The All City Youth Video Showcase features some of the best films made by Minnesota students under the age of 19. Videos are selected and curated by a panel of young filmmakers from the Twin Cities Youth Media Network (TCYMN). The Showcase is presented by TCYMN, a collective of 18 organizations and schools that support young filmmakers.
If you are under 19, made a film/video short in the last two years, THIS IS FOR YOU! Deadline for submissions is September 26, 2009
2009 ALL CITY YOUTH VIDEO SHOWCASE Saturday, November 21, 3 pm Walker Art Center Cinema
We've just completed the first week of digital storytelling in Nett Lake Village. So far 30 young people have stopped by to work on art pieces for their community, and the work as usual is incredible. Please take a look at some of the first pieces that a part of an upcoming poster exhibit entitled "Determination." Of course there is more work to come and we will be sure to share it with you as Internet access permits!
YFEN FILM CONTEST DEADLINE: EXTENDED THROUGH OCTOBER 23
Free Speech in School (Does it Exist?)
Make your voice heard!
Film your response in 4 minutes or less. Entries can be videos of any kind, including documentary, animation, experimental, or music video. The top three winners will be awarded cash prizes ($1000, $500, and $250) and the first place winner will receive a partial scholarship to the New York Film Academy.
PHOTOGRAPHER LAURI LYONS WORKS WITH YOUTH AT KULTURE KLUB COLLABORATIVE
HOME IS WHERE YOU MAKE IT: LAURI LYONS Thursday, August 20, 6:30 PM Walker Art Center Cinema Free
Throughout the month of August, photographer Lauri Lyons partnered with teenagers from the Kulture Klub Collaborative, a nonprofit arts organization that brings together artists and homeless youth, in a project entitled Home Is Where You Make It. The mobile project, onsite at the Walker for one night, consists of enlarged close- up portraits of homeless youth mounted on six portable cardboard structures. Join us for a conversation with Lyons about her work and her collaboration with Twin Cities youth. Lyons’ photographs and essays have appeared in such publications as Vibe, The London Observer, and Fortune Magazine and she has exhibited her work at The International Center of Photography, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Civil Rights Museum.
Mentorships In Progress offers individual and small group sessions designed to further the artistic development of new artists. Sessions are designed around the needs of the young people that want to learn and lead. In Progress provides a highly qualified staff of both teen and adult instructors. Mentorships meet once a week for a 2-3 hour period. Click below for our Summer 2009 offerings:
SPNN: Set It Up 2009-2010 Crew Applications are Ready! APPLY NOW!
We are now accepting applications for youth to join the Set It Up next semester. Set It Up is a teen-produced TV show exploring issues affecting teens in St. Paul . To apply to be a Set It Up crew member , you must be a high school student (9th-12th grade) , a resident of St. Paul , and have an interest in community issues and media/television production. Crew members will receive high school credit for their contributions , as well as a bus pass to get to and from SPNN.
APPLICATIONS DUE SEPTEMBER 25TH!
For more information contact Andrea at 651.361.8141 or email lehmann@spnn.org!
Learn the basics of Video Production @ the Upcoming PSA Class at The Canvas
Come produce a PSA (Public Service Announcement) about The Canvas – the new arts-based teen center at Hancock Rec Center - in this exciting one-week class. Participants will learn how to plan , shoot , and edit a short video using digital cameras and iMovie , and then learn how to upload and share it on the web. Taught by adult and youth instructors. Come ready to be creative , learn new skills, and have fun!
Who: Teens ages 14-19 Where: Canvas Teen Center @ Hancock Recreation Center Instructors: St. Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN) Class dates: August 24th-27th , Mon – Thurs. , 3:30 -7:30 PM Cost: $15
For more info. contact Phil , Coordinator for the Second Shift Youth Commission , at 651-247-5538
Now Available! The categories for 2010 are visual arts, media arts, and traditional and functional craft arts with deadlines in October and November.
We recommend starting the application process by reading the guidelines for your category by using the LEARN MORE link below. Once you're famliar with the requirements for your category, visit this same link to begin the actual online application process. If you have questions, please contact us.
