OPPORTUNITIES: Adobe Youth Voices Awards

The Adobe Youth Voices Awards is a global online competition for students (13-19) that encourages youth to creatively express their vision for driving positive change in local communities.

We highly encourage participants to submit videos and digital media projects that were created from 2010-2014 to share their voices with an audience eager to listen.

Follow this link to submit today: www.youthvoices.adobe.com/submissions

Winning projects will be placed on the Adobe Youth Voices Awards website with other opportunities of exhibition. 1st, 2nd, and Audience Award prizes to be distributed. 

For the Audience Award in 2013, we had over 800,000 social media votes (Facebook and Twitter) during a 5 week span. People are listening and that is the most powerful incentive we can offer through this incredible program. 

Key Dates:

• Submissions Deadline: April 18, 2014
  
• Finalists Announcement: April 28, 2013
• Audience Voting and Judges voting begins April 28 - May 30, 2014

OPPORTUNITIES: Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards UNICEF Challenge

For the first time ever, Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards has partnered up with UNICEF to give YOU the opportunity to implement active change in YOUR community. The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards UNICEF Challenge is looking to provide three youth led projects with grants to support the implementation of innovative initiatives.

First prize receives $40,000. Second prize receives $30,000. Lastly, the audience award-winning project receives $20,000. All Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards UNICEF Challenge prize funds must be used to support the implementation of the winning projects.

Show us your imagination, creativity, and innovation through the use of digital tools and social media. Produce a short video outlining your proposal for a new or existing initiative that will benefit other youth in your community. This is your chance to make a difference in the world, report about it, and show the progress made to millions of people through the Adobe Youth Voices network, UNICEF’s global social media feeds, and the Voices of Youth community.

In addition to receiving financial funds for your project, the local experts will also provide support during the initial implementation process.

Submissions now open!

To be eligible for the contest, you must be between the ages of 13-19 years old, and your project must have been created between 2010-2013. Entries are being accepted now until April 19, 2013. Please go to the submissionspage to submit today!

Mobilize, organize, and take action!

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NEWS / PROJECTS: Underserved youth showcase their movie making prowess through 'Adobe Youth Voices'

Adobe Youth Voices (AYV), the signature philanthropic initiative by the Adobe Foundation celebrated the completion of six successful years of the program in India by screening over 22 short films made by children from the underserved community. Touching across a range of social topics like gender discrimination, education and corruption the short films highlighted issues that that are core to the hearts of these children.

Further, the foundation also announced the first ever Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards, a global online media festival honoring young people who creatively communicate their vision for change in their communities and their lives. Students aged 13-18 are invited to compete across eight sub-categories – animation, documentary, music video, narrative video, poetry-experimental video, audio, graphic design and photography and can submit their entries through an educator or mentor by April 20, 2012.

AYV is a partnership between the Adobe Foundation and the American India Foundation (AIF) and empowers youth to comment on their world using multimedia and digital tools to communicate and share their ideas, demonstrate their potential, and take action in their communities. The AYV global network includes more than 750 sites, grantees, and organizations, across 50 countries engaging over 150,000 youth and 8,200 educators in schools and out of school programs. In India, the program is currently operating in 70 sites reaching out to more than 3500 children and 84 educators across the country. The Adobe Foundation also announced scholarships worth Rs.125,000 for meritorious AYV students.

full article - Adobe Youth Voices website

NEWS / PROJECTS: The PBS and Adobe Foundations Join with POV in Awarding Grantsto 15 Documentary Projects by Young Filmmakers (USA)

Project VoiceScape Collaboration Provides Funding, Pairs Leading FilmmakersWith Emerging Teen Artists Nationwide

NEW YORK, June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Adobe and PBS Foundations, together with the PBS series POV, are pleased to announce that 15 projects by 22 teen filmmakers will receive grants from Project VoiceScape, a collaboration between the Adobe Foundation's global signature philanthropy program Adobe Youth Voices and POV, public television's longest-running showcase for independent nonfiction films.

Project VoiceScape encourages middle- and high-school students nationwide to use digital media tools to create compelling stories about issues and concerns important to them. The 15 winning projects will be awarded $2,000 each in completion funds, and the students will be mentored by award-winning documentary filmmakers. In addition, three finalists will be selected and featured on the POV website (www.pbs.org/pov), PBS Teachers website (www.pbs.org/teachers) and Adobe Foundation websites. Project VoiceScape grant recipients will be honored at an event in Washington, D.C., in October 2011 (details to be announced).

Project VoiceScape is also providing select PBS member stations nationwide with funds to support student-created media training from KQED San Francisco's Digital Media Center, and software donated by Adobe. These PBS stations will become part of the Adobe Youth Voices network, providing opportunities to showcase students' work and collaborate with other Adobe Youth Voices participants around the globe.

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NEWS: Adobe Youth Voices Celebrates 5 Years in India

IT News Online Staff - 2011-04-30

Adobe Youth Voices (AYV), the global philanthropic initiative by Adobe Foundation, announced the completion of its fifth successful year of celebrating young talent and creativity in India. Adobe Youth Voices provides an opportunity for under-served middle and high school youth to communicate their concerns, aspirations and vision using digital media.

The AYV program, which is implemented by American Indian Foundation, runs across 43 schools in India. Seeing the encouraging response and far-reaching impact of the program, Adobe also announced the extension of AYV program for next five years till 2016.

