Porty Podcast
The Porty Podcast is a community project, highlighting events in and around Edinburgh's seaside - Portobello! It's a very active area with sailing, rowing and kayaking on the Forth, a vibrant artistic community and a strong sense of identity which makes it slightly separate from the other parts of Edinburgh. Image credit Nicola Dunlop
Porty Podcast
Porty Community Media - the future for the Porty Podcast
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Have you heard about Porty Community Media? It's an exciting project to create a radio and podcast studio in the old Police Station. They're working with Action Porty to make this happen, hopefully quite soom. But this opens up an exciting new future for The Porty Podcast by opening the space up to new contributors, people with stories to tell about our wonderful communities in Portobello.
Please get in touch with David Calder at theportypodcast@gmail.com or
graemeshield@portobellocommunitymedia.org angusireland@portobellocommunitymedia.org
Hello and welcome to this short one off episode of the Porti Podcast. As many of you know, there were tours of the old police station last weekend. The building is now run by Action Porti alongside Bellfield. Sadly, I wasn't able to go along myself, but the previous weekend I met Graham and Angus, two of the founders of Porti Community Media. Now what's that, you may ask? Well, they told me about plans to create something really exciting. A radio and podcasting studio on the ground floor of the building, and in my mind that completely changes where the Porti Podcast could go in the future. Because it means the podcast could gradually involve more and more local people making episodes about the things that they know and love here in Portobello. And the important thing is this you wouldn't need expensive equipment or years of broadcasting experience to get involved. In fact, you already own a recorder. It's your mobile phone. You don't even necessarily need an external microphone these days, although decent Bluetooth microphones can now cost as little as what twenty pounds or so, and I've been pleasantly surprised by how good some of them actually sound. So if you'd like to try one, just ask. Or alternatively, once the studio is up and running, you could simply bring a guest along there and record an episode with a bit of help and guidance. And if editing sounds a bit intimidating, well don't worry about that either. One of the Porti Community Media team, Angus, told me he'd be happy to help people learn the basics and support them in putting episodes together. So this is really an invitation to people across Portobello, young and old, including those who may already have thought about podcasting but never quite knew how to begin. There are so many stories here waiting to be told community groups, sports, clubs, artists, volunteers, local history, everyday life by the sea. Portobello has often been described as a small town, pretending to be a suburb, and perhaps now we have the chance to create the kind of community media that small towns do best. So if any of this appeals to you, now might be the perfect time to get involved. Just get in touch with me at the PortiPodcast at gmail dot com or with Graham Shield or Angus Ireland at porti community media dot org. Thanks again for listening. Bye for now.