Vote Verse City
Verse City needs your votes!
Our summer camp was a success and our weekend workshops have begun. But Verse City is looking to expand its cause.
What do we want to do?
Verse City wants to give silenced Aboriginal youth a voice. The minimal coverage Aboriginal people do receive involve poverty, substance and sexual abuse. Conflict and tragedy gets reported but their success stories rarely do. As a result, their community is misrepresented as trouble-ridden.
Such misconceptions are further fuelled by the absence of a strong Aboriginal presence in the newsroom.
By working closely with Aboriginal youth, they will learn to think critically, improve their media literacy, and challenge such representations through different forms of journalism.
The Aboriginal community are a people founded upon oral traditions. Let their stories be heard.
How are we going to do this?
We’ve applied for a grant via the Aviva Community Fund and we need all the votes we can get to move onto the second round.
How can you help?
Vote! And spread the word!
It takes literally seconds to register.
Register and vote at: http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf1597
There are six days left to vote.
Please help Verse City make this endeavour a reality.
In other news:
Affiliate group at Ryerson University
We are now an affiliate group at Ryerson University. This means we are a student group at our university who still maintains external affiliations. In our case, East Metro Youth Services (EMYS).
Culture and music journalism workshop
On Saturday, October 24, 2009 we held our first workshop for the 2009/2010 year. The culture and music themed workshop, featured music journalist Errol Nazareth. Nazareth is a columnist for Eye Weekly and a freelance music journalist who has written extensively on black and world music for various publications and CBC radio programs.
Nazareth stressed the importance of networking in journalism and encouraged participating students to contact him for advice and feedback on their ideas and writing.
Participating students were second-year students at Say Word, a branch of the Violence Intervention Project (VIP) multimedia program. Some Say Word graduates who attended the summer camp were present as well.
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