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The Twin Cities Youth Media Network is a network youth organizations and schools that create or support youth involved media. The involvement of youth in media ranges from youth apprentices on Indepentent film projects to youth directed videos. Youth are involved in the programing on many levels, from serving on advisory councils, heading their own production companies to program participants. All of these resources and experinces contribute to the network of youth media in the Twin Cities. The Twin Cities is nationally recognized as a leader in the development of youth media because of the diverse and dedicated work of these organizations and schools in partnership with creative, engaged and talented youth.
Americorps Community Technology Empowerment Project - CTEP 2402 University Ave W, Suite 600
St. Paul, MN 55114
Ages Served: All Ages
Geographic Area: Twin Cities
Contact: Roxanne Johnson
Email: rjohnson@technologypower.org
Phone: 612-605-4745
Web site: technologypower.org
The Community Technology Empowerment Project (CTEP) is working to bridge the digital divide in low-income and new immigrant communities throughout Minneapolis and St. Paul. CTEP places 25 full-time AmeriCorps members in community-based organizations and community technology centers to improve technology literacy for everyone.
Center for International Education - CIE 255 Kellogg Boulevard East, Loft 503
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101-1435 USA
651.227.2240
Ages Served: Ages 3 to 21
Geographic Area: Statewide, International
Contact: Media Mike Hazard
Email: mediamike@thecie.org Website: thecie.org
We teach youth of all ages from all over how to make poetic videos.We always learn by making hands on. We work with many cultural institutions including the Minnnesota Institute for Talented Youth, COMPAS, Young Audiences, the Science Museum of Minnesota and more. Programs by our students are distributed in ever widening circles, from schools to cable systems to broadcast and satellite footprints to webcast streams.
In Progress 262 East 4th Street, Suite 301
Saint Paul, MN 55101
651.228.1271(open studio) 612.805.0514 (admin)
Ages Served: Primarily 12-22
Geographic Area: Several locations throughout Minnesota. Also piloting activities in Colorado
Contacts: General Inquiries - Kao Choua Vue,
Communications Coordinator email: ythmedia@aol.com
Exhibitions, Screenings, & Special Events - Mina Blyly-
Strauss email: digitalmyths@aol.com,
Other Inquiries -Kristine Sorensen, Executive Director email: ythmedia@aol.com
Website: in-progress.org and mn-media.org
We offer media production workshops, open studios, and school residencies. Learn how to make videos and digital photographs. For the 2005-06 school year the following (Twin Cities) weekly activities are planned: Call for open studio times (generally week days from 4-7pm). Check our web site for updated information on workshops, residencies, and other events.
Independent Feature Project Minnesota - IFP MN 2446 University Ave. West, Suite 100
St. Paul, MN 55114
Ages Served: All Ages
Geographic Area: Minnesota
Contact Person: Allison Herrera
Email: aherrera@ifpmn.org
Phone: 651-644-1912
Web Site: ifpmn.org
IFP MN partners with area schools and organizations to teach media skills, screenwriting, and provide opportunities to take advantage of our equipment and facilities. IFP MN offers over 120 classes annually on various aspects of filmmaking and photography for beginner through mid-career artists. Highlights include a High School Shorts Competition; collaboration with Courage Center; a Teen Program and Media Lab.
Intermedia Arts 2822 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Ages Served: Primarily 13-22 for teen programming
Geographic Area: primarily Minneapolis 55403-55409, greater Twin Cities
Contact Person: Melis Arik
Phone: 612- 874-2813
Email: melis@intermediaarts.org
Web site: intermediaarts.org
Intermedia ArtsÕ mission is build understanding among people through arts. Our programming for teens occurs primarily in Minneapolis alternative high schools using media arts and all other art forms. We have been and are a site for screenings of youth-created film and video, artwork and live performance in our theater and gallery. Contact us for more information about our space and programming events in it.
Minneapolis Television Network - MTN 125 SE Main Street
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Ages Served: everybody
Geographic Area: Minneapolis, MN
Contact Person: Beth Peloff & John Akre
Phone: w: 612-331-8575 ext. 311, h: 612-588-5495
Email: video@mtn.org
Web site: mtn.org
Since1987 MTN has provided television production and media literacy training for young people in grades six through twelve. Our youth training programs give these young people the freedom to find and express their own voice using the tools of video, television and Internet technology, and the critical skills necessary to use that voice responsibly in community. Public access also available for all ages.
