Here's a Recap of Some documentation of this wonderful event.  Thanks for sharing!

A Flickr set from Victoria Kereszi
A Photo Series from Dylan on Facebook
Timothys photos on mediasanctuary.org
A blog post from food workshop facilitator, Amy Halloran

A day of skillsharing and planning as we build a local network of shared values and knowledge around urban gardens, food networking, food preservation, passive and alternative energies, water catchment, and social justice.

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. 

Your videos can be used to build and strengthen communities! Learn how to take your finished work and strategically distribute it on the internet. We will post videos from Community Digital Storytelling Lab to the internet, demonstrating technical process and illustrating audience targets and social networking. If you have a video to post on-line, or are thinking about making one, this workshop is for you!

Email us if you're interested!

Or, to register, visit http://www.mediasanctuary.org/registration120609

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Here are a few  of the Community Digital Stories produced at the Sanctuary:

http://www.mediasanctuary.org/movie/1089

"Dear Mr. X" — Community Responses to War Digital Storytelling Project, #1
As part of the "Be The Media" digital storytelling workshop, a group of young Iraqi women refugees living in Albany worked with producers at The Sanctuary for Independent Media to tell their stories. Produced by Tethkar Ahmad, Wied Jassim, Shahad Jassim, Mais Salih, and Hiba Haitham Alsaffar, with support from the Iraqi Children's Art Exchange, Iraqi Families Project, and Branda Miller.

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!  Please note: This is a two-day event, beginning on Saturday, October 17, and continuing on Sunday, October 18. 

The final quilt will be auctioned in the Spring '10 season as part of our upcoming 5th Anniversary Celebration...

Lynn Miller, San Francisco quilter, and Simone Stiegler Sleepr, our Youth Leader quilter, will help with this workshop! Please join us!

Below is an example of a similar quilt project at the 2008 Grassroots Radio Conference!  This GRC quilt is made from great community radio t-shirts. Each GRC conference the quilt is raffled, with the winner bringing it back the next year to be raffled again.

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.

Read about the workshops here

Register for the workshop here