Category: 2007

Media Education Centre will be organizers of the 3rd International Youth Media Summit for teens ages 13-17, held in Belgrade summer of 2008.
International Youth Media Summit was founded by Ms. Evelyn Seubert from Cleveland High School USA and Ms. Aileen Marshal from South Lanarkshire Council in Scotland. During July 21-30, 2006, the first summit was held in LA presented by ‘Listen Up!’ and ‘Learning for Life’ as well as being mainly funded by IRMAS Charitable Foundation and HealthNet.
Nearly 90 people from 26 countries attended the Summit in 2006 and represented diversity in identifying and addressing seven core issues:
Racism | Violence | Poverty | Youth Empowerment | Women’s Empowerment | Health
| Environment
The outcomes are Public Service Announcements (PSAs) filmed and edited by student filmmakers as well as researched and prepared by the student diplomats.
This program is exclusively designed to provide Skill and Professional Development as well as familiarizing young participants with codes and standards of Media. The program also provides a media platform for young adults to express and present the above significant issues around the globe.
All delegates chose an issue group, and when in Belgrade they worked with others in their issue group to:
• Create resolutions of action and present them to both the United Nations and home countries.
• Create public service announcements that encourage teens to become actively involved in creating change.
• Share past successes using video, collaborative projects, and work done at other teen summits and organizations.
• Plan future work using international media exchange projects.
If you are organization working with young people or an individual young filmmaker (13 to 19) and media and you are interested on 3rd International Youth Media Summit please register and write your question-comments on the IYMS Blog Category. http://www.roamingreporters.net/RRWP/

Students across the New York tri-state area are encouraged to enter The War contest, On the Town: Stories of New York in World War II. To apply, students must create a multimedia project that addresses the theme: Where Were They Then: New Yorkers and World War II. The project can be a podcast or Web site, an image montage or a flash animation. They can work independently or collaborate in teams.
The contest is for students in grades 8-12 to create a multimedia project that can inform young people about World War II, integrates three generations of tri-state residents, and inspires student creativity.
The deadline is December 31, 2007 and winning students and their teachers will be invited to attend a reception at Thirteen. For more information, rules and regulations, and the entry form, please visit http://www.newyorkwarstories.org/student_contest.html.

World Savvy is looking for an intern to support the 2007 Media and Arts Program. Since World Savvy is a small start-up nonprofit, there is opportunity to take on responsibility and see significant returns in the short term.
This is an unpaid internship. We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin status, sexual orientation, age,
marital status, veteran status or disability.
Hours: 12-21 hours a week; details to be negotiated.
Dates: Oct 8- Dec 21 (open to negotiation)
Location: 540 Madison Avenue @ 55th Street
Key Responsibilities:
-Research public school standards and create a document linking
Media and Arts Program curriculum to state standards
-Help develop teacher resources on Immigration and Identity
including lesson plans, contemporary artists, and a calendar of
local arts events Jan-June 2008
-Solicitation of in-kind donations
-Other administrative or programmatic work, as required
Qualifications:
-BA preferred
-Excellent communication skills
-Excellent research and writing skills
-Background in arts or media
-Interested in education and/or youth development
-Interest in media and arts education
-Interested in immigration and identity issues
-Responsible and reliable
-Good with computers and comfortable with internet and word-
processing
-Ability to take initiative and work unsupervised
-Willingness to be flexible and adaptable to change
Please email your resume and a short letter of interest to
victoria@worldsavvy.org

Title: exalt Program Coordinator
Reports to: Executive Director
Summary:
exalt youth is a new nonprofit seeking a dynamic, passionate individual to join our team. exalt’s mission is to transform the lives of youth along the spectrum of criminal justice involvement by equipping them with the skills and experience they need to be self-sufficient, self-fulfilled, productive members of society. We fulfill this mission by providing a cohesive program with four components: employment readiness and life skills training; paid internships in youths’ fields of interest; post-internship education and career development services; and an alumni network that provides ongoing access to resources. exalt partners with criminal justice agencies, community based programs and schools to serve youth ages 15-20, both in and outside of the criminal justice system.
exalt’s Program Coordinator conducts all aspects of the program including recruiting and selecting youth from partner sources, facilitating a month long preparation class, developing and monitoring internships that meet participants’ interests, and providing support to youth throughout all aspects of the program.
Responsibilities
· Marketing exalt’s program to youth in partner organizations and schools.
· Interviewing and selecting youth from partner sources to participate in exalt’s program.
· Facilitating five week long pre-internship preparation class, which runs two hours per day, four days per week.
· Developing internships throughout New York City in a wide range of employment sectors to meet youths’ various interests.
· Developing strong relationships with employer partners and youth to support their participation and success in internship experiences.
· Conducting regular out reach to internship sites throughout duration of internships through regular site visits, phone calls.
· Facilitating weekly seminars with participants during their internships to help youth process their experiences and continue developing education and career development skills.
· Facilitate monthly post-internship seminars for participants to assist them further their skill development and make progress towards achieving longer term educational and career goals.
· Work closely with Executive Director to continuously develop program to meet youth and employer needs and interests.
Qualifications
· Bachelors Degree required.
· Experience working with “at-risk” youth in educational contexts (e.g. schools or nonprofit programs). Experience working with court-involved youth preferred.
· Ability to engage youth typically resistant to educational settings.
· Experience facilitating groups utilizing creative curricula and pedagogy.
· Ability to network with a diverse range of external constituents including employers from multiple sectors, participants’ families, school and other agency staff.
· Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal).
· Interest in and ability to develop creative and rigorous programming for youth.
· Demonstrated ability to work independently and take initiative.
· Strong organization skills and attention to detail required.
· Bilingual (Spanish speaking) a plus.
Please send resume and cover letter to info@exaltyouth.org
(Please indicate in cover letter what interests you about the position. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.)
exalt is an equal opportunity employer. www.exaltyouth.org

