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.
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health: Rendez-Vous with MadnessSunday 1 November 2009, 00:00LIFT supported an all-inclusive Super 8 filmmaking workshop for the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health. Six participants each created a film project from start to finish. Participants learned basic camera theory, shot with Super 8mm cameras and edited the films digitally. Finished films screened at the Rendez-Vous with Madness Film Festival.”… more |
Grey Bruce Arts Collective: Meaford Youth Film StudioTuesday 1 June 2010, 00:00Grey Bruce Arts Collective facilitates a youth filmmaking course in the Meaford area. LIFT provided equipment and mentorship for participants. The students completed 15 films for this education and outreach project. Grey Bruce Arts Collective Grey Bruce Arts Collective facilitates a youth filmmaking course in the Meaford area. LIFT provided”… more |
LOFT: Graffiti Arts DocumentaryMonday 1 June 2009, 00:00For their documentary project LOFT worked with local artists to document live performances by underserved youth working with hip-hop in all elements of the tradition (MC, DJ, breakers and writers). Participants used the footage to create music videos and documentaries. LIFT provided facilities, equipment and mentorship for the project. The short do”… more |
Youth Action Network: PhotovoiceTuesday 1 June 2010, 00:00LIFT provided equipment and resources for youth to make POV videos during the city of Toronto’s Youth Week. The project was organized in collaboration with the Youth Action Network. The fifteen participants learned basic camera and editing skills, creating a digital video project for their Photovoice Program. LIFT provided equipment and reso”… more |
7th Generation Image Makers 2010Thursday 1 July 2010, 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 2010. 7th Generation Image Makers 7th Generation Image Makers seeks to connect youth with moving image ma”… more |
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Hispanic Development Council: Huellas Urbana ProjectWednesday 1 September 2010, 00:00LIFT provided access to our digital classroom to a group of twenty newcomer youth for their work on the Huellas Urbana Project. The students learned to use Photoshop CS4 and worked in LIFT’s digital classroom for two weeks creating a photo project. They also received use of LIFT’s HD video cameras and DSLR to s”… more |
UforChange: Creative Culture Better WorldWednesday 15 September 2010, 00:00UforChange provides community support to young residents of St. Jamestown. The organization provides dozens of art-based workshops in music, dance, fashion, photography and filmmaking throughout the year. As a part of this ongoing series LIFT facilitated workshops in Super 8mm and HD filmmaking. Workshops included: training on the Sony EX1 camera,”… more |
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St Albans Boys and Girls Club: Manifesto JamaicaFriday 1 October 2010, 00:00From October 13th-20th 2010 a group of youth called Vibrant Voices represented the media arts program at St. Alban’s Boys and Girls club in traveling to Kingston, to document a grass roots arts festival called Manifesto Jamaica. LIFT supported this project through mentorship and facilities. Youth from St Albans Boys and Club atte”… more |
WoodGreen Newcomer Youth Services: Super 8 ProjectTuesday 2 November 2010, 00:00Woodgreen Youth Settlement Services provides support to newcomers to Canada. LIFT facilitated a Super 8mm workshop for ten newcomer youth. Participants divided into small groups to shoot Super 8mm film projects. The film was processed and transferred, and the groups learned to use Final Cut Pro to edit the final projects. WoodGreen Newcomer Y”… more |
imagineNATIVE and AbTeC: Machinima Workshop, Making Movies in Virtual WorldsThursday 21 October 2010, 00:00At the 11th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (2010), eight indigenous youth had the opportunity to collaboratively produce short films using “Machinima”, or machine cinema, in online virtual environments where characters and locations can be produced and animated. At the 11th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (2010), ei”… more |