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Here’s what’s in this months update:
- SPNN
Programs Update
- YTV (Youth
Television) Channel 16 Schedule
- Youth
Media Opportunities
- Job,
Internship & Scholarship Opportunities
SPNN
Programs Update
Film Produced by SPNN Youth Interns Selected for Project
Girl Exhibition
Girls and the
Media, a documentary produced by three SPNN youth interns is
now part of Project Girl, a “Multimedia Exhibition & Guide to
Un-Mediafying Your Life.” You should check it out at Intermedia
Arts! It runs from now until August 16th.
For more info, go to www.intermediaarts.org. An
article about Project Girl that features Girls
and the Media, can be found at http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/family/19529649.html?location_refer=$sectionName.
Congratulations to filmmakers
Daryll Berg, Dedrian Davis, and Bao Yang!
   
Set It Up
End of the Year
& “St. Paul
Places” Episode
Set It Up finished
its 2007-2008 season with a barbeque at Cherokee Regional
Park on June 2nd.
You can catch our fourth episode, “The Saint Paul Places
Project” Mondays at 7PM on YTV, Channel 16. The episode
includes segments about the Central Corridor Light Rail, Break dancers at Lake Phalen, and profiles of Candyland
and the Rondo Community Outreach library.
Watch for our “Best
of” episode on YTV coming up in August, and our online application
for the 2008-2009 crew at www.spnn.org/youth coming soon!
  
Neighborhood
Video Camp Update
St. Paul Youth Services
Neighborhood Video Camps held
it’s first camp of the summer with partner organization St. Paul
Youth Services. SPYS works with families and the community to redirect
youth who are starting to get in trouble at home, at school or with the
law. Participating youth created a video about school because, in the
words of one youth, “some kids like school, some kids don’t
like school, but most kids have to go to school.” The youth
interviewed each other and adults at their site, asking questions such as
“what was your favorite year of school?,” and “if you
didn’t have to go to school what would you do instead?” Youth
drew pictures to be used as b-roll and titles, which allowed them to
visually represent events in the past and hopes for the future.
SPNN will hold a screening for
the video created later in the summer for youth and their families.
SOL Wrap-Up
SOL (or SPNN Youth Open Lab) has
wrapped up for the school year. SOL supports youth who have completed
an SPNN Youth program in producing independent media projects. Youth
producers work on documentaries, movies, PSAs, music videos, and experimental
pieces.
Some projects completed this
year include Frame by Frame: An
Exploration of Stop-Motion Animation by Kate Armstrong and a
short documentary about gas prices called Fueling
Politics by RayLynn Prokasky. Congratulations to Kate,
RayLynn, and all SOL producers!
SPNN Youth at
NCMR
From June 6-8, the Twin Cities
was host to the National Conference for Media Reform, an annual conference
organized by Free Press
that brought together activists, people working in community media,
journalists, and others concerned about the state of media consolidation in
the U.S.
The conference featured well known speakers such as Bill Moyers, Amy
Goodman, and Dan Rather, but also many lesser known people doing important
work to educate, agitate, increase access, and broaden the voices of
marginalized people in the media. This includes youth media makers from
around the country and people who work at Cable Access Centers – both
of whom were represented on a number of panels.
SPNN Youth Programs staff
– Nicola, Andrea, Erika, Peter, and Mary – all attended the
conference. In addition, we received scholarships to NCMR for youth from
YAC! James and Camila attended, and also took part in a lunch for people
involved in youth media, organized by SPNN. Special thanks to Peter for
getting a donation from the Wedge Co-op for the delicious lunch, and biking
over there to pick up the food!
While we would have liked to have
seen more youth represented at the conference and on the workshop panels,
we all came away inspired and excited about the work we are doing at SPNN, and
the growing national movement for media reform that we are a part of.
Busy Summer for
SPNN Youth Programs
Stay Tuner for
Summer Screening!
Summer opportunities include ~ Peer
Mentors positions, Connections Classes, Neighborhood Video Camps, Youth
Intern Program, and much more! With so many classes, how will you find
the time to see all the great films that will be made?? STAY TUNED for a SUMMER
SCREENING which will include pieces made by summer SPNN youth filmmakers.
Schedule
on Channel 16
July
2008
Monday
through Sunday: 7- 8PM
Monday:
7PM SPNN
Youth Video: Set It Up ~ St. Paul
Places Project (Premiere)
7:30PM SPNN
Youth Video: Digital Storytelling Summer 2007
Tuesday:
7PM NYMAP Video Exchange: Because #6
7:30PM NYMAP
Video Exchange: Images & Sound
Wednesday:
7PM Video
Voices: School
7:30PM Video
Voices: Looking for Solutions
Thursday:
7PM In
Progress: Latin Life ~ A Collection of Stories by Young Latino Artists
1996-2006 Disc 1
7:30PM
In Progress: Latin Life ~ A Collection of Stories by Young Latino Artists
1996-2006 Disc 1
(continued)
Friday:
7PM Swept Away TV: Rockstar Stories (Premiere)
7:30PM SPNN Youth Videos: Rezek House Media Projects
Saturday:
7PM In
Progress: Teen Views
7:30PM Phillips
Community Television: Our Turn (Premiere)
Sunday:
7PM In
Progress: Latin Life ~ A Collection of Stories by Young Latino Artists
1996-2006 Disc 2
7:30PM
In Progress: Latin Life ~ A Collection of Stories by Young Latino Artists
1996-2006 Disc 2
(continued)
Youth
Media Opportunities
- Opportunities from TCYMN Organizations
- My Minnesota
Minute: Online Video Contest
- Native American Youth Get Your Film On!
