for tech for the last twelve years and we had a lot of use programs but this was a little bit different and it's for its kind because one it's a partnership of four organizations and we had to have a lot of resources second we were what we did was we not only we give the kids the tools they need to work on the project but we have so much so many resources volunteers from more leadership creative thinking those are the main skills that they need growing up finishing high school and went to college so i think my experience is was in the  was there that the more i think you can bring groups together who are already doing their programs really successfully like m m r t i and rec tech and even focus and bring their individual strengths to the table the better the program is going to be i've also worked with off and on for shorter programs and i have to also agree that this was by far the most successful in terms of watching the kids develop their skills in media watching the them develop their artistic sort of expression watching them develop their  teamwork when we did our original interviews some new things that came in on our original interviews they were saying well i don't feel like i'm a particular the leader and by the end of the six weeks everyone stepping up and being leaders within their team so i think that was a tremendous success for seattle university and specifically for my students i think its expression really great to see them take a leadership role also to see them mentor kids who are in need of a few years younger than they are to see themselves in a teaching role and as documentary photographers to understand how incredibly important it is and how much more rich a project is when you incorporate authentic community voice into the equation of creating a project so all of those are are are tremendously you know wonderful plus my students some of them you know we're a photography program and the some of them of course know how to do video more than that dog keeps they took ownership of the project when we started like always you teach kids they did certain a certain point yes this is my job this is my home or i have to do it was i because i supposed to do it or i they took the story they become a voice of that of the community so when we say outcome is they produce more than sixty quality photographs six documentary videos but more than that they took the story  experience of my students you know with the youth and with direct tagging with and the marquis and with youth and focus it's just been this tremendous expansion of our campus is our classroom being expanded into the classroom and rec tech it's our classroom being expanded into this studio with our classroom expanded into yes a terrace neighborhood so our students at su are really able to i think grow in their understanding of documentary practices and methodology that most importantly they're able to grow in their midst ending of themselves as members also of this community and not see this sort of divide between cap and gown sort of speak the campus and and the neighborhood to the south but rather see it all as a united community more that they're in gauged with yes so the city council members watch it so that he would respond and as people know we already like you say it's already posted online and we are working on developing a website so people will have this will be become like a showcase how to work with i think i am not going as far as i supposed to but it would be like an example of how to work different organization partner and help the community a key and produce a very quality product and that's my hope i think that you know throughout the entire three four five years that they've been looking at the question of development and reaching out to the community for community guidance and responses develop as they develop a plan that this is a natural sort of a kind of addition to those efforts because what we've done i think is create a team of views from this neighborhood who are looking at this neighborhood many of them grew up in this neighborhood working with organizations that are rooted in this neighborhood and so to be able to create a sort of youth driven community voicing response right now at this critical point in the redevelopment is essential and what we're doing also is we're creating an archive because we want to keep doing this right for the next fifteen years so as we create this archive seattle and actually the like a grown ups pin to treat thirty nobody we never had any ups and so that's the wonderful saw at the end of the day where they show their product they get a certificate and they get paid about six hundred dollars not only that but their families their friends were happy to see them succeed to showcase their froot so that's a wonderful feeling to see and i hope to continue that in the future  summer and we have about fifty eight or sixty photographs some more with the titles and so forth us a lot of texts that explain about the projects and how it worked and we also have videos of the kids from our interviews with and speaking directly about us with terrence what they've learned about the project which is pretty great we have some video interviews with community members and most importantly we have our six films on you there so it's a chance to see everything all in one place for the first time and hopefully this will travel and other communities around seattle will be able to share the work with the kids we have a reception event that all are welcome to on the vendor first from five till eight and it's in the bashing gallery on campus the fine arts building course will be there bit of a celebration then another chance for the kids with their parents to celebrate their accomplishments which is really the main goal of that event is a chance for the kids to get all together again to see their photos on the walls to see their videos and to we would like to start