Festival
Is an amazing month of performances, workshops, events, and exhibits, all by and about Baltimore youth! All events are produced by Wide Angle Youth Media, are located at CENTERSTAGE, 700 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202* and take place during the month of April.
Every year young people challenge YOUR stereotypes and tell you who they really are! Submissions for our 6th Annual Who Are You? Youth Media Festival are due on January 20, 2011. We accept work from Baltimore City youth in grades 5-12.
The festival includes the following:
Gallery Exhibit
CENTERSTAGE (Lobby and Pearlstone Gallery)
See the drawings, photographs, sculptures, and installations by more than 300 Baltimore youth, all about identity from over 50 schools and 20 after school organizations. Free Admission.
CENTERSTAGE (Lobby and Pearlstone Gallery)
Every year we offer a low cost professional development training for educators. During the 5th Annual Who Are You? Youth Media Festival we organized Frame by Frame for the National Art Education Association Conference in partnership with the Masters in Community Arts Program at the Maryland Institute College of Art. In this workshop art educators, Learned the basics of pixilation—an animation technique based on assembling still images into a story. This event is offered in April and registration fees will be required. Call Wide Angle to join the waiting list 443-759-6700.
Youth Organized Event
The 5th Annual Who Are You? Youth Media Festival celebrated the voices and talents of over 300 young artists, and it culminated with the performance night at CENTERSTAGE in the Pearlstone Theatre. Last year the Baltimore Westsiders started and closed the show with a live performance. Emcees Chris Goodman and the Youth Festival Committee presented an evening of poetry, music, performances, and videos by festival participants. Including: The Unique Steppers from Woodholme Elementary Middle School, Youthlight, New Lens Productions, Child First Authority Art Corps, Roq-Off-Crew, Young Audiences and more. If you miss it or wish you could relive your event experience? Thanks to our friends at RADAR REDUX, you can watch the performance night live: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/6465796. The event was also covered by BCPSS Education Channel 77 and will air on the public access channel 77.
*All events take place at CENTERSTAGE unless otherwise noted.
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