Workshop Discussion: Paradise, Jasiri X, Tani Ikeda (facilitators) SESSION One 10:30 AM<\/p>\n
Topic:<\/p>\n
Interests: Jasiri X\/Tani\u2019s meeting of the minds, interest in music, interests in elections, interests in different forms of media, interest in educating youth on media and how to use it, interest in bringing different communities together and bridging the gap in terms of accessing information in different communities, interest in linking youth together through media.<\/p>\n
Intros:<\/p>\n
Denise: Hill district, Pittsboro, Oral History Project, young people recording the history that they are getting from interviews with the elders. Training kids to be oral historians, from grade school-senior high, paired with professionals for technical guidance. Community outreach capturing history over the summer months, that can be continued, and building connections from generation to generation. <\/p>\n
Paradise & Jasiri:
\nThree events: movement, harry Belafonte \u201cthe gathering for justice\u201d, hip hop political conference. 2005-2006. How to use this inspiration for the community. Called youth together to talk about reshaping the community: \u201cOne Hood\u201d. P: one thing Pittsboro suffers from is hoodism. Violence between hoods. Wanted young people to relate, through hip-hop. Homewood: 6 people were shot in 24 hours, including young girls. Realize the people they need to engaged people who don\u2019t go to conferences. They got 40 men and walked down the street. Women sent their men out to join them. Telling the youth that they care about their lives, and changing it for the better.<\/p>\n
A police officer pointed a gun at a 7 yr old girl, they wanted to organize around this. The mother was charged with disturbing the peace and disorderly contact for screaming out Jesus when she thought her daughter was going to be killed. Out of this came media that they began to produce. <\/p>\n
Gena 6\u2014wrote a song about it and got it published at all hip-hop.com Michael Basemen show wanted to talk to him. Became the theme song of the movement. <\/p>\n
Paradise was in the black spades, mighty zulu nation. Entertainment director of the latin quarter. Gave many artists their first shows. He documented with pictures. Joined Professor X, and eventually formed the X Clan. <\/p>\n
When they first joined they were solely activists, and took until the Gena 6 for them to start using music at a tool. <\/p>\n
Sean Bell: shot 51 times by the police: people wanted Jasiri to do a rap about this event. \u201cEnough\u2019s enough\u201d. He didn\u2019t see big name artists stepping up, so he did.
\nThrough meidia he realized he could change peoples way of thinking.<\/p>\n
Jasiri \u201cthis week with Jasiri X\u201d rapping the news every week. Inspiration: FOX News. Putting a different spin\/telling the truth about situations that aren\u2019t getting coverage from every side. Political videos<\/p>\n
Show: this week with jasiri x episode 5<\/p>\n
Mentor young people
\n\t-wiz & mac miller<\/p>\n
\u201cthe real Huey Newton\u201d video
\n–\tgiving leaders of tomorrow: love compassion intelligence instead of judgment. <\/p>\n
Protests in Madison Wisconsin: \u201cAmerican workers vs multi-billionaires\u201d<\/p>\n
Creating media in innovative new creative ways\u2014how do we bring everyone together, how do we gain viewership and respect.<\/p>\n
Paradise: \u201cmedia literacy\u201d
\nUnderstanding the message, who is behind it
\nTeaching young people to use critical thinking when they are consuming the media<\/p>\n
Tani: immediate justice<\/p>\n
A lot of times with think of news and history s dead, as opposed to something that we can have a hand in changing.<\/p>\n
Train girls in queer sex ed and video production. They come up with their own ads. <\/p>\n
Creating a movement of wholeness, this can come from telling your own story and knowing that your story can create change. <\/p>\n
Documentary: Mariposa
\nDocumenting quincinera and coming out
\nEspie Hernandez<\/p>\n
Human rights watch film festival: screening
\nWant films to reach young people
\nMade pixilation animations 30 seconds for online platforms and being pitched to mtv and other platforms. <\/p>\n
Finding solutions
\nVideos:
\nMy impossible dream
\nWhere does my desire take me
\nMy body is a site of
\nSpeak truth to power<\/p>\n
Michelle: where do you see balance between this storytelling, and ways in which me can facilitate getting video out there in a public way.<\/p>\n
J: timing is a factor. We would stay up all night. There is a deadline, if that meant staying up all night we did that. Awe started to predict discussions before they happened, so some of the songs were already done. When issues become in the media, we have a video and song already ready. Example: persecution of Muslims in the country. When the Muslim radicalization hearings can we released it. The more people you have working, the faster you can produce.<\/p>\n
T: Seeing the 30 second product of a long process. We created body maps, wrote about out experiences inside our bodies, there were discussions and revelations that happened throughout the program. There is an evolution to the way the girls started to revision their bodies and what they could be. These projects were shot in 4 hours, which is a really short turn around. We stress going with the flow, we want to do as much as we can, but if the process isn\u2019t full and beautiful we adjust. <\/p>\n
J: we don\u2019t just produce videos, we blog. Blogs have gone viral. There is a space for all media, we need to figure out how to tie them all together. <\/p>\n
T: that I our approach too, create by any mean necessary. It\u2019s trying to figure out all the ways that we can conceptualize media.<\/p>\n
Play-ground rules:<\/p>\n
Media:<\/p>\n
What is radical people of color media?<\/p>\n
o\tCosby show
\no\tJeffersons
\no\tHouse wives of Atlanta<\/p>\n
Debunking myths:<\/p>\n
A message depends on its leaders and first followers. When people catch on to something they can make it go viral. <\/p>\n
Progressive outlets:<\/p>\n
Idea: Online Gallery Curator<\/p>\n
How does this radical media reconceive time & space?
\n–\tsearch engine optimal vertical
\no\thome for related content
\no\tharvest content
\no\thype machine<\/p>\n
Intersections between issues<\/p>\n
Information<\/p>\n
o\torganizations
\no\tpeople
\no\tonline<\/p>\n
Identification<\/p>\n
How do you deal with identity?<\/p>\n
Workshop Discussion: Paradise, Jasiri X, Tani Ikeda (facilitators) SESSION One 10:30 AM Topic: Interests: Jasiri X\/Tani\u2019s meeting of the minds, interest in music, interests in elections, interests in different forms of media, interest in educating youth on media and how … Continue reading