The UnderStory project presentation at the West Point Elementary School last Sunday was a BIG success!!! (Project Coordinator jesikah maria ross and UC DavisCenter for the study of Regional Change Director Jonathan London strike a pose by the excellent banner made by the project advisory group)
The youth media team showed up at 2:30 to start decorating the room. Big thanks to Catie and Ms Watkins for coming up with decoration plan.
Joyce Rummerfield and her family came around 3:00 to get started cooking up the yummy (and heavily requested) Indian Tacos. Joey Creekmore & his pal Garrett help dice tomatos for the Tacos. (stay tuned for shots of Joyce and her team at work!)
The youth set up the laptops they have been working on for the past 3 months to display their photos.
About 100 people showed up for the community potluck. Check out the youth team sporting the brand new Up from the UnderStory T Shirts!
Several folks stood up and spoke about different aspects of the project, but the feature presentation was definitely the 9 member youth media team sharing their digital stories about community renewal in the Blue Mountain area.
After presenting the media work (UCD student video followed by 9 digital stories produced by the youth media team), about 80 people engaged in a lively and long-lasting community dialogue. For real! The discussion went for about an hour and only wrapped up because it was getting late for a Sunday night!
There is much more info and images to share...so visit again. Or come see the next presentation at UC Davis, Wed June 4 from 4:00 - 6:30. Email jmross@ucdavis.edu for directions or info.
3 comments:
It was a terrific evening. We got good media coverage, the kids proved themselves, and I think we all are now more aware of what collaboration means and what it can accomplish. There was great response from the audience proving that everyone was paying attention. I will be curious to see the results of the cards we all filled out especially the "where do we go from here" parts. I know there is a great deal going on in many of the eastern Calaveras communities. I am most familiar with the on going and up coming projects at the youth center and know there is a great deal more collaborative potential. Lets do more!
Alan
hi Alan and all
we'll be posting the info generated from the community presentation on this blog--so stay tuned!
just home from the UCD event--another GREAT experience. the youth were great, a bus load of Blue Mtn folks attended and a ton of UCD people. about 70 folks total. more on this to come
jesikah
I just wanted to thank the students and participants in this project for bringing the community together in such an outstanding way.
I loved the presentations and the discussions after were moving to many of us.
he points that were brought up were much needed topics and it showed that the youth and adults all see the same things. That in itself created a bridge to meet in the middle on.
Wonderful documentry, wonderful work. Thank you
Dawn
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