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Join us in Celebrating HumanEYES – Wednesday June 13th

ames — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:21:39 +0000

Please join us in celebrating the creative visions of 250 HumanEYES participants
at the Strathcona Elementary School Auditorium (592 East Pender)
on Wednesday JUNE 13th from 10:00 am – 12:45 pm.

“HumanEYES” underway in 10 lower mainland classrooms

ames — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:34:04 +0000

Thanks to support from the United Way of Lower Mainland , the BC Arts Council and the Vancouver Board of Education, 10 elementary classes in the lower mainland are currently participating in HumanEYES.

HumanEYES is an arts-based initiative that highlights the diverse life experiences and migration stories in Vancouver classrooms, and ultimately encourages us to see and more deeply appreciate each other’s humanity.

Over the course of 5-7 workshops each participating class will have the opportunity to celebrate diversity, gain basic tools to identify and challenge discriminatory and exclusionary practices and contribute to a class-wide creative collaboration that encourages inter-generational, inter-cultural and inter-neighbourhood storytelling and relationship-building.

HumanEYES will culminate in a public event that will celebrate the completed works that all project participants, supporters and ‘extended-family-storytellers’ will be invited to attend.

Stay tuned for more updates about this exciting initiative involving up to 300 Vancouver School Board students and families!

Visit our project page.

YouthMADE videos screened at “Ignite the Light” on November 18th

ames — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:55:53 +0000

Join Us April 21st: YouthMADE Launch at the W2 Storeum!

ames — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:14:09 +0000

We’ll be holding our YouthMADE launch at the W2 Storeum on April 21st, 2011 from 7:00PM – 9:00PM!

Join us and visit our event posting on Facebook. Also, check out our introduction video and event invitation in our post.

Date: April 21st, 2011
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: W2 Storeum (151 West Cordova, Vancouver, BC, V6B 1E1)

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Deblekha Guin.

YouthMADE Intro Video:

Invitation:

YouthMADE: Media Arts Diversity Education – Workshops that MOVE

ames — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 19:03:36 +0000

YouthMADE is a media arts production and outreach program that inspires those who have experienced racism and discrimination to become creative agents of change.

A dynamic example of peer education in action, YouthMADE brings young people to the ‘front of the classroom’ through a series of interactive youth-facilitated workshops that incorporate the core values of the project: Creativity, Critical Analysis and Compassion.

Using the power of youth-voice and digital storytelling to speak directly to youth,YouthMADE workshops give young people an opportunity to generate conversations that are meaningful and relevant to them.

Thanks to the generous financial support provided by the project sponsors, the YouthMADE workshops are being made available for free.

Visit our YouthMADE page.

YouthMADE: The Perfect Immigrant

ames — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:53:45 +0000

A video which takes a satirical look at the essential qualities of the “Perfect Immigrant”.

By: Chitha Manoranjan, Luca Ross-Moro

YouthMADE Video: The Perfect Immigrant

The Perfect Immigrant from AMES YouthMADE on Vimeo.

YouthMADE: I am Here

ames — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:41:58 +0000

A powerful, poetic and haunting exploration of First Nations cultural genocide that features statistics and a spoken word performance.

Created by (including concept, script, camera, sound and editing): Ivo Cargnelli, Spencer Christie, Lilavati Levine.

YouthMADE Video: I am Here

I am Here from AMES YouthMADE on Vimeo.

Website Still Under Construction

ames — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:23:32 +0000

Thanks for visiting our new site! As we’ve now launched our new look, we’ll be adding more to our site to provide you with archived materials we’ve done in the past.

Stay tuned for updates!