A fresh start for Fresh Voices By Jordan Rauner, Summer Staff Writer Crookston Daily Times Posted Jul 15, 2010 @ 01:15 PM Crookston — Sharing Latino life here in Crookston is important to Fresh Voices and the program provides that opportunity through the ever-expanding digital media. This program started in 1996 in Crookston and existed until 2004, before it was picked up again this year. The Fresh Voices program is funded partly by the Minnesota State Arts Foundation.
Participants' ages range from 12 years and up, with the younger group working in the early afternoon, while the older group works on their projects in the evening. With major support from families, each person works on their own individual project. Projects range from a documentary about a grandfather or photos and stories of things that relate to Latino life here in Crookston. Family involvement is a large part of what helps each person put their project together. In most classes, there are siblings that help each other out.
Cristine Sorensen, executive director of In Progress, says the program is about "developing a public voice for stories important to them." Sorensen also states that these youth are "not easily seen or heard" and Fresh Voices allows them to become leaders and share what they know.
Production will last through the summer, then an exhibit will be put together encompassing all of the work done this year and in the past that will be presented in April, along with video screenings.
These projects will go through many hands as they reach out to the public. It starts with the community then moves to the Internet to sites like YouTube or Facebook and then the projects will travel to film festivals.
On Friday evening, July 23, the filmmaker who started In Progress will be in Crookston, at UMC, for a public showing of the work of the Fresh Voices participants. See the Times next week for details on that event.
The Fresh Voices group, producing their projects in Dowell Hall on the University of Minnesota, Crookston campus, will get off campus this weekend for some “outdoor projects” at MICAH (The Minnesota Institute of Contemplation and Healing), located northeast of Crookston.
Cristina Rodriguez and Thomas Leal have taken part in Fresh Voices and are now media professionals. Leel said that teaching the people in Fresh Voices is a "good way to give back" the opportunities he was previously afforded through Fresh Voices. Leal lives in the Twin Cities, but has come back to his roots in Crookston to help the community.
Fresh Voices is expected to run for the next five years and then take a break to evaluate and come back renewed. "I hope it continues to get funding or funds itself. I want to see it grow." said Leal. Copyright 2010 Crookston Times. Some rights reserved
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Fresh Voices, fresh air By Staff reports Crookston Daily Times Posted Jul 21, 2010 @ 12:04 PM Crookston — The youth in this summer’s Fresh Voices program housed at the U of M, Crookston, in which they work on projects that share their cultures with others, ventured to the Minnesota Institute of Contemplation and Healing (MICAH) northeast of Crookston over the weekend to experience nature firsthand while also working on their projects and, according to Kris Sorensen “cooking and eating a lot of food.”
Sorensen, working with the youth through IN PROGRESS, said the MICAH scenery was a great backdrop for three photo series the kids are working on, one on cultural identity, another on how people label themselves in society, and one on Latino pride. Copyright 2010 Crookston Times. Some rights reserved
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