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.
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 |
Workman Arts: Introduction to EditingTuesday 6 September 2011, 00:00Participants were introduced to fundamental Non Linear editing principles and techniques with Premiere Suite/Final Cut Pro editing software. Participants learned introductory editing principles such as importing, splicing, sound editing, transitions, and exporting. Participants were introduced to fundamental Non Linear editing principles and techni”… more |
Workman Arts: Working Film Sets 101Tuesday 20 September 2011, 00:00Workman Arts members experienced each of the key roles on a film shoot over the length of this six week course. Each week participants assumed a different role – Director, Assistant Director, Videographer, Sound Recordist, Art Director, and Grip. Workman Arts members experienced each of the key roles on a film shoot over the length of this si”… more |
St. Alban’s: U Shift 2.0Monday 21 November 2011, 00:00U SHIFT 2.0 is the second installment of a free filmmaking program for youth, exploring self-expression and issues of social justice. Participants worked with support from LIFT facilities and professional filmmakers to create a high-quality film. The Shift U SHIFT 2.0 is the second installment of a free filmmaking program for youth, expl”… more |
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7th Generation Image Makers: Indigenous Youth Arts ShowcaseSaturday 26 November 2011, 00:00The Indigenous Youth Arts Showcase in Toronto, Canada featured young Indigenous artists working in visual and media arts. Fifteen visual artists and fifteen media artists under the age of 29 presented work in this day-long event. The showcase had a spotlight on 7th Gen Alumni artists. LIFT assisted with presenting the showcase, donated equipment an”… more |
7th Generation Image Makers 2011Friday 30 September 2011, 00:007th Generation Image Makers seeks to connect youth with moving image making as a means for personal expression & employment. LIFT provided editing facilities and extensive mobile video, lighting and sound equipment for the project in 2011. 7th Generation Image Makers 7th Generation Image Makers seeks to connect youth with moving image ma”… more |
LIFT: FilmGateSunday 1 June 2008, 00:00From June through July 2008, LIFT offered a youth mentoring project, with participants referred from various youth service organizations around Toronto. This full-time six-week program provided a group of eight at-risk youth with resources, instruction in film production and a modest stipend. The participants each produced their own short film as w”… more |
Female Eye Film Festival: Student Super 8 Filmmaking WorkshopFriday 18 February 2011, 00:00Sponsored by the Female Eye Film Festival, LIFT and ANDPVA, the Student Super 8 Filmmaking workshop allows eight emerging indigenous female filmmakers to create a film on Super 8 film. The works were overseen by mentors Jules Koostchin, Amanda Strong and Peggy Anne Burton and premiered at the WARC Gallery as part of the Female Eye Film Festival kic”… more |
Chinese Canadian National Council: Toronto ChapterSaturday 18 June 2011, 00:00Facilitated by LIFT, participants shot interviews for a public awareness campaign to challenge assumptions as to what a Canadian looks like or what makes up Canadian culture. The ten youth participants will create short videos bringing attention to the idea that who is considered Canadian and who isn’t, is often arbitrary and racist. Chinese Canadi”… more |