– self- expression – critical thought – self- confidence – educational achievement
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East Room 714, Silver Center , NYC
Opening Panel and Performance: free to public
FRIDAY Sept 21, 2007, 7-9pm
Speaking Dreams, Living Words:
An Evening of Performance and Conversation on Justice and the Power of Poetry
David Kirkland Ph.D., Moderator
Panelists: Marcella Runell Hall, Queen GodIs, Piper Anderson, K~Swift
The arts have always served an important role in education to cultivate visions of justice and liberation. To some educators social justice is an act of changing the world outside of us. To others it means changing the world from within us. This conversation brings personal stories to center stage, examining the power of spoken word in education to reclaim identities and unleash powerful new voices. Through spoken word, social justice takes on new meaning beginning with one individual, a paper, and a pen whose words when spoken have the power to transform society and the self.
And weekend workshops:
SATURDAY, September 22, 2007 10am – 3pm
(100 Washington Square East, Manhattan, Room 520 Silver Center)
10-11:30am
Urban Word NYC Introduction to Student-Centered Pedagogy
Parker Pracjek & Michael Cirelli
We will discuss the cornerstone principles of Urban Word NYC pedagogy (student-centeredness, non-censorship, and mentoring model), and what it means to carry these principles as systems of belief that bleed into every aspect of our roles as educators. We ask: In what ways do I foster active listening to my writing students? In what ways do I re-enforce the status-quo (suspicion of and disappointment in inner-city youth) or invite deep questioning? In what ways do I model positive social dialogue? In what ways do I foster collaborative teaching?
11:30-1pm
NYCoRE
Educator as Activist
This workshop encourages teachers to examine the ways in which institutionalized education serves to maintain the predominant status quo. We will look at the ways in which a teacher may redefine their role from the traditional classroom-based professional to one who takes a stand on issues of educational justice. Curricular resources developed by NYCoRe on Katrina, immigration and militarism will be available.
1:30-3pm
Kamilah Forbes, Hip-Hop Theatre Festival
Hip Hop Theater 101
This workshop will cover the beginnings of hip hop culture in relationship to a performance aesthetic; discussion will include the history of hip hop theater: how, where and who started it as well as some of the social and political aspects that brought it into being. The workshop will also be interactive in exploring the basics of theater and storytelling in a performance context. Time permitting, other aspects of hip hop theater techniques will be explored, including using rhyme as the basis for dramatic scene, incorporating movement into the physicalization of a character and the utilization of a live DJ as the sound track that pushes a dramatic scene forward.
SUNDAY, September 23, 2007 10am – 3pm
(100 Washington Square East, Manhattan, Room 520 Silver Center)
10-11:30am
David Kirkland, Ph.D.,
Language and Liberation
This session examines the politics of language, exploring the power of the spoken and written word, always articulated in dialect, to construct our identities and unleash our powerful voices. In this way, language plays an important role in both poetry and the arts. A contested site, language is the place where youth struggle with words, theirs and others, to cultivate visions of justice and liberation. In language, youth take on new meaning beginning with a voice and verb, where words when spoken have the power to transform the world inside-out.
11:30-1pm
DJ Reborn (Robyn Rodgers)
Young Women Reborn: Through Popular Music, Media and Culture
The powerful voices, energy and brilliant analytical perspectives of young women deserve to be explored through alternative mediums. The “Young Women Reborn: Through Popular Music, Media and Culture” workshops seek to do just that. Robyn Rodgers will lead a mini version of this model with a discussion of the impact of media on girls, a writing exercise and a dj demo.
1:30-3pm
Rachel McKibbens
RELEASING THE HOSTAGES: How to Negotiate Poems Out of Our Youth
We cannot teach imagination, but we can encourage it. In this workshop, you will discover how to build your own custom fit exercises from poems, write poetry of your own to be used as prompts (even if you don’t think of yourself as a poet) and acknowledge the risks you must take as educators to earn the trust of your students; if they don’t believe we care about them as writers, they will not deliver the poems they are capable of.
REGISTER NOW!
Suggested donation for weekend training is $100.
Please be sure to pre-register by emailing Program Director, Parker Pracjek at parker@urbanwordnyc.org
Training is free for NYU students and staff, NYCoRE Members, and the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival staff.
For additional information, please call 212-352-3495.
About Urban Word NYC:
Founded in 1999, Urban Word NYC™ (UW) is at the forefront of the youth spoken word, poetry and hip-hip movements in New York City. As a leading nonprofit presenter of literary arts education and youth development programs in the country, Urban Word NYC offers a comprehensive roster of programs during the school day and after-school hours and conducts diverse programmatic offerings in the areas of creative writing, journalism, literature and hip-hop. UW presents local and national youth poetry slams, festivals, reading series, open mics and more. All told, Urban Word NYC works directly with 15,000 teens per year in New York City alone, and has partner programs in 42 cities across the United States. For more information, visit: www.urbanwordnyc.org.
About NYCoRE:
New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE) is a group of public school educators committed to fighting for social justice in our school system and society at large, by organizing and mobilizing teachers, developing curriculum, and working with community, parent, and student organizations. We are educators who believe that education is an integral part of social change and that we must work both inside and outside the classroom because the struggle for justice does not end when the school bell rings. Visit: www.nycore.org
About the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival:
In six years, the Hip-Hop Theater Festival (HHTF) has grown into one of the most influential outlets showcasing hip-hop performing arts in the country. The Hip-Hop Theater Festival aims to invigorate the fields of theater and hip-hop by nurturing the creation of innovative work within the hip-hip aesthetic. The core of HHTF’s programming is its annual Festivals. Visit: www.hiphoptheaterfest.com

