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The Audio/Video edition of NGO-in-a-Box is a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools, guides and tutorials for multimedia production and distribution. The edition has just been revised with new tools, updated versions of the software, the ability to browse the content by tags and some new categories.

Come along to a screening of highlights from EngageMedia.org. All the videos have been contributed by the talented and diverse members of the website. We will screen videos about how to turn your TV into abstract art, refugees in outback Australia, nude bicyclists, Tom Cruise and Oprah (a remix), Michael Franti, youth rebellion in Tonga, the Janitor Liberation movement, the Tranny Cops, police brutality, gender and sexism in Malaysia, art and sedition, climate change in the Pacific, and more!!

EngageMedia will run a workshop on online video distribution and a screening of content from the site at the Melbourne Social Forum next weekend, April 21-22.

VIDEO SLAM is a Creative Commons production workshop from OPEN CHANNEL being held during Arts Law Week in Melbourne. OPEN CHANNEL is calling for registrations from willing participants who will spend 48 hours at Horse Bazaar producing a 10 minute short from only Creative Commons licensed content.

EngageMedia will be running a video screening and an online distribution workshop as part of the OurMedia conference on community, alternative and citizen's media in Sydney, April 9-13.

Who is doing what, how are they doing it and what's in it for you? On March 29 come to an overview of video distribution services that utilise flexible licenses featuring speakers: Greg Dee, Channel 31; Anna Helme, EngageMedia; Andrew Garton, OPEN CHANNEL.

The Free West Papua group invite you to a screening in Melbourne on March 21 that explores the historical issues surrounding West Papua, but also looks at the implications of the ominous security agreement with Indonesia recently signed by the Australian Government.

The net is quickly becoming one of the most effective ways for video activists to distribute their content. EngageMedia will be running a workshop in Adelaide on February 26th, come along and learn how you can use online distribution tools to get your video work out there.

On February 5th 2007 EngageMedia collaborated with the Cemeti Art Foundation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, to put on a workshop about net-based video distribution.