Call for Tolerance

[Listen Up!]

Austin here from the Listen Up! Youth Media Network.

I want to tell you about a way that youth will be using media to respond
to September 11th.  It's called "9-11:  A Call for Tolerance and
Understanding"

www.listenup.org/tolerance

We've put out a call for entries for youth-produced media on the theme
of "tolerance and understanding among peoples."  We have been receiving
work from as far away as Pakistan from the Afghan Youth Society.  We'd
like to invite youth media producers that you may know to also submit.
The deadline has been extended until Friday Nov. 2nd.

What happens to the submissions?

First, they will be posted at an online screening room at
ListenUp.org.   TV, radio, web, spoken word, photography and other types
of youth expression will be posted there.  Next, youth from across the
U.S. and around the globe will then participate in an online discussion
from Nov. 5th - Nov. 12th.  Together, they will screen work, discuss it
and choose pieces as a collective response to September 11th.

All youth are invited to participate in the discussion.  Visit
www.listenup.org/tolerance.

Together they will curate an hour-long videotape that we will distribute
to festivals, cable stations and possibly TV in the US and abroad.  Our
last tape, "Smashing the Myth", curated online did very well and was
screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, and a
dozen others.

Want to learn more?  Visit www.listenup.org/tolerance.  Or drop me a
message.  Love to hear from you.

Austin
______________________________________________
Austin Haeberle
Director, Listen Up!
austin at listenup.org
www.listenup.org

Learning Matters, Inc.
6 E. 32nd St., 8th Floor
New York, NY  10016
tel.  (212) 725-7000
fax  (212) 725-2433

Our mission at Listen Up! is to encourage and help get a youth voice in
the mass media, one that contributes to a culture of free speech and
social responsibility.  We are a youth media network of more than 70
organizations whose producers create their own media:  tv, radio, web,
photography and print.  The youth also contribute messages for the
Listen Up! "America's Youth Speak Out!" public service campaign.

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