greene grants
2008 Greene Grant awarded to:
Educational Video Center (EVC)
Youth Speakers Bureau Screening Series
The Educational Video Center is a non-profit youth media organization dedicated to teaching documentary video as a means to develop the artistic, critical literacy and career skills of young people, while nurturing their idealism and commitment to social change.
"Youth Speakers Bureau" sends EVC youth producers into communities, where they use their documentary works to spark critical dialogue, debate and action. Through this process, students become engaged artists and activists. In this screening series, EVC will screen three youth-produced videos — Still Standing, Shame on You: That Can Be Reused, and The Baby in Me: A Story of Teen Pregnancy.
"Our students tell us they work so passionately on their documentaries because video gives them a way for their voices to be heard."
"I become obsessed with the idea of wide-awakeness whenever I talk or write about thinking or knowing or understanding."