Community and Youth Projects
LIFT provides a space for communities to produce representations on their own terms. Each community collaboration works with LIFT’s professional equipment, facilities and member resources to assist social justice, education, arts and other non-profits in training their constituents to make media and produce the media content they need within often limited budgets.
Indigenous RoutesTuesday 12 June 2012, 00:00The Indigenous Routes Collective coordinated an eight-week intensive training project partnering professional media artists with seven indigenous youth to collaboratively produce an interactive documentary for web-based dissemination. LIFT partnered with Indigenous routes to provide training and facilities. Participants included, Cheyenne Scot”… more |
Call for Latino/a and Aboriginal Youth: aluCine 2013 Paso-A-Paso ProjectThursday 31 January 2013, 00:00Call for Latino/a and Aboriginal Youth ParticipantsaluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival’s PASO-A-PASOToronto, Winter 2013 Call for Latino/a and Aboriginal Youth ParticipantsaluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival’s PASO-A-PASOToronto, Winter 2013 aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival launches Paso-A-Paso, a youth program di”… more |
The Encampment Project: LuminatoThursday 3 May 2012, 00:00LIFT provided production equipment over two months for the Luminato’s 2012 project. Inspired by The Encampment, elementary school students collaborated with artists Thom Sokoloski and Jenny-Anne McCowan and project facilitators to create their own ‘mini-Encampment’ story mapping installations, which was exhibited publicly during the Festi”… more |
Workman Arts: Portraits of Extraordinary Minds IIThursday 3 May 2012, 13:00This 8-week course in documentary production took participants through the post-production stages of directing and editing a short biographical documentary. This 8-week course in documentary production took participants through the post-production stages of directing and editing a short biographical documentary. This course was the second of a two-“… more |
Call for Native Youth Participants: Indigenous RoutesThursday 10 May 2012, 00:00Call for Indigenous Youth Participants for the Indigenous RoutesInteractive Documentary ProjectToronto, June and July 2012 Call for Indigenous Youth Participants for the Indigenous RoutesInteractive Documentary ProjectToronto, June and July 2012 The Indigenous Routes Collective is seeking applicants for an eight-week new medi”… more |
Braeburn Neighbourhood Place: Super 8 WorkshopMonday 11 July 2011, 00:00LIFT organized a Super 8mm workshop for Braeburn Neighbourhood Place in the summer of 2011. LIFT organized a Super 8mm workshop for Braeburn Neighbourhood Place in the summer of 2011. Braeburn Neighbourhood Place and Boys & Girls Club provides programs and services for children, youth and families in the Rexdale Community. The”… more |
Parkdale Young Writers: Acting in Front of the Camera WorkshopSaturday 15 October 2011, 00:00Parkdale Young Writers ran Acting in Front of the Camera, a workshop where youth had an opportunity to complete short film works. LIFT supported the project with equipment sponsorship and membership. Parkdale Young WritersThe Parkdale Young Writers are a free writing group for 18-29 year-olds in Toronto’s west-end, led by local authors, comics”… more |
Braeburn Neighbourhood Place and Boys & Girls Club: Super 8 WorkshopMonday 11 July 2011, 00:00LIFT organized a Super 8mm workshop for Braeburn Neighbourhood Place in the summer of 2011. Small groups each completed a film, starting with a Super 8mm workshop with facilitators in Rexdale and a digital editing lesson at LIFT. LIFT organized a Super 8mm workshop for Braeburn Neighbourhood Place in the summer of 2011. Small groups each comp”… more |
Harmony Movement: Change Through EquityFriday 22 July 2011, 00:00Working with LIFT instructors, Harmony Movement organized editing workshops over the summer in and around Crescent Town, Rexdale and Jane/Finch. In an intensive program, youth worked with a facilitator to create visual stories about the issues and experiences they face in their neighbourhood. Working with LIFT instructors, Harmony Movement organize”… more |
Media CreatorZ 2011Friday 18 February 2011, 00:00Participants learned basic filmmaking skills and created a short film with Media Creatorz. Workshops were hosted by Aboriginal filmmakers Miles Turner and Amanda Strong. The Media CreatorZ project involves a series of weekly workshops for ten Native youth in Toronto on the topic of contemporary storytelling. Participants learned basic filmmaking sk”… more |