Posts in 'Representation in Media'

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support the production of "Audio Olney," a monthly podcast featuring diverse Olney community leaders, residents and artists and designed to address arts & culture and local issues. The podcast will reflect Olney Culture Lab's mission of showcasing the diverse cultural expressions in Olney, strengthening community networks, and building social capital.

To amplify the diverse ethnic and multicultural community voices of the Olney neighborhood in Philadelphia.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support continued production of “Places of Power” an immersive Virtual Reality (VR) documentary and web-based app inviting viewers to experience disinvested neighborhoods in Philadelphia anew, as a tapestry of knowledge, healing, and civic leadership. The project will feature and engage community residents in immersive media using virtual reality. It will explore themes related to the unseen power held by longtime residents and spaces in a neighborhood.

To co-create a Virtual Reality (VR) project with Latinx and Cambodian community leaders and amplify the stories of their communities through the “Places of Power” documentary and web-based app. The project invites viewers to experience disinvested neighborhoods in Philadelphia anew, as a tapestry of knowledge, healing, and civic leadership. Recipient of 2021 Community Voices grant.

To create a weekly morning talk show, highlighting the accomplishments of and current events relevant to the Southwest Asian & North African community, with a focus on LGBTQIA+ individuals.

Nominated to receive a general operating grant.

COVID-19 Emergency Fund to 2019 Grantees.

To empower Germantown residents to tell their own stories digitally through a series of trainings focused on audio production, podcasting, show development and streaming.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support the distribution of a free community journal, published in Arabic and English, that amplifies culture from the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, with writers predominantly from the region. Distributing a physical newspaper across Philadelphia (and now Allentown) will put Arabic in public space to be seen and felt.

For Philadelphia Latino Film Festival's general operating support.