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BAYMN FEST 2013 -- June 1 & 2

May 2, 2013, 3:01 pm • Posted by Matthew Williams
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BAYMN FEST

On June 1 & 2, the Bay Area Youth Media Network (BAYMN) in partnership with KQED will present BAYMN FEST, a free two-day interactive showcase of media produced by young folks ages 12-24, hosted at the San Francisco Public Library. Through screenings, workshops, a transmedia gallery, a makerspace, parties and networking opportunities, BAYMN FEST will be a place for young artists to share their work, meet their peers, acquire new tools, make their voices heard—and win cool prizes and media-making tools! It is a unique opportunity for youth, educators and the general public to celebrate the work of talented young media makers. We hope you will join us and be inspired.

We received over 300 youth-produced videos through our call for entries in a variety of categories including Science, Technology, & Innovation; Arts & Expression; and Social Justice & Community Engagement; and we have put together an exciting series of shorts programs that will screen throughout the weekend.

This event is open to the public. For educators, we encourage you to schedule time for your students to come and participate… or if you are out of school for the summer, to organize a group of young folks to attend. This event will be a great opportunity for young folks to connect with their peers who are passionate about making media, and it will give you the chance as an educator to immerse yourself in the youth media movement, network with other educators and even acquire some new skills. This festival is funded by Adobe Youth Voices and The AT&T Foundation.

To attend to this event, you must RSVP here -- www.baymnfest.eventbrite.com Below is a breakdown of the festival schedule, workshop schedule, and film program. Please reserve a spot for one of our workshops by filling out this form. Be sure to reserve spots for any or all of the days. And don't forget about the BAYMN BASH reception on the evening of Saturday, June 1! And it's all FREE!

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BAYMN FEST -- Call for Entries!!

February 1, 2013, 11:20 am • Posted by Matthew Williams
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BAYMN FEST

Call for Entries are now open for BAYMN FEST!

The Bay Area Youth Media Network (BAYMN) is now accepting submissions for BAYMN FEST, its first annual youth media festival, taking place June 1–2, 2013 at the San Francisco Public Library. Youth 12-24 are invited to submit their videos in one of the following categories:

Science, Technology & Innovation
Arts & Expression
Social Justice & Community Engagement
Miscellany

 
BAYMN FEST is an interactive showcase of media produced by youth ages 12–24. Sponsored by Adobe Youth Voices and the AT&T Foundation, this two-day event will be a unique opportunity for youth, educators and the general public to celebrate the work of talented young media makers. Through screenings, workshops, a transmedia gallery and networking opportunities, BAYMN FEST will be a place for young artists to share their work, meet their peers, acquire new tools, make their voices heard—and win cash prizes and media-making tools! All entries will be judged by a mix of youth, media arts educators, and media professionals.

Prizes will be awarded to all filmmakers whose entries are accepted to the Festival. Additional cash awards and media making tools (such as GoPro cameras and Adobe design and editing software) will be presented during the Festival to award winners selected by a jury in each of the above submission categories.

Deadline for submission: April 1, 2013

Included in this post is info on How to Enter, Submission Guidelines, and the Online Entry Form.

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Youth Rise Up at the BAYMN Media Festival

November 8, 2012, 3:51 pm • Posted by Matthew Williams
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photo by Ian Davis

On a beautiful fall Saturday in Oakland, students, educators and families filled the Kaiser Center’s 400-seat theater to watch 20 compelling youth-produced films that focused on social change and the high school dropout crisis.

The Rise to the Occasion Youth Media Festival was organized by KQED, along with other members of the Bay Area Youth Media Network (BAYMN), a consortium of more than 20 non-profits that believe in the power of media production to engage youth voice, self-expression and empowerment as well as to inspire social change.

Films not only expressed the complexity of issues that cause students to dropout of high school, they also explored the topics of health, race, sexual identity and discrimination.

Check out the winning videos below. Please note that each of the video players are playlists that host 3 videos, respectively. To view the other videos in the playlist, click on the text that says "Playlist" on the bottom of the player. A window will slide up and you can see the other videos. Click on one to view.

