Alfred Sirleaf / Analogue Blogger

Thursday 22 - Saturday 24 October / 09:00 am / St John Street (opposite Owain Glyndwr), Cardiff

Project Outline

Alfred will be blogging between 9am-5pm

Please text your news, stories and events to Alfred during the Festival, and see your news come alive on his blackboard! Alfred will be at St John Street during the Festival and you can text him on:

44(0)7504 433163

During the Festival, Alfred will build and run a temporary mobile news station that will be located on St John Streetm opposite Owain Glyndwr. Whilst there, Alfred will encourage members of the public who pass by to text local news and Festival activity updates to his mobile phone to create a lively hub of information and activity that will connect the city to the Festival and vice versa.

Biography

Alfred Sirleaf is the Director of Daily Talk, a news kiosk in the centre of Liberia, Monrovia in West Africa. He collects and reads local newspapers daily, and uses his mobile phone as the major form of communication between him and his estimated 10,000 daily readers, to update the public on the latest big stories in the city - chalked up on a series of blackboards.

Alfred is currently a student of Mass Communication and Political Science, at the University of Liberia. He founded Daily Talk to keep Liberians informed on the political, economic and social issues affecting their daily lives as many of them are unable to read or cannot afford electricity: `I try to write it really clear and simple so people can read it far away, even if they are driving by. I like to write the way people talk so they can understand it well. You got to reach the common man`.

Alfred Sirleaf: Analogue Blogger is a May You Live in Interesting Times commission.

International research and visits to develop international participation from Africa at the Festival, has been supported by the British Council, Wales and Wales Arts International.

This commission has been further supported by:
British Council in Ghana, Juliet Amoah and Roy Oboku, Maker Faire Africa including Henry Barnor, Erik Hershman, Emer Beamer and the rest of the Maker Faire Africa team and National Theatre Wales.

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