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.
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 |
Canadian Commission for UNESCO Youth Advisory Group: Do You See What I Think?Wednesday 23 February 2011, 00:00For the International Year of Youth, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the Canada Council for the Arts launched a video project for young Canadians based on the 2010 International Year of Youth theme, “Dialogue and Mutual Understanding.” Canadian Commission for UNESCO Youth Advisory Group (YAG) For the International Year of Youth,”… more |
It’s On: Challenging Violence Through Film and VideoWednesday 1 September 2010, 00:00In September 2010 LIFT was awarded funding through Canada Council for the Arts to initiate an innovative film and video production pilot program in the Toronto District School System. Partnering with media teacher David Lush at Bloor Collegiate Institute, LIFT brings film and video expertise into the classroom with It’s On: Challenging Violence thr”… more |