Arts Activism and Youth Media Links

Youth Media
Theatre: Street Theatre and Puppet Making
Other Community Arts Programs
Educational Exhibits
Posters
Individual Political Artists
Scholarships

Youth Media www.wiretapmag.org WireTap is the independent information source by and for socially conscious youth. We showcase investigative news articles, personal essays and opinions, artwork and activism resources that challenge stereotypes, inspire creativity, foster dialogue and give young people a voice in the media. The WireTap Web portal provides a new generation of writers, artists and activists a space to network, organize and mobilize. www.wnyc.org/radiorookies/Harlem/mccuneharlem.html The Harlem Radio and Photography Project worked with students aged 12 to 19 who learned to report, write and produce radio stories and also how to compose and take pictures at the Photographic Center of Harlem. Participants were given the tools to find and tell the stories most important to them. www.listenup.org Since January, 1999, ListenUp! has assisted more than 1,000 youth from diverse backgrounds in the researching, writing, production, editing and distribution of their own media. This project lets youth know that their work and voices are important and valued while contributing to an open climate for youth media production. www.speakuppress.org Speak Up is a national, annual non-profit literary journal published in hard copy that provides a creative voice for young adults (ages 13-19 yrs.) through publication of their original fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, photography, and artwork. www.yellohgirls.com YELL - Oh Girls! advocates creative self-expression as a form of empowerment among girls who are of Asian descent. Coupled with the anthology of writings by Asian American girls, which was released by HarperCollins Publishers in August of 2001, yellohgirls.com girls and women can and will engage in a dialogue about culture, identity, and growing up. www.youthoutlook.com YO! Youth Outlook is an award-winning monthly publication by and for young people who have stories to share. Featuring in-depth reporting pieces and first-person essays, comic strips and poetry pages, YO! is the communication outlet for youth who feel their voice and visions need to be seen and heard. YO! is a bridge to the world of youth expression. YO! chronicles the world through the eyes and voice of young people -- between the ages of 15 and 25 -- in the San Francisco Bay Area. www.interrupt.org/ymc.html Youth Media Council, of We Interrupt this Message, is a two-year youth organizing, leadership development, media capacity-building and watchdog project dedicated to amplifying the public voice of marginalized youth and their communities. Made up of representatives from eight of the Bay Area's most vibrant progressive youth organizations and 15 youth media interns, the YMC aims to strengthen the growing youth movement in northern California. www.justthink.org/ymc.html Just Think teaches teaches young people to understand the words and images in media, and think for themselves. www.underground-railroad.org/ Underground Railroad, located at the Youth Empowerment Center in Oakland, enables urban youth to work for systemic social change through the creation and promotion of art and culture. Through organizing, educational workshops, and cultural productions, we develop leadership in young artists to popularize their visions of freedom and social transformation. Underground Railroad is building a vibrant movement culture that speaks to and involves young people of color as artists and cultural workers, encouraging them to use microphones and megaphones, paintbrushes and picket signs, as leaders in the movement for fundamental social change. top Theatre: Street Theatre and Puppet Making www.artandrevolution.org Art & Revolution is a unique arts organization: We emphasize politics and direct action in our work. We see activism as crucial to meaningful arts expression. We believe that our politics suffer without creative vision in the same way that our art suffers without political or social relevance. http://www.zeitgeist.net/wfca/wisefool.htm Wise Fool Community Arts is a non-profit organization which uses art and theatre as vehicles for community building, self-determination, social and political change. http://www.culturalodyssey.org/medea.html The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women,with Rhodessa Jones www.sfmt.org The San Francisco Mime Troupe. The San Francisco Mime Troupe does not do pantomime. We mean 'mime' in the ancient sense: to mimic. We are satirists, seeking to make you laugh at the absurdities of contemporary life and at the same time, see their causes. We’ve done shows about most of the burning issues of our time, generally shows that debunked the official story. We perform everywhere from public parks to palaces of culture, aiming to reach the broadest possible audience. www.thestrategycenter.org/teatro.html Through a collaboration between the Labor Community Strategy Center, the Bus Riders Union, and Cornerstone Theatre Company, Los Angeles has become a setting for on-the-bus theatre. Using public space as a stage for civil life, the shared physical space of the buses is used as a "stage" for community interaction in a moving theatre of daily life. top Other Community Arts Programs www.galeriadelaraza.org Galería de la Raza is a Chicano/Latino interdisciplinary space for art, thought and activism in the Mission District of San Francisco. www.artistsnetwork.org/ The Artists Network is a group of artists and arts presenters who create and promote art that contributes to a CULTURE OF RESISTANCE. The Artists Network is a project of Refuse and Resist! www.intergeneration.org Intergeneration  is an interdisciplinary arts project that builds Queer community between Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people of all ages through the creation of theatrical performances, paintings, new media works, photography, video narratives, storytelling, and poetry. www.communityarts.net The Community Arts Network (CAN) project promotes information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based arts, that is, art made as a voice and a force within a specific community of place, spirit or tradition. Educational Exhibits High Contrast High Contrast: shades of our identities. A photo-narrative exhibit by youth and for youth. to be used as an organizing tool for Gay-Straight Alliance clubs and as a curriculum tool for classes. www.familydiv.org Family Diversity Projects Inc. BRING OUR TOURING EXHIBITS TO YOUR COMMUNITY & OUR BOOKS TO YOUR LIBRARY! www.thesharedheart.com The Shared Heart is a touring exhibition of photographs with text and a book, created to bring affirming images of lesbian, gay, and bisexual young people into high schools, colleges, and workplaces. top Posters www.northlandposter.com Northland Poster Collective online gallery and catalog store. Northland Poster Collective is dedicated to promoting a socially just world through the use of art. We create, find, distribute and encourage art that will make a positive contribution. www.agitart.org THINK AGAIN are agit-artists who expect something political from art. We use images to challenge indifference and talk back to mainstream ideas that perpetuate injustice. Our work combines humor, cultural theory, and hard sociological evidence in posters, postcards, and billboards. www.protestgraphics.org Activists tell us that they are often without the visual and graphic materials they need for placards, bulletin boards, windows, wheat-pasting, stickering, leafleting and so on. This site offers you practical tools you can use for your upcoming political actions. www.politicalgraphics.org The Center for the Study of Political Graphics is an educational archive that collects, preserves, documents, and exhibits domestic and international posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for peace and social justice. http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Exhibits/Track16.html Decade of Protest. Political Posters from the United States, Cuba and Viet Nam, 1965-1975. A virtual catalog of the exhibition. http://www.dykeactionmachine.com For the past nine years, Dyke Action Machine! has been hard at work, infiltrating and mediating the visual environment which surrounds New Yorkers each time they set foot outside their apartments. http://www.guerrillagirls.com/ The Guerrilla Girls: Fighting discrimination with facts, humor, and fake fur since 1985! http://www.prisonactivist.org/resistant-strains/ Resistant Strains Maximum Security Democracy Project. Although the title Maximum Security Democracy is somewhat overarching, this project began with a fairly specific intent: to focus on the US prison industry and to highlight some of the struggles of those opposing it with a series of artists' posters designed for a variety of uses. http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUGallery/graphcoll.html The Chicago Women's Graphics Collective was organized in 1970 to create posters for the growing women's liberation movement. http://www.igc.org/inkworks/gallery.html Inkworks Poster Gallery. This poster gallery presents some of the political posters printed by Inkworks Press. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/%7Elcush/CPP.htm Cuban Poster Art. Cuba has a long tradition of producing unique and powerful posters. Ater the revolution in 1959, posters took on a vital social role in promoting the wide range of issues facing a small country struggling for self-determination and identity. www.infoshop.org/myep/cw_posters.html Infoshop.org: your online anarchist community. Class war poster campaign in San Francisco, 1993-2001. top Individual Political Artists http://angelfire.lycos.com/rebellion/emoboi/posters.html An Artist's Discontent. hello kiddies. i'm Lauren, or for those of you who may know me better, Charlie. but anyway, what you will find below and in the corresponding pages is artwork by me or artwork that has influenced me. some of the subjects covered are, Queer/LGBTQ youth issues, transgender/gender variant issues, womens issues, suicide/depression, anti-violence/hate crime education, and others. Lauren/Charlie Bruton is a member of GSA Network's Northern Callifornia Youth Council and Governing Board. http://www.art-for-a-change.com/ Mark Vallen's Art for A Change. My AFC Website is dedicated to the Arts and their role in transforming society, from my own socially conscious Paintings and Drawings to the works of other like minded Artists who possess a critical vision. http://gamun.tripod.com/ Art from the Heart: the heart of illustrator, designer, and muralist, Christine Wong http://www.art-for-a-change.com/ Mark Vallen's Art for A Change. My AFC Website is dedicated to the Arts and their role in transforming society, from my own socially conscious Paintings and Drawings to the works of other like minded Artists who possess a critical vision. http://www.robbieconal.com Robbie Conal's web site: satirical political posters http://www.josart.net Jos Sances' web site: sculpture, posters, prints top Scholarships www.nfaa.org/ Arts Awards.org. Each year thousands of talented high school seniors and other 17- and 18-year-old artists apply to the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) ARTS program. Simply applying provides the opportunity to qualify for $3 million in college scholarships; share in an award package valued up to $800,000 and perhaps be named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Send recommendations for new links to freezone@gsanetwork.org.

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