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In support of ECBACC's Heruica publication, curriculum guide and documentary project exploring the memory and cultural history of the Black comics community.
The 2020 Community Voices grant will support an annual youth program to train black girls and womxn to use VR/AR to create immersive technology storytelling of their experiences. In addition it will provide support for a student-led project for inclusion in their virtual museum, which is set to launch next summer. The program participants will be compensated.
The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a five month pilot for Black and Brown youth using video, feature stories and podcasts to document and archive youth voices and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and the social uprisings in response to racist injustice and persistent state-sanctioned violence.
The 2020 Community Voices grant will support the launch of an online journal for essential discourse that connects media and media-making to historic and contemporary movements for social change. This journal will predominantly feature content guided and created by Black, Brown, Latinx and/or Indigenous artists and community organizers.
House of Lux will use the 2020 Community Voices grant to create audio and video projects about Black memory and tradition in North Philadelphia. These videos and audio will be published and made available for public viewing.
The 2020 Community Voices grant will support Philly Audio Diaries, a youth public radio training program. The program will provide POC youth with rigorous, one-on-one reporting experience in the city. In addition to connecting youth to public radio stations, the program will compensate students for their work.
The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a series of online and youth-driven programming throughout the 2020-2021 school year. Youth Set The Stage will build a strong network of organizations working in youth media throughout Philadelphia, regularly engage youth media content creators and provide platforms to showcase and present the voices and current perspectives of these Philadelphia youth, creating an audiovisual capsule of the current moment. In the process of the year-long cross-collaborations, YSTS will build an accessible toolkit for instructors working with students remotely.
The 2020 Community Voices grant will support the expansion of the “Hometown Heroes” project into a three-part editorial series that includes jazz profiles, resources for artists, and opportunities for local artists to address issues like COVID-19 and civil unrest.
The 2020 Community Voices grant will support the production of five documentaries and five podcast episodes created by community members in CCATE's filmmaking and podcast classes. These series will address the impact of immigration, health disparity, mental health and housing challenges on the Latinx community during COVID-19.
The 2020 Community Voices grant will support the production of a collection of youth stories called “Voices from the Quarantine”. The book will contain more than 30 chapters of student writing about topics such as their experiences during COVID-19 and reflections on the racial justice movements occurring in Philadelphia.