Raising 100,000 Voices

Upcoming Events

2007/2008 Program Agenda

January, 2008

    • Kick-Off Event with participating filmmakers and artist-mentors, group leaders

February, 2008

    • Rap Session I for filmmaker, artist-mentor and group leaders

March, 2008

    • Rap Session II for filmmaker, artist-mentor and group leaders

April, 2008

    • Video piece completed

May, 2008

Past Events

Raising 100,000 Voices - November 10, 2007
presented a hand-on workshop to more than 40 participants (adults and youth) attending the 2007 Healthy Communities – Healthy Youth Conference “Transforming relationships for the Common Good”. This year the international conference was held in Rochester New York,. The conference is designed for people who work with or care about youth bringing together adults and youth from different communities nationally and internationally who share a common goal: to work together to promote positive youth development through asset building. The conference was sponsored by Search Institute

Pictures - Raising 100,000 Voices filmmakers helped to facilitate the workshop

Youth Summit
Youth engage in discussion 		Youth Summit
Youth engage in discussion

 

Raising 100,000 Voices Youth Rap Session 1 - February 21, 2007
participants got together at WXXI studios for a filmmaker rap session part one. The session featured a presentation/discussion of Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes art pieces large and small group rap sessions.

Pictures

Youth Summit
Youth engage in discussion 		Youth Summit
Youth engage in discussion

Raising 100,000 Voices Youth Summit – January 15, 2007
Youth and young adults ages 15-24 from the Rochester community kicked off the Raising 100,000 Voices 2006/2007 Video Voice project with a day-long event at WXXI.  The Summit offered a filmmaker rap session and an opportunity to engage in hands on media literacy and media arts production workshops.  Participants learned the history of the hip-hop culture in Rochester along with hip-hop demonstrations in video, the art of freestyle, visual art and spoken word. The Summit also featured the screening and facilitated discussion of the PBS documentary  Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes http://www.itvs.org/outreach/hiphop/ (airing on WXXI-TV 21(cable 11) on Friday, February 23, 2007 at 10 p.m.) and announcement of the Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes Community Art Competition http://www.wxxi.org/education/raising100kvoices/hiphopcontest.pdf

Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes is spearheaded by ITVS and firelight Media, in partnership with God Bless The Child Productions and the National Black Programming Consortium, with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  The community competition is funded by ITV and is a community collaboration sponsored by The Roadwork for Success in Young Adulthood, WXXI, The University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and North Star Records.

Pictures
Youth Summit
Raising 100,000 Voices Youth Summit		 Youth Summit
Filmmaker “rap” session (JR, Jasmine, Victoria, Davne)
Youth Summit
Everett, Chris G., and Bird talk about Hip Hop Culture in Rochester		 Youth Summit
Laquisha demonstrates graffiti art
The Apple Store in Eastview Mall provided an intensive training institute. Raising 100,000 Voices filmmakers attended a free website design class that provided them the tools necessary to create and design a web page.

Visit the website gallery!

Workshop in Progress   Workshop in Progress

Above: Participants take a seat to watch each other demonstrate their own websites.

Fifteen students who participated in Raising 100,000 Voices, a Media Literacy Community Education project encouraging young people to share the issues they face as emerging adults, have produced a new animated short film, Livin' Life: Teens' Voices, which premiered at the High Falls Film Festival on Saturday, November 11 at 5 p.m. at the Little Theatre (back), 240 East Avenue.  For more High Falls Film Festival Information visit www.highfallsfilmfestival.com

Watch the film online!

Tyrus   Victoria

Above: Tyrus & Victoria work on the animated piece Livin' Live: Teens' Voices at Animatus Animation Studio.

Young Filmmakers Festival: Thursday, November 9, 6:55 pm, Little Theatre 1, 240 East Avenue
The Young Filmmakers Festival (YFF), originally founded by Young Audiences of Rochester, made its High Falls Film Festival debut on Thursday, November 9 at 6:55 pm at the Little Theatre 1, 240 East Avenue. YFF is a juried competition of shorts by high school students from around the region; over 35 submissions were received this year from 13 area high schools. Eighteen finalists screened their work at the November 9 program; a BEST OF FEST award was given, as were awards for Best Social Commentary and other categories.   Several finalists include Raising 100,000 Voices filmmakers, included:

High Falls Film Festival

Pictured, L to R: Shelley Figueroa, project coordinator; James Reid, student participant; Ann Marie White, project coordinator; Daun Nicholas, Group leader - Grace Community Village.

Raising 100,000 Voices Screening Event
School of the Arts
June 28, 2006

event1
event2 One hundred 15-24 year olds from the Greater Rochester area participated in a film project encourgaging them to share, through video, the issues they face as emerging adults. WXXI and the University of Rochester Medical Center partnered with The Roadwork For Success In Young Adulthood to bring this national outreach effort. called Raising 100,000 Voices, to Rochester. These young Rochesterians were given disposable digital cameras in November and asked to produce 3-minute documentaries. Topics included: teen violence, depression, living with diabetes, a young man born addicted to crack, and body image. These videos are very insightful -- offering a glimpse into the lives of our teens. We received 36 videos for this screening event.

Raising 100,000 Voices project for 2007/2008 is funded in part by a grant from the Marie C. & Joseph C. Wilson Foundation.