Darling 19.012.2006

Sunday services 18th Dec

2006-12-17T17:01:00.000-08:00

Colin promotes the Jan 6th and later events at 08.30h & 10.30h services at Christ Church, the Quinton.
Karen promotes at Paul and Barny's
(pic?)

Publicity and Marketing meetup

2006-12-14T06:26:00.000-08:00

Wendy, Lynn and Colin met up to chat through publicity and marketing.

Wendy reported on the successful meeting at Leasow see earlier post.
She gave an outline of the structure of the team for March.
Headline news = Dress rehearsal 26th March, main performances 27th & 28th

Wendy presented Dan's graphic idea for the flyer/handout card/poster/ticket
Lynn suggested a couple of small changes for clarity of reading and information

Publicity and Marketing - various ideas conclusions.

2 Parts
W Workshops daytime Sat 06.001.2007
P Performance at 19.30h 06.001.2007

Target groups for the Workshop participation:
Potential audience and participant groups
PS Primary Schools Yr 5 and above agreed by J Team cttee
Stu and John has links
SS Secondary schools - limit to 19 yrs implied by funding grants
YF Youth Fellowships at local churches if 'Yr 5' YG Youth groups meeting other an YF if 'Yr 5' Stella has links

Target audience groups
Christ Church newsletter input (Wendy)
Word of mouth to friends and neighbours
Word of mouth through church and fellowships
Chatting at Christmas parties all
Local news press media (?)
radio (Colin mentioned Sunday Morning BBC radio)
tv (Colin mentioned the community news feature on Five tv news)
pdfs of dan's design to go out by email (Colin)

Colin to liaise with Chris Turner about a publicity slot
at Christ Church, Quinton 10.30h 17.012.2006

Pricing of tickets - discussion of pros and cons and setting the right level led to
£1.50
£0.75 lower price for children

uploaded by Colin

Meeting at Leasow Community Theatre 13th Dec 2006

2006-12-14T06:25:00.000-08:00

Various people met and came to some exciting agreements about the March Perfortmance Art Event .

Edit this space with the details y'all . . .

July visual art display

2006-12-06T06:21:00.000-08:00

Colin and Wendy discussed the possibility of a month long display of the visual art created by the project.

There is a possible city centre venue for this but it needs to be confirmed.

It may be possible to collaborate with other creative church groups.

Re March 17th

2006-12-06T06:15:00.000-08:00

Colin and Wendy meet at P&B Place

The J Team's idea is for a piece of performance art with visual art to be created also.

We have been in touch with Cheryl Homer the Arts Co-ordinator oof St Martin in the Bull Ring.
J Team are really keen to do their piece at St Martins in the Bull Ring cos they know it from Re-United events there.

Cheryl keen to see it and the spae is there. We go for Saturday March 17th - a week before the big weekend of anti human trafficking events.

Provisionally Times will be:

17.00h
Setup
19.00h Doors
Welcome
19.30h
Performance
20.45h
Close and chat
Clearing up
21.15h
Clear up and clear out
22.30h Lights out and doors locked (latest)

Costs
Hire of St Martins will be expensive £150 an hour less a discount !

Re Jan 6th

2006-12-06T06:03:00.000-08:00

Wendy and Colin meet at Paul and Barny's Place
to pray and work out where we are and what needs doing.

Highlight is publicity! publicity! publicity! for Jan 6th

Here is where we are

Jan 6th
a Paul and Barny's event with a focus on J Team but including young people from their networks and other churches in the area.
Venue Christ Church, Quinton.
Timings
10.00 arrivals and coffees
10.30h
Workshop 1
11.30h
break
12.00h
Workshop 2
13.00h
Lunch bring your own we do the beverages
13.45h
Workshop 3
14.45h
break
15.15h
Workshop4
16.15h

Free time for curry or tea or sleep or remote control cars or checking up on how Tottenham are doing or have done or your team or whatever . . .

