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Youth participants from CFAD created four videos over the course of the workshop series. Two of the videos are featured below. Special thanks to video artist Erin Corbett for her creativity, energy and enthusiasm and to all the amazing and talented youth from CFAD.

Participants from RECLAIM Literacy Council who took part in last fall's video workshops returned to
the library for a second, intensive program. Workshops took place over three full Saturdays during
the month of February, participants focused on building narratives with their footage.

Cote-des-Neiges Black Community Association, Net 4 Life

Youth participants from the Cote-des-Neiges Black Community Association’s Net 4 Life Program learned about and created their own personal blogs. The goal of the workshop series was to teach participants the skills to express themselves in an online environment.

Participants from RECLAIM Literacy Council took to the streets of downtown Montreal, documenting all that they found visually intriguing in the city. With the help of video artist and musician Eric Craven, they then edited their footage into three unique videos.

Participants: Elena, Dwight and Ramsay

Facilitator: Eric Craven

Video Workshop: October and November 2009

Youth and volunteers from Project 10 learned how to design and maintain an open source website using Wordpress, updating their ancient-looking site along the way! Web designer Angela Gabereau used her creative design skills to facilitate the update.

Participants: Rochelle, Blake, and a rotating cast of P10 youth!

Facilitator: Angela Gabereau

Web Design Workshop: October and November 2009

With the guidance and expertise of web designer Jon Lebensold, volunteers from W.O.R.D, a youth organization that teaches literacy through hip hop, designed and built W.O.R.D.'s very own website! Jon also taught volunteers the ropes of project planning for a website, and provided them with the sills to maintain the website once the workshop is over.

Participants: Shanti, Nicola, E.J., Lynn and Butta

Facilitator: Jon Lebensold

Web Design Workshop: October and November 2009

Two James Lyng students participated in a media awareness themed video workshop facilitated by new media and video artist Lynn Worrell. Part of the workshop involved taking a field trip to CUTV to learn how to do green screen. Check out the videos they made!

Participants: Lia and Tyler

Facilitator: Lynn Worrell

Volunteers Tim Kelly, Catherine Cooper(CUTV field trip)

Video Workshop: October and November 2009

Youth peer-educators involved in Head and Hands' Sense Project braved the spring showers alongside new media professional Miriam Verburg, and hit the streets in order to find out more about Montrealer's knowledge about sexual health and attitudes towards young peoples sexual health! Find out what people had to say!

Facilitator: Miriam Verburg

Volunteers: Jos Porter (Sense Project Coordinator) and Robin Kelley (Sense Project volunteer)

Video Workshop: Spring 2009

The Sense Project and the DLP partnered up twice over the course of 2008 to do workshops in both video and web design.

During the intensive video workshop, participants in the Sense Project , a peer-led sex education program developed by Head and Hands made a short video called Cameron's Condoms. Cameron's Condoms is a talk show spoof with an important message, how to practice safer sex, and how *not* to tell your partner you may have accidentally given her an STI.

Volunteers and staff from the Sense Project participated in a web design workshop to leard how to use Wordpress to build and maintain their own open source site! The workshop was facilitated by web designer Jon Lebensold. The website will be used to promote the Sense Project, as well as a resource for sexual health informaiton!

Description (written by Sarah Croxen):

Savannah - is a girl that is a bully 'til one day she gets a phone call and everything changes.

Miley - Miley is Savannah’s best friend she gives savannah good advice.

The new girl - Well, she’s a new girl and savannah doesn’t really like her so she bully’s her and make’s fun of her but then in the end they become friends.

Great work guys!

Video Created : March 2008

Watch The Early Bird

A rotating cast of characters kept this workshop trucking along for 6 weeks. Phil and his students worked on an animation that made use of Photoshop and Flash-based program called Firestarter to tell the story of a baby bird that gets some surprising help in learning to fly.

The best part of the project? Learning to make a plastic baby fall out of a tree. The worst? Low attendance meant that Phil had his hands full trying to finish the film on time.

Participants:
Iftikhar Hussain (Mohammed), Jonathan Compagnon, So Hee Lee, Jade, and one un-named lad who helped Miriam find the noise of an Egg Cracking.

Facilitator: Philip Iljevskie

Volunteers: Jeremy Morris

Animation Workshop: March 2007

Four Secondary two students worked with Kate lavut to make a 5-minute horror video called Aisle 666. The best part of the workshop, according to all the students was an even split between shooting the film and then getting to see themselves on the big screen.

The worst part? Losing all their sound and having to over-dub for the second last workshop.

All four students are looking forward to screening their movie at CUTV’s MakeALottaMovies festival in April, and posting the final product on YouTube.

Participants:
Sarah Eroyen, Ashley Cuffy, Dirk Labelle and Crystal

facilitator: Kate Lavut

Volunteers Omar majeed, Jason Gondziola (CUTV field trip)

Video Workshop: March 2007

In Beat-making 101, the Digital Literacy Program took 15 students through the basic steps of recording vocals on mini-disc recorders and making beats to match them. Students were introduced to fruity loops (a digital audio workstation), the fundamentals of collaborative media practice and hip-hop music production. The workshops entailed constructing back-beats, listening and performing sessions, and lessons on more advanced beat-making possibilities, all with the support of volunteers and facilitators from Literacy Through Hip-hop, the Digital Literacy Program and the Atwater Library. Big-up yourself!

The BEATS

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Skillz.mp3
Sami3.mp3
Sami2.mp3
Sami1.mp3
quinija-beats.mp3
PrincessK.mp3
OJ.mp3
MissieJ.mp3
Hype2crazy.mp3
Fridaybeat2.mp3
bk+ck.mp3
Aaliya.mp3

Participants:
The grade 6 after-school program at Tyndale St. Georges and Literacy Through Hip-Hop Montreal.

Facilitator: Dave Madden (DLP), Lynn Worrell, Munira Ravji (LTHH)

Volunteers: Zen Nakamura, Jeremy Morris, Scott Grey, Karine. (DLP) EJ, Jeffry, and plenty of others from LTHH.

Beat-making workshop: April 2007

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Participants from the Young Parents Program at Head and Hands took part in a 6-week series of Digital Photography workshops. They learned how to use a digital camera, photography basics (composition, lighting etc.), and how to use Adobe Photoshop. It was inspiring to see the beautiful projects that they created. It took them no time at all to learn how to combine images, add text and effects in Photoshop. They scanned images that they already had, took new photographs, and produced projects on the theme of "Dreams" to add to their Scrapbook Project at YPP.

Faciliatator: Loralie Bromby
2nd Facilitator: Kate Lavut

Participants: Laea, Alana, Sarah, Sarah B. and others.

Helpers: Jen Schultes, Jason Milan Ghikadis, Brooke Van-Mossell Forrester, Pata, Chrissy.

Childcare: Ray, Valerie, Isho

Digital Photography Workshop: March 2007