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Here’s what’s in this month’s update:
- SPNN
Programs Update
- NYMAP
Update
- NAMAC
Update
- Youth
Channel Schedule
- Job,
Internship & Scholarship Opportunities
2007
SPNN Programs Update
Set It Up Season 07-08
Started Monday October 22nd
Production of Set It
Up’s season premier is underway, you can watch for it coming
up next month on Channel 16. Another great way to get information on what
is happening with the Set It Up
crew is to read our blog at www.setitup.blogspot.com or friend
us on MySpace, www.myspace.com/setituptv !
SPNN Open Lab (S.O.L)
Thursdays from 3:30-5:30
SOL (SPNN Youth Open
Lab) began October 25th and happens every Thursday
from 3:30pm to 5:30pm. SOL provides the opportunity for youth who
have completed a program at SPNN, to use equipment and the media lab to
produce independent projects with the help of staff.
SOL
runs every Thursday from the 25th and continues
until June 12th. Youth
may come at anytime to propose a project. Feel free to drop by!
For more information, please contact Andrea at
651-361-8141 or at leh...@spnn.org .
SPNN Open House
Youth Media Makers!
SPNN Youth Advisory Committee (YAC) is hosting a youth
video competition during the SPNN Open House. Youth with or without video
making experience are encouraged to make a 2-5 minute short film and bring
it on a DVD to the Open House from 10AM-1PM on Saturday, December 8th
at the SPNN studios. All videos submitted will be shown on SPNN Youth TV
(Channel 16), and prizes will be awarded for the best videos. Email Peter
at kirsc...@spnn.org
for more information!
Who? Twin Cities Youth Media Makers!
What? 2-5 minute short film on DVD
When? Saturday, December 8th
from 10AM-1PM
Where? SPNN (375 Jackson St.)
Also, there will be food, tours of SPNN studios and
remote production staff, and meet staff and board members. Other
activities include: The Annual Santa Call In, record a season greeting and
much more. Stop in anytime.
Upcoming $1 Video Class
Sign up for this $1 Connections Program video
class. You will receive ½ High School credit
for the experience, see your video on TV and on the
internet, and take home a DVD of your movie! See you at SPNN Youth.
Digital Storytelling: YouTube, TV, and
Beyond
Make a movie! Broadcast yourself! Have fun!
Write an original movie, develop characters, then film, act in, and edit
your own masterpiece. Post it on YouTube and watch it on Access TV
with your friends and family. Be a star!
Saturdays from January 19-March 22.
10AM-1PM Location: SPNN Studios
To sign up, contact the Connections Program at
651-221-1446 or Stephe...@spps.org
NYMAP
Update
SPNN Youth continues to contribute to the NYMAP Youth
Video Exchange Network, a project that uses a peer to peer file network to
enable sharing between access centers. Recently, we posted the latest
season of Set It Up to the
NYMAP site so access centers from Michigan
to Manhattan
can air the episodes on their channels. SPNN viewers can look forward to
programming from our partner sites in Grand Rapids
and Portland
airing on Channel 16 soon.
For more information visit www.nymapexchange.net .
National
Alliance
for Media Arts & Culture (NAMAC) Conference Update
Nicola, Andrea, and Peter from SPNN Youth, Bekka and
James, two youth producers, and Mike, SPNN Executive Director, headed down
to Austin, Texas. They attended the 2007 National Alliance
for Media Arts and Culture Conference titled “The Frontier is Here:
Create, Engage, Act.” Conference panel topics ranged from
distribution in the era of YouTube and MySpace to a youth-led media
literacy workshop.
Bekka and James also participated in a youth M.A.F.I.A.
24-hour film festival, working with youth producers from across the country
to make a short film based on a randomly selected prop and genre at Austin
Studios. Le Fly Swatter, the
film which Bekka worked on won the award for best use of their randomly
prop (a fly swatter), and was screened at the conference’s closing
party!
