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Guardian readers and Caroline Bannock

GuardianWitness weekly highlights: alternative housing projects, Wimbledon and Glastonbury

Main Stage, Glastonbury Fayre: 1979 - Height of the festival, before the commercialisation set in. No alcohol for sale on site
Main Stage, Glastonbury Fayre, 1979. Photograph: Nigelrayment/GuardianWitness

GuardianWitness is now on Facebook, as we wanted to share your contributions with a wider audience. Have a look at our page and get involved.

It's time to head over to Worthy Farm for Glastonbury 2014, where 175,000 festivalgoers are expected to rave and revel over the weekend. Didn't get a ticket? Why not just pitch up a tent at home and watch it on TV like Otis?

Calling all aspiring music video directors! Guardian Music want to see you showcase your talent. All you have to do is download one of two tracks and show us what you can do by creating your own video. If you need any inspiration (which we're sure you don't), take a look at MrFunk's funky entry.

Created in one day - Inspired by Synesthesia

Clapping

Typing lyrics into a BBC Micro emulator.

Audio spectrum and waveform used to make simple visuals.

Boom.

On a more serious note, we asked you to share your experiences about being homeless or working with homeless people. You can read Jon Henley's interesting piece on the issue here.

This is a picture of Centrepoint's Youth Educators speaking at our national Sleep Out event last November.

Centrepoint is a national charity working with young homeless people aged 16-25. On average over 80,000 young people will be experience homelessness every year in the UK.

Centrepoint’s Youth Educators Project trains young people who have experience of homelessness and/or offending- there is often a strong link between the two- in Peer Education. The training is AQA accredited so the young people gain a qualification on completion, and they become Youth Educators for Centrepoint. Following the training, the Youth Educators deliver awareness sessions throughout the community, to young people and professionals alike; telling their personal story of homelessness, challenging negative stereotypes and changing perceptions. It is very brave and inspirational what the Youth Educators do, not to mention being completely voluntary! They are great ambassadors for Centrepoint, and I feel honoured to work with them.

I thought the Youth Educators Project is relevant to your call for submissions about homelessness, as it is all about sharing experiences. If you were interested, I know that the Youth Educators would be very happy to talk to you.

MAG (Mines Advisory Group) sent us this photo from Kharzir Transit Camp which has a capacity for 2000 and is about 40km west of Erbil, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Four hundred internally displaced Iraqis, who have fled the fighting, are living here.

A Community Liaison Officer from MAG (Mines Advisory Group) gives emergency safety information to internally displaced people who've fled the fighting in Mosul.

IDPs are particularly vulnerable to the landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) littering the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, as they're in unfamiliar territory.

This photo was taken at Khazir Transit Camp for IDPs, located close to Kalak town, about 40km west of Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

There are an estimated 415 tents here, temporarily housing about 2,000 people who've fled fighting.

We've been inundated with stories about you 'coming out' about mental health issues at work. Some people told us they were fired after disclosing a history of mental health illness and others just didn't care, in a good way, like in Adam Langley's case.

No-one said anything about it, and the colleagues who I did tell have gone out of their way to be kind and supportive. I do not know if this is rare in a workplace or not, but I feel better about myself and more confident after being honest with the people I work with.

Tech Monthly are looking for photos around the theme scale. Whether it's an insect on a hippo or a giant Patagonian snowman, share your photos with us.

I took this photo in Futaleufu, a small Chilean village on the Argentinian frontier high in the Andes way down south in Patagonia. My wife Konomi provides a sense of scale along with the house in the background. When snow falls in Futaleufu, the residents of the village engage in an informal snowman building competition and we have seen realistic penguins and burros. Lots of fun indeed.

Now that England are out of the World Cup (yes, we've been shedding tears too) it's all about Wimbledon. Have you rediscovered a penchant for strawberries or watching the action from Murray Mount? Whatever you're doing to celebrate Wimbledon, share your photos with us.

Out awesome day in a nutshell. ANDY MURRAY STOLE MY PEN.

This week's Recipe swap theme is mint. Send in your recipes and Felicity Cloake will choose her favourite to print in the Cook section of the Guardian.

I never used to be a massive fan of mint in my food, in particular mint sauce or even worse, mint jelly (shudder). I used to associate the taste of mint with toothpaste and mouthwash! But I am learning to love it by slowly including it in my food.

This is a brilliant accompaniment with roast lamb instead of the traditional British mint sauce, typically a combination of mint, vinegar and sugar, which I've livened up with fresh Mediterranean flavours.

Skill level: Easy

1 x banana shallot, finely chopped

6 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp sherry vinegar

1 tbsp white wine vinegar

2 garlic cloves, very finely chopped

2 tbsp fresh mint, chopped

1 tbsp fresh flat leaf parsley, chopped

10 baby plum tomatoes, chopped

half tsp sugar

salt and freshly ground black pepper

Mix the shallot with the olive oil and vinegar. Set aside to allow the shallot to infuse the dressing with sweet onion flavour.

Stir in the garlic, herbs, tomatoes and the sugar.

Season to taste.

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For the first time, Do Something's Hannah Booth tried her hand at making a leather tote bag and is now looking to see your handmade bags.

New assignments this week

Ramadan: share your photos and stories

Community gardens: are you a member?

Teenage proms: share your pictures

World Cup 2014: recreate your favourite moments so far

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