April 2007 Archives

Listen Up!'s Very Important Producers Awards 2007
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 26, 2007
Calling all youth filmmakers worldwide! Announcing the Very Important Producers Awards 2007 http://www.listenup.org/vip2007/ Looking for an audience to watch your best films? How about an audience of youth filmmakers worldwide? Listen Up!'s 2nd Annual Very Important Producers Awards is all...

Upcoming Grants
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 25, 2007
Teacher Trust Fund, AIRBORNE INC. Grants ranging from $200-$10K will be awarded to teachers to support school art & music programs. www.airbornetrust.com/grantapplication-action.aspx Local Store Grants Program, TARGET. Grants to $3,000 for nonprofit projects in the arts. http://sites.target.com/site/en/corporate/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-001818 Learning in the...

Vote for the OneMinutesJr 2007 Winner
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 25, 2007
The top 10 films from the VOY OneMinutesJr competition 2007 are now online - you can contribute to make your favorite film the overall winner! Check out the films at http://www.unicef.org/voy/takeaction/takeaction_3733.html and then follow the links to cast your vote....

Benefit Concert for IndyKids
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 25, 2007
An evening of good food and music to support a free paper for free kids! Friday, May 11th from 7-11pm ABC No Rio 156 Rivington Street (between Suffolk & Clinton ) Manhattan, NYC Subway: F to Delancey, J, M, Z...

Cast your vote for Media Magic "Make a Difference" Contest
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 25, 2007
In honour of the 5th Anniversary of the Special Session for Children, UNICEF asked youth to look at the four priorities of the session’s adopted agenda “Building a World Fit for Children” and to create a one-minute video telling the...

Immigration & Young People
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 16, 2007
April 21, 2007 from 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM A training for youth ages 15-22 explore how immigration laws affect all non-citizens, regardless of status, and how to become involved in reforming immigration laws. Learn how issues concerning your lives...

The Field is Bigger than We Think
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 13, 2007
Bridging service-learning and youth media has profound effects on youth and their communities, as witnessed from the 18th National Service-Learning Conference in New Mexico. Whether its documenting oral history, issues in one’s school using video, or sharing one’s cultural identity through journalism and pow wows, youth are taking on socially conscious, activist roles using media.

We are Your Audiences and Your Future: Youth Speak in Africa
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 13, 2007
At the 5th World Summit on Media for Children in Africa, Youth media professionals and organizations offered workshops to help young people acquire various media skills. The 300 young people that attended took on visible leadership roles in advocating for access to, and participation in, mainstream media outlets.

An Alliance for Young Women Who Rock
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 13, 2007
The Girls Rock Camp Alliance—which met for the first time last month to brainstorm ways to maintain a collective mission uniting and supporting young women in music—has become a grassroots movement of burgeoning non-profits across the world that youth media professionals can learn from.

Youth Are the News
By: Katina Paron
Published: April 13, 2007
If newspapers have a responsibility to fully and fairly reflect society and they continue to omit youth experiences and opinions, then it says something drastically fatal about the lack of respect we give young people as valuable members of the community. From the perspective of a youth media professional, incorporating youth voice and contribution to media is priority.

this month's youth media professional (4)
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 13, 2007
Katina used to train as a boxer and h-e-a-r-t-s coffee. She may be the only youth media practitioner who used to attend trade shows on radiant floor heating for work or who studies charts of the muscular skeletal system on the side.

letter from the editor (volume 1:issue 4)
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 13, 2007
This issue documents four convenings that have occured over the past few weeks, capturing lessons learned and highlighting key findings useful to youth media professionals in the field.

Urban Visionaries Retrospective
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 6, 2007
For ten years, Urban Visionaries Film Festival has been New York City's film festival produced, promoted, and presented by youth. On Tuesday April 3rd, the Urban Visionaries Retrospective was held at Tribeca Cinemas, hosted by Adobe Youth Voices, Listen Up!...

Applications Now for Summer Rock Camp for Girls
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 6, 2007
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls (New York, NY) Founded in 2004, Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls is a non-profit summer day camp serving girls aged 8-18 in New York City. The program offers girls the chance to learn...

KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine is looking for a few good women
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 4, 2007
KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine is looking for a few good women: 'Cause The Revolution will be broadcast on radio! The Women's Magazine is an hour long radio show that is aired the first three Monday's of every month from 1-2pm...

Article: "Being a Girl in a Post-Soviet State"
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 4, 2007
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on Thinking-East in 2005. Fardona (20, from Uzbekistan) tells us about her life - a life that is not easy, living in a country in which women's rights are becoming ever more difficult...

Two job openings at VOX Teen Communications
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 4, 2007
Writing Program Coordinator VOX Teen Communications seeks a committed, creative, resourceful, motivated journalist-turned-teacher to coach and support Atlanta-area teenagers in writing, editing and producing a citywide, independent, uncensored newspaper and Web site created by teens for teens. This full-time position...

Interview Dorin Babeu at the Tokyo Video Festival
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 4, 2007
Thirteen year old Dorin Babeu, who made the one minute video baby-trees, was the lucky winner of this year's Tokyo Video Festival sponsored by JVC. He was nominated out of 120 one minute videos and won a trip to...

"The Student Experience:" Social Justice Training Institute at San Jose State University
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 4, 2007
July 19 – 22, 2007 San Jose State University Deadline: April 15, 2007 What is the Social Justice Training Institute? Since December of 1998, the Social Justice Training Institute has been providing an opportunity for individuals committed to issues of...

UNICEF and Sesame Street in Kosovo
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 4, 2007
Sesame Street Kosovo (originally launched in 2004 and again in 2006) are thirty minute shows on TV that combine education with tolerance. The program is based on existing segments from Sesame Workshop’s international library, but combined with locally produced live...

Two upcoming film courses (nyc)
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: April 4, 2007
Documentary Media Studies Program Presented by The New School in New York Deadline: April 16 (for fall 2007) The Department of Media Studies at The New School is now accepting applications for its fall 2007 Documentary Media Studies certificate program....