Join us this Tuesday April 3, 2012 @Harold Washington Library Center ( Cindy Pritzker Auditorium- Lower Level ) as we celebrate Marvin Gaye’s life and his concept album What’s Going On. Teens at YouMedia @ Chicago Public Library and around the country have joined to forces to tell us What’s Going On Now. Come out to see what youth from Chicago have to say about society, through music, poetry, and video.
All Ages Welcome.
There are many ways for teenagers to wind up at Harvard. The way it’s working for six Chicago-area kids who’ll be featured in a celebrity philanthropic event there Wednesday has to be among the most extraordinary, involving a superstar singer, a Chicago charity and hangout time spent willingly at the library.
Working out of the YOUmedia teen space at Chicago’s Harold Washington Library Center, the 16- and 17-year-olds have been helping to design a tour bus forLady Gaga, a specialized vehicle that will join the pop star’s caravan when she goes out on the road again next year.
Instead of housing band members or musical gear, this will be a ride pimped out with specific goals in mind: It’ll be a sort of rolling teen drop-in center, dreamed up by Gaga and designed by the kids to help promote Gaga’s message of creativity, tolerance and uniqueness.
From ChicagoTribune.com
Tribune reporter
Detroit’s Invincible rocked YOUmedia yesterday with 16 students deep for the Ladies Do It All Festival and they were so engaged that they didn’t want to leave! She worked with them on various exercises to get them to think on their feet…. a must for lyricists. She showed them a film about women in HipHop and did a few writing exercises. At the end, they recorded short lines about issues in their community. The students were inspired! Be sure to follow Invincible on Twitter: @invincibleDET
BOOM!!!
BOOM!!!
BAM!
Unnngh!!!
(Source: emergencemedia.org)
In May of 1971, Marvin Gaye released What’s Going On. A year later, he performed it at the newly-opened Kennedy Center.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of this event, the Kennedy Center is leading a national conversation around the issues and ideas on the record. We’re asking young people to think critically about these themes and respond in their own artistic voice. In May 2012, we’ll bring the conversation home to the Kennedy Center in a concert featuring John Legend, the National Symphony Orchestra, and other special guests—maybe even YOU! Be a part of this celebration by sharing your perspectives through images, poetry, video, music—wherever you find your creative voice.
Makeshift LYRICIST LOFT!!
Here is an amazing photo by YOUmedia Photographer: Katie
Artist Statement: My old computer monitor that stopped working, I decided to smash it with a sledgehammer, put on some fake cuts and blood and stick my arms in it. Multiple pictures put together in this one, one each for the arms, one for the ground where I forgot to hide my cup of blood, two for the fingertips on the sides of the screen, and the original. Cropped it, played with the levels and the colors and voila.
*Click photo to see a video of the set up.
One Love @ One Book One Chicago
Happy 10th Anniversary
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Congratulations to to our Digital Music Mentor: Jovia Armstrong
For Winning the 3Arts Award
http://3arts.org/artist/jo-via-armstrong/
We consider it our civic duty and a privilege to champion local artists and invest in the essential creative process that drives their art forth and touches all of us, in every corner of our community. That creative energy is the foundation on which the future will be built.
Annually, as the result of a nomination and jury selection process, artists producing exemplary work in the performing, teaching, and visual arts will receive awards of $15,000 each to put to use according to their individual priorities. Artists may wish to conduct research, purchase equipment, pay for child care, rent workspace, make health insurance payments, or take the time to focus on the development of new work—it’s up to them to determine their needs. There are no strings attached.
Nearly 100 artists are nominated by 30 anonymous nominators each year
*It’s amazing to see the quality of Mentors our students get to connect with everyday.
RIGHT ON JOVIA!
Dedicated to YOU: A Poem by Malcolm London (Team YOUmedia)
The atmosphere
Was at the up most high,
Green walls shimmering identity
Enabling me to find mine
The moment I stepped in this space
My brother became the Mic
A place where my voice mattered
Digital media gave literal meaning
Meaning literally transforming books into web pages
This place made me want to do homework
And though I didn’t,
I did appreciate this universe of multiverses and voices
Mom’s couldn’t believe I’d come here every day afterschool
Spending my afternoons bettering myself
Even if my grades didn’t reflect
Here I was graded on reflection
I’ve never been inside a library more times than I could count
This one time turned into one too many times
Where this place became a second home
The second my home became stressful
This became my outlet
Plugged into laptops and friendships
Sunken in diversity and lifetime bonds,
I’ve met some of my closet friends in this building
People from as far as 95th or Rogers Park
Boundaries distant but allies by my side
Like a pair of ears, there have always been mentors to listen
To guide, to change, to foster abilities, and to create
Purchasing knowledge with paying attention in workshops
The only time I’ve paid any attention to the “I” in media
Is when I become a stereotype,
but different types of stereos blasting
Innovation in this library showed how often lies vary
On television, newspapers and radios
I learned to put the You in media.
Congratulations to YOUmedia and Comm. Mary Dempsey for being recognized with Boeing’s Game Changer Award. The Game Changer award recognizes creative and innovative community programs and leaders that are making a significant impact on Chicago’s diverse communities - something the Library and YOUmedia are certainly doing. Thank you Boeing for the award and the $10,000 grant - and thank you to Malcolm from YOUmedia for the wonderful poem about what the program means to you.
Special Shout out to Chicago Public Library + Digital Youth Network staff for all your work!!
Connect, Learn, Share, and Collaborate with other YOUmedia participants, as well as youth working with other Chicago-based Organizations/Learning Institutions (like the Adler Planetarium and Free Spirit Media). Check it out here…
The mystery has been solved.
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow is this fall’s One Book, One Chicago selection. Join Chicagoans in reading and discussing this classic Chicago novel. For a full listing of events taking place this September and October, go to onebookonechicago.org.
18 year old MJ sings his original composition entitled “I Love Your Swag” during an August Edition of YOUmedia’s “Lyricist Loft” open-mic night at the Harold Washington Library. He also talks about what “swag” is and why no one should ever “swaggerjack”. A first time visitor to the space, he was excited to use the YOUmedia studio space to record for free with his library card.
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