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TCYMN Helps Youth Find Their Voice
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TCYMN was begun back in the year 2000, and since then has grown to become the largest organization of youth media in the United States, and the one that has been around the longest. When TCYMN began it had absolutely no funding, but four years ago, in 2007, it was able to acquire a source of financial support. Unfortunately that funding was lost only two years later, in 2009, but is still managing to survive.
In 2000 several practitioners of the arts decided to come together to form an organization which would help them ply their trade. The media incorporated into the organization was wide ranging and expansive, including such genres as documentary, experimental, music, narrative and even installation. Dan Bergin is one of the original members. He hails from Twin Cities Public Television and had this to say about the beginning of TCYMN: “The more formal connecting began after the 2000 NAMAC conference in the Twin Cities. We noted how connected the youth media groups from New York, Chicago, and Seattle were and thought we should be able to organize.”
The TCYMN practitioners began to meet on an informal level, finally creating a screening of work from all the different organizations involved. This first screening eventually evolved into the annually held “All City Youth Film Showcase,” which takes place at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in the autumn.
Tags: All City Youth Film Showcase, Dan Bergin, Minneapolis, NAMAC conference, TCYMN, Twin Cities, Twin Cities Public Television, Walker Art Center, youth media groups
