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. 

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.

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.  

Here's our past "Be the Media" workshops.

Click on listings below to check out the Media Arts and Education projects we have offered. Info includes curricular descriptions, workshop leaders, and other documentation.

"Be the Media" WORKSHOPS, SPRING 2010

Youth Media Live Studio Production | June 5  Participants learned about and participated in a live 4-camera production studio shoot of a real event featuring NY youth media makers. Click here to view PSAs created in this workshop!

Visual Journalism: Comics and Graphic Novels | May 9  An arts activism intensive with members of the World War Three Illustrated collective, including a discussion on zines and comix, and a hands-on collaborative workshop to make a digital mini-comic. Details.

The Camera as Interface to the World | April 18  Explore the discipline of seeing, the subconscious of the camera through your personal vision, through observational and experimental practice, for beginners to pros. With award-winning filmmaker and educator Jim de Sève. Details. 

Media Management in a Digital Universe | March 14    Master the art of archiving - and muscle your data into place for order, access, and ease - with digital archivist and preservation consultant David Rice. Details.

"Be the Media" WORKSHOPS, FALL 2009

Web Distribution | December 6  Your videos can be used to build and strengthen communities; learn how to take your finished work and strategically distribute it on the Internet!   Details.

Community Digital Storytelling | October 25 and by appointment  This two-part workshop is aimed at organizations and citizens from the regional community, to get their stories heard!  Details.

Quilt Project | October 17–18  Share in a collective celebration of the history of grassroots communication with this quilt-making workshop; bring your community media t-shirts, and we will add them to our quilt! Details.

Digital Preservation | October 4  "Video Archiving 101: How to Save and Access Your Video Collection" for organizations and individuals.   Details.

"Be the Media" WORKSHOPS, SPRING 2009 

Mural Workshop| March 28-29   “How Will They Know Us? Building a Culture of Peace”  Iraqi and American youth share visions of a peaceful, just coexistence in a mural workshop. Guided by Claudia Lefko, director of the Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange. Details and documentation.

“A Conversation About UPSTATE GIRLS” | April 2   Teenage girls from the Capital Region share stories about the challenges in their lives, gathering with representatives of the institutions with which they are entwined—including legal, educational, healthcare and penal systems—in response to award-winning photojournalist Brenda Ann Kenneally’s compelling work. Get details and documentation. 

Visual Journalism and Arts Activism: A Panel Discussion and Workshop With World War 3 Illustrated Artists

Please register by clicking here! Scholarships are available!

An arts activism intensive with members of the World War Three Illustrated collective, including a discussion on zines and comix, and a hands-on collaborative workshop to make a digital mini-comic.

1-3 PM-- Small Press and DIY Publishing and Promotion of Activist Comics and Zines (Panel discussion with World War 3 Artists/Editors.) Digital tools make it easier and cheaper than ever for individuals, groups and collectives to publish comics independently. But the most significant challenge remains that of creating work that is relevant and responsive to the community it represents. What are the opportunities for using the comic medium for social change? What strategies and tools are artist activists using to get their work out into the community, and how is that changing?

To register for workshops of for more info contact us at:
workshops@mediasanctuary.org -or- (518) 272-2390

We are offering a new workshop this fall at the Sanctuary that could help to tell the important story of your organization and/or your self.

This two-part workshop is aimed at organizations and citizens from the regional community, to get their stories heard! Let us help you turn photos and narration into a video to promote your group and the work you do.

Please note that registration for this workshop includes a 4-hour follow-up lab, by appointment, between October 26 and December 5, 2009.

Workshop Part 1: Script and Pre-production (on October 25)

Use digital storytelling as a tool for community engagement and empowerment by exploring mixed media storytelling techniques! Combine written and recorded narration, music and still images, to effectively communicate a compelling vision of yourself and/or your organization. We're looking for diverse community groups, organizations and individuals to share their stories. This first session lays groundwork for the finished product.

Video Archiving 101: How to Save and Access Your Video Collections

A Digital Preservation workshop for organizations and individuals

So you made your media and got it out there — now what? This workshop will help you safeguard that treasured masterpiece for generations to come. Learn what formats work — and which don't — for archiving your media projects.

To register for workshops of for more info contact us at:
workshops@mediasanctuary.org -or- (518) 272-2390

MORE ABOUT NAN RUBIN, Digital Preservation Pioneer: Since its start in 2005, the NDIIPP Preserving Digital Public Television Project has made significant progress in building infrastructure, creating standards and obtaining resources, and much of the credit goes to its project director, Nan Rubin.

Our "Be the Media" workshop series provides local artists, producers, and citizen journalists with opportunities to acquire and improve the skills necessary for successful and powerful independent media-making. We offer an interdisciplinary approach to diverse media arts practices with new technologies, with core focus on creative practice and artistry.

October 4 Digital Preservation

with Nan Ruben

October 17-18 "Community Media" Quilts Project

It's not all electronic! Share in a collective celebration of the history of community media with this quilt-making workshop. Bring your community media t-shirts that you cherish, but no longer wear, and we will add them to our quilt. Whether you are an experienced quilter and/or sewer, or someone whose always wanted to participate, join us! The final quilt will be auctioned in the Spring '10 season as part of our upcoming 5th Anniversary Celebration...

October 25 1-5pm Community Digital Storytelling

This two-part workshop is aimed at organizations and citizens from the regional community, to get their stories heard!