01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Karibu! My name is Peter Johnson, the community coordinator for Hot Sun Foundation. Hello to everyone in ZERO1 from Kibera, Kenya.

Hot Sun Foundation is working with youth in Kibera, the largest slum in east Africa, located in Nairobi, Kenya. We are the only organization in Kibera focusing on social transformation through art and media.

Our project is called CALL AND RESPONSE, which is a youth video exchange between Kibera and the USA. We are working with about 20 youth, seven of whom have posted videos on our blogspot. You can see our work on kiberaexchange.blogspot.com.

Our goal is for youth in Kibera to make a series of personal videos about life in Kibera.

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Hot Sun Foundation said...: Thanks Peter for the photo and the info about Kibera and Call and Response.

Pamela in Oakland California; March 25, 2008 at 9:35 AM

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01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices

Welcome 01SJ Micro-grant recipients!
Congratulations to all of you selected for this exciting 01SJ (http://www.01sj.org/) program.

This blog is meant as a way for each of the participants in 01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices program to open up and share their practice and process in developing the amazing programming for which you received a Micro-grant from 01SJ.

From now until June 2008, this blog will be a way for the different groups involved in the program to get to know one another and the amazing work being done around the world. During the exhibition, the documentation posted to this blog will serve as the narrative to tie the different projects together.

Please be generous with your posts and the information you share. This is a way to highlight exactly the things that make your programs and practice unique and...hopefully opening up a dialogue between you and your peers.

Background on the Program:
Based on the theories of Muhammad Yunus ( Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, 1999) and with the generous support of Adobe Systems, Inc., ZER01 is seizing the opportunity of the international 01SJ Festival to facilitate a world-wide youth digital arts production initiative via a micro-grant program. This project will fund 19 different international artists, arts collectives and established non-profit arts organizations and institutions to support the creation of new work by young digital artists (ages 11- 21 years) during the months leading up to the 01SJ Festival, in the individual communities of the groups funded. "Youth International" will culminate in an exhibition at the 01SJ Festival in June 2008, featuring the work generated by the youth, as well as the stories and process of each of the groups in receipt of the ZERO1 micro-grants.

The act of supporting youth production at an international level, in addition to the conversations about how to best facilitate youth digital arts programming is an incredibly timely and important service for the international youth community and the digital arts entities supporting this work. With this micro-grant program, ZER01 is a catalyst for a variety of digital art practitioners and modes of production to engage youth and share the experience of developing an infrastructure around new tools and practices for youth around the world to take action and have a voice. The exhibition of the youth digital art projects will provide a context for understanding how such work is made at all levels ( by grassroots organizations to fully realized centers), and the relevance of this work to the youth involved.

Produced by Liz Slagus, Director of Education and Public Programs for Eyebeam (New York, NY) in collaboration with ZERO1

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