Media & the Arts
Download Plan youth media leaflet ‘Turn up the Volume’ 2007. {.pdf, 2M}
Watch a short film from last year's Youth Media Development Forum. {.wmv, 6.28MB}
What’s going on with the world today?
Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what’s happening, and even harder to get other people motivated to care about it or get involved. Art and media can be really useful to get people’s attention and raise awareness and understanding.
Video, performance, poetry, photography, painting, music or anything your imagination calls for .... Submit your original artwork on issues of poverty, HIV/AIDS, child trafficking, child soldiers, other issues of child exploitation, or the environment. We want to know what you’re doing and to help you get your art and your messages out to as many people as possible!
You can also join one of our current projects (below), or the Youth Engagement and Action team can work with you to help you create a project of your own.
Educators! Contact us for more information on classroom resources, interactive workshops and presentations, and support to bring global issues into your classroom in creative ways.
What do I bring to this world?
Plan is working with artists and students from over 20 schools to develop a play that highlights the energy, curiosity and heroism of young people. Featured in this work are the voices of students who describe ways that they can make the world a better place. Download the study guide {.pdf, 2m} for more information and contact us if you’d like to do something similar.
Disaster Web Exchange
Youth from El Salvador, Mississippi and Honduras are developing a project that will help youth share their experiences with disasters and displacement and their role in disaster preparedness, emergency response, and rebuilding their communities. The Disaster and Displacement Web Exchange will be a digital storehouse of videos, photos and artwork on the web that will highlight the important role youth play in times of disaster. Once the site is up, we'll be inviting other youth media groups from countries around the world to upload their videos and artwork about the role of young people before, during and after a disaster, and the impacts that disaster and humanitarian crises have on young people.
If I could change one thing...
Youth in the U.S. as well as youth from Plan communities around the world are developing artwork and videos which answer the question, “If I could change one thing….” Their opinions will be featured in an exhibit at the US Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2007.
Virtual visits to communities around the world
In August 2004, a team of US and Ugandan youth created a ‘virtual visit’ to Nyalakot, a community in the Tororo District of Uganda. Plan is supporting local youth media groups in Togo, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic to create virtual visits to their own communities. We hope to eventually have several virtual visits from communities all over the world uploaded onto our site. Contact us if you’d like to create a virtual visit to your school, neighborhood or city.
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Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what’s happening, and even harder to get other people motivated to care about it or get involved. Art and media can be really useful to get people’s attention and raise awareness and understanding.
Video, performance, poetry, photography, painting, music or anything your imagination calls for .... Submit your original artwork on issues of poverty, HIV/AIDS, child trafficking, child soldiers, other issues of child exploitation, or the environment. We want to know what you’re doing and to help you get your art and your messages out to as many people as possible!
You can also join one of our current projects (below), or the Youth Engagement and Action team can work with you to help you create a project of your own.
Educators! Contact us for more information on classroom resources, interactive workshops and presentations, and support to bring global issues into your classroom in creative ways.
What do I bring to this world?
Plan is working with artists and students from over 20 schools to develop a play that highlights the energy, curiosity and heroism of young people. Featured in this work are the voices of students who describe ways that they can make the world a better place. Download the study guide {.pdf, 2m} for more information and contact us if you’d like to do something similar.
Disaster Web Exchange
Youth from El Salvador, Mississippi and Honduras are developing a project that will help youth share their experiences with disasters and displacement and their role in disaster preparedness, emergency response, and rebuilding their communities. The Disaster and Displacement Web Exchange will be a digital storehouse of videos, photos and artwork on the web that will highlight the important role youth play in times of disaster. Once the site is up, we'll be inviting other youth media groups from countries around the world to upload their videos and artwork about the role of young people before, during and after a disaster, and the impacts that disaster and humanitarian crises have on young people.
If I could change one thing...
Youth in the U.S. as well as youth from Plan communities around the world are developing artwork and videos which answer the question, “If I could change one thing….” Their opinions will be featured in an exhibit at the US Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2007.
Virtual visits to communities around the world
In August 2004, a team of US and Ugandan youth created a ‘virtual visit’ to Nyalakot, a community in the Tororo District of Uganda. Plan is supporting local youth media groups in Togo, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic to create virtual visits to their own communities. We hope to eventually have several virtual visits from communities all over the world uploaded onto our site. Contact us if you’d like to create a virtual visit to your school, neighborhood or city.
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