Youth Action Coalition (YAC) promotes youth empowerment through creative expression and social action projects. YAC’s core project, Arts-for-Change, is a series of distinct arts and media programs offered to youth in Amherst, Ware and Easthampton. Through the development of art and media skills, creative writing, group collaboration and social justice education and action, Arts-for-Change fosters community, embraces change, and promotes fun. AfC provides youth from across the race/class/social spectrum access to free, high quality arts programming, helping youth break down barriers, and offering a safe space for shared dialogue and collaboration.
Our 2012-13 Amherst offerings:
GirlsEyeView (GEV) offers a supportive and creative space for young women to express themselves through photography and creative writing. We shoot with black and white film and manual cameras, develop our prints in the darkroom, write stories and poems, share our ideas about important social justice issues, and laugh! In GEV you will also exhibit your work several times a year in our schools and community spaces.
Open to 7th-9th grade girls
Meets Tues/Thurs, 2:30-5PM in the Photo Lab at Amherst Regional High School.
Contact: Naomi Cairns, naomi@youthactioncoalition.org.
START DATE: 10/9
Get Up Get Down (GUGD) Speak your mind through public art! We use a variety of art forms–from murals to metal sculpture to paper mache–to investigate issue that are relevant to you and your communities. Build leadership and learn about the intersections of creativity, community and social justice while creating fabulous works of art. This fall come help create the town’s newest mural on the Rao’s red wall!
Open to youth in grades 8-12.
Meets Tues/Thurs, 3:30-5:30PM at the Bangs Center.
Contact: Katie RIchardson, katie@youthactioncoalition.org.
START DATE: 9/24 (SPACE STILL AVAILABLE!!)
Video Vanguards (VV) works with youth of color and their allies integrating youth leadership, video production, media critique and social justice education. We learn high-end video skills and engage in deep dialogue and training to create socially-conscious pieces that address issues that are overlooked by the mainstream media. We organize screenings and events throughout the year. The skills you learn from this program help to affect a change in yourself as well as a change in your community.
Open to youth in grades 8-12.
Meets Wed/Thurs, 3:30-5:30PM at Amherst Media.
Contact: Monique Desir, monique@youthactioncoalition.org.
START DATE: 9/26 (SPACE STILL AVAILABLE!!)
A few important points: our programs are a bigger commitment than the other clubs -- 2 days/week for 2-2 1/2 hours throughout the school year. We often have students who take time off for a sport, but prefer to have students who can commit to the full year (and want to be there for students who are not active in sports and other activities). We have an application process (mostly to garner commitment, but also used if the program is oversubscribed to ensure diversity). See attached.
If you have any questions please contact the coordinator of the respective program or Allison Scott, Programs Liaison, allison@youthactioncoalition.org. Our website is also full of info and a gallery of images.
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