Perpich Center for Arts Education 6125 Olson Memorial Highway
Golden Valley, MN
Ages Served: grades 11, 12
Geographic Area: Students attend from around the state, located in Golden Valley (Western Minneapolis suburb)
Contact Person: Nancy Norwood, Media Arts Instructor
Phone: 763-591-4739
Email: nancy.norwood@pcae.k12.mn.us
Website: Arts HS at Perpich Center for Arts Education
The Arts High School offers a Media Arts Program free of tuition for incoming 11th and 12th graders. Potential students must apply. Students receive handson learning in photography, cinema, animation, digital arts and interactive media as part of the two-year sequential program. Students work in a variety of styles developing the skills and techniques to express a personal vision.
Phillips Community Television - PCTV 734 East Lake Street, Suite #212
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Ages Served: Ages 10 to 18
Geographic Area: Based in south Minneapolis, but open to youth outside of that area. Transportation provided for youth living in south Minneapolis.
Contact Person Name: Michael Hay
Phone: (612) 821-3938
Email: michael@phillipscommunitytv.org
Website: phillipscommunitytv.org
PCTV provides media arts education for youth. After school programs offered Monday through Friday from 4-6 PM. Training in television production, video editing, digital photography, and web page design.
Science Museum of Minnesota 120 West Kellogg Blvd.
St. Paul, Minnesota 55102
Ages Served: All Ages
Geographic Area: Twin Cities
Contact Person: Kristen Murray
Email: kmurray@smm.org
Phone: (651)221-2525
Web Site: smm.org
The Science Museum of Minnesota's Learning Technologies Center is a research and development center exploring ways digital technologies can support informal, hands-on science learning. SMM offers On-Line Activities, Youth Classes, and Community Programs. The Learning Technologies Center offers a wide range of creative computer classes for young people, ages 4-16. See the class lists online and look at student projects from previous Learning Technologies classes at SMM.org. Learning Technologies also collaborates with the Independent Museum Learners program at the Museum Magnet School in St. Paul. Elementary-aged students work on self directed projects that incorporate technology, and write about their work online.
St. Paul Neighborhood Network - SPNN 375 Jackson St, Suite 250
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101
651.298.8903
Ages Served: All Ages
Geographic Area: Saint Paul
Contact Person: Nicola Pine
Email: pine@spnn.org
Website: spnn.org/youth
The Youth Channel at SPNN is a place for St. Paul youth to express their voice through media. We offer video production classes at SPNN, do residencies at schools and community organizations, and coordinate a teen-produced show called Set it Up. We also broadcast youth-produced videos on Channel 16 in St. Paul. We are part of SPNN, which is the cable access center in St. Paul.
TVbyGirls 3404 Pleasant Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Ages Served: Our workshops and long term mentor program are for girls 11 to 19.
Opportunities for internships, mentoring and leadership are available. Special workshops are also available for mixed gender groups, teachers and parents using our visual literacy curriculum.
Geographic Area: Minnesota in preliminary stages, schools throughout the United States via Internet 2 workshops and ultimately the television series will be a designed for a national and international audience.
Contact Person: Rebecca Bullen or Barbara Wiener
Phone: 612.823.1809
Email: rebecca@tvbygirls.tv or barbara@tvbygirls.tv
Web site: tvbygirls.tv
We teach girls to defuse the power of negative media messages by giving strength to girls ideas. In lively, hands-on workshops, girls analyze print and moving media, explore visual metaphors and decode the hidden cultural messages in pictures and sound. TVbyGIRLS workshops are an exciting, hands-on way for girls to explore visual storytelling with the tools of modern media. Media professionals (directors, producers, writers and teachers) work mentoring girls to encourage self-expression and critical thinking skills. Workshops will lead to the development of a national television series with girls as the content decision makers. (or girls as the editorial board). The television series will be a weekly documentary magazine style program, designed to reinforce girls ideas and potential to lead change in the world.
Walker Art Center Teen Programs 1750 Hennepin Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Ages Served: 13-19
Geographic Area: Minneapolis/Saint Paul
Contact Person: Witt Siasoco
Phone: 612.375.7683
Email: teenprograms@walkerart.org
Website: teens.walkerart.org
The Walker Art Center offers video workshops for teenagers with local, national and international media artists. Every year the Walker hosts the Girls in the Director's Chair Film Festival, a showcase of videos made by young women (8-18) throughout Minnesota. With Walker staff, the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC) creates programs (film screenings, artist talks, and workshops) that connect teenagers to contemporary art and artists.
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