CATEGORY 1: HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT


 

CATEGORY 2: GENERAL SOCIAL ISSUES


 
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You Are Invited to RISE TO THE OCCASION YOUTH MEDIA FESTIVAL

September 12, 2012, 8:20 am • Posted by Matthew Williams
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For its first public festival, the Bay Area Youth Media Network (BAYMN) will be showcasing youth-produced videos about social change with two specific categories on The 2012 Presidential Election and The High School Dropout Crisis on Saturday, October 13 at the Kaiser Center in Oakland from 2-5pm. It will be an afternoon dedicated to celebrate the great work of young people. There will be awards for the filmmakers as well as raffle prizes for the audience.

To attend to this event, you must RSVP here -- www.baymnfestival.eventbrite.com

We received over 60 submissions this year from youth in the Bay Area and all over the United States and this festival will showcase the amazing voices of our youth today expressing their concerns for a variety of important issues.

So what constitutes social change you may ask? Youth will be telling about issues that affect people in their community. Issues such as violence, bullying, college access, unemployment, affordable housing, medical care, teen pregnancy, racism, sexism, financial inequity... you get the picture.

Here's a quick preview of one of the youth entries to the festival.

We hope to see you at this year's RISE TO THE OCCASION YOUTH MEDIA FESTIVAL.

This festival is made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and is part of the American Graduate Initiative.

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Oakland Innovation Film Lab – Youth Mobile Media Workshop

July 5, 2012, 10:47 am • Posted by Matthew Williams
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by Robyn Bykofsky

I have been facilitating media literacy and video production workshops with Bay Area youth and educators for over 12 years and the Youth Film Lab was the experience of a lifetime.  It was the first workshop I taught in which teens produced and edited their videos within 4.5 hours and then an hour later screened the videos to a live audience at the Oakland School of the Arts Black Box Theater.
 
How did we accomplish this task? First, we had a talented and motivated group of 14 teens from all over Oakland. Second, TILT (the youth media program at Ninth Street Independent Film Center) and Disposable Film Festival (DFF) crafted an action-packed curriculum that had the teens on the flip cameras right away. Teens were able to express themselves in the hands-on video activity When People See Me. This effective icebreaker allowed the teens to quickly get to know each other and therefore they were ready to jump into a brief discussion about using mobile media for social action and change.

The next hands-on camera activity focused on Media Aesthetics and the importance of framing camera shots, sound and lighting. Teens were broke into teams of two to explore the neighborhood as they practiced different types of camera shot-sizes, angles, and movement.

  • 
Extreme close up of a small object that has big meaning
  • Smooth pan of the street
  • A shot (any size and angle) of a reflection that represents YOU
  • Smooth tilt up to a positive message

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BAYMN Presents Rise to the Occasion Youth Media Festival -- Call for Entries

June 25, 2012, 8:53 am • Posted by Matthew Williams
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Applications are now open for BAYMN's Rise to the Occasion Youth Media Festival, hosted at the Kaiser Center in Oakland on October 13, 2012, 2-5pm.

Deadline for submission: September 10, 2012

For its first public festival, the Bay Area Youth Media Network (BAYMN) is seeking youth-produced videos that tell stories or highlight issues of social change. Two issues of specific interest are:

  1. The 2012 Presidential Election
  2. The High School Dropout Crisis

Prizes will be awarded in both of these categories as well as in the general competition.

So what constitutes social change? Issues that affect people in your community, nationally and globally. Issues such as gang violence, drug abuse, bullying, college access, unemployment, affordable housing, medical care, teen pregnancy, racism, sexism, financial inequity... you get the picture. Any issue that you feel passionate about and want your voice to be heard. We want to hear it. And so do your peers.

We are now accepting submissions from youth ages 12–24 who have made video projects in school, in an after-school program, in a summer program, or independently. The video must be self-contained and able to stand alone (e.g., not a segment of a larger project). Digital media presentations that are not film or video (e.g., PowerPoint, Prezi, etc.) will not be accepted. Projects must be published on a video-hosting site such as YouTube, SchoolTube, or Vimeo. Videos may not exceed 15 minutes and must have been produced AFTER June 1, 2011.

Download our criteria for selecting entries to the Rise to the Occasion Youth Media Festival.