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ARTICLES / EVENTS: Creating Media Connects Kids to Global Events

Over the past five years, more than 27,000 students from Australia to Senegal to San Francisco have made films and other media about a wide range of subjects — from young refugees, to how to improve public education in the U.S., to environmental preservation, racial and gender discrimination, and more. They’ve produced their work in and outside of school and have taken it to festivals like Cinequest and Sundance.

The common thread with all these projects is Adobe Youth Voices (AYV), which is part of the Adobe Foundation. As a non-profit arm of a for-profit company, AYV supports youth media and education organizations (including Listen Up!, the Bay Area Video Coalition, Reel Works, Radio Rookies, iEARN, and the Intel Computer Clubhouse Network) by providing grants, collaborative partnerships, professional development, tech tools and resources, and a worldwide network of teachers, students, and professionals making media together.

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Photo: flickr - ListenUp!

OPPORTUNITIES: The Adobe Foundation and the PBS Foundation Launch Project VoiceScape to Mentor Young Filmmakers

ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 03 /CSRwire/ - The PBS and Adobe Foundations today launched Project VoiceScape, a collaboration between Adobe Youth Voices, the Adobe Foundation's global signature philanthropy program, and PBS’ POV, television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films.

Project VoiceScape is aimed at encouraging middle and high school students nationwide to use digital media tools in creating compelling stories about issues and concerns important to them. Award-winning PBS series POV | American Documentary, recognized internationally for its rigorous editorial selection process of outstanding award-winning non-fiction films, will oversee a national call for entries on the POV website (www.pbs.org/pov). Young filmmakers whose entries are chosen will receive funding to complete their films, mentoring from award-winning documentary filmmakers, and streaming of their films at POV's website.

To encourage the participation of educators and facilitate entries, the PBS Teachers website will act as a hub where educators can obtain advice from youth media experts on inspiring students to produce exciting and innovative content. Building on PBS' long standing relationship with teachers and the education community, the site will also provide access to Adobe Youth Voices Essentials, a set of free curricula and resources that will help educators launch, guide and sustain effective youth media programs.

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Adobe Youth Voices and Human Rights Watch Film Festival Showcase 10 Youth-Produced Films From Around the Globe – Press Releases on CSRwire.com

Adobe Youth Voices and Human Rights Watch Film Festival Showcase 10 Youth-Produced Films From Around the Globe – Press Releases on CSRwire.com

BOSTON, Jan. 11 /CSRwire/ - Adobe Youth Voices, founding presenter, in collaboration with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, will bring young filmmakers to Boston this month to present films they created to raise awareness of human rights issues ranging from child labor to police harassment. Two screenings of 10 specially-selected films are scheduled for Fri., January 22, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, part of the second annual Youth Producing Change showcase series featured in Human Rights Watch Film Festivals in London, New York and San Francisco. The public is invited and encouraged to attend.

Annalise Littman, age 18, is a freshman at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., and one of the young filmmakers taking part in the Boston event. She will present her film, "Aquafinito," which describes the struggle of people around the globe to gain access to clean water. At the time of production, Littman attended Newton South High School in Newton, Mass.

AYV International Photo Competition - Winners--and a new call for submissions!

WINNING AND COMMENDED PHOTOGRAPHS

We are delighted to share the winning submissions from the first round of the Adobe Youth Voices International Photo Competition. In May 2009, Adobe Youth Voices (AYV), a global youth media initiative, in collaboration with WKCD (What Kids Can Do), asked youth worldwide to submit pairs of photographs that capture what is challenging and what gives hope in today's difficult world--from their unique perspective.

To see all of the winning photos and artists' statements, along with a selection of commended photos, please go to:http://www.whatkidscando.org/AYV_Photo_Competition/Home_.html

A NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Inspired by the remarkable photographs we received over the course of the summer, we are excited to announce that we are opening a second, fall round of the competition. The theme, "Crisis and Hope," remains the same, as do the submission guidelines. Submissions are due November 1, 2009.

For more information, please go to:http://www.whatkidscando.org/AYV_Photo_Competition/Guidelines_-__Round_Two.html

And please help us spread the word by forwarding this message to friends, colleagues, networks, and organizations that would find it of interest.

Questions? Please write us at photos@whatkidscando.org.

OPPORTUNITIES / PHOTO / COMPETITIONS: Adobe Youth Voices Photo Competition

Deadline: 31 July 2009

A call to youth photographers!

Adobe Youth Voices (AYV), a global youth media initiative, and the nonproft What Kids Kids Can Do, Inc. are delighted to announce our first-ever international photo competition.

When written in Chinese or Japanese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters--one represents crisis or danger, and the other represents hope or opportunity. We have taken this as inspiration for our groundbreaking competition. "Crisis and Hope" offers an exciting opportunity for youth around the world to express themselves through photographs--and make their voices heard--on both what is challenging and what gives hope in today's difficult world.

Winning photographs will be showcased online, in a traveling exhibit, and in a book.

The contest is open to all young people--anywhere in the world--between the ages of 12 and 19.

The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2009. Winners--as many as 30--will be announced by August 31, 2009.

Join us! And please help us spread the word by forwarding this message to friends, colleagues, networks, and organizations that would find it of interest.

To learn more about the competition and submission guidelines, visit
http://www.wkcd.org/AYV_Photo_Competition/index.html

Questions? Please write us at info@whatkidscando.org

Many thanks.
Click here for AYV International Photo Competition website.