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Weaving the Web of Community: Project Report

Students at the Center has been involved in a number of adolescent media projects. SAC students produce a city-wide teen newspaper, Our Voice, write and perform original plays on local history and current issues, write and produce radio programs, design web sites, and publish their own books.

SAC received a $75,000 grant from the Open Society Institute to continue and expand this work during the 2000-01 school year. Over half of the money will help create two SAC classes devoted primarily to media production at eight secondary schools in the New Orleans Public School District. The other money will go to equipment, production costs, and media specialists leading guest workshops.

This section contains a sample of our ever-expanding work in many forms of media.

• Rationale for Teaching Writing Through Video Production
  
  
• Quilting and Story-telling in the West African tradition
  
  
• Original Play to Commemorate the 1811 Slave Revolt in Louisiana
  
  
• SAC Radio
  
  
• Our Voice newspaper
  
  
• New Orleans Unmasked
  
  
• Teen Expression - monthly talk show for teens produced by Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies, a key SAC partner in all media endeavors
  
  

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