Go to www.indykids.net to download the paper and teacher’s guide, find out how to get copies and to subscribe.
The new issue includes stories about the Jena 6 case in Louisiana, United States military bases worldwide, Coca-Cola’s attack on workers’ unions in Colombia, the Khalil Gibran Academy, Harry Potter reviews and a Harry Potter scavenger hunt.
Visit:
http://www.indykids.net/teachers/index.html
for the Teacher’s Guide that accompanies the new issue.
Free copies of the new issues are currently available in New York City at:
• Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen St (between Stanton & Rivington), Manhattan
• Revolution Bookstore, 9 W. 19th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues), Manhattan
IndyKids is a free newspaper and teaching tool for kids in grades 4-8 and high school English language learners. IndyKids aims to inform children on current news and world events from a progressive perspective and to inspire a passion for social justice and learning.

Low power FM stations broadcast at 100 watts or less, making them affordable and useful tools for noncommercial and community groups. In 2000, the Federal Communications Commission issued hundreds of licenses for free to community stations, but Congress limited the service, keeping it from thousands of other communities, particularly inside big cities.
A repeal of these restrictions and a new issuing of licenses could benefit the youth radio field by increasing access to the airwaves and making more spaces for youth voices to be heard.
On June 21, 2007, Congresspersons Mike Doyle and Lee Terry introduced the Local Community Radio Act, which, if passed, will expand radio access across the country.
According to organizers at the radio access advocacy group, Prometheus Radio Project, the bill is moving forward, but support is needed to get representatives to cosign it.
For more information and to sign the petition to expand low power FM radio, go to http://www.expandlpfm.org/ or http://www.prometheusradio.org.

Erin Yanke, 37, is the Youth Advocate at KBOO Community Radio in Portland, OR. She is one of the hosts of Life During Wartime, a late night punk show, and a part of the Circle A Radio Collective.
Erin did her first radio show at the age of 15 at a Community radio station similar to KBOO and was involved with her college radio station by 18. She was attracted to radio because it helped her discover how big the world could be, mostly through the punk rock shows on KDVS, and radio stations out of the San Francisco Bay Area.
She explains, “I was a DJ and engineer, and when I moved to Portland in 1994 I came immediately to KBOO and began volunteering. We were still editing with reel-to-reel tape and razor blades at that time. I think about that, and the way that computers and Digital Editing have revolutionized the ability for people to be citizen reporters, and do-it-yourself artists and archivists, and it blows my mind. I’m sure my past helps me do my job well, but the thing that I think is more important is that I am still a volunteer here.”
In the non-radio parts of her life, Erin plays drums in the punk rock band Social Graces, works as a house cleaner, lives collectively, reads voraciously, and hangs out.