Partners
: Past and Present
Since 1991, Global Action Project (G.A.P.) has provided media arts and leadership training for thousands of young people living in underserved communities, from New York to Croatia to Guatemala to the Middle East and beyond. Our mission is to provide youth with the knowledge, tools, and relationships they need to create powerful, thought-provoking media on local and international issues that concern them, and to use their media as a catalyst for dialogue and social change.
The Baccalaureate School for Global Education:
The Baccalaureate School for Global Education is the first public school in New York City in which all students prepare for the International Baccalaureate, a degree widely accepted at universities in 110 countries outside the United States. The school, opened in 2002, hopes to combine the spirit of inquiry and discovery that characterizes a good progressive school with the broad curriculum for which good traditional schools are known.
All Hallows High School , founded in 1909 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, is an inner city, Catholic, college preparatory school for young men in the heritage of Blessed Edmund Rice that develops students who are prepared to realize their fullest potential; who can effect positive change in society; who possess a lifelong desire to learn. We do this by offering a challenging, structured curriculum.
Creative Arts Workshops will work with the team at Jackie Robinson this summer to create a documentary as they plan and paint murals around Harlem. The project will air as one episode of Access Harlem
PBS/POV’s Youth Views Institute:
P.O.V. (a cinema term for 'point of view') is public television's annual award-winning showcase for independent non-fiction films. Passionate, powerful and poignant, P.O.V. films - regardless of their subjects - are ultimately personal and unvarnished reportage on our lives. P.O.V.'s Youth Views Institute is a peer-led initiative working with youth and youth-serving organizations to 0promote the use of independent documentary as an effective tool for peer engagement. YV facilitates screenings nationally and holds an annual YV Institute in New York City to train young people from around the country in using independent social issue media in their community service work.
Manhattan Neighborhood Network:
Manhattan Neighborhood Network is responsible for administering the Public Access cable television services in Manhattan. Our purpose is to ensure the ability of Manhattan residents to exercise their First Amendment rights through the medium of cable television and to create opportunities for mutual communication, education, artistic expression and other noncommercial uses of video facilities on an open, uncensored and equitable basis. In providing services, we seek to involve the diverse racial, ethnic and geographic communities of Manhattan in the electronic communication of their varied interests, needs, concerns and identities.
MIX NYC will launch a film and video training program for queer youth entitled “A Different Take” (ADT) at Hamilton Fish Recreation Center. This will be an innovative and intensive 4 week workshop where participants will be taught the technical and creative aspects of videomaking. Participants will be encouraged to make self-portrait short documentary videos. The films that participants make will be packaged as a collective DVD and will be shown in fall 2006 at the MIX-NYC Experimental Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
Tuesdays Children, a non-profit that provides services for children who lost family members on September 11th, has a fully enrolled video production program planned for the summer at Hamilton Fish. The teens will work with Kara Janeczko to create video projects.