Category: 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 with a growing non-profit after-school program (founded in 1993) splits time between teaching teens journalism and creative nonfiction with coaching them through several drafts of stories to get them ready for publication.
To apply, send resume, cover letter and no more than 3 writing/editing samples to meredith@voxrox.org or 145 Nassau Street, Atlanta, GA 30303. No phone calls please.
Application Deadline: April 16, 2007
Visual Arts Coordinator
VOX Teen Communications seeks a committed, creative, resourceful, motivated visual communications specialist-turned-teacher to coach and support Atlanta-area teenagers in designing and producing a citywide, independent, uncensored newspaper and Web site created by teens for teens. This full-time position with a growing non-profit after-school program (founded in 1993) splits time between teaching teens visual communications and managing VOX’s publications.
To apply, send resume, cover letter and no more than 3 design/art samples, no larger than 1 MB, to meredith@voxrox.org or 145 Nassau Street, Atlanta, GA 30303, attention hiring team. No phone calls please.
Application Deadline: April 16, 2007
For more go to: http://www.voxrox.org/who/jobs.html

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 Japan to
receive his prize, a certificate and 600 Euros. Find out how he experienced
his first visit ever to an Asian country in his interview at oneminutesjr.
www.theoneminutesjr.org

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 inclusion to develop their skills in the areas of dialogue and connectedness. Over 400 professional colleagues have participated in this experience to date. We are now expanding the experience to include an opportunity for students to gather and do some “personal work” related to social justice issues. The institute is open to 60
undergraduate students on college and university campuses in the U.S. and abroad. This advanced experience is for students who have done a fairly significant amount of work on social justice issues.
Six alumni will join two or three SJTI faculty to complete the facilitation team.
Institute Format
The Social Justice Training Institute will provide an intensive developmental opportunity for students to examine the complex dynamics of oppression and to develop strategies to foster positive change on their campuses and in their communities.
Students who attend the institute will be given the opportunity to explore the identities that make up who they are and better understand the extent to which these identities impact all they do. Through facilitated activities and exercises along with small group dialogue, participants will engage in conversations that will challenge and support them in their journey toward understanding how they can each – individually – impact our global community. To this
end, each student will be asked to obtain a “partner” from their home campus and to develop a Social Justice Commitment (SJC) detailing personal growth goals, an intervention that will impact their home campus and ways in which they can contribute to their community. The partner must be a faculty member, staff member or administrator on the student’s home campus. Participants will work with their partner after the institute to continue their growth
process and to implement their SJC.
Additional information can be found at: http://www.sjti.org/home_student.html

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 action films that are incorporated into the television series. These two-minute films depict the everyday lives of children from a variety of backgrounds and provide a window through which viewers can learn about the traditions and experiences of others.
The show is the first locally produced educational media initiative in the area – and the first that provides children of diverse ethnic backgrounds with age-appropriate messages encouraging respect for each other.
UNICEF is producing a round of outreach materials for use in a variety of learning environments to extend the educational messages of the series to Kosovo’s most remote areas.
Read a full article at UNICEF’s web page here.

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. Launched in September 2006, this one-year intensive program is designed for college graduates and working professionals interested in hands-on documentary filmmaking. Working closely with faculty and visiting filmmakers like D.A. Pennebaker and Peter Davis, students are encouraged to use the documentary medium to create works of social and political significance.
IFP Narrative Rough Cut Lab
Deadline: April 27
IFP runs two labs annually to instill “readiness” for feature filmmakers. The program is open to first-time narrative filmmakers who have shot all or a substantial amount of the footage required for their features but who have not completed post-production. The 4-day labs are held June 12-15 in New York City and provide a dynamic system of feedback and advice on technical, creative and post-production issues ranging from music clearance to creative editorial problems to festival strategies. The lab is free for the selected projects. (The Documentary Lab deadline is Sept. 10 for Lab dates of Nov. 6-9.)

With the nonprofit What Kids Can Do http://www.whatkidscando.org as a springboard, young people are documenting global change through photographs, essays, and audio, and drawing interest from students and teachers across the hemispheres.
The voices of eight students at Beijing High School No. 12 this week contributed the latest entry on the WKCD website, “Life in New China.” Speaking candidly in English and Chinese, teenagers talk about such high school universals as friendship, art, sports, lunch, and school uniforms.
Launched with help from the Asia Society, the China pages also contain side-by-side photographs and commentary in which students show the rapid changes in their city’s culture. One can even download a multimedia Chinese- English “dictionary” featuring the voices of younger students as they translate captions for photos of Beijing.
In the rural Tanzanian village of Kambi ya Simba, secondary school students who had never before held a camera helped create the book In Our Village: Kambi Ya Simba Through the Eyes of Its Youth, published in late 2006 by Next Generation Press. Their interviews, photographs, and videos, posted at http://www.inourvillage.org, have sparked spin-off projects in
far-flung places from Guatemala to Los Angeles.
Another ambitious project on has WKCD working with youth in Delhi and San Francisco to document the effects of globalization in their communities. Part of a worldwide collaboration sponsored by Adobe Youth Voices, it will result in mixed-media pieces produced by young people supplied with digital cameras, tape recorders, and Adobe creative software.
Immigrant and refugee youth in southeast London are creating digital stories about their resettlement. Youth in Bangalore are working on a “Day in the Life” photo essay.
“It’s all part of our commitment to make global what is local, and local what is global,” says What Kids Can Do president Barbara Cervone.
See full story at PRNewswire.

South Africa is hosting the 5th World Summit on Media for Children (5WSMC), which starts on Saturday March 24 and runs to March 28 in Johannesburg.
The theme of the summit is “Media as a Tool for Global Peace and Democracy.”
It’s organised by the Children and Broadcasting Foundation for Africa, in partnership with SABC, ICASA, and The Department of Communications and with support from Telkom and the Media Diversity and Development Agency.
The summit will bring together 1,000 local and international media professionals, government and NGOs working in the area of quality media for children with a specific aim of developing a comprehensive children’s media policy framework, to highlight sustainable solutions for high quality content.
For more information visit www.5wsmc.com

Ibrahim Abdul-Matin is the technology organizer at Movement Strategies Center in Oakland, California. Sure, you can read his colorful bio on the MSC website here to learn that he is a writer, blogger, and networker. But what you may not know about Ibrahim is that he enjoys moleskin notepads, brooklyn, east coast snow; that he used to be a scholarship football player, was a founding member and host of an event called of Rudemovements at NYC”s APT.
Ibrahim rocks. He balances working as a youth media professional and producing events in the world of progressive music. The Rude crew has produced two albums on vinyl that are rare and well-received in the international underground DJ scene:
http://www.rudemovements.net/002/index.html. Ibrahim was also a founding editor of Wentied magazine and regularly pitches, writes stories and recruits young activist writers for WireTap Magazine.
Read a recent article about Ibrahim’s projects:
http://www.colorlines.com/article.php?ID=176