Radio Los Inestables attempts to train the project participants in the use digital tools in order to increase their active participation and self-management in every stage of broadcast production. To achieve this, we will provide workshops to teach them how to record and edit audio recordings. We will also give them trainning and mentoring in the use of social networks, so they will be able to share their productions with the broader community.
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Córdoba
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
We will be -and now we are- working with psychiatric patients of a public mental hospital. They are an underrepresented community because “crazy people's” voices have been traditionally censored and not heard. Besides, most of them are in situation of poverty and social vulnerability, aggravated by their involuntary confinement. All these obstacles prevent them from getting access to digital ctizen media or any other media of communication.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
There will be created audio podcasts with: debates about issues which affect the participants; radio dramas about daily situations; poems and songs (made by themselves or particularly chosen to express what they want to communicate); local news analyzed from their own point of view. These audios will be recorded and edited by the participants, and they will upload them in the digital online space in order to share them in social networks.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
The connections already established are Radio Sur, Radio La Quinta Pata and Radio Revés, which have already supported and mentored the radio's coordinators in recording and editing audio, and now could give support by training the other participants. We also plan to establish connections with the hospital's Informatic Workshop in order to accede to the computers and have ongoing support and mentoring in the use of social networks.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
We will train 15 participants of Radio Los Inestables who have been having an active participation for 3 years and have already demanded training in technical skills so they could carry out some activities that are currently up to the coordinators. It may also encourage their participation the fact that this project could help them to learn a trade and to develop training skills to teach others, increasing the impact of this proposal.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Rising Voices could help our project to facilitate connections between our local productions and other groups working around the same issues, by including them in global conversation online. Your organization can also facilitate online tutorials so we can improve our knowledge in the use of digital media, and give us information about other open-sources and free tools so our marginalized community can use more inclusive citizen media to be Heard.
Contact name
Sol Victoria del Carpio
Organization
Radio Los Inestables
22 comments
Radio los inestables es una practica innovadora que eficazmente brinda la posibilidad de dar vos a los sujetos que siempre han sido callados, es un lugar en donde la palabra es muy importante y la participación de cada persona es de acuerdo a su singularidad, las veces que me toco participar lo disfrute mucho ademas del aprendizaje que genera vivir la experiencia de radio los inestables.
Rodrigo!! Muchas gracias por el apoyo y el compromiso de siempre!! un abrazo inestable!! Te esperamos en la radio cuando quieras para seguir construyendo juntos/as!!
We are very pleased to see your proposal, it is a great projet that have a potential to change community colective represenations of a marginalized group like mental health patients. We are a portuguese radio team that also is inspire in this projet and we could learn much from the opportunities that this grant can offer. We hope you can be supported. A big abrazo from Lisbon, from Rádio Aurora-A Outra Voz
Great Idea! and Great project too!
It’s inexplicable the joy and satisfaction that everyone in the radio feels when every thuesday you hear a new voice, from someone who was never heard, from someone who was never called by his name. For this and much more…. Vamo arriba los inestablessssss!!!!
This is a great, great project! I’m a young journalist from Portugal and I report, recently, the notable work of Radio Aurora-A Outra Voz, made by people with mental health problems. One thing I’m sure: the problem of stigma just stops if projects like this one will be approved. And supported and heard for all community, as a result.
Excellent idea and excellent project!!! This radio is truly inspiring, helping patients to express themselves and release their emotions, and most importantly, being heard. The work and efforts of their organisers is admirable, coping with any kind of situations.
Gran idea, excelente proyecto. La palabra que enferma también cura. Arriba Los Inestables!!!
Radio Los Inestables es un proyecto que habilita la circulación de la palabra en un contexto de encierro que priva las libertades y derechos constitucionales de los pacientes. Hermanos y amigos para algunos, nadies para otros. La radio es una ventana al mundo para ellos y forma parte de las iniciativas de desmanicomialización que se vienen desarrollando a nivel mundial. El espacio de radio se integra a otros talleres que impulsan la expresión popular dentro del neurosiquiatrico de la ciudad de Córdoba. La construcción colectiva que se promueve en la radio nos acerca y nos enseña a reflexionar a los que estamos afuera acerca de las interpretaciones y representaciones que cargadas están de prejuicios. Hablar de salud mental requiere ante nada comprender al otro desde su condición y desde la igualdad de derechos. Interpreto que el reconocimiento de los saberes “inestables” que se ejerce cada jornada radial es el camino para la liberación y el buen vivir emocional de quienes dan vida a “Radio Los intestables”.
Gran gran idea! Aguante RADIO LOS INESTABLES! un proyecto hermoso que me hizo entender que la locura no existe, que solo existe la injusticia.
Veni flaco juntate con los locos!!! 🙂