by telling you that we are starting our contest that i'm r t i as we do every year and we're encouraging all youth to be prepared and be alert to bring in all types of our work poems essays and writing pieces that relate to ethiopia and culture african culture or any aspect of your interests or your background to every marty i bring into our offices for a chance to win prizes for this contest we have a summer youth exhibition media program university at eight thirty am to four thirty pm showing documentaries from the last summer about the redevelopment  about documentaries about people that lived in the us or i was one of those interns i was in yes that program i did child care services and we were talking about how it would affect the appointment from them and group of interns that participate in the program and were showcasing those the six documentaries that they produced at syrian versity and we'd also encourage you to come out and support that would also  that most of our programs like the ones that they participated in there are prizes and there are a lot of benefits not only new knowledge and community service hours but they also got they also got money for participating in the program and that's just an added incentive for us to come out participate and learn more about their community and learn more about technology as well thank you for your time let's talk about the media coverage and how you know  connections on line and also there's a hard copy here where they talk about the project in the importance of this sort of community project university in terms of are you commission to the obviously we have a poster that we've published that's going up around campus and around the  web and also engineers one of our hosts i'm drawing our workshop to talk to kids about the early kind of engineering development of that site and what's going to have to happen actually to redevelop they were gracious enough to host us at person want to see you there what does this you what do you know sure is as i mentioned is that the vashon gallery which is the fine arts building on campuses university and that galleries hours are really part of the university's office hours of try to go there between nine and five on week the reception event is a thursday evening from five to eight so you can catch the work there after work if you have a chance to go during the day or during lunch it's free to enter it's open to all and you'll see the photographs of the kids  made a selection they made thousands of photographs that we've selected with them about sixty the films and the interviews with the kids and some of the extended interviews that were done with for example sally clark and seattle housing authority in the center for service and communi for kids to follow through and some of the same themes and thinking about media in different ways which are wonderful erect so it's not just a summer your program also has afterschool programs youth in focus has afterschool program so hopefully these kids enough resources there isn't enough expertise to do it so what we learn from this experience is partnership is the main the main thing here in order to accomplish something in order to do but we don't have all the expertise and they keep it we need to do it and we partner with as you issue brought the expertise the volunteers and some other resources at the same time when we partner with them at the i m f they have the experience of video can focus that are already here that are already working with youth in really creative and and constructive ways is key because we can't and nor should we want to war or or we we just can't make it up from scratch nor is it necessary i think partnering all together you're able to combine resources and also you're able to work in a common goal all together instead of everybody doing those things that we all want to do you know for the kids and youth programs instead of doing it separately and dividing the resources up and competing to be able to join together and to combine our resources and work towards that common goal the resources of all those nonprofits and also the resources of the universities and university and other such institutes can provide i mean it's just a win win situation it's it's really the best of all it's building and it is key ok i think if you have any other comment war if you know in our group did basketball for the community and child care services around us or terrorists we did the child care one in we made in their standing goal to finish it and we interview folks who have home based business right now for running at least two years they'll be a look at their business after redevelopment if they're interested in commercial space we know that in phase one there will  be affordable commercial space made available to those who want to expand their business in a commercial area but as far as having run their business in their home that is something that's in a housing authority has promised them i lived in the us i grew up in  to explore and document the terrorists neighborhood as laura said we're working with nine use from different parts of the city and we are teaching them how to  use audio recording equipment so microphones and patrol recorders we're teaching them how to audio editing so on a computer taking sound and cleaning it up and mixing it to make little audio pieces  we're working with k u o w two teach them how to do radio style interviews and we're also going to be recording performers artists musicians poets or just neighborhood residents have got interesting stories to tell and so we'll do all of that recording and then what we're going to make for the show at the friar museum are a series of these little boxes like this that all have as you can see a speakers and a button and so when people come into the exhibition they'll be able to pick these up and listen to them and they'll hear different sounds that we record