Welcome to YMR's Twin Cities Volume 3: Issue 4, where practitioners in the Twin Cities investigate youth media practice and share their insights to the field.
The topics covered in this issue include: • Supporting young people to responsibly engage with Web 2.0 tools within our programs; • Supporting young girls to critique media, avoid stereotypes, and act out new identities; • Reflecting on the Twin Cities Youth Media Network: a model of local, regional youth media network; • Learning from the tools and practices of journalism to engage young people in story-telling and local political change; • Learning from artists and media art educators that apply a creative, inventive, and experimental aspect to teen media makers; • Seeing how the Youth Video Exchange Network functions as a pipeline for the field to increase our efforts and those of the young people we serve.; • Viewing successful partnerships between high schools, universities, and youth media educators that encourage Somali youth in the Twin Cities—who have been marginalized by news media—to create better news and media vehicles that accurately represent their perspectives and local communities; and • Supporting the long-term development of girls.
The Educational Video Center is a non-profit youth media organization dedicated to teaching documentary video as a means to develop the artistic, critical literacy, and career skills of young people, while nurturing their idealism and commitment to social change. Founded in 1984, EVC has evolved from a single video workshop for teenagers from Manhattan's Lower East Side to become an internationally acclaimed leader in youth media education. EVC's teaching methodology brings together the powerful traditions of student-centered progressive education and independent community documentary.
10/5/2009: Creative Intersections grant Application Deadline 10/5/2009: Community Arts grant Application Deadline 11/9/2009: Capital grant Application Deadline 11/9/2009: Organizational Development grant Application Deadline 1/11/2010: Community Arts grant Application Deadline 4/5/2010: Creative Intersections grant Application Deadline 4/5/2010: Arts Activities Support grant Application Deadline
MAP supports most direct costs related to the conception, creation and premiere of a new work. These include but are not limited to commissioning fees and artists' salaries, research costs, rehearsal and workshop expenses, promotion, and audience outreach and production costs up to and including the premiere run of the work.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, in association with Ernst & Young LLP, is offering three (3) scholarships in honor of Fred Rogers, the creator and long-time host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
The scholarships are intended to support and encourage aspiring undergraduate and graduate students to pursue careers in children’s media and further the values and principles of Fred Rogers’ work.
The mission of the foundation is to reduce poverty and injustice and promote democratic values, international cooperation and human achievement. Grants are made in three broad programs: Asset Building and Community Development; Peace and Social Justice; and Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom. We are eager to discover and explore innovative ways to solve problems and welcome fresh thinking in the broad areas in which we make grants. To focus our work in the United States, we make grants and loans in 13 key fields: Arts and Culture; Civil Society; Community Development; Development Finance and Economic Security; Education and Scholarship; Environment and Development; Governance; HIV/AIDS; Human Rights; Media; Religion, Society and Culture; Sexuality and Reproductive Health; and Workforce Development. Not all of our regional offices work in every field. Each year the Ford Foundation receives about 44,000 proposals and makes some 2,000 grants. Applications are considered throughout the year. Normally applicants may expect to receive within six weeks an indication of whether their proposals are within the foundation's program interests and budget limitations. DUE: Applications are considered throughout the year
The Pay it Forward Foundation offers students the opportunity to identify what they consider to be the challenges of their communities. They tackle such problems as homelessness, pollution, youth violence, literacy issues, the loneliness experienced by long-term hospital and nursing home patients, and the alienation of today's at-risk youth from the community. The Pay It Forward Foundation provides seed money for such worthwhile projects.
Your school, church or community youth group may apply for this $500 mini-grant to fund a one time project with a Pay It Forward focus. Applications will be accepted anytime by email to grants@payitforwardfoundation.com.
For more information please visit or e-mail info@payitforwardfoundation.org.
Thank you for your time and support of youth media. Please contact me with any questions regarding TCYMN or this email.
Joanna Kohler TCYMN Coordinator joanna@tcymn.net
TCYMN is supported by the Bush Foundation
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