2011 NYC Digital Waves Youth Media Festival
COME CELEBRATE YOUTH MEDIA! AND IT’S FREE!
Radio Rookies, Radio Rootz, RHI Radio and The LAMP are coming together to host the first annual NYC Digital Waves Youth Media Festival on Saturday July 30th at WNYC’s The Greene Space. All youth media groups and individuals interested in youth media are invited—that includes people making video, radio, games, and more, as well as all the people who support youth media. Come join us this Saturday July 30th from 10 am to 5 pm to celebrate youth media, share ideas, connect, inspire and create! Our aim is to have a festival where youth media makers, educators, and learners build lasting relationships to keep this community innovative and thriving. This year’s festival will focus on audio, in all of its forms and uses.
WNYC’S RADIO ROOKIES
Radio Rookies is a New York Public Radio initiative that provides teenagers with the tools and training to create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their world.
Since 1999, Radio Rookies has been conducting workshops across New York, in predominantly under-resourced neighborhoods, training young people to use words and sounds to tell true stories. Upon completion, the Rookies’ documentaries air on WNYC - usually during Morning Edition (5am to 9am weekdays on WNYC 93.9 FM, 6am to 10am on WNYC AM 820 and online at wnyc.org)
Radio Rookies typically runs one or two workshops a year, each lasting anywhere from four to eight months. During the workshops, Rookie Reporters learn everything about radio journalism: from how to conduct an interview and develop a story to how to craft a script and digitally edit their audio. There is no fee, and the program provides all the equipment and instruction needed.
The Radio Rookies workshops are held at partnering community organizations in the city. Past workshops have been held at Make the Road by Walking Inc. in Bushwick, Brooklyn, The Point Community Development Center in Hunts Point, The Bronx, the YWCA in Flushing, Queens, the Seamen’s Society for Children and Families in St. George, Staten Island, the Grand Street Settlement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Council of Pakistan Organization (COPO) in Midwood, Brooklyn, The Cove (Community Organized with a Vision of Excellence) in the Mosholu section of Norwood in The Bronx, at SAYA! (South Asian Youth Action) in Queens, at Project Hospitality in Staten Island, at The Door in Manhattan, at the High School for Global Citizenship in Brooklyn and most recently at The Next Generation Center in The Bronx.
Coverage of youth in the media rarely represents what young people are truly facing, thinking and saying. By helping young people reach WNYC’s audience of more than one million weekly listeners, WNYC’s Radio Rookies has become an integral part of the station.
Radio Rookies is supported by Adobe Foundation, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust, Bay and Paul Foundations, Fred Emerson Foundation, Geraldine Stutz Trust, Inc., Margaret Neubart Foundation, Marilyn and Bob Laurie Foundation, McCormick Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Robert and Jean L. Stern Foundation, Robert Bowne Foundation, Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation, W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
RADIO ROOTZ
At People’s Production House we are fulfilling the promise of citizen and community journalism by closing the gap in skills and access.
We believe a diverse, ethical, and independent media is an essential element of social change and we believe that historically excluded communities must be protagonists in media democracy. Our work combines media creation, media policy education and media organizing to preserve and expand the free press so central to America’s identity and democracy.
PPH is run and staffed by journalists and community organizers from historically excluded communities. Our projects are unique as we bring together two of the best American traditions: community organizing and independent media creation, to build a community of media organizers: media literate youth and workers who can create and demand a media that functions in their interests.
RED HOOK INITIATIVE RHI RADIO
We are Red Hook Radio, a youth produced radio station. Our mission is to create change by reflecting the Red Hook community voice. Through this program we give young adults the opportunity to express their ideas and opinions based on influences, challenges and experiences they face in their communities. We are determined to inform the Red Hook community and all other communities from the perspectives of young adults about issues we all face in our neighborhoods. With this motivation, we plan to educate by sharing our knowledge through training and by providing a vehicle for communication.
THE LAMP
For a media-savvy youth.
For a more involved parent.
For a modern and innovative educator.
For a critical mass.
The LAMP’s vision is that one day media literacy will be seen as the critical requirement to understanding the world and our place in it. Educated consumers demanding more accountable media will create a ground swell to which media companies will have to respond. As part of this movement, The LAMP works in communities to build healthy relationships with all forms of media.
Core values:
• Process over product
• Media literacy as a basic need
• Freedom from censorship
• Critical curiosity
• Accessibility regardless of socioeconomics