The Children's Art Carnival
The Carnival provides at-risk and underserved children and youth with skills and opportunities that enable them to realize their potential for becoming positive, creative and productive adults through the use of the visual and communication arts. "Living Treasures of Harlem,” will use oral history techniques to document three cultural institutions in Harlem: The Apollo, Classical Theatre of Harlem and Dance Theatre of Harlem as well as the lives of long time residents of Harlem.
Coalition of Institutionalized, Aged and Disabled
The Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled (CIAD) is a non-profit consumer-led advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the rights of New York’s adult home and nursing home residents. The project will establish an accessible editing station on site and allow participants to produce theme-based videos on CIAD agenda issues, residents’ rights training videos as well as collaborate on covering events and workshops with allied housing and treatment reform organizations.
Esperanza del Barrio
Esperanza del Barrio is a membership-led community organization based in East Harlem that assists the self-empowerment of low-income Latino immigrants and youth in New York City through grassroots organizing, political/legal education, and leadership development. The project will document the various workshops that the organization holds for its members and the community at large. These include legal issues, health education and youth leadership, among others.
The LGBT Community Center
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (the Center) serves as the hub for diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities throughout the tri-state area. The Center’s Media project, which produces the "Out at the Center" monthly TV series, provides an opportunity for a diverse group of volunteers at the Center to create programming that responds to the needs of the larger LGBT community in Manhattan.
The Lower East Side Girls Club
The Lower Eastside Girls Club is a private grassroots organization dedicated to developing and delivering programs that turn today’s girls into tomorrow’s leaders by providing a supportive environment where girls and young women can grow, learn, have fun, develop self-confidence and discover how to use their resources to make a difference in the world. "Girlville" will be a weekly video/audio interview format show produced at the Girls Club Center every Friday evening in a citizen-forum style setting with a presentation and follow-up Q&A.
Picture the Homeless
Picture the Homeless is a grassroots, homeless-led group that organizes homeless people to fight for social justice. The "Homeless Media Project" will enable members of Picture The Homeless to develop messaging strategies around social justice housing issues, actions and press conferences, and document and critique the claims and biases of mainstream media in regards to homeless and housing issues.
Project Reach
Project Reach is a youth and adult-run, multiracial, multi-gender, grassroots, anti-discrimination, youth organizing training center committed to challenging the destruction of, between, and among NYC's disparate youth communities. The "Just Video Project" will establish a multiracial, multi-gender youth media team to produce video about the lives, communities, struggles and efforts of young people to affect social change and document its annual Social Justice Boot Camp activities.
