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Young Lions Media
Simon
had a specific vision of a place where youth and young adults could hang out,
experience community and explore their gifts in music, film-making, writing and
art. We all have an innate artistic talent but his experience was there
are not enough resources for young people to pursue their interests in those
areas. Outside of regular school most extra-mural programs are focused on
recreational/sporting activities which often do not appeal to those with an
artistic leaning.
The
notion that these days we all have ready access to all types of technology is
also a misnomer. Whilst many schools and households do have current technology,
the use of it is still very restricted by hours of operation, family rules or
simply lack of mentoring in the use of it.
Simon's
dream was to buy an older house where he would live on the main floor and devote
the living space and basement to his media project. Thus the concept
became commonly known as "The Media House". Our dream is still to have it
based in a house but for now we have an excellent partnership agreement with the
Spruce Grove Public Library where we have use of space for our
programs.
Since May 2006 we
have carried out a number of projects through YLM :
Annual filming of City of
Spruce Grove FCSS’s “Summer in the City” activities and production of a DVD as a
record of same.
Annual partnership with
Parkland Young Life in the hosting of a film festival open to local young
amateur film-makers. In 2009 this event will be entirely organized
by SPF/YLM as their own event. See Night at the
Oscars
Hosting of an art exhibition
featuring the theme “Hope” in conjunction with the Rotary Run for Life in aid of
Suicide Prevention in September each year.
Partnership with the Parkland
Celebration Choir on their annual Christmas production in the community.
Partnership with the Heroes
program, a youth character development program being delivered to youth in the
Parkland area. In 2008 this
included sending a team of six local teenagers and three adult leaders to
Zambia, Africa for three weeks to work on the Foundation’s community project
there.
Delivery of a basic
film-making course at the Stony Plain Youth Centre twice per year.
Several video productions for local community groups and
events both on a voluntary and a paid basis.
Digital archiving of old
media – slides, photographs, vinyl records, cassette tapes, video tapes and
documents to preserve them for historical purposes.
Our future plans include
:
Developing a still
photography program.
Finding more space to be able
to include a full selection of musical instruments and a recording studio for
both music and film.
Holding further art and
photography shows to enable users of the Media centre to showcase their work in
the community.
Note : Simon loved lions and he often talked about calling his organization
"Young Lions". Thus we have chosen to call this operation of SPF "Young
Lions Media".
If you are interested in
volunteering at the centre as mentor to other teenagers to learn how to make and
edit movies or to help with some media projects that we already have to work on,
please
contact us via e-mail or at 780.289.1803.