While in Austin we had
the chance to see the U.S.’s
largest urban bat colony under the Congress
Street Bridge
and eat some real Texas
barbeque while watching short films presented by the Alamo Drafthouse
Rolling Roadshow. You can find out more about NAMAC at www.namac.org.
SPNN
Youth Channel
Schedule
on Channel 16
November
2007
Monday
through Sunday: 7- 8PM
Monday:
7PM SPNN
Youth Videos: YIP Summer 2007 (Premiere)
7:30PM SPNN
Youth Videos: YIP Summer 2007 (Premiere)
Tuesday:
7PM NYMAP
Video Exchange: #772 (Premiere)
7:30PM NYMAP
Video Exchange: Two Point Perspective on a Shared Horizon #724 (Premiere)
Wednesday:
7PM SPNN
Youth Videos: Roosevelt Reel 1
7:30PM SPNN Youth Videos: Roosevelt
Reel 1 Cont.
Thursday:
7PM SPNN Youth Videos: Roosevelt Reel 2
7:30PM Video Voices: Church and Homosexuality
Friday:
7PM Swept Away TV: #71
7:30PM Swept Away TV: #68
Saturday:
7PM Phillips
Community Television – Our Turn: Criminal Justice #3
7:30PM In
Progress – Teen Views
Sunday:
7PM NYMAP Video Exchange #50
7:30PM NYMAP
Video Exchange #50 cont.
Job,
Internship & Scholarship Opportunities
- Saint Paul
News Desk ~ Seeking Citizen Journalists from St. Paul
- Opportunities from TCYMN Organizations
·
AXA
Achievement Scholarship
- Conservation In Action Multimedia Competition
St. Paul News Desk
is a joint
project through St. Paul
Neighborhood Network and Twin
Cities Daily Planet. This is
an opportunity for community folk to produce short news stories in written and visual form, about issues that are important to them and their
communities. To encourage citizen journalism
and promote democratized television these news shorts may appear on Twin Cities Daily Planet and SPNN
websites as well as SPNN broadcasts.
·
Each
participant will receive a stipend in exchange for their 3-5 minute video submission.
·
Submissions
will be combined into a four-part broadcast series, St. Paul
In office application deadline: November 12,
2007 10pm. No prior experience
necessary.
Eligibility Requirements:
·
Must
pre-register
·
Must
be a St. Paul
resident
·
Must
attend project orientation, journalism, video & non-linear editing
trainings (3 weekends 12-4pm)
For more information, or an application, call Sherine
Crooms at 651.298.8909 or email cro...@spnn.org . You can
also find a downloadable application @ http://www.spnn.org
.
St. Paul News Desk is supported by a grant from J-Lab,
the Institute for Interactive Journalism.
Opportunities from TCYMN Organizations
TCYMN Youth Film Festival
November 29th, 7pm Walker
Cinema
The Twin
Cities Youth Media Network is holding their second annual Youth Film Fest
at the Walker
Art Center.
This FREE screening will include the best of the best youth media shorts
from local youth, and a chance to meet the makers. The entire event
will be curated and emceed by youth active in the media field. Come
join us for some awesome youth media madness!
Thursday November 29th,
7PM
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
www.tcymn.net
The .EDU Film Fest: A Minnesota
Festival for Students is now accepting short film/video
submissions from student filmmakers. The festival is put on by Como Arts High School and will screen at the Parkway Theater in the Spring.
More information and to submit a work visit www.edufilmfest.com
Perpich Center for the Arts High School
application deadline
is February
1st, 2008. This high school
provides students in there Jr. and Senior year the focus on their artistic
discipline. The schools programs have received national recognition for
their arts education. If you know a youth who is also an artist
looking for a more focused education in the
arts, this is for him/her. The high school is also has dorms on site for students
who may be attending from further away than the Twin Cities. Download the application at www.pcae.k12.mn.us
$670,000 in Scholarships Available from AXA Foundation
in Association with U.S. News & World Report
Students
who are making a difference will be awarded AXA Achievement Scholarships. Now in its sixth year, U.S.
