Community Video CampDate: 14 Jul 2009 From: Video Volunteers India
<videovolunteersindia@gmail.com> Sub: [cr-india] Community
Video Camp
Video Volunteers
invites you to Community
Video TRAINING CAMP
The first ever
event to bring together witnesses, champions and makers of community
video from around India August
10 to 14, 2009, Goa
Are
you interested in creating media with grassroots communities? Does the
world of video excite you? If yes, come to this camp to learn more and
share more...
Video Volunteers
is organizing a five-day Community Video Training Camp for community
video practitioners, media & communication students, academics, and
NGOs. It is a platform for everybody to come together and share
experiences from the field as well as learn various practical skills
such as making music videos, video blogging, animation and many more.
For details of the camp, please click: http://www.videovolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/cvcamp/CVCamp.htm
Community video
is a form of citizens' journalism that is “of, for and by communities.”
Disadvantaged communities are given tools and necessary training to
express their needs and knowledge – to shout out, to celebrate and to
debate in their own voice. Over the last few years in India, several
NGOs have started community video projects, and innovations in related
fields, like community radio, rural Internet networking and video
blogging, have taken off like wildfire. This camp will further the
learnings, innovations and experiences.
We can
accommodate only 100 participants, so please register at the earliest.
Participants should arrive by the evening of August 9th, as the
workshops begin early on Monday. You can stay over in Goa after the
training camp as 15th and 16th of August are holidays. However, you
will need to cover your own expenses during those days.
Video
Volunteers
(www.videovolunteers.org) is
one of the lead innovators in the world of community video. Three years
ago, the leaders of VV created a model of community video - 'Community
Video Units' - that has now been instituted by 12 NGOs around India.
More than 150 community producers have been trained, whose films have
caused thousands to take action on their issues. These producers'
learning and vision will inspire others about what is possible when
communities have a voice that is creative, powerful, inspirational and
passionate.
