Updates

Our Parsons Scholars Design Team
A few weeks ago, we met with our newest collaborators at Parsons The New School for Design: The Parsons Scholars. This group of highly motivated, imaginative and talented high school students will be spending this semester designing and packaging a curriculum for Beyond Bullets. So cool!
stephanie | 02/24/2012 - 12:48pm | 0 comments
Arts to End Violence Contest Deadline April 15th
Submit your paintings, drawings, photos, videos and performance art ideas to Crown Heights Community Mediation Center by April 15th to be included in their 2nd Annual Arts to End Violence Contest! They have two categories:
stephanie | 02/08/2012 - 11:49am | 0 comments
Transmedia Storytelling at UnionDocs
If you've ever been curious about transmedia storytelling, or you've never heard that word but you know there are all these new ways of telling stories on all these new devices and you wish you knew more about how to make use of these tools, now's the time to learn! This Sunday, January 29th, our...
stephanie | 01/24/2012 - 5:34pm | 0 comments
WITNESS Video Advocacy Planning Toolkit
Last fall, WITNESS launched an online Video Advocacy Planning Toolkit designed for activists who are interested in using video to support their cause. This in-depth, 12-chapter Toolkit is one of the most thorough, useful resources we've found to help support documentary advocacy.
stephanie | 01/18/2012 - 4:11pm | 0 comments
LIFE Camp's NY Peace Week 2012
Erica Ford, the non-stop peace activist from Queens, is at it again! She's gathering celebrities and advocates and teenagers from across the country to participate in NY Peace Week 2012, sponsored by her organization, LIFE Camp Inc, along with Russell Simmons and Deepak Chopra.
stephanie | 01/11/2012 - 2:37pm | 0 comments
Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito's MLK Day Youth Fair
We hope you can join us on Monday, January 16th in East Harlem for the MLK Day Youth For Change Conference. Sponsored by City Year and Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito's Youth Violence Task Force, the Youth for Change Conference will feature day-long, intensive workshops teaching the values and...
stephanie | 01/11/2012 - 1:04pm | 0 comments
Mayor Bloomberg's Young Men's Initiative | Washington D.C.
In August 2011, Mayor Bloomberg announced a new initiative to support young African-American and Latino men, who face severe disadvantages when compared with their white peers in New York City.
stephanie | 01/06/2012 - 1:13pm | 0 comments
East Harlem Peace March on Friday, December 9th
Join New York City Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito and residents of El Barrio/East Harlem for a peace march this Friday! The Council Member's office has been working tirelessly to prevent gun violence in their district, and now they're gathering the neighborhood together for some collective...
stephanie | 12/07/2011 - 2:35pm | 0 comments
PRO-TV Needs Your Support
PRO-TV, DCTV's renowned youth media training program, is in need of some new equipment. You can help us upgrade our equipment with a simple donation! Learn more about our students and their work here. And you can donate online in seconds. Your donation will go a long way, helping hundreds of...
stephanie | 11/30/2011 - 6:30pm | 0 comments
Between the Bars
We just discovered Between the Bars, a remarkable project that enables inmates from prisons across the country to publish blogs online. Because prisoners often have limited internet access, the site's directors accept handwritten or typed accounts, which they scan onto their website. The public can...
stephanie | 11/29/2011 - 12:08pm | 0 comments