Hey everyone. Due to technical difficulty during the summer of Youth Out Loud we couldn’t upload this amazing documentary created by one of our summer film students so here it is!
Hey everyone! Images of Youth 2010 Video Festival is here! The deadline for admissions is march 1st, 2010 so get your film making on! For more information CLICK HERE!
On December 5, 2009 the White Center Community Development Association held a community summit. YMI was lucky enough to be there to document the event. Here is the final product!
Common Craft is really good at these kinds of videos. They have great explanations for all kinds of things like twitter, copyright and creative commons.
It’s that time of the year again! Yes I’m talking about education! The time where teachers kick their knowledge and you kick back on your hard plastic school chair. All Access is back! This semester YMI is holding Video Production, Photography and Music Recording classes. We are also holding photography classes and FEEST every monday in High Point in collaboration with Youngstown Cultural Arts Center. Student work will be up soon!
Youth out loud just recently finished! It was our biggest one yet. We collaborated with a bunch of different organization (Scan Youth Media, YMCA, El Centro De La Raza, Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, and 206 Zulu) to teach the youth Photography, Video Production, and also Music recording. See some of the video work the youth produced during the summer at http://www.youtube.com/youthmediainstitute !
We’re experiencing some technical difficulties. Please bear with us! Our fully-functioning website will be up and running soon. And an even better one is on the way!
Support May Day! People are fighting and protesting through the marches today! We can support in minor ways by contributing to the protests. This is a good example of how people should speak up for what they believe is right. This years marches are centered around peace in Iraq and labor movements. I really admire these people for stepping up and walking out. This is a big emphasis on what we have to do as our generation steps up. Like these people, we need to build our own movement!
Check out the movement last year, the ad for this year, and the reasons why we should add to the movement.
Youth Media Institute is putting together our summer workshop. At the workshop youth ages from 13-18 will be learning how to work with video cameras and even create their own short films! We also have still cameras for those that are into photography. We take fieldtrips to places like the Seattle Art Museum, which is an awesome experience. You will also be working with programs such as Final Cut Pro, and Photoshop. I attended Youth Out Loud two years ago and I loved every thing that they had to offer. I met a lot of great people that I got along with easily. Being in Youth Out Loud really heightened my photography skills and to this day I still work with Youth Media Institute as a freelance photographer. Along with getting this free education you would get paid for learning, that was one of those things that “reeled” me in ha ha get it? (Guess that just wasn’t funny) CAN I SEE SOME LOLS!? So you learn to work with video cameras, digital SLR cameras, and some software go on a couple trips and you get paid. Sounds like a great time to me.
Recently, The Highline School District proposed budget cuts due to reductions in State funding. The district estimates a $6 million dollar cut in expenses. Im writing not only for myself as a student at Evergreen, but for the whole district. They propose to have students PAY to play sports next year; 75$ that some families just can’t afford. They also proposed to remove programs like Camp Waskowitz, J.V. wrestling, Swimming and Diving, and Gymnastics. On top of that they are planning to reduce the amount of teachers at the school, which will make the class sizes bigger and give teachers more stress that they are able to deal with. The propose to eliminate after school activity buses and transportation, middle school sports, field trips, community outreach programs and many others. If you disagree like I do, let your voice be heard when the meetings are held at your school. Speak up to keep the programs that you feel are important.
“Fifty People One Question” is a media project where this group picks a city and asks fifty people one question. This production doesn’t seem much at first, but a simple question can lead to a world of dreams. They all portray a sense of passion that a normal day never reveals; the things that we fail to see everyday. This is an open question, where you can go anywhere. People share their values and desires. This reflects the purposes of YMI and the values it centers itself around. ”Fifty People One Question” is a breath of reality, showing the rest of us real dreams of real people. This is real media. This isn’t the story of which celebrity is pregnant or which sports star got arrested. This is the connection between the communities: the street violinist, the small city photographer, and the story of the happy artist with no home. This inspired me to take media to its more actual aspects. The stories that are more important in our lives. From the interesting tales of our grandfathers at night besides our beds to the imagination of the quiet child in class. These are our stories, our voice, and our media.
Youth media?! Asian people?! Monkey for a camera man! EXPLOSIONS!! You know what that all means right? The Boom videos are up and they are shooting out fire that needs to be cooled down by the power of Youtube video views. Check it out and support the youth summit that already happened. (And maybe come to the next one which I hope might be starting sometime within some time.) If you haven’t known yet though, for all you lazy slackers, we got a YouthMediaInstitute Youtube profile so go check it out, support the videos and keep that youth moving. You know you want to.
I’m just chilling here writing a blog when Ian and Virgil come up behind me with budget cut sheets. If you don’t know who those guys are check out the BOOM videos, aren’t you glad I gave you a link? Not just any budget cut sheets, but budget cut sheets to our very own Highline School District. You Seattle School District kids should still care though, you guys might be next! We don’t want any of this to happen. I got a lovely packet in front of me saying we might have budget costs in sports, reduction of summer school funding, they plan on elimanting teen programs, they plan on making us pay for sports, and they might even bring down Camp Waskowitz down to only one day! NO!
I don’t know about you but Camp Waskowitz was my favorite part of sixth grade and paying for sports, and even cutting them is just plain bad. If your reading this then you want to head down to Mt. View Elementary on Friday, April 24th, from 9AM to 7PM. It’s a lot of time but do it for those elementary school kids! If you don’t know where Mt. View Elementary is just google that bad boy, because at least they aren’t having budget cuts. Bring a friend, spread the word, and lets get this all settled out as a community. (I didn’t even know that this was going to happen until 30 seconds ago… sheesh..)
YMI just completed its first annual BOOM! youth summit in White Center. It was a very successful event, with almost 100 youth attending, participating in workshops, eating delicious food and talking about community development! BOOM (Building Our Own Movement) is a youth-led endeavor that aims to: 1)find out what changes (if any) young people would like to see in their community, 2)build their capacity to make those changes, and 3)inform the broader public–including youth-serving organizations and policy-makers–about what young people care about.
The youth summit itself was really just the first part of a larger project. Out of this summit, young people will create media projects that effectively communicate their priorities and take on community projects that actively address those concerns. Final projects will be uploaded soon, so check back in the coming days!
In the end, it was a lot of fun and a great step toward building a stronger and healthier community here in White Center.
We had a lot of help in planning and facilitating this project, with critical support from the White Center Public Safety Group and the White Center Community Development Association, among many others. We were also lucky enough to offer workshops led by the Seattle Young People’s Project, Got Green, World Vision, King County Parks, and several youth leaders in the community. To top it off, we had killer food from several locally-owned establishments and were visited by musical guests Geologic of the Blue Scholars, Nam, Massiah and DK Mars.
If you don’t already know, YMI has a youtube channel that can be found here
We just put up a few new videos from YOL 2008 on the website. Here’s one of the projects:
Hey everyone,
The website has been updated! Now under our About Us section you can check out links to pages about our “Staff,” “Youth Leadership Council,” “Board,” “Donors,” and “Teaching Artists”
Most of these pages are still under construction but we should have them up soon!
Also, if you look under our Programs section you can find a new link to our “Fee for Service” program where organizations or individuals can pay YMI youth and staff for graphic design work, video and photo documentation (such as recording an event), small scale video projects, and more.
