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Eight teaching artists, working with students at eight schools throughout Los Angeles County, have the opportunity to utilize the Youth Voices Curriculum as well as historical content available at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes.
The year long collaboration between Departures Youth Voices, The HeArt Project and La Plaza de Cultura y Arte will connect with hundreds of high school students in LA County.
The Obama administration has announced that the President will issue an executive order that grants safety from deportation for undocumented young people.
Joy of exploring and the value of play were the focal points of the New Media Literacies (NML) Summer Sandbox Professional Development project.
The next step for each participant was to reflect on their own community and their experiences and memories of the people, places and things that make up their neighborhood.
The media literacy program is designed to connect students and teachers to their personal and community history.
Youth Voices student producers had an opportunity to take a walk around their neighborhood to visit two unique and historic locations in Highland Park.
Venice Digital Interactive Panoramas Students use design principals and graphic elements such as repetition, hierarchy, texture, color, and transition to…
Currently, it's home to one of LA's largest youth populations. With over 50% of the population under 30, who better to share a story of Highland Park's past, present and future, than its young residents?
Students went out into their school and searched their memories to create a narrative about their time at Franklin High School.
It is their personal experiences, memories and a freedom to move within all these places that defines their neighborhood.