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 The Reverse Festival
seeks to empower educators by giving them the new media skills: pod & video casting as well
as social networks in the classroom to better interact with their students. The Festival also provides a platform for independent
thinking and knowledge sharing - reinforcing the belief that "communities"
and advocates can
effect change on a small but none the less powerful level.
1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St
Bronx NY 10456 | 718.681.6000
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10,
6-8PM
Film presentation
Youth will be served, and their films showcased as we discover the
creative energies that are being developed by local youth filmmakers.
The Bronx Museum's Media Lab
and
Ghetto Film School's youth
media organizations will
each present several short films made by each program's
dynamic young filmmakers.
Q&A will follow the screenings.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11,
10-6pm
INTRODUCTION
Each One, Tech One: How Does Digital Work
10:15–10:30am
This introduction to the days events will consist of workshop instructors
giving an overview to the day as it relates to the ways educators, community
organizers, and independent media can use the workshops to their benefit.
Ron Kavanaugh, Reverse Festival organizer
WORKSHOPS
10:30–11:45am
New School Pedagogy: Introduction to Digital Media Teaching Tools
The facilitator, using the Bronx Museum’s DVD interview with hip-hop
legend Africa Bambaataa, will explore how contemporary cultural icons
can be brought into the classroom through digital media and used in
various aspects of course study.
Instructor: Charlotte Gapp,
Education Resources
Coordinator, Bronx Museum
12–1:15pm
Google Your World: Mapping Success
How can educators incorporate Google, YouTube and other
social-networking sites to lend substance to contemporary teaching
tools. This workshop will give an example of how these various sites can
be connected to harness young creativity as well as expository writing
skills.
Instructor: Ron Kavanaugh, Reverse Festival
Lunch
1:15–2:15pm
gallery tour
Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture
Tropicália is the first comprehensive exhibition to explore one of the
most significant chapters in modern cultural history, a period beginning
in the late 1960s when daring experiments in Brazilian art, music, film,
architecture and theater converged—and ignited. Although suppressed by
an increasingly oppressive military dictatorship, the moment produced a
counterculture that has influenced successive generations of artists,
even up to the present day.
2:15–3:30pm
Casting A Wide Net: Using the Internet for Podcast and Vidcasts
Podcasting and vidcasting are everywhere, but what exactly is it and how can
it be utilized to get your message across the “airwaves” and into the mind
of a student? Learn how to create, collect, and transfer recordings to make
your unique digital classroom.
Instructor: Stosh Mintek, Ghetto Film School
DIRECTIONS
Train: B/D to 167/Grand Concourse, 4 to 161/Yankee Stadium
Bus: BX1, Bx2, or BxM4 to 165th/Grand Concourse
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Literary Freedom Project
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SPONSORS
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The
Reverse Festival is presented by the
Literary Freedom Project,
a 501(c)3 tax-exempt not-for-profit arts organization, which seeks to empower
communities of color through literature, creative thinking, and independent
media.
The Project, based in the Bronx, NY, organizes
community-based workshops and a new-media festival focused on the technical and
communicative aspects of using consumer-based, low-cost digital technology. The
Project invites independent media entities and community activists and
organizers to participate in workshops, at no cost, that focus on utilizing
digital recorders, video cameras, and music players; weblogs; podcasting;
on-demand and desktop publishing; websites; and email to better communicate with
their core audiences and advocates.
The workshops also supplement independent media's
existing modes of communication and add an additional distribution dimension to
their existing circulation avenues.
LFP also instructs citizenry on how to use these mediums
as well as on-demand printing to document social concerns in their immediate
community. These solution-building programs will encourage the re-centering of
neighborhood and “community” documentation.
© The Literary Freedom Project, 2006
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