Podcasting Mentorship with VIVO Media Arts Centre
April 18, 2019
Interested in learning how to tell your stories and get your voice heard?
VIVO Media Arts Centre is now accepting applications for a free youth podcasting mentorship, with local artists, journalists, and radio producers. The mentorship will run from Sunday, May 26th to Sunday, July 14th, 2019.
Application deadline is April 30, 2019.
The mentorship project is called ALT+SPACE+CONTROL: Vancouver Housing Stories. Participants will be supported to develop audio stories about housing insecurity in Vancouver, working with oral histories and recorded tentant interviews. You’ll use audio art, podcast, and radio techniques to explore the experience of renters in Vancouver.
All training, equipment used at VIVO, and technical support are provided for free.
At the end of the mentorship, VIVO will be hosting a free public event, and circulating the produced stories online, over radio, and in community space. Participants will receive a full artist fee for presenting these final stories.
The project culminates in a free public event at VIVO Media Arts Centre, and the stories will be circulated online, over radio, and in community spaces.
The project culminates in a free public event at VIVO Media Arts Centre, and the stories will be circulated online, over radio, and in community spaces.
The mentorship is guided by media artist Helena Krobath, along with a roster of guest mentors. These guest mentors will include rapper-poet and media educator Kim Villagante (a.k.a., Kimmortal), journalist and radio producers Alex de Boer, Madeline Taylor, and Alexander Kim.
With your mentors, you’ll receive training in shaping stories, working with voices, recording and editing audio, and more. Some of the skills you’ll learn are:
• how to use a professional field recorder and microphone
• how to conduct interviews
• how to edit and process audio
• how to compose compelling radio stories
• how to produce podcasts, from inception to upload
• how to engage guests with your work at a final public event
• how to work collaboratively with other interesting people and share cool ideas!
You can find more information about the project, mentors, and the application form on VIVO Media Arts Centre’s site here.