FUTURE IMAGEMAKERSThis is another great kids and cameras organization with a sustainable model that exists in a few countries, including Romania and Tanzania, among others. I am in the process of potentially working with them in the Romanian Clinical Center of Excellence in Bucharest.
— Brett Mayfield
Here’s an article written by a first time teacher that I enjoyed reading. It centers around his time spent in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. It’s not photography based, but it’s about his bond with his students based on Lil Wayne’s music. I like his perspective on student teacher relations and how he found a common ground through music.
I Will Forever Remain Faithful by David Ramsey
Hope everyone had a great break
Posted by Angelica Marshall
I found this link about helping others and how it creates a positive effect on the rest of the world. Kind of obvious maybe, but still cute and makes me feel good about what we’re doing.
And for anyone who saw What The Bleep Do We Know?, this is the study that part of the movie discussed and was somewhat inspired by. An interesting study and a nice way to start the weekend.
posted by Sterling C Yee
Spring 09 Community Collaborations begins
READINGS for next week
An Introduction to Community Art and Activism by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Director of Imagining America
Telling and Listening in Public: The Sustainability of Storytelling by Linda Frye Burnham, Co-Director of CAN
Community-Based Workshops from Soup to Nuts by Jan Cohen-Cruz and Lorie Novak Download file
Exercise chapter in Urban Ensemble: University/Community Collaborations in the Arts by Jan Cohen-Cruz and Lorie Novak download
A Participatory Photography Toolkit download
Websites for inspiration
Photovoice
Workshop Exercises contributed by Tisch Students to the Office of Community Connections
Artists in the Classroom: Ten Collaborative Projects (Center for Documentary Studies, 1998)
Storymapping Projects, interesting interface for presenting stories
in process list of participatory photography sites on photoandimaging.net/coco
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/
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.”
— Melanie Glass
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.
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
posted by Nathan Z Lothrop
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.
Posted by Megan E Fingleton