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.
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.
Lyricist Loft One Book One Chicago Edition:
Chicago Stories Teen Showcase
Wednesday, October 12, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Harold Washington Library Center
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
400 S. State Street
Join us for a presentation of exciting and inspiring pieces about Chicago from students from YOUmedia at the Chicago Public Library and 826CHI. Inspired by The Adventures of Augie March, Chicago high school and middle school students present their own original Chicago narratives in a showcase of prose, poetry and multimedia pieces
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!
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…
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March 1, 2011
Armani Harris, a high school senior in Chicago, used to just hang out or go home after school. “I didn’t do much,” he says. But then the 17-year-old stumbled onto YOUmedia—an innovative learning space that’s housed in a 5,500 square foot room full of noisy teens, food, computers, and video games on the ground floor of the Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center. Now, he hangs out there 10 to 15 hours a week, designing posters and trying hundreds of books, including A Tale of Two Cities and War and Peace. Like the 70 or so other teens who visit YOUmedia on a typical day, Harris uses the space to play video and computer games, eat, and talk (sometimes loudly).
Photo by Alexander Garcia
All things Considered Cool at YOUmedia
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