Articles for the Topic "Multimedia"

Chapter 6: Coming Out

2009-11-04T09:29:30

The complexities that accompany being young, queer and coming out.

Keep in Touch

2010-04-15T02:05:40

You survived the streets for days or maybe months. Then a street outreach worker tells you about a safe place to go for food, clothes, and a hot shower. Tired and alone, you decide to check the place out. It’s an emergency shelter for homeless youth. ... A couple of weeks later, you move to a program where you can get housing and advice on how to live on your own. You may begin to talk to your family and get together with them for activities and holiday gatherings. After a while, you feel strong and ready to move on. Still, it may not be easy. Will you remember to pay your rent on time? Be able to juggle school and work? Living on your own takes more than a strong will and a positive outlook. When things go wrong you may have to ask for help. There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes and needing a second chance. In this brochure, young people tell their stories in their own words and offer advice to other young people making the trip to successful independent living.

'Lulu’s Story' a Powerful Look at Teenage Homelessness

2010-04-20T02:15:28

We’ve all heard the phrase “putting a face on homelessness” countless times. The idea is simple: provide some flesh and blood to let the rest of us grasp the larger problems of poverty. It would be so easy to dismiss it as another tired cliche if it weren’t powerfully truthful. Consider “Lulu’s Story,” a multimedia piece on an 18-year-old Portland girl who has been homeless since losing her mother at the age of 12.

Night Jam

2009-12-18T03:01:37

In early Summer 2006, Scanner invited young people at New Horizon Youth Centre in King's Cross to collaborate on a creative project that expresses how the city at night looks and sounds to their eyes and ears. Through music and voice the group explored the sense of freedom and fear, exhilaration and solitude of the concealing darkness. Between sessions, they captured their nights on camera. NightJam presents two elusive visual and musical journeys through the city’s ‘quiet’ hours. NightJam is a new commission for Artangel Interaction's Nights of London series of artist-led collaborations exploring the nocturnal metropolis with the people who wake, work or watch over it. www.artangel.org.uk

Project 50: Anatomy of a photo essay

2010-11-29T01:42:50

In May 2008, I was given the assignment of illustrating a story on Project 50, a Los Angeles County-run program intended to house 50 of skid row’s most vulnerable homeless. Over the last 30 years, I’ve worked on a number of in-depth photo essays that focused on people’s experience of being homeless. The first, shot in 1984, featured a family of nine who lived in their car while trying to find housing in San Jose. Another, shot in 1988, focused on the homeless in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. In 2000, I worked on a year-long project documenting Los Angeles’ skid row, and two years earlier I completed an 18-month photo essay that looked at the elderly living on the street. This essay would be different since it would document what it feels like when a chronically homeless person is housed as well as the support they need to make it last. There were so many moving parts to the story that the only way to define a photo essay within it was to find subjects who would be willing to let me into their lives for two years. My entry point was a monthly party celebrating the birthdays of participants hosted by Project 50. This event gave me the opportunity to meet many of the Project 50 staff members and participants. Here, I tried to identify which of the participants had compelling stories, and who among them might allow me to document their lives in photographs.

The Anniversary Project

2009-11-30T12:23:52

The Anniversary Project explores the lives of 20 different Canadian children living below the poverty line. The Anniversary Project launched on the 20 year anniversary of the Canadian government’s promise to end child poverty. Combining stunning photography, powerful music, and stop motion portraits, The Anniversary Project beautifuly explores the lives of 20 children, allowing their voices to be heard as they share their experiences with poverty. The multifaceted project also provides resourcesfor those facing similar struggles or who wish to help.

Young, Queer and Homeless in Toronto: Where is the Support?

2009-04-30T03:13:19

This is Ilona's second short film. It represents the findings of a community-based, qualitative, arts-informed research project conducted by Ilona for the completion of her Master's degree.