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1 Giant leap to 'Motion'
  
'1 Giant Leap Belfast' (2004) was a series of events dealing with the racial and cultural issues in Northern Ireland, by revealing the 'unity in the diversity' through the screenings of the 1 Giant leap film.
1 Giant Leap is the creation of Jamie Catto from the band Faithless and producer Duncan Bridgeman. The film fuses music, words, sounds and images from a diversity of musicians, storytellers, authors, artists and thinkers from many different cultures.
Robbie Williams, Dennis Hopper, Michael Stipe, Brian Eno, Baaba Maal, Asha Bhosle and Michael Franti are just some of the artists involved, exploring the things that unite us all and showing how these common traits far outweigh our superficial differences.

Due to the message and content of this film, follow-up discussions were held in Belfast inviting people to give their views on the film and topics it touched on, plus the chance to talk with Catto and Bridgeman.
As well as the film screenings and discussion events the highlight was the arrival of Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman in Belfast, bringing the music from the film to the stage with a collective of musicians who contributed to the soundtrack; fusing all genres of music into a world live mix.

Event organisers, 'Beyond Skin' and friends within the music scene, knew the potential was there for Belfast to have their own Giant Leap themed project. We met with Belfast City Council and others that had been involved through 1 Giant Leap Belfast event , to discuss the idea. From a meeting with the Ossia Music School, in September 04, the concept of the project 'Motion' began to take shape. Inspired from a quote, from Duncan Bridgeman on the making of 1 Giant Leap a difference would be focusing on local unknown talent. "Before we left on our six month journey around the world, we did a little list of all our heroes and favourite people we wanted to work with … but what we completely underestimated was how great all the people who aren't famous are"

Three months later, December 04, after many meetings mostly with connections through those who played a part in 1 Giant Leap Belfast, a project proposal was finalised. We were off again…
"The 'Motion' project invites unsigned musicians from all communities, religious and cultural backgrounds, in Belfast, to contribute and combine their musical ideas in a studio setting to form compositions of music on one CD"

The project was funded by Belfast City Council, Community Relations Council, Enkalon Foundation, Fujitsu, Arts & Business and Whitenoise.

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The Motion Project developed into a touring program and countless groups, schools and clubs have benefited from the program which now works province wide.

1 Giant Leap in Northern Ireland website

 
'Motion' developed by 'Beyond Skin' . www.beyondskin.net
An organisation addressing racism and sectarianism in Northern Ireland through multi-cultural arts.
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