Bridging the Gap is the newest online project from EVC's New Media Arts Apprenticeship. We're proud that just this month, it won the prestigious Social Impact Award at the Emoti-con Youth Digital and Technology Challenge. This innovative project is designed to promote informed dialogue among youth,...
Thank you for making our benefit screening at the Film Society of Lincoln Center last Wednesday such an overwhelming success! We are extremely proud of our students for producing two extraordinary, thought-provoking films that explore teens' mental health needs in schools and the separation of families due...
EVC's New Media Arts apprentices have been working all semester on a new interactive community website Bridging the Gap between Community and Police. Our interactive site has already been awarded a Social Impact Award at the Emoti-con Youth Digital and Technology Challenge this past month.The...
This year, we are extremely excited to be honoring journalists Ray Suarez and Farai Chideya, in addition to longtime EVC Board Member Torrance York, and EVC graduate and technical director at Bloomberg News, Alex Soto. We are thrilled that U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Honorary Chair...
The Youth Powered Video Film Festival amplifies youth voices by providing an audience for their creativity, perspectives, and community solutions. EVC will present a variety of youth-produced short videos, produced through EVC’s Professional Development Programs. To RSVP, please contact Jennifer Proulx at jproulx@evc.org...
“It was an experience that I will never forget.” -- Angelica Perez, EVC Graduate EVC started with a simple idea -- to transform the lives of young people by putting video cameras into their hands to explore and report on the issues that matter most to...
In this three-day professional development intensive, teachers and youth workers will learn to plan, facilitate and assess Common Core aligned, media project-based units that will build their students' 21st century literacy, critical thinking and artistic storytelling skills. The workshop is experiential, giving all participants the...
CELEBRATING OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS Since we first started teaching young people to make documentaries 30 years ago, we’ve focused on helping them tell powerful stories that can make a difference in their communities, and develop their critical skills along the way. [caption id="attachment_20" align="alignleft" width="348"] On behalf of...
Last weekend, five EVC students in the New Media Arts Apprenticeship attended a community forum regarding the recent deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of law enforcement. The forum