... teaching the craft of digital storytelling for a socially responsible world.
CHANGE
Youth Media Project currently serves youth through workshops, intensives and partnerships with Northern New Mexico educational institutions and youth organizing programs. We train young professionals, as Project Leaders, to design and facilitate media programs with our educational partners. Populations we serve include Native, Hispanic, and Anglo students; immigrants; high school drop-outs; special needs - gifted and challenged; young people involved in the juvenile justice system; international students; and students seeking job skill development and work experience. Students learn to reflect on their own lives, seeing themselves within the fabric of a social, political and environmental context, and to use this awareness to gain confidence and to solidify self-identity.
CREATE
Youth Media Project (YMP) is a non-profit organization that teaches the craft of digital storytelling and the art of listening for a socially responsible world. YMP works directly with educators and youth leaders to design curricula that is inquiry based and incorporates media production, creativity, reflection on critical issues, and integration of academic studies. Through the making of media, youth apply their talents and discipline, plus practice essential skills in “real� world settings.
COMMUNICATE
Students choose topics that are relevant to their lives. Students’ productions take the form of personal narratives, community interviews, panel discussions, radio dramas, mini-documentaries, spoken word poems, multI-media projects and music performances. WHAT DO WE TEACH?
• Active listening • Oral delivery techniques • Digital recording techniques and equipment • Critiquing and teamwork • Effective writing skills • Writing personal narratives, commentaries, radio dramas • Interviewing people about social issues • Developing radio scripts and hosting talent • Digital editing of finished radio pieces and audio slideshows • Conducting final presentation of work--on air or to live audiences • Recording a final presentation to be built into an hour radio broadcast
COLLABORATE Through partnerships with high schools, colleges, social action teams and performing arts programs, YMP produces Audio Revolution!, a regular radio broadcast, airing on YMP partners include: Adelante; Capital regional stations and the Internet. High School; Earth Care; The Kennedy
Center; The MASTERS Program Charter School; Monte del Sol Charter School; New Mexico School for the Arts; REEL FATHERS; Santa Fe Art Institute; Santa Fe Children’s Museum; Santa Fe Indian School; Santa Fe Community College; Santa Fe Public School’s Student Wellness Action Team (SWAT); United World College-USA and the Global Leadership Forum; and YouthWorks! YMP is a member of Santa Fe Youth Collaborative; an affiliation of non-profits addressing the well being of children and youth in northern New Mexico.