FUTURE IMAGEMAKERSGirls Write Now NYC based program. Writer mentors with girls, college essay writing workshops, and more.
Girls Inc. – global
viBe Theater Experience (viBe) is a non-profit performing arts/ education organization that empowers teenage girls through the creation and production of original performances. more
Read an article by director Dana Edell at CAN: Ripples of the Fourth Wave: New York’s viBePoetry
World Savvy
World Savvy is a global education nonprofit serving youth and educators through three core programs in three offices nationwide. Our mission is to educate and engage youth in community and world affairs, to prepare them to learn, work and live as responsible global citizens in the 21st century.
Read about their Media and Arts Programs
World Savvy New York City
May 18-31, 2009
Global Youth Media and Arts Festival at NYU’s Commons Gallery. All participating youth will showcase their creative projects at a professional gallery exhibition and performance. Private reception on May 28, 6-8:00pm. Opening celebration on May 29, 6-8:00pm!
IN S.F.: WORLD SAVVY MEDIA & ARTS FESTIVAL
Global education nonprofit World Savvy hosted a May Global Youth Media & Arts Program Festival in San Francisco, Calif., with 500 students from 20 Bay Area public schools. worldsavvy.org/san-francisco/
**I found out about these programs from Art in the Public Interest API News.
I suggest subscribing to their email list. **
While writing part of my assessment paper about urban vs. suburban community art programs, I came across Art IS Education, which is a community arts program specifically for Alameda County (where I went to elementary school). I also found Keep Arts in Schools, which seems to be a network of and resources for community art programs across the country. I hadn’t known about these before, but I think they look great.
– Sterling Yee
Contrast Project: Palestinian Youth Photo Project
The Contrast Project works with youth in using digital photography and video as tools for expression and advocacy. The project started in the summer of 2006 with photography trainings with two youth groups in the Bethlehem area of the Palestinian Territories.
The Literacy Through Photography (LTP) program challenges children to explore their world as they photograph scenes from their lives and use their images as catalysts for verbal and written expression. The scenes are framed around four thematic explorations–self-portrait, community, family, and dreams. LTP promotes an expansive use of photography across different curricula and disciplines, building on the information that children naturally possess and connecting them with broader perspectives and ways of communicating. Students furthermore gain new ways of viewing themselves and their communities. LTP was launched in 1990 by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, working in collaboration with the Durham Public Schools. As part of the program, LTP staff members teach a multidisciplinary undergraduate course that includes a semester-long internship in the Durham Public Schools.
Literacy Through Photography Exhibitions
(don’t miss the podcasts at bottom of page)
Literacy Through Photography BLOG
Click on ‘Projects’ link to see more of Center for Documentary Studies Work
A Benefit To Support The Van Gujjar Community Photo Project
SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2009 @ 7 PM
@ UnionDocs
322 Union Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L train to Lorimer/ G to Metropolitan/ J, M, Z to Hewes
$5 suggested donation/ $15 donation u get postcard print/ $25 donation u get 8×10 print
proceeds go to cameras/supplies/materials from summer 2009 program
On Sunday, May 10, 2009 @ 7 pm in a Benefit Evening for The Van Gujjar Community Photo Project, for the first time ever, I will be sharing the work in progress that commenced last spring in the plains and up in the mountains of northern India. There, with the beautiful energy of the Van Gujjar Community of northern India, I began a wonderful project distributing cameras throughout the Van Gujjar community. Some of those cameras found themselves in the hands of photographers exploring the settlement colony of Gindikhatta and other cameras clicked and recorded lives and moments throughout the forests of the Shivalik Mountains, the first bump in the Himalayas and the winter residence for the many families who continue to live and migrate throughout the forests of northern India.
The Van Gujjars are an indigenous, forest dwelling, nomadic, buffalo herding community residing in northern India. In January 2008, the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act was passed in the Indian Parliament. The first comprehensive indigenous rights law ever approved in India, this legislation gives indigenous groups the power to legally lay claim to their traditional homelands. Navigating to secure their forest rights, complicated by their multi-state migration and their minority status as Muslims, the Van Gujjar community is divided as to whether they should cease their migration and relocate to government built settlement colonies or pursue a claim to their ancestral homelands. Inspired by this indigenous struggle, Ben Lenzner traveled to India in the spring of 2008. Ben spent three months researching, photographing and documenting, as well as implementing a photography project with the Van Gujjar community. He distributed 60 cameras to men, women and children throughout the forests and in the Gindikhatta Settlement Colony. These new photography students explored places, people, situations and moments that were important to them. This project is critical. Please come out to support this project and learn a little more about tribal rights in India. These images share an intimate view into the diversity of Islam and the complexities of the struggles of one indigenous community. As globalization brings wealth to unknown pockets of the earth, cultures and traditions shift and disappear as rapidly as the Himalayan glaciers around them.
Please join us for an evening of photographs (exhibition, slideshow & presentation), discussion, Q & A, music, mingling & fresh air in the backyard.
for more info & to rsvp please email ben@benlenzner.com or info@uniondocs.org
Learning through Art at Guggenheim Museum
The Drawing Center is a great art space and resource in Soho. They have two gallery spaces as well as classes for ages k-12 that may be of interest to our students. The classes are free and include materials.
Drawing Center
Thanks!
Angelica