Youth whose entries are accepted to the festival will receive iTunes gift cards. Grand prizes include Apple mobile devices.

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We Live Here: Youth Media Convergence, San Francisco Style

March 8, 2012, 3:47 pm • Posted by Matthew Williams
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Last week, KQED co-presented a workshop at the Digital Media and Learning Conference here in San Francisco about the youth media network that we recently initiated. BAYMN (Bay Area Youth Media Network, pronounced BAM!) is comprised of over 16 organizations with the common goal of working with youth in media production to build civic engagement. The founding organizations, KQED, San Francisco Film Society (SFFS), Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), TILT at Ninth Street Independent Film Center, and the California Academy of Sciences gave a brief overview of the collaborative work of our organizations and an explanation of our process, mission, goals, and outcomes.

BAYMN Mission:

The Bay Area Youth Media Network is a consortium of nonprofit organizations that believe in the power of media (film, music, radio, photography, web and technology) as a means to engage youth voice, self-expression and empowerment and to inspire social change. As like-minded organizations in the youth media field, we are able to tap into the rich potential of our collective resources and our expertise as educators working to define an alternative, media-based education for youth.

BAYMN Goals:

  • Identify, create and support a regional Youth Advisory Board
  • Create an online platform that showcases vested media organizations, resources and youth produced work
  • Present an annual youth media festival with live, online and broadcast components

The workshop then switched gears as we turned the focus over to participants who were asked to form into groups and work through the challenge of developing citywide, media-based collaborations of their own, with the goal of creating connected learning opportunities that are both relevant and valuable to the end users: youth.

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Media Innovators in Education

September 20, 2011, 4:27 pm • Posted by Maxine Einhorn
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KQED Education joined forces with BAVC, ITVS, and San Francisco Film Society to present Media Innovators in Education at The Lab in the Mission last Thursday Sept 8th. More than 100 teachers and educators attended the event which was produced collaboratively by these Bay Area media organizations to inspire and support educators who are doing cool things with media or who would like to get on board.

Four educators were invited to showcase their work and take part in a panel: Liza Mathews a 4th grade and Kindergarten teacher and PBS Innovation Award winner from Larkspur-Corte Madera School; Elizabeth Jackson, a 4th grade teacher at Bacich Elementary School; David Maduli, a 9th grade English teacher at Nea Community Learning Center in Alameda and Toby Rugger, an ESL teacher at Oakland International High School.

Panelists talked about challenges they faced - technical and administrative – in integrating media and media literacy into their curriculum. They also discussed using media in interesting ways to stimulate dialogue and develop critical thinking skills in students. Educators clearly felt it to be important to use media creatively in order to engage students and maintain currency and relevance in today’s media savvy culture.

Eager for resources, teachers visited the resource tables offered by each organization, asked questions and networked enthusiastically with media makers, keen to share what they are doing and find out about exciting new media tools. KQED Education showcased multimedia resources, introducing visitors to our table to the wealth of lesson plans and educator guides, as well as the media training programs offered at the station.

Since this event was so appreciated by educators, our organizations are exploring ways to offer further resource sharing opportunities for teachers and educators in the Bay Area.
For KQED Educator Resources visit http://www.kqed.org/education/

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Media Innovators in Education

September 7, 2011, 9:46 am • Posted by Maxine Einhorn
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Here is a special event for educators:

ITVS, KQED, SFFS and BAVC present: Media Innovators in Education

The Bay Area is rich in media creators and technologists and a hot bed of media innovation in the classroom. The area's leading non-profit media organizations are coming together to honor educators in our community who are using media to enhance learning in new ways.

Join us for a showcase of exciting educational media being created and used in the Bay Area. You'll hear from educators who are doing cool things with media and find out about the unique educational media resources each organization has to offer.

We'll provide wine, hors d'oeuvres, media demos and goodie bags chock full o' free media resources for you to start off the school year.

WHAT
A mixer and show-and-tell for educators who want to teach with media (or already do)

WHEN
Thursday, September 8
5-7pm

WHERE
The Lab
2948 16th Street
San Francisco

RSVP
Annelise Wunderlich at annelise_wunderlich@ITVS.org

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