RESOURCES

Media

Alliance for Community Media
http://www.alliancecm.org
666 11th Street NW, Suite 740
Washington DC, 20001
Ph: 202.393.2650
Fx: 202.393.2653

The mission of the Alliance for Community Media is to advance democratic ideals by ensuring that people have access to electronic media and by promoting effective communication through community uses of media.

Center for Digital Storytelling
http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html
1803 MLK Way
Berkeley, CA 94709
Ph: 510.548.2065
Fx: 510.548.1345

The Center for Digital Storytelling is a California-based non-profit 501(c)3 arts organization rooted in the art of personal storytelling. We assist young people and adults in using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share, and value the stories of individuals and communities, in ways that improve all our lives.

Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
http://cds.aas.duke.edu
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27705
Ph: 919.660.3663
Fx: 919.681.7600

The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University teaches, engages in, and presents documentary work grounded in collaborative partnerships and extended fieldwork that uses photography, film/video, audio, and narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary memory, life, and culture.

Evidence of Humanity
http://www.evidenceofhumanity.org

Evidence of Humanity is dedicated to the idea that we become what we dwell on. It took form from a simple but recurring question: Why isn’t there a place to go for all the good news, all the positive and wonderful stories of things individuals, groups and organizations are doing to improve the human condition, in our community and around the world? These stories are gathered here. Some are of helpful websites. Others are about relevant books. And some are human interest stories. An awareness of positive developments supports, elevates and empowers us, and affirms the fundamental truth that we all do make a difference.

Hugo House
http://www.hugohouse.org
1634 Eleventh Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
Ph: 206.322.7030
Fx: 206.320.8767

Richard Hugo House is a nonprofit literary center providing writers and readers in Seattle with classes, events and residencies. Hugo House is a home for writers and readers. Our mission is to provide writers of all ages and backgrounds with the resources they need, connect audiences with the world of writing, foster the creation of new work and promote the literary arts as a vital part of our culture.

The Mirror Project
http://www.mirrorproject.org
The Mirror Project
c/o Digital Arts and Entertainment Laboratory
Georgia State University
One Park Place South, Suite 100
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Ph: 404-651-0574

The Mirror Project creates, exhibits and distributes alternative media projects that promote social, cultural, and personal awareness. The Mirror Project is designed to enable people from all social classes and educational backgrounds to analyze and understand their own experience and the social structures that impact them. All Mirror Project videos screen first in the neighborhood where they were created and later at theaters, museums, festivals, and universities nationwide. Because of ethnic, social, cultural or economic differences, people are often not able to communicate and see each other clearly for who they really are. Creative self-expression by all ages, classes and ethnic groups is needed to promote awareness of culturally diverse lives and experiences. This awareness can guide us in changing our own behaviors and society.

Picture Projects
http://www.picture-projects.com
176 Grand Street, Third Floor
New York, NY 10013
Ph: 212.226.3099
Fx: 212.226.4922

Picture Projects, a NYC-based studio founded in 1995, uses new media technologies, audio and documentary photography to examine complex social issues. Over the past eight years, the studio has become well known for its unique use of interactive narrative in both commercial and documentary work.

Street Level Youth Media
http://www.street-level.org/
Street-Level Youth Media
1856 W Chicago Ave
Chicago IL 60622
Ph: 773.862.5331
Fx: 773.862.0754

Street-Level Youth Media educates Chicago's inner city youth in media arts and emerging technologies for use in self-expression, communication, and social change. Using video production, computer art and the Internet, Street-Level's young people address community issues, access advanced communication technology and gain inclusion in our information-based society. Using these tools, young artists address personal and community issues such as violence, family matters, racism, gentrification, and history. They learn that art is a potent medium for expression, capable of initiating positive personal and community change.

Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools (TILT)
http://www.tiltmedia.org
145 Ninth Street, Suite 101
San Francisco, CA 94103
Ph: 415.552.8760 ext. 305
Fx: 415.552.0882

Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools (TILT) is a production-based media literacy-training program. Programs are designed to teach underprivileged youth how to critically understand and create media messages. Through a combination of technical training and hands-on experience we give students the means to gain a meaningful voice in media, and to tell their own stories. TILT programs are different because we encourage students to follow their inclinations to write and produce videos with fictional content and narrative structure; we train the students to be their own technicians and we insist on high production values because we educate about the language of media itself.

Youth Speaks
http://www.youthspeaks.org
290 Division Street, Suite 302
San Francisco, CA 94103
Ph: 415.255.9035

Youth Speaks is the premier youth poetry, spoken word, and creative writing program in the country. Founded in San Francisco in 1996, Youth Speaks has helped spark the next generation of poets and writers lighting up stages and pages in all corners of the land. Youth Speaks is building the next generation of leaders through the written and spoken word. Our innovative programs nurture and develop the youth voice and promote positive social dialogue across boundaries of age, race, class, gender, culture and sexual orientation. By coupling public performance and publication opportunities with educational workshops, mentoring programs, and cooperative learning, Youth Speaks encourages active literacy, honest writing, and critical thought.