Author: Lorie Novak

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826 Valencia Writing Project (thanks Melanie)

Dave Eggers TED speech: listen

[Dave Eggers’ first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Since then he’s written two more novels and launched an independent publishing house, which publishes books, a quarterly literary journal (McSweeney’s), a DVD-based review of short films (Wholpin), a monthly magazine (The Believer) and the Voice of Witness project. In 1998 he launched 826 Valencia, a San Francisco-based writing and tutoring lab for young people, which has since opened six more chapters across the United States.]

Links:
http://www.826valencia.org/
http://www.826nyc.org/
http://onceuponaschool.org/

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New Project from Photo Voice

Check this out:

Nothing Special
Inclusion from the outside: a photographic exhibition by Disabled Young People

The entire PhotoVoice site contains many great projects.

I recommend signing up for the Photo Voice newletter.

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Photosynth

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

crazy.

– Sophie Lvoff

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Sites.

Mayor Bloomberg just released the first “art in schools” report. The press release can be found here: NYCGOV

Another interesting project I found is a film project called “Reel Lives.” It’s a youth empowerment through film project based out of Los Angeles. Remedee: Empowerment Through Storytelling.

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My Sites

The sites I found are linked below… the rest of my post can be found under the photostory post as “Comments”

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Mother Jones
LoveBryan: Broken Branches Word Stories

Also, ShootNations (link below) is an annual youth photography competition and traveling exhibition. This year’s image competition involves youth and climate change:

“This year’s competition will open on Thursday 1st May 2008. The theme for this year’s competition is ‘YOUNG PEOPLE IN A CHANGING CLIMATE’.

We want to see the environmental issues affecting young people all around the world. Help us build a global picture of the reality of climate change.

The competition is open to anyone aged 11 – 24 from anywhere in the world. Last year we had over 1500 entries from 85 countries around the world – help us make this year even bigger and better!”

“The aim of Shoot Nations is to engage young people of all backgrounds from around the world to question the choices that govern their own lives. Using photography as a tool, Shoot Nations will allow young people to creatively express their views using a tangible and accessible format. The Shoot Nations exhibition will tour major global cities and facilitate a series of youth workshops on Governance and photography with young people.”

SHOOT NATIONS

— Melanie Glass

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More projects to look at

Ghana Youth Photography Project

SF Camerawork First Exposures Mentoring Program

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We Feel Fine

We Feel Fine is an interactive map of the internet blog network based on the phrase “I feel” or “I am feeling.” When a feeling is selected, other related feelings cluster around it. This interface is currently beyond our ability to utilize, but it presents visual new way of bringing diverse sources together and drawing connections between many individuals, even if in this case it is without their direct knowledge.

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Thousand Kites

I was looking around the Appalshop website and came across the Thousand Kites project which is collecting stories about prisons and the criminal justice system in the United States. On Monday, March 24, Nicholas Szuberla, a representative from the project is coming to speak in George Stoney’s film class at the Tisch Center for Social Media. Those of you in Tisch may already know about this, but I thought it sounded quite interesting.

http://www.thousandkites.org/index.php

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Listening for the Lexicon of Cultural Shift

Hi everybody,

Here is an article that I found to be really forward thinking in that it’s a compilation of theory and thought from outside of traditional academia. It deals mainly with art, the artist, and the role of both in social change in the community and the larger cultural landscape. Please feel free to skip around to different subjects once you get through the introduction.

Lexicon of the Cultural Shift by Lynda Frye Burnham

Here is the article

posted by Nathan Z Lothrop

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Dreaming With Cameras

I really think what David has done is amazing. I am inspired by an NYU graduate so close in age giving back to the community through the arts. I really like the Gallery page as an idea of how we can introduce our students on our individual web pages.

www.dreamingwithcameras.org/

Posted by Megan E Fingleton