http://video-voice.org/blog Connect. Envision. Communicate. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:09:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_137" align="alignnone" width="366" caption="Join Freestyle Love Supreme for a Purpose Party to benefit the New Orleans VideoVoices Project!"][/caption] http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/12/03/fls-hearts-nola/ BACK HOUSE PRODUCTIONS, REACH NOLA, & COMIX presents Freestyle Love Supreme: Purpose Party for New Orleans VideoVoices Project Freestyle Love Supreme and COMIX are throwing a Purpose Party to raise funds for the New Orleans VideoVoices Project! Join Tony Award-winners Lin-Manuel Miranda and Bill Sherman plus Chris Jackson, Chris "Shockwave" ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/12/02/come-party-with-the-videovoice-collective/ Join us for a presentation on participatory video and human rights in New Orleans at the 2008 Human Rights Center Conference! Conference, November 6, 2008, 10AM to 5PM Alumni House, UC Berkeley Health, Human Rights and Vulnerable Communities - 10:00 AM to 12 Noon (Toll Room) Faculty Discussant: Cheri Pies, School of Public Health • ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/10/28/participatory-video-and-human-rights-at-the-uc-berkeley-human-rights-center-conference/ This weekend, we held our world premiere of "In Harmony" in the very New Orleans neighborhood that gave it voice and vision.  It was amazing!   Over 150 supporters, many of which starred in the film, came to watch it on the big screen at Ashe Cultural Arts Center and Zeitgeist ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/08/26/the-premiere/ World premiere screenings, followed by dinner reception and filmmaker discussion session. Friday, August 22, 7:pm at Ashe Cultural Center, New Orleans Saturday, August 23, 5:pm (previously scheduled 3:pm screening has been changed) at Zeitgeist Multimedia Arts Center, New Orleans http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/08/09/announcing-the-world-premiere-of-our-first-new-orleans-participatory-film/ What would New Orleans look like if it were home to the nation's top urban public school system? Executive Producer Matt Wisdom and Digital Filmmaker Tim Ryan hope to help convey that vision in a new short Internet documentary about recent successes within New Orleans public charter schools. In addition to ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/07/17/rebirth-of-a-city-a-film-by-new-orleans-filmmaker-and-friend-tim-ryan-about-charter-schools/ Aug 15 Deadline: Apply for the Sundance Institute’s $1.2 million Doc Funding Initiative The Sundance Institute announces the opening of a Request for Proposals for Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus Through Documentary. If you are creating a documentary film that frames, examines and amplifies social entrepreneurship as an ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/07/17/funding-for-social-entreprenership-film/ July 17-20: Netroots Nation Conference; Austin, TX From electing candidates to fact-checking the traditional media, people-powered politics is become increasingly influential thanks largly to growing online communities. Find out how you can attend the Netroots Nation Conference this month to exchange ideas with like-minded individuals and learn how to become more ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/07/17/netroots-nation-conference/ The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) intend to foster and support collaborative research on health disparities/inequalities in the United Kingdom and/or in the United States. They have issued a joint call for research grant proposals to support teams of UK and USA investigators. ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/07/15/call-for-research-proposals-from-the-uk-and-usa-on-understanding-and-reducing-health-disparitiesinequalities/ Reel Change Husband/wife team Anthony Veneziale and Caricia Catalani take their talents and give voice to those in need. Guideposts Magazine: Inspiring Stories, Inspiring People By Jen MacNeil ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/07/10/videovoice-collective-in-guideposts-magazine/ Ahhh, we have a place in Central City to do editing! We met up with Lee Stafford @ Zeitgeist / Saturn Silk Screen building (which he owns) and got to move some toilets and air conditioning units to make the space our own. It's a modest 7 x ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/06/24/more-pics-and-an-editing-suite-to-call-home/ Caricia and I are living in New Orleans for most of the summer and we are so excited with the footage and the project in general. Here are some images from various participants: The Famous Handelman's Building on Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. (once called Dryades Street) It is now home ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/06/23/finishing-photography-editing-in-new-orleans/ Howard Rheingold, a brilliant lecturer at UC Berkeley and Stanford and author of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution is a major influence in our thinking about what internet-mediated video can do for public health research and advocacy. Howard Rheingold writes, and I completely agree, about the salience of ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/06/16/participatory-new-media-collective-action/ As our New Orleans VideoVoice Project enters the post-production phase, we are discovering that there are countless ways to coordinate editing. When we first set up our program plan, Anthony and I proposed that the community participants might play a kind of director role. They would select footage, ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/05/11/how-should-participatory-editing-work/ Video Blog Part 2 from our New Orleans Video Voice Project. http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/04/01/video-blog-nola-2/ Video Blog part 1 of our first trip to New Orleans. http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/03/14/video-blog-nola-1/ Map of Central City, New Orleans Tons of community-based participatory research (CBPR) authors and practitioners raise the issue of defining community in CBPR. Several authors in Minkler’s edited book Community-Based Participatory Research for Health speak to the centrality of recognizing and defining community (2003). In Lawrence Green and colleagues’ ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/03/01/new-orleans-videovoice-project-challenges-defining-community-recruitment/ Sitting back in San Francisco, I'm taking a moment to reflect on the beginning stages of our VideoVoice project in New Orleans. Caricia and I facilitated the Train-the-Trainers weekend in which we organized the grass roots of NOLA VideoVoice. This includes (but is not limited to) hands-on-camera ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/02/29/new-orleans-part-ii/ Hello, it's been a while but I'm excited to say that Caricia and I are in New Orleans, LA and beginning our VideoVoice/New Orleans project. We've been walking around Central City - the community within Orleans Parish (aka New Orleans) - that we will be working with. ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/02/21/new-orleans-part-i/ Check out these new research articles, particularly the first one, for some very helpful info about the way that digital structures, policies, and culture impact its use and its utility for advancing public health and wellbeing. Structures of Participation in Digital Culture. A new SSRC edited volume on culture, technology, ... http://video-voice.org/blog/2008/02/13/new-publications-from-the-media-research-hub/