Youth Voices: LA River
Quick Links
Departures Youth Voices is built on a strong media-literacy foundation visible in the 11 workshop modules. It is designed to adapt and change based on a variety of factors, including the students’ needs, the facility, resources available, and our education partners expectations. With each project, we work with students from different areas of the city with different backgrounds and different skill sets, in traditional classroom settings and in community facilities both with varying resources.
The Education Notes blog helps to mediate between the plan designed for each installment of Youth Voices and the reality of the classroom. By reflecting on the weekly workshops from the educator's perspective, we are able to write and share about the process of the project, and how it relates to larger social and educational issues.
We invite you to follow Departures Youth Voices as we work closely with students and community members to Re-envision the L.A. River.
The Education Notes blog helps to mediate between the plan designed for each installment of Youth Voices and the reality of the classroom. By reflecting on the weekly workshops from the educator's perspective, we are able to write and share about the process of the project, and how it relates to larger social and educational issues.
We invite you to follow Departures Youth Voices as we work closely with students and community members to Re-envision the L.A. River.
Meet the Youth Voices Student Producers from L.A. Leadership Academy through their "Meet Me" PowerPoint presentations. It's a straightforward but powerful process where the students represent who they are through found or personal images. It's a great way for students to present themselves and their interests, learn their strengths and weaknesses as media producers, and get a glimpse of the technological tools they'll be using throughout the Departures project.
A major part of this production involves students using visuals to tell the story of their relationship to their neighborhood, so what better way to begin than with an exploration of the self? So, come and meet our LA River student producers!
A major part of this production involves students using visuals to tell the story of their relationship to their neighborhood, so what better way to begin than with an exploration of the self? So, come and meet our LA River student producers!
In the process of discovering their neighborhoods, students are asked to draw a map of the places that are meaningful to them. This subjective experience results in a personal map that reflects students' experience and memory of their communities. These maps are not supposed to be geographically accurate, but more represent the students' mental landscape of where they live.
The Student Producers from LA River Youth Voices consists of 20 high school students from Los Angeles Leadership Academy. Students first explore their own neighborhoods and generate various media assets to help tell the story of where they live in relation to who they are. We call it the My Neighborhood & Me Project. Then students work in groups to and help research and produce the LA River Departures Project, building on their acquired multimedia production skills from the first project.
Student Highlights in LA River
Community Field Trip: San Fernando Road
May 1, 2013 11:00 AM
by Rubi Fregoso
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
Student producers from the L.A. River School and ArtLAB took a walk around their neighborhood and captured the details that make up a community -- details often missed when simply walking or driving through.
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
Some pictures capture the essence of a location while others invite the viewer to experience the place in a deeper more emotional way that allows us to understand it's importance to the student photographer.
Student Producers Collaborate on Mapping Northeast L.A.
March 15, 2013 8:00 AM
by Rubi Fregoso
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
As the student producers move from the personal to the collaborative phase of Youth Voices, new sets of complex relationships and stories begin to emerge.
The Corrido of LA - The Jam Session
January 21, 2011 10:00 AM
Funders and Partners
Support for the Departures is provided through these funders as well as local community partners and viewers like you.
Support for KCET.org provided by:
Like KCETDepartures on Facebook:
The Departures enewsletter keeps you up to date each week with the latest stories and videos from our columns.
Support for KCET.org provided by:













