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Youth production sings to the River using Flips to enliven the MDG Goal #7- Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
Sherman Oaks, CA
Monday, August 23, 2010
The River Project's children's visions included this image of the Great Toad Gate
Video Clip: Click to Watch
This year's 2nd Annual UN Millennium Development Goal Youth Film Awards have a new entry from Los Angeles. Youth from Crossroads School's Dream Project and from the Downtown LA Youth and Cultural Center brought together talent and planning in a 1-minute music video on time and on budget to submit for potential viewing at the United Nation's General Assembly Meeting on September 19th.
Buoyed by Best Buy Flip Cameras, the support of the Digital Arts Studio Partnership, the fine tuning of teachers Kelly and Dana Walden, Rich Bella and Mukuak Rai, Carmelo Alvarez, and the pluck of Bo Lebo and William Elliott, the students created a fieldtrip to the Great Toad Gate in Studio City with a goal of creating "River Flowing" as the medium and message of their #7 MDG Goal Project - Ensuring Environmental Sustainability.
Using placards echoing the Earth Charter and Earth Scouts, they joined with Transition to Green volunteers, their teachers, principal and administrators and rapped to the cement-encased L.A. river along the Riverwalk promenade at the intersection of Valley Heart and Laurel Canyon Boulevards.
Shooting again at the Arroyo de los Reyes at Second and Beaudry Streets below the 110 freeway, a new group of teens danced, sang and captured the spirit of their center's student murals and graphic design programs and completed the sing-a-long in their music and computer rooms by remixing and laying musical overlays and voice-overs on newly arranged musical tracks.
By the time they were done, the City of Riverbank in Central California, whose motto is "City of Action", was looking forward to bringing out their teens to show off their Stanislaus River by singing back to L.A. in the next round of entries.
What better way to connect everyone then to show off our habitat to all who would like to see it?
LA's production team used the video to envision a brighter future for LA's water. Their vision features a world with student engagement, new digital arts programs, and a vital sense of imagination. The song, River Flowing, was rearranged as a rap song for this project. (Nimbit.com is releasing the original Westchester Lutheran School's choral recording this August.)
New Education Options and their partners have great expectations of underwriting, using social media, future film entries, short format technical classes, supplies and equipment.
With each downloaded song, NEO envisions underwriting teachers, programs, and continuing to work with the awakening LA River. By partnering with 104 member municipalities or cities, NEO can provide digital arts/literacy programs and engage students with the geography and stewardship of where they live.
To find out what's next, watch the MDG Awards site at www.mdgawards.org or to hear this arrangement of River Flowing, watch for it on Youtube in September.
The next California youth film award competition is the Tower of Youth program in Sacramento this October (www.towerofyouth.org) sponsored by the Sacramento Digital Arts Studio Partnership.
Buoyed by Best Buy Flip Cameras, the support of the Digital Arts Studio Partnership, the fine tuning of teachers Kelly and Dana Walden, Rich Bella and Mukuak Rai, Carmelo Alvarez, and the pluck of Bo Lebo and William Elliott, the students created a fieldtrip to the Great Toad Gate in Studio City with a goal of creating "River Flowing" as the medium and message of their #7 MDG Goal Project - Ensuring Environmental Sustainability.
Using placards echoing the Earth Charter and Earth Scouts, they joined with Transition to Green volunteers, their teachers, principal and administrators and rapped to the cement-encased L.A. river along the Riverwalk promenade at the intersection of Valley Heart and Laurel Canyon Boulevards.
Shooting again at the Arroyo de los Reyes at Second and Beaudry Streets below the 110 freeway, a new group of teens danced, sang and captured the spirit of their center's student murals and graphic design programs and completed the sing-a-long in their music and computer rooms by remixing and laying musical overlays and voice-overs on newly arranged musical tracks.
By the time they were done, the City of Riverbank in Central California, whose motto is "City of Action", was looking forward to bringing out their teens to show off their Stanislaus River by singing back to L.A. in the next round of entries.
What better way to connect everyone then to show off our habitat to all who would like to see it?
LA's production team used the video to envision a brighter future for LA's water. Their vision features a world with student engagement, new digital arts programs, and a vital sense of imagination. The song, River Flowing, was rearranged as a rap song for this project. (Nimbit.com is releasing the original Westchester Lutheran School's choral recording this August.)
New Education Options and their partners have great expectations of underwriting, using social media, future film entries, short format technical classes, supplies and equipment.
With each downloaded song, NEO envisions underwriting teachers, programs, and continuing to work with the awakening LA River. By partnering with 104 member municipalities or cities, NEO can provide digital arts/literacy programs and engage students with the geography and stewardship of where they live.
To find out what's next, watch the MDG Awards site at www.mdgawards.org or to hear this arrangement of River Flowing, watch for it on Youtube in September.
The next California youth film award competition is the Tower of Youth program in Sacramento this October (www.towerofyouth.org) sponsored by the Sacramento Digital Arts Studio Partnership.
Cynthyny Lebo
NEO, Inc.
Sherman Oaks, CA
818-742-5099
