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A Verse City workshop (2009)

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Verse City

Affichée le octobre 20, 2009

  • Auteur : Julianna McDermott
  • Organisation: Verse City
  • Endroit : 80 gould street toronto ontario
  • Catégorie : Soutenez les jeunes
  • Coût : À gros budget (50 000 $ à 250 000 $)

We are Verse City, a group of journalism students determined to give isolated Aboriginal youth a voice.

ABORIGINAL YOUTH

Many aboriginal reserves are accessible by air or winter road alone.

Aboriginal people are under represented as members of the media. The media underreports some of the more tragic issues that aboriginal communities face. For example:

· Youth suicide rates in aboriginal and Inuit communities are five to 11 times the national average

· Many are from abusive households

· About 70 per cent of First Nations students on-reserve will never complete high school

· Mold contaminates almost half of First Nations households

· More than 100 First Nations communities are under a Boil Water Advisory for drinking water

By providing aboriginal youth with the journalism skills necessary to start their own newspapers, radio stations, multimedia websites or TV news stations, they will be able to share their stories with a nation that, for the most part, hasn't heard of the outstanding hardships they are forced to overcome.

As a marginalized and misrepresented group, aboriginal youth should be given opportunities to become decision makers with the power to select and create their own stories. While certain stories may be told to a larger audience so that all Canadians can work for social change, aboriginal youth must also be able to develop positive stories. Young aboriginal journalists will find it just as empowering and life-changing to explore music or pressing international issues in creative ways using a variety of mediums.

By collaborating with aboriginal youth to develop their storytelling abilities their voices will be heard and both the storyteller and viewer will begin to envision a different reality.

It will decrease the disparity between aboriginals and the rest of Canadian society.

Canada will be forced to hear and to address aboriginal needs.

THE PLAN

We will make an initial trip to these reserves to introduce aboriginal youth workers to the Verse City program. In subsequent trips over several months in early 2010, we will continue to work towards our ultimate goal of equipping community members with the skills and tools to independently organize and run their own journalism programs.

We will collaborate with youth and youth workers in the community to run a journalism program catered to their needs and interests. We will also train youth workers to act as teachers of journalism.

Once a program has been designed and teachers have been trained, Verse City and the youth workers will lead a 5-day introductory course to introduce the youth to the tools of multimedia journalism. The youth will generate stories as they move from the theory to its application. They will learn to gather the news, write and edit for print, audio, video and online through a fun, hands-on approach.

Verse City will return to Toronto after the five-day introductory course, however, the youth and community youth workers will continue to hone their journalistic skills. The aboriginal youth will publish their work on their own website. Verse City will continue to teach and learn from aboriginal youth and youth workers via regularly scheduled video conferences and an online forum. In June, after several months as young journalists, the aboriginal youth will be invited to visit Toronto, live on the Ryerson University campus and attend Verse City's Summer Camp 2010.

Our experience working with marginalized youth in the Greater Toronto Area will benefit organizers in aboriginal communities as they develop a program that caters to the needs and interests of their youth.

VERSE CITY?

Verse City is a non-profit program run by student volunteers from the Ryerson School of Journalism.

We hold journalism workshops to encourage marginalized youth from Toronto's priority neighbourhoods to pursue careers in journalism.

These youth face barriers to education, employment and access to community services. The media often misrepresents or under represents their communities.

Verse City strives to break down these barriers by establishing access to post-secondary education by providing the tools and skills necessary to produce journalism.

We give the youth a voice. A chance to share their stories and to know that someone is listening.

We hold workshops once a month during the school year and an intensive five-day multimedia camp during the summer.

You can check out the youths’ reports on our website:

www.journalism.ryerson.ca/versecity


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