- VOTE! Video Voices
Opportunities
from TCYMN Organizations
TCYMN Youth
Media Calendar
TCYMN
has put together an online calendar. Youth media opportunities offered by
our 15 member organizations will be highlighted, and include workshops,
screenings, and events. You can link directly with the organization or
school offering the activity you are interested in. Our member
organizations are diverse, providing a variety of youth media resources in
the Twin Cities.
The calendar will continue to grow for easy access. For more information
visit TCYMN
Calendar
TCYMN PICKS A DATE FOR 2008 SHOWCASE!
TCYMN's All City Youth Film Showcase 2008 will take place on OCTOBER 25th at the Walker
Art Center.
The submission deadline for youth media is SEPTEMBER 26th. Stay tuned for more information this summer!
My Minnesota Minute
Online Video Contest
Hey, Minnesotans, are you
feeling inspired by the environment that surrounds you? Have you created
your Minnesota Minute yet? Be sure to upload your video soon!
Join us as we celebrate 150
years of Minnesota history by taking a
look at Minnesota's
natural places and asking how we can protect and restore these special
places for the next 150 years. This contest accompanies The Bell Museum of
Natural History's Minnesota Minute television campaign which can be seen on
TV beginning in May or at the Minnesota Minute website. These one
minute videos tell the story of Minnesotans helping to preserve and restore
Minnesota's
natural places.
Now it's your turn!
Perhaps you know of a special
place that needs help? Maybe you have a solution to share? Is there
something you do as an individual or a community that makes a difference
for the future of Minnesota's
natural places and resources? Tell us what changes you think the next 150
years will bring to Minnesota's
environment. Grab a camera and start shooting!
HOW?
1) Go to www.minnesotaminute.org to see
examples of Minnesota Minutes and to learn more about Minnesota's environment.
2) Pick up a digital camera.
3) Create your own Minnesota Minute video.
4) Keep it short! (under five minutes)
5) Upload your finished video to YouTube.
6) Add the tag: MyMinnesotaMinute
LINKS
The Official Website www.minnesotaminute.org
The Bell Museum of Natural History www.bellmuseum.org
The Bell Museum's YouTube profile www.youtube.com/user/BellMuseum
Minnesota Sesquicentennial www.mn150years.org/
The contest is open to everyone.
All who submit will be entered in a drawing to win a Sanyo Xacti digital
video camera and other prizes.
Submit videos any time throughout the summer, 2008.
Minnesota Minute
The State of Minnesota's 150th birthday celebration gets star treatment
with "The Minnesota Minute," a series of 60-second TV spots
commemorating Minnesota's
natural history. The 13-part series, written, directed and produced for the
state's sesquicentennial by the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum of
Natural History Emmy-award TV winning TV production unit, Bell Museum
Productions, is scheduled to air in prime time slots on Minnesota
television stations and Twin Cities Public Television beginning May 11
through the sesquicentennial's finale August 30. The series hosts a
companion web site with video blog for amateur and professional filmmakers
throughout the state to share their own environmental-related videos and
stories.
NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH GET YOUR FILM ON!
Here are some great opportunities coming up with Migizi
Communications
1) A 10-week institute for students finishing 10th and 11th grade in
cooperation with MCTC's Cinema Division.
2) Part time positions for students interested in
working with three and four year olds teaching them technology/media tools
and early literacy skills.
3) Recruiting American Indian young people (minimum of
high school completion) to participate in the American Indian Summer
Institute in Los Angeles
in June. The program will also include a week long job shadowing experience
in selected departments at Fox 9 here locally prior to going out to LA.
For more
information visit http://www.migizi.org.
“Why
is voting important?? How does it help your communities?”
Video Voices
That’s the question the Keith Ellison campaign is posing to Minnesota, and we
want to hear your answers in video form!
Keith’s Youtube channel, http://www.youtube.com/keithellisondotorg
is launching the project later this month, and we’d like to be able
to have some example videos on the site by the time it starts to get
promoted. Can you help?
We are asking you to make a short (60 sec.) video expressing the importance
of getting out to vote. Upload the video onto www.Youtube.com so it can be added to
the www.KeithEllison.org
channel.
Make it fun! Creativity is a plus.
Job,
Internship & Scholarship Opportunities
- Pay It Forward Foundation Grant
Pay it Forward Foundation Grant
The Pay it Forward Foundation offers students the
opportunity to identify what they consider to be the challenges of their
communities. They tackle such problems as homelessness, pollution, youth
violence, literacy issues, the loneliness experienced by long-term hospital
and nursing home patients, and the alienation of today's at-risk youth from
the community. The Pay It Forward Foundation provides seed money for such
worthwhile projects.
Your school, church or community youth group may apply
for this $500
mini-grant to fund a one time project with a Pay
It Forward focus. Applications will be accepted anytime by email to gra...@payitforwardfoundation.com.
For more information please visit http://payitforwardfoundation.org/educators/grant.html
or e-mail in...@payitforwardfoundation.org.
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