like myself can walk the streets that is india and the woman into the home of strangers but no longer are they strangers to me or all family it's so much deeper than i can explain here academic and educational opportunities provided core systems training consultation to target populations to enter and events in professional local and commercial multimedia markets they have been offering our series of workshops that's coming up in november and open to the public they are going to be here with the river near avenue south seattle it the ethiopian community of seattle is in partnership with present these free workshops in camera work photo journalism video editing and documentary it's for youth and adults november seventeenth two thousand and twelve from two o'clock p m to five o'clock p m and you can call for registration at toul six three two five zero three or four two or six six one six one three eight one again they are free to the public the workshops will benefit a lot of not just immigrants but any residents in the in the area of or near avenue and others who want to come and attend this is a family venice should be very multicultural enhancing and i would recommend that you get out on this wonderful beautiful saturday after know and atten relegated to the side in most instances deleted from our social i'm not here to tell you about the past glories or the many challenges that we face as he opens today the fifty plus books and journals that i north america and you cookie in doing so we are also paying tribute to our parents generation that came before us making our success possible i'm here to tell you about our pride in our heritage and hope in our future through this and supermodels officers and scholars influential public servants and activists successful business owners and executives and anything else we decide to be through these amazing stories we're trying to acronym for multimedia resources training is the two located twenty third jackson they offer free workshops and training in video editing photography full community residents and sun food district for youth and adults and i recommend that you all program and it was more than i had anticipated today met some of the students that i had taught few months back in my office we had some students whose art is on display walls and really looking forward to learning more about how the media is going to influence and track and monitor this project which will be a long term project in benefit for this planning work directly with seattle housing authority and our involvement on this very large and important project is quite unique we're earth specialists and what we've been doing over the past year now has been conducting soil exploration soil explorations and drillings on the property across the thirty acres to understand what types of buildings can be constructed there and what types of foundations will be needed to support the buildings through earthquakes through potential  landslides of which there are on the southern part of this property which we are studying and understanding to a better degree on what can be place there we've also conducted environmental studies to understand whether there is contamination that needs to be dealt with during the redevelopment and another special services we have been conducting some alternative energy opportunities for the entire project so we have complete some very deep borings there and done some thermal studies to evaluate the capacity of the earth to provide energy at low cost for heating and cooling buildings so we've we've done a lot of the early earth work and understanding to allow this project to move forward so that roads and infrastructure and utilities can be built as well as the buildings and parks and community centers that will be part of this important project spaulding i work at seattle university i am director of corporate and foundation relations and helped raise funds to support the fabulous yes or terrorists youth media program  i see i see this project as the very tiny beginning of something that will become tremendous because as far as i know there is no plan for documenting all the things that the youth are recording about yes or terrorists and it's going to be so important over the next fifteen years to have the records and to have the students who participate in this program fifteen years from now when there are thirty year olds coming back here and helping to create the documentation of this amazing redevelopment divided with the outcome i think the fact  that a university a great big organization can find a way to partner with small community organizations is wonderful for everybody involved and it's really important for seattle you talked with our students to talk with your students oh my goodness they're all getting such a wonderful education hi i'm dave keyes i manage community technology programs for the city of seattle and i'm excited to be at seattle you for the u s military's summer community media program exhibit surrounded by an amazing set of photographs and video all done by youth about yes there are terrorists as as it heads into redevelopment and so it's incredible to capture this moment of history in this beautiful artwork as the students learned how to do video how to do photography in these incredible black and white and color photos and it's it's a piece of seattle's history that's been collected it's up on the walls here that preserved forever of these families these kids and these places that are part of the fabric of seattle and it's exciting to meet the youth and see what they're doing and seeing what they're doing for us so i think for me what one of the things that's really great to see is this partnership between seattle university yes there are terrorists youth in focus and them r c i and some of the other partners that they've come together  they've given the youth the skills they do this exhibit were in this gallery in seattle you is great to see in that they're giving this youth the opportunity the quality of work is just fantastic and i think that intensive work also as we heard what the youth is learn what the participants learned about the community and somebody so they learned more in the six weeks of the program than they had living and yes there for eight years and