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adobe youth voices
Adobe Youth Voices
Eastside's - Adobe Youth Voices project - links young people in London with their peers in the United States, Canada and India through the media of film, photography and spoken word. Our focus is on developing the skills of young people, building on their interests, celebrating what is positive, showcasing their talents and sharing their creativity with young people across the world. Using film, video editing, animation, digital photography, audio and web design, Adobe Youth Voices empowers young people to explore and comment on their world and take an active role in issues they feel strongly about. The project also provides young people with a forum in which to share their vision and voice for a public purpose - via film screenings, international festivals and on the Internet. Eastside's - Adobe Youth Voices project in 2011 - enabled young people in London to make a series of campaigning films about issues they felt strongly about and giving them a valuable opportunity to make their voices heard on a global scale and to counter the negative press that they had experienced in the mainstream media. In 2010, young film-makers and young poets worked together to produce a series of films representing their poetry and in 2009, Eastside hosted the Singapore National slam champions (aged 14 to 16) on their visit to London. Young poets and film-makers from the UK and Singapore collaborated on an international film exchange with their films being screened in both countries. Adobe Youth Voices aims to empower youth in under-served communities with real-world experiences and 21st-century multimedia tools (including Adobe software) to communicate and share their ideas, exhibit their creative potential and take action in the communities they live in.
View the work produced as part of Adobe Youth Voices in the Eastside Gallery:
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