News & Upcoming Events

Please welcome our newest staff members:

Alethea Campbell, Coordinator of GirlsEyeView Ware. Alethea brings with her a tremendous background in both digital and analog photography, youth work, and her heartfelt enthusiasm and passion. Alethea is completing her senior year at Smith College, where she is exploring the interconnections between art, education and psychology.

Sasha Alexander, Coordinator of Video Vanguards. Sasha brings with him 2 years of exceptional experience interning with the program while a student at Hampshire College. This fall he will become Youth Action Coalition's Americorps volunteer and contribute his time and incredible talents to VV as a staff member. Sasha has a passion for production, youth work and making socially conscious art.

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YAC Summer Programs

Video Vanguards has been collaborating with the Capacidad Summer Program and with the Pipeline Project.

Capacidad is a program run at Fort River Elementary School in Amherst. This summer's theme, Lights, Camera, Action!, was an introduction for elementary school students to media literacy, critique and production. Our VV crew -- youth and adult facilitators -- ran 3 two-week sessions, with a screening of finished work held every other Friday.

VV also ran some media workshops for "rising" 8th, 9th and 10th graders this summer through the Pipeline Project, a collaborative effort between Amherst College and Amherst Schools.

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Get Up Get Down and GirlsEyeView are resting this summer, yet gearing up for new sessions in the fall.

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Please check back here in late August for announcements about our fall lineup...
Enjoy the summer!