The 9th International Youth Media Summit
July 14-27, 2014
At the Summit our young WARRIORS will dialogue, study, and propose solutions for 7 urgent social issues: poverty, violence, discrimination, health, the environment, women’s rights and youth empowerment.
We’re delighted to share an update from Evelyn Seubert, one of Tim Carpenter’s recent guests on Experience Talks (1/18/14). Ms. Seubert is the co-founder and President of the International Youth Media Summit, and co-founder and Executive Director of the Teen International Media Exchange at Cleveland Charter High School.
Note: You can to contribute to the IndieGoGo campaign for The Young Warriors here.
Cleveland Charter H.S. student Emily Bader is headed to the United Nations!
She has been invited to the Youth Assembly at the U.N. to show videos she and other young filmmakers created at the International Youth Media Summit.
Emily has been a busy senior. She is a Youth Leader of the Summit, and also the president of the Teen International Media Exchange Club (TIME) at Cleveland High in Reseda, CA. TIME founded the Summit in 2006, and this year TIME is bringing the Summit back to California. They have been rounding up support from the community to make it a success.
Emily will be blogging about her experiences at the U.N. every day, but will not be taking a vacation from TIME’s campaign to bring young people from the developing world to this year’s Summit. TIME has three more weeks to raise its goal of $75,000 through its online Young Warriors fundraising campaign at http://igg.me/at/IYMS2014.
Mohamed Sidibay is an orphan, kidnapped and forced to be a child soldier in Sierra Leone. He escaped his captors and eventually made a video, “We Don’t Want No War” about his experiences. Unable to attend the first Summit, Mohamed is determined to attend the 9th Summit. TIME is fighting to raise the money to bring Mohamed – as well as young people from Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Israel, Palestine, Algeria, Armenia, Iran and Liberia – to the Summit. It’s important to TIME that those from countries with lower GDPs can join students from more prosperous countries to discuss the international issues that affect everyone.
The 9th International Youth Media Summit will be held at Soka University from July 14 through 27, 2014 with 100 youth from over 30 countries and the U.S. This yearly event was born in 2006 out of the passion of two Cleveland High media teachers and their commitment to infuse young people with the confidence and skills to shape their own future and influence the world they will inherit, using film and media. The Summit has been held every year since, in Australia and then Serbia.
On July 14, young people ages 14 through 24 will arrive on the campus of Soka University in Aliso Viejo to engage in dialogue, seminars, and the making of short films about seven urgent social issues: violence, poverty, discrimination, women’s rights, the environment, health, and youth empowerment. In the two weeks they are together, they will also visit local non-profit organizations that are dedicated to these issues, volunteering and gaining hands-on experience. They will write declarations of action, determining how they will make a difference in their home countries upon their return. They will build bridges of friendship across cultures that will help the world take one hundred small steps toward global peace through mutual understanding.
For more information contact Evelyn Seubert, Executive Director for TIME: 818-512-1337 or evelyn.seubert@sbcglobal.net
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