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“Come make links and help create communities while celebrating examples of youth social agency. Connect with members of art/media organizations, talented youth, teachers, and media & education academics. Family, friends, neighbours, and others are all welcome!”
The Toronto Youth Media Exhibition: Make, Engage, Exchange! is an exhibit that will be showcasing art and media pieces addressing social justice issues. All of the work showcased is created by students in east-end schools and from youth working with community art/media organizations including: Regent Park Focus, Art Starts, Youth Voices, The Children’s Peace Theatre, Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts & Culture (holler), and others!
The purpose of the exhibition is to bring together youth, community members, media and education academics, teachers, and community media organizations, to encourage conversation about the potential of youth media-making for social justice.
I will have an installation featured in this exhibit. For anyone who attended Clutch: Open Fire, the Debut, you may have seen the piece…and whether you have or haven’t, please come and check it out! Your support for this cause would be greatly appreciated; not just by me, but by the youth in the community!
The installation will be an emulation of the mind-state of a young adolescent girl. She has begun to gain control of the mixed messages that the media portrays on the roles and representations of a female. This will be shown through the art of collage and the atmosphere of a young girl’s bedroom. The piece is meant to create the feel of bombardment. Everyday, young women come face to face with this false “beauty ideal” that the media portrays. The main message of this installation is that we need to learn to think actively and critically about what we see. Otherwise, we will allow these portrayals to affect the way that we see our lives.
I will also be showcasing a short-film entitled: Repeated Themes, that was worked on as a collaborative effort by Caroline Mangosing and myself, Alyssa Ramos. The film is a reflection on the concept of control; with clips from the video “The Perfumed Nightmare,” telling the story of a young Filipino named Kidlat Tahimik (Quiet Lightning), and his awakening and reaction against American Cultural Colonialism. He longs to be part of the developed world and he gets his chance when an American arrives for an aborted international conference. Along the way, he discovers that progress in the developed world sacrifices important values.
Inbetween the film, there are clips of the destruction of a television. In relation, this symbolizes the ability to control what we believe in pop culture; the importance of our values and how we need to stay true to ourselves…
WHEN: April 24th from 6-9pm & April 25th from 10am-7pm
WHERE: LucSculpture School & Studios; 663 Greenwood Ave, just north of Danforth (1 block west of Greenwood subway station)
For anyone who can make it, it would be great to have you there. Please come out and show some love to the youth community!
Remember y’all, our voice matters.
LET’S MAKE MOVEMENTS.
