Events

Check out the article written by the Gazette's Mike Boone about the Digital Literacy Project!

Atwater Library updates its original vocation from 1828 for the digital world

We're nearing the end of the Fall 2009 work shop series! Thursday December 10, 2009 the Digital Literacy Project will be having it's Wrap Party to celebrate a season of effort and achievement! Come and check out web design and video projects by DLP participants from RECLAIM, James Lyng High School, W.O.R.D and Project 10.

Details:
The Digital Literacy Project welcomes participants, volunteers, workshop facilitators, friends and partners from the past, present and future to attend! The DLP Wrap Party is a kid friendly event. Refreshments will be served.

Time: Thursday, December 10, 4:00pm-6:00pm.

Location:
Atwater Library, 1200 Atwater Ave. (métro Atwater)
The party will be upstairs in the auditorium.

This Friday the DLP will be participating in a panel on youth media organized by CitizenShift.

Details:
Open to the general public. Free Entry.

Time: Friday, October 24, 7:00pm-9:00pm. (doors open at 6:30pm).

Location:
NFB Theatre (directions)
1564, Rue Saint-Denis
Montreal,

CITIZENShift invites you to a ‘show and tell’ of selected creative media project featuring youth voices. Thisexciting event, taking place during CBC’s Montreal Matters will bring together workshop facilitators and participants to share and compare their works and experiences. What is the key to success? Join us to find out.

Why Now? Throughout CITIZENShift’s online presence, several media workshop facilitators – both noive and experienced - have invited us to collaborate with them. During our exchanges, we have noticed how diversified the approaches have been in conducting these workshops, and have witnessed some of the unforeseen issues that can arise when working with different youth demographics.

We have grown increasingly fascinated with how the workshops have been designed; the different approaches to teaching media skills; how the participants have been recruited and how these differences are reflected in thevideos produced. As the theme for CBC’s Montreal Matters this year is youth, this is the perfect opportunity to unite our youth-media workshop collaborators for an ‘exposé’ of experiences.

Further information on, "We Made This! Media for a New Generation"

The DLP will be sharing a stage with many other exciting groups and programs. Looking forward to it :)

This year the DLP is pleased to be involved in coordinating a series of public conversations on youth and media with University of the Streets for the month of April. Those of you not familiar with UoS please check out their website here: http://univcafe.org/eng/about

This conversation series will take place Monday evenings at the Atwater library and in other downtown cafe venues starting April 7th. Parents, educators, media activists and of course youth themselves are invited to participate in the conversations. These will be bilingual events.