through the workshop so they'll hear stories and they'll hear music and all kinds of different sounds we've got a few goals in doing this project firstly we're interested in helping to teach some of the area youth sort of some technical skills of how to really produce sound that can be used for broadcast or for installation pieces like this and we're also interested in working with with these young people to really start exploring kind of what what it means to live and yes here terrace at this point of time in time  and so we see this as the first in a series of projects that are really trying to understand kind of what life is like for the folks who live in that community right now and just tadg a couple things that town was mentioning is we're actually doing a call for artists and participants and performers and musicians and vocalists to come actually to the community center on november fifth and seventh between four and six thirty so you can be recorded and be a part of the installation of the fire museum yeah so that's anybody who does anything with sound so that's you know if your is as lars as a musician or a poet or a storyteller if you just happen to live in the in the neighborhood and want to era want to allow some young people to interview you anyone with a story to tell or any sound to contribute if you have pets you'd like to have recorded hobbies that you keep really were open to any kind of sounds that you might have so we'd really love to see some people come down and participate in the project with us how should they get in touch with us if if you are interested in participating even if you can't do it on november fifth from four thirty to six thirty on november seventh for thirty to six thirty you can we can schedule another time to do an interview whether it is at the community center or tavern i might come to your home or to your place you know with some of the young folks as well because again it's a big part of the project is about teaching them and giving them skills that they can then use as they continue on in school and as they're starting to think about the kinds of jobs and careers i'd like that grows up there over the next ten years and we think it's really important to try to understand what life is like now so we can better understand kind of how redevelopment projects like the one that's proposed for us are terrorists really do the the magnitude of an earthquake it's actually part of the scale on it and the interesting thing about the moment magnitude scale is that it doesn't stay within the same constraints as the richter scale and so it allows for there to be impact to be on a scale of let's say one to ten and the museum is really interested in measuring the cultural impact of art in the seattle area around this exhibition and one of the things that they decided to do was reach out into its local community and it neighbors and the fry is very much aware and has been involved in those conversations around the redevelopment effort terrace and so that's where this project came out of there's one other thing i might mention too so we've talked a little bit about these boxes and the exhibition that will have at the museum but the sounds that the students record we're also going to be archiving and those will be available online as well so they'll be a web site that we produce with this project and that archive can continue to grow so the idea is that we can keep recording sound as the neighborhood changes and then allow that or provide that so that members of the public can kind of come in and explore and listen to it and really use sound as a way of understanding how the neighborhood is changing over time so that will be online in a couple of months they gain a few things so the students hopefully from participating in this project the students gain a few things  firstly you know they develop some technical skills and so you know they bade learn how to work with sound and how to work with audio and we think that's useful for them you know both in terms of helping them think about new job or career opportunities working in media but also just you know personally like they may decide they you know they have an interest and they want to just pursue it as a kind of expressive way of expressing themselves and we think that's really important for young people is to find con structive ways of expressing themselves so that's one thing that we think they get out of it the other thing too that i think is really important to us is by you know using this project or participating in this project and starting to really look closely at what it means to be part of a neighborhood or what it means to be part of the community to help really search understanding kind of what it means to live in the city we hope provides some critical thinking skills to that will allow students as they grow up and become full fledged citizens to really understand kind of what is important to them and what's valuable to them so that as they become older they can better sort of describe what what those values are and that should hopefully informed decisions they make in terms of for example where they live but also maybe who they vote for what kinds of policies they choose museum and the university of washington and the nature consortium so there are a lot of people involved with us so not only are we helping create a tool kit for these for the youth to have a voice and through means of technology to articulate that so thanks for watching and again if anyone out there is interested in participating to be interviewed or reported as part of this project we'd love to have you come down and meet us on november fifth and seventh at the yes or community center from four thirty to six thirty or if that time's not convenient please get in touch with us at the e mail addresses that we provided and we will schedule a time to come with our students and and meet with you so thank you