News & World Report and AXA Foundation announce the offering
of the AXA Achievement Scholarships. Dedicated to providing resources that
help make college possible, AXA Achievement will award $670,000 in
scholarships to students throughout the nation.
Applications
are available now via www.axa-achievement.com and the
deadline for submissions is December 15, 2007. In addition, details of the AXA Achievement program will be
included in the U.S. News & World
Report 2008 America’s
Best Colleges issue, on newsstands now.
“The
winners, known as AXA Achievers, are students who are involved in improving
their communities and making a difference to those in need,” said
Bill Holiber, President of U.S. News
& World Report. “Our partnership with the AXA
Foundation helps to give these amazing students a head start on achieving
even greater things.”
Fifty-two
students, one from each state, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, will be selected to receive
one-time scholarship awards of $10,000 each; 10 students will be selected
as national winners from the pool of 52, earning an additional scholarship
of $15,000, a laptop computer and the offer of an AXA internship. Qualified
candidates will have demonstrated drive and determination to succeed, the
ability to thrive in a college environment, and respect for self, family
and community. The scholarship is administered by Scholarship Management
Servicesä, a program of Scholarship America, one of the nation's largest
nonprofit private sector scholarship and educational support organizations.
Applications
available now! For more information and to read about the 2007 AXA
Achievers, visit www.axa-achievement.com.
 Student Conservation Association and Mazda Contest:
Conservation in Action Multimedia Contest
Following in the
tradition of Student Conservation Association (SCA) founder Elizabeth C.
Titus Putnam, whose senior thesis first proposed a "student
conservation corps" some 50 years ago, SCA is looking for new
thoughts, new programs, and new solutions to our most urgent environmental
issues. SCA wishes to engage the intelligence, the passion, and the
leadership of America’s
young people to help restore and protect our physical world.
The SCA is seeking
projects that can help build the next generation of conservation leaders by
engaging young people in protecting and conserving our natural world. The
SCA is looking for practical solutions and will give preference to
submissions that demonstrate how you would implement your idea and what its
impact may be. Remember - presentation counts!
Submissions can
offer an innovative vision, outline a creative new program, or propose a
new twist on an old model of conservation.
Guidelines:
·
Participants
must be between the ages of 15 - 25 on May 1, 2007, and be U.S.
residents.
·
Contest
launch date is July 1, 2007, 12 am ET.
·
Deadline
for electronic submission is December 1, 2007, 11:59 pm ET.
·
Mail
in entries must be postmarked by no later than December 3, 2007 and
received by SCA no later than December 8, 2007.
·
To
be accepted, written submissions can be no longer than 10 double-spaced
typescript pages at 11 point font size. Multimedia submissions must take no
longer than 20 minutes to view.
·
They
must be reproducible and not one of a kind.
·
All
entries must be entirely original work by the participant and not copied or
remixed from any third party.
Prizes include:
Grand Prize —
Ages 15 - 19 Group
·
$15,000
·
A
trip for one to the 2008 EarthVision Summit to be held on
April 24-27, 2008, in Washington,
D.C.
Grand Prize —
Ages 20 - 25 Group
·
$10,000
·
2008
Mazda3i sport four-door sedan.
Winner must be a
licensed driver and will be required to provide proof of insurance at time
of delivery. Winner is responsible for title, license, registration, dealer
preparation costs, auto insurance and other fees associated with prize.
Winner must take delivery of prize from the automobile dealership
designated by Sponsors.
·
A
trip for one to the 2008 EarthVision Summit to be held on
April 24-27, 2008, in Washington,
D.C.
Six First Prizes
·
$2,000
·
A
trip for one to the 2008 EarthVision Summit to be held on
April 24-27, 2008, in Washington,
D.C.
Each of the eight
trip packages includes round-trip coach-class airfare for one from a major
airport near winner’s home to a major airport in or around Washington
D.C.; four days, three nights hotel accommodations in the Washington, D.C.
area at a hotel determined by SCA; meal credit for all conference meals;
and all conference fees.
For
more information please visit http://www.thesca.org/contest/ or
http://www.thesca.org/.
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