Setting up
19.00h Doors
19.30h
Performance
20.45h
Clearing up
22.00h lights out and doors close

We would like to see helper teams
setting up and loading in
clearing down and loading away

lunch time and refreshment help team (inc washing up)

We need to do PUBLICITY
1
J Team to tell their mates and invite them
2
Word of mouth
3
Get two or three people briefed and phoning round people before Christmas.
4
Colin to publicise to his networks in Brum and maybe even wider
5
Radio
Colin to take three of the group to do a slot soon-ish if poss on Radio WM Sunday prog
6
Dan to do some webby stuff
7
Dan or other to do some groovy posters
8
Lynn Todd and Colin to talk about publicity strategy for the later events in March and July

J Team at paul and barny's place

2006-12-03T15:33:00.000-08:00

This bit written by Colin.

Fun session with remote contol cars and an international pictures and places quiz.
Close out with images of Christ from China and Arabic carols from Bethlehem

Update of J team by Wendy with assistance from Colin.

Paulandbarny at the scout hut Sunday 03.012.2006

2006-12-03T15:30:00.000-08:00

This bit written by Colin
Jan 6th date announced to congregation.

Karen and Colin Oyez! Oyez! Do announcement in town cryer style . . . with excellent roll of the African drum from Dave . . . the the effect that the Free For All folk will be here on 6th Jan.

Question about stopping the traffic leads to learning point about stopping the traffick. (ik).

Nov 29th meeting

2006-12-03T08:51:00.000-08:00

Karen, Dan, Colin and Anita from CMS met at P&B's to discuss the Free For All programme as an awareness raising promotion to begin to create an audience for the later programmes and to gain experience in putting on events.

Free For All is a way of exploring the historical background to slavery and the end of slavery. It ends by pointing forward to the current slave trade and human trafficking.

re Saturday 6th January - Free4All

2006-12-03T08:31:00.000-08:00

Paul and Barny's are launching an awareness programme about human trafficking.

It will happen between January and the end of March 2006. Many of the events will be led by or have been created by the young people of Paul and Barny's.

We will start with a launch event on Saturday January 6th at Christ Church Quinton.

The Big InTent Theatre Company and CMS will provide professional actors and local people will also be involved as trainers, actors and participants.

The aim of the day is to mark the anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade through free 4 all, a theatre-workshop project. This will give children and adults the opportunity to explore what freedom means today, as well as its importance for the future of our world.You can find out more about Big InTent at http://www.bigintent.com/
and
http://www.bigintent.com/custom1.html

What? & When?
Workshops plus an evening performance of Free For All. 10.30h to 16.30h
Evening performance at 19.30h

Lunch
Bring your own drinks provided

Cost?
Paul and Barny's are paying the cost of Free For All.
We will charge £1.50 adults and 75p children to give a gift to Christ Church for the use of their heat and light for a day. Also, there will be an opportunity to donate to the global work of CMS including anti-slavery and 'setting captives free' at the evening performance.

If you wish to support this initiative of Paul and Barny's young people please phone 0121 422 6700 or write to Paul and Barny's shop at 151 Castle Road West, Oldbury, Birmingham B68 0EL

If you would like to come and get involved contact Paul and Barny's or phone Colin on 0121 686 1983.

Stop Start

2006-11-08T10:57:00.000-08:00

this space has been reserved for the stop the traffik ~ set the captives free community arts fun space of paulandbarny's church in Oldbury, Birmingham, UK.

in 2007 we will be offering craft based and performance arts opportunities for all ages as part of our churches commitment to the setting the captives free and stop the traffik programmes.

watch his space for creative input and opportunities to take part.

paulandbarny's shop is at 151 Castle Road West, Oldbury, Birmingham B68 0EL
visit and find out more
or phone 0121 422 6700

you can find out more about these programmes by following the links on the left.

paul and barny's is a part of the Church of England ~ Diocese of Birmingham.
we meet on Sundays at 11.00h

you can find out where by phoning the shop:
find out more phone 0121 422 6700