Youth Advisory Meeting was great!

Thank you to everyone who attended the 7th Gen Youth Advisory Meeting this past Monday!  It was great to see people come out and share ideas about how to make the program better, and what we can all do right now.

Below is a copy of the information provided at the meeting.  Be sure to check out the Paid Opportunities at the bottom.

I will upload minutes from the event once I get them transcribed in the next couple days.  Stay tuned for our letter to all 7th Gen alumni as well!


Information from Youth Advisory Meeting on January 31st, 2011:

Funding:


TRILLIUM is the focus at this moment, we will find out at the end of Feb what the jury decides (the two people in charge of assessing our application were very impressed and excited at the recent site visit, and will be strongly encouraging the board to vote yes)

Applications for our summer projects are on the way as well (OAC’s Visual and Media project grant was applied for in December; TAC art projects will be applied to for salaries; Miziwe Biik; OAC for a showcase of 7th Gen films and mural prints in November (aside from a minor showcase in late September specifically for the 2011 projects). Artists brought in each week of the program for both mural and video training.


Aboriginal Arts Education Project Grants: Regalia; art being taught to the community or in schools – NEED INPUT


Volunteer Opportunities:


Updating Blog


Facebook announcements


Cleaning / Organizing


Cooking for events


Updating our promo materials


Buttons


Creating work for sales / fundraising auctions


Write or record a testimonial (your experience with 7th Gen)


Teaching a workshop


Photographing workshops and artwork made at 7th Gen for support material


Silkscreening 7th Gen T-shirts for incentive packages


Art experiments for future projects (ie paintball project; painted leather; etc)


Upcoming Events:


Work with the AEC at Dufferin stn. for the upcoming mural – volunteer to work with the students in the planning phase of the mural


Artwork needed – CAMH – honorarium provided -see below.
Wednesday Media Nights with Amanda Strong and Keesic Douglas – working toward another EXPRESSU project (lower budget; printing onto photo paper instead of canvas for now)

7th Gen summer projects fundraiser (May-June) - donate artworks for sale to benefit our summer projects

We are still waiting on a www.7thgen.ca website and will be making business cards soon. Blog is still up; new Facebook group is now online: “7th Generation Image Makers (events)”


And our old one is still up: “7 th Generation Image makers” with the logo. I will be trying to get everyone from there onto the new FB events group.


Hours and Schedule:


Currently Mondays and Wednesdays 10-6


Suggest we change it to…

Mondays


12 to 3:15 @ 1 Wood St.
4 – 8 Open hours (Monday culture night)


Wednesdays


11 – 5:30 Open hours
6 – 8 Media night workshops with Amanda and Keesic


Paid Opportunities:

Name the November showcase – hoping for it to be a retrospective show of 7th Gen work. Best name suggested (and explained) will receive a $15 gift card for Tim Horton’s

Artwork needed – CAMH booklet– honorarium provided (amount depends on size of work) due @ 7th Gen Feb 11th, 2011 - call for more details

Mural Compositions for this year’s mural project. We need ideas and sketches before the project begins in order to secure a second mural. We will be able to compensate the artist for the sketches either through our funds raised to date, or through the Trillium funding. Please talk to Liz about your ideas and how to develop them.

Ahneen!

We are going to have a Youth Advisory meeting on January 31st from 5-8PM - please come out and lend your ideas, support, feedback and get some info on where we are right now.

We will be having venison and other good food - please let us know of any dietary restrictions you might have if you're attending.

Invite your friends!  Tokens provided for youth.

See you all out there :)

~Liz

Video Workshops

Video workshops starting January 26th every Wednesday from 3:30-5:30 with artist Keesic Douglas

It is cancelled for next week (Jan. 19th)

Youth!  Drop by and make a video self-portrait or self-directed short video!

Tokens provided - please see the poster

SILK-SCREENING!

Hi all,

I hope everyone had a good relaxing holiday and got to connect with family :)  We are open here again Mondays and Wednesdays 10-6PM

We have another silk screening event happening on JANUARY 21st @ SKETCH
Please sign up at 7th Gen or at the youth department at 1 Wood St. with your contact information.  SPACE IS LIMITED!!

Thanks guys, stay tuned for a 7th Gen youth advisory meeting at the end of January!  Food and tokens provided, feedback and ideas NEEDED :)

Happy New Year!

~Liz

This week @ 7th Gen - Dec. 13-17th

Mondays – 30 College studio is open 3-8PM during Monday Culture Night (6PM other nights)



Tuesdays – Regalia from 5-8PM @ 1 Wood St. (youth drop-in)


Wednesdays – Studio open 10-6PM; Media Workshops with Keesic Douglas from 3:30-5:30PM



Special Event:

This Friday from 10-3PM we are silkscreening at SKETCH (580 King St. W.) http://www.sketch.ca/

I will be coming to 30 College St. at 9:15 and taking people over no later than 9:30.
Tokens and lunch are provided.

COME TO 30 COLLEGE ST. FIRST TO GET YOUR IMAGE READY BEFORE FRIDAY! We are open Wednesday and Thursday this week to help with your images. They need to be black and white, with little to no grey tones. Think design. They need to fit inside an 11x14” frame.

Current Programming

Hi all,

Here is what is curretly happening at 7th Gen:

I (Liz George) am working here a couple days a week for now until we find more funding to bring programming and staff to capacity again.  Although other Coordinator Amanda Strong is not curently an employee here, she is being hired on a per-workshop basis and has expressed continued interest in working with 7th Gen in the future. 
Volunteers are appreciated during this time, if you would like to donate your time teaching a workshop or helping us with promotion, etc.  Currently I am still writing grants and looking into additional partnership opportunities - thanks to everyone who has come forward during this time (SKETCH, OCADU, AGO, Tecumseh Collective, ANDPVA, etc.)

Our schedule is as follows:


Open Studio:
Located @ 30 College St.
Mondays 10-12; 3-6PM
Wednesdays 10-6PM


Regalia Plus:
Located @ 1 Wood St.

Tuesdays 5-8PM (plus some additional days, call for information)

Youth Drop-In Workshops:
Located @ 1 Wood St.


SKETCH Partnership:
Meet @ 1 Wood St. for 6PM, TTC to SKETCH @ 580 King St. W. Floor 2

Mondays (starting December) 7-9PM
We will be starting this in December!  Come by so we can all get acquainted with our friends.

Silkscreen Workshops @ SKETCH
Meet @ 30 College, TTC to SKETCH @ 580 King St. W. Floor 2
Special event days TBA, 2 sessions at SKETCH to silk screen your personal items and T-shirts to sell.  Call for more information, or e-mail 7thgen@gmail.com.. the dates will be in early December


Media Night:
Located @ 30 College St.
Explore media projects with artist Keesic Douglas.  Youth will have a chance to work with photography, film, and other forms of digital media.

Craft Tables:
Located @ 30 College St.
Come and sell your work at a table @ 30 College St.  Donations toward our fund-raising are welcome!

Thanks to everyone for supporting us, I will post some pics from Monday nights screening later!  It was a blast :)

Status Update

Ahnii everyone,

This post is to address the recent events here at 7th Gen and to let the community know about what is happening with our program.

At the end of August, we were notified that our funding proposal to cover 7th Gen salaries as well as programming costs fell through with the ALFDC, and we were left without funding  from the beginning of July.  Thankfully Miziwe Biik was able to fund salaries until the end of September, but it sounded as though this was the end of Amanda's and my time at 7th Gen for a time.  We had started to plan a contingency, as we needed to ensure that things did not just disappear into thin air, and were planning on volunteering on a weekly basis while finding other employment.

As of last week, we were offered our same positions to continue past the end of the month.  Native Child & Family Services pulled through and generously offered to go out of pocket on our salaries to keep programming running until a solution is found!  Not out of the woods yet, but not as dire as originally thought.

Currently we are cleaning our space to open it again for next week and new programming.  Please stay tuned for more, we are hoping to keep our blog and internet activity updated on a regular basis from now on.

I would also like to thank those who supported us through this time and encouraged us that 7th Gen programming was appreciated, and that they were willing to help us fight for the program.  This part meant the most to me personally, and I am truly thankful for the support and affirmation.

Chii miigwech, more to follow

~Liz