Workshop

News flash: Welcome to the world, Hazel Moon, and congratulations Andrew Lynn!  This workshop is postponed until the new family is a bit more rested...

 The Youth Media Sanctuary team hosts yet another animation whirl-wind! Geared specifically for youth (18 & under), this workshop teaches the skills and techniques behind stop motion animation, while encouraging spontaneous creativity and fun.  Participants will work in groups to brainstorm and create short animated pieces that will be uploaded to the web for the world to see.  

Taught by animation guru Andrew Lynn, along with the YMS team.

REGISTER at: mediasanctuary.org/workshopregistration 

For more info, or find out about scholarship opportunities, e-mail workshops@MediaSanctuary.org or call (518) 272-2390

Here's a few past examples from our Animation workshops, where we had a great time!         

A digital storytelling workshop led by artist/chef Ellie Markovitch.  Free community workshop for neighborhood youth on basic documentary skills and the art of storytelling. 

From seed to table, come document the Collar City Growers’ first harvest. Students will be trained in this workshop to document the entire day of activities, including StoryHarvest art project on the Collard City Growers lot from 4-6, as well as the community meal that follows at the Sanctuary at 6.

If you are an adult and interested in volunteering, this will be an excellent opportunity to have hands-on experience with a media arts and education production workshop. Please contact us for more info!

How to Shoot: Hands-on Digital Video

REGISTER at: mediasanctuary.org/workshopregistration

    Join documentarian Jim de Sève in this hands-on lab specifically designed for improving your shooting skills.  Four exercises focus on:
    1. Going off automatic
    2. Motion and stability
    3. Covering the action
    4. Engaging the emotive potential of the camera
   
    Bring your video camera, if you have it—but not required.

BIO:  Jim de Sève is an award-winning documentary producer and director.  He teaches film production classes at Union College. 

REGISTER at: mediasanctuary.org/workshopregistration 

 Youth Media Track, for: tweens through young adults; media experience not necessary.

$15 Workshop fee for local youth. Scholarships available: no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Requested donations from participating youth media organizations.

Co-sponsored by Youth Media Sanctuary & Youth FX

PARTICIPATING GROUPS include: Youth Media Sanctuary, Youth FX, Green Guerillas, Tech Valley High School, Troy High School and HarlemLIVE!

This SURVIVALIST MEDIA WORKSHOP is $10-40 sliding scale!  REGISTER at: mediasanctuary.org/workshopregistration 

It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Social Media and Global Resistance, with Media Pirate, "The Stimulater," Frank Lopez

This workshop is on DIY distribution, radical aesthetics, stealing stuff from the internet, collaborating with video ninjas across the land, and funding it all through small donations from fans.

Participants will not only get to learn from this underground media celebrity, they will actually
co-produce a totally rad local news story with the "Stimulator" himself! The video that gets made will premiere on Sanctuary TV the following week.

Join Franklin López as he explains the who, what, why of his snarky show and learn with a hands on workshop on how the f@*k he does it!

"Be the Media" Growing the Grassroots Track, for: Adults and teens.

"Rediscovering the Everyday: Basic Documentary Photography"

with Brenda Ann Kenneally

For: tweens through adults. Anyone who has a camera and an interest in basic level documentary photography.

Learn how to take your camera off automatic! You'll learn how to stop, look and listen, and find the meaning and splendor in the cracks between the everyday sidewalks that you travel.

Learn about composing the frame and shooting in available light. We will leave no fledgling blade of grass unturned as we balance technical camera skills with sociological strategies, to best document your subjects!

All photos on this page by Brenda Ann Kenneally

For Womens' Organizations only, REGISTER at: mediasanctuary.org/workshopregistration.

Questions about this workshop? Contact Victoria Kereszi, email: vkereszi@gmail.com.  For more info, or to learn about scholarship opportunities, e-mail workshops@MediaSanctuary.org or call (518) 272-2390.

Who knows the challenges your communities face better than you?!?!  Set the record straight and participate in Trojan HerStories!

Saturday AND Sunday, December 11 and 12 (childcare provided). 1-5pm both days

In this 2-day workshop you and your community group members will create a 3-5 minute Digital Story about women's work in your community.

REGISTER at: mediasanctuary.org/workshopregistration

For more info, or find out about scholarship opportunities,
e-mail workshops@MediaSanctuary.org or call (518) 272-2390

 Learn everything you need to know about planning, shooting, editing and marketing the documentary you’ve been dreaming about, from a filmmaker who has done it.  

REGISTER at: mediasanctuary.org/workshopregistration

For more info, or find out about scholarship opportunities,
e-mail workshops@MediaSanctuary.org or call (518) 272-2390

Participants will work as a team to create 3D prototypes using Second Life’s building tools and real time collaborative environment to re-imagine the direct urban environment of The Sanctuary in North Central Troy.  We will create a 3-D model of the block of 6th Ave. between Glen and 101st St.  

REGISTER at: http://mediasanctuary.org/workshopregistration

For more info, or find out about scholarship opportunities,
e-mail workshops@MediaSanctuary.org or call (518) 272-2390

A digital storytelling workshop led by a writer/photographer team, focusing on food as a tool to capture powerful and evocative personal histories.

Please join photographer Ellie Markovitch and writer Amy Halloran for an afternoon of food and digital storytelling.  

Bring a meaningful recipe, relevant photographs, and your camera.

Check out STORY COOKING  for more info!