Now. Now is the time to apply for the 22-week Future City Media Workshops that are available to you for free by the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition. Check it:
With a focus on education, grassroots organizing, and entrepreneurship, the Future City Media Workshops are 22-week trainings for Detroiters interested in building Detroit’s community media economy. These workshops will take place evenings, March 1 - July 31, 2011. The workshops will offer advanced training in audio, video, graphics, and web design. They will also offer training in digital media education and entrepreneurship. Participants will graduate with the unique skill sets necessary to train other Detroiters in digital media, create their own jobs, foster cooperative forms of community wealth creation, and support media-based community organizing for a better Detroit!
The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition is comprised of people and organizations in Detroit who believe that communication is a fundamental human right. We are securing that right through activities that are grounded in the digital justice principles of: access, participation, common ownership, and healthy communities.
You can send any questions you have to joe-at-alliedmedia.org, or you can attend an open house information session on Wednesday, February 16 (7-9pm at the Furniture Factory - 4126 3rd Ave. Detroit, MI). Or, if you already know this is a badass opportunity, go here to get started on the simple online application. Space, as you might imagine, is limited. The deadline to apply is February 21.
And while you're at it, check out the Allied Media Conference and its 2011 incarnation this summer in Detroit. The gist? "A Laboratory for Participatory Media ... At the AMC, we unite the worlds of media and communications, technology, education and social justice. From this unique intersection, some of the most innovative community organizing models emerge each year."
Thanks to Mike B. for the tip.
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