Some
of the pictures taken by the youth during the Workshop.
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Youth
in Focus
Observing –
Reflecting -
Transforming
This
program was developed by Believe In Our Youth in Mexico. This
year the National University of Mexico awarded a grant to bring this
program to 10 schools in Ensenada, Mexico.
This
program is now available for the First Nation, Metis
and Inuit Communties of Canada.
To
Request the Costs please Click
Here
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Art
as an expression of human
consciousness and desire for
communication is a perfect media to develop life skills in youth.
Through this
workshop teens experience the world in new ways, becoming empowered,
aware and self-assured.
Objectives
- Empower
the
youth, develop self-esteem, and self-confidence
- To
teach
skills by which youth can find their purpose in life and goals they
desire.
- To
open the
possibilities of self-expression and economical development in art
related careers.
- To
better
their capacity for producing new innovative ideas
- To
improve
their capacity for implementation of ideas
- To
develop
productive view of life overcoming routines and clichés
- To
teach how
to interact with the environment in a satisfactory creative way
- To
teach how
to think in terms of process and not get blocked by imaginary negative
outcomes
- To
learn how
to feel more alive and happy in life
- To
develop
divergent thinking in the youth
- Understand
the important of discipline and focus to achieve any goal in life.
- Explore
what
is Creativity, and how to develop it for a better living
- Observe
that
all situations are the result of multiple causes and conditions and
will explore their own participation in the creation of their lives.
- Improve
their capacities of expression and communication.
- Experience
photography as an emotional balancing activity.
- Know
the
difference between convergent and divergent thinking and how to benefit
from both of them.
- Create
images that reflect their unique perception of life.
- See
their
community and life from the artistic point of view
- Know
the
basic elements of photography to get motivated into becoming
professional photographers or enter the field of multi media finding an
interesting and exiting purpose in their lives.
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Agenda
Day One
What is photography?
How does a camera work?
Basic elements in photography
Selecting the best focus for the picture
Day Two
Photographing my self and my community
One image can say more than many words
Images of a world a like to keep and images of a world I
want to change
Day
Three
Creativity in photography
Learning to think out of the box
Parallel thinking and critical thinking in art and
photography
To
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the Costs of this Seminar for your organization please Click Here
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