Midnight Basketball
0.00 - 0.17
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Mix of footage – Midnight Basketball banner, scoreboard, two players greeting each other, a young African girl turning towards the camera, young African player shooting a basket and a young Filipino player driving to the basket and scoring.Audio
Theme Music0.18 - 0.26 Midnight Basketball - A pathway to Australian sport
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A basketball going through the ring.Audio
Theme Music0.27 - 1.20
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Players from different cultural backgrounds talking and laughing together.Audio
Duol: “I want to play for a team and this is a good chance. I’ve always wanted to play for a basketball team.”Tess White: “Midnight Basketball is a program that has run in the Northern Hemisphere for a long, long time very successfully.
We found out about it and brought it into Redfern in Sydney about five years ago and subsequently expanded it around the country.”
Mark: “You get to play basketball until midnight and, just like, it’s a great fitness sport.”
Brad Roberts: “I think it just helps integrate them (young people from diverse cultural backgrounds) into the area and gets them accustomed to some of our cultures here and the way we run day to day.”
Nyamal: “When I arrived in Australia it was really cold. It was really different from Africa because Africa is really hot. In Africa they have a lot of war and criminals there. ”
Brad Roberts: “Some of these guys have come from pretty hard sorts of backgrounds so something like this helps them fit in that little bit easier and breaks down a lot of barriers I guess.
It makes it a lot of fun and I think that’s the best way they can join into the community anyway. ”
1.21 - 1.28 - Getting Involved
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Three young girls from African decent bouncing the ball and facing the camera.Audio
Theme Music1.29 - 2.19
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Nyeleak (young female teenager from African decent) speaking to camera.Brad Roberts - Tournament manager Midnight Basketball Geelong - speaking to camera.
Nisha (young female teenager from African decent) speaking to camera.
Duol (young male teenager from African decent) speaking to camera.
Nyamal (young female teenager from African decent) speaking to camera
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Nyeleak: “I heard from my friend so we decided to do it (join Midnight Basketball) for fun and just catch up on a Friday night.”Brad Roberts: “Basically we got a group of guys together involving some police officers, some local councilors and those sorts of people. I think they really saw the need for this particular program in this area particularly it being a very multicultural sort of area.”
Nisha: “One night my brother came home after midnight and told me about it. I didn’t know it was on but after he told me about it I was interested in trying out.”
Duol: “One of my teachers told me that there was Midnight Basketball happening so I was interested because I like basketball. So I give it try and I really like it.”
Nyamal: “One of my friends told me that there was basketball going on so I was very excited. I wanted to see how they are going and how they play and then I came.”
2.19 - 2.25 - Benefits
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Midnight Basketball team of mixed nationalities posing in a team shot for the camera.Audio
Theme Music2.26 - 3.30
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Duol (young male teenager from African decent) speaking to camera.Nisha (young female teenager from African decent) speaking to camera.
Tess White - Midnight Basketball CEO - speaking to camera.
Duol (young male teenager from African decent) speaking to camera.
Nyamal (young female teenager from African decent) speaking to camera
Tess White - Midnight Basketball CEO - speaking to camera.
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Theme Music3.31 - 3.39 - Challenges
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Young Midnight Basketball participant facing the camera and spinning the ball on one finger.Audio
Theme Music3.40 - 5.01
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Duol (young male teenager from African decent) speaking to camera.Brad Roberts - Tournament manager Midnight Basketball Geelong - speaking to camera.
Tess White - Midnight Basketball CEO - speaking to camera.
Nyeleak (young female teenager from African decent) speaking to camera.
Brad Roberts - Tournament manager Midnight Basketball Geelong - speaking to camera.
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Duol: “It was really hard because we had to get used to a new culture and the way that people live here.Here in Australia is different from where I come from. Here we’ve got to go to school and then get a good job.”
Brad Roberts: “Probably transport is the most difficult for them especially when they are fairly new to the country. That’s probably the big thing that they struggle with so buses are very important in getting them to and from the venue.
The other one can be some of their family customs -issues they may have at home. (I found from here at the venue) obviously cost is the big thing that can factor programs.”
Tess White: “We find that with all the barriers that get raised, confidence is the big one.
If these kids can feel like they can adhere to the discipline requirements in this very structured environment they can move so easily into community sport which is a terrific outcome.”
Nyeleak: “I couldn’t speak English. I couldn’t understand what people were saying and I couldn’t communicate with other people. ”
Brad Roberts: “Some of the kids in particular find it hard to (get forms) signed at home. With the forms generally printed in English some of them have to get translation for some of the forms so sometimes it can be a two or three week period where we have to constantly remind players ‘hey we need your forms – parents or guardians to fill those out and get them back to us’. ”
5.02 - 5.09 - Strategies
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Duol and his Midnight Basketball team being addressed by their coach.Audio
Theme Music5.10 - 6.45
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Nyamal (young female teenager from African decent) speaking to camera.Nisha (young female teenager from African decent) speaking to camera.
Brad Roberts - Tournament manager Midnight Basketball Geelong - speaking to camera.
Tess White - Midnight Basketball CEO - speaking to camera.
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Nyamal: “Actually my mum can’t speak English. That will mean that you will have to contact me so then I can tell my mum what is going on. Then I can explain back to you what she says. ”Nisha: “My mum doesn’t like me going out much but after she knew it was basketball she said I could come and I also come with my brother which helps.”
Brad Roberts: “Parent’s support is definitely a big factor.
A lot of them have to bring the kids into the venue. So getting them here and even the support throughout the evening (for the ones that are coming in) helping out with things like scoring or even helping drive buses home and that sort of thing is big, big help.”
Tess White: “Midnight Basketball is a free program and we provide buses home for everyone to their front door. This is something that needs to be addressed through things like car pooling.
Getting to know the parents - how do you get to know them? How do you offer? There’s lots of car pooling between people who know each other in communities and I think that’s a really important barrier to try and address and be as practical as you can because it’s a big issue.
As far as how we actually target the kids, try and talk to council, try and talk to youth liaisons officers, local police, different cultural groups. There are lots of community service organisations who will be involved with these groups and kids so get their advice.
Food is also another important element of Midnight Basketball. Dinner is actually provided because we don’t want anyone to be hungry. It is also a great inclusionary way of bringing in people from the community.”
6.46 - 6.52 - Advice to coaches and clubs
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Nisha being congratulated by Nyamal after shooting a basket.Audio
Theme Music6.53 - 7.24
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Tess White - Midnight Basketball CEO - speaking to camera.Nisha (young female teenager from African decent) speaking to camera.
Tess White - Midnight Basketball CEO - speaking to camera.
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Tess White: “We sit down at the start of the term with the Midnight Basketballers and they write the code of conduct. We facilitate the process but they write it.It is actually really, really important if you are going to get a diverse group of kids across your community to get involved in the program that you are running that they take ownership of it.”
Nisha: “Let the parents know that it’s something to do with basketball not just the kids hanging around at night. Yeh just let the parents know beforehand.”
Tess White: “Be as welcoming as you can. Not patronising but welcoming.”
7.25 - 7.33 - The Future
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Players from Filipino decent passing the ball and scoring a basket for their team.Audio
Theme Music7.34 - 8.27
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Brad Roberts - Tournament manager Midnight Basketball Geelong - speaking to camera.Tess White - Midnight Basketball CEO - speaking to camera.
Duol (young male teenager from African decent) speaking to camera.
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Brad Roberts: “There are a lot of preconceived ideas especially about some of the new arrivals.I think until you actually have close dealings with them and see how good a people they really are – they’re beautiful people with some of the stuff that they come out and do.
(They are) very friendly so you have just got to get them involved and the rewards overall are enormous apart from some of them are actually fantastic athletes.
They’ll benefit your club in every single way anyway.”
Tess White: “Sport is the most terrific structure to bring people together and we would say to all these people who are volunteers that they (the participants) get so much out of it. They tell us in such great heartfelt ways the meaning that sport is to their lives.
Helping kids in the community - we just encourage you to go ahead and do it.”
Duol: “I always thought that I wasn’t good enough to join a team and that’s why I never joined a team before. I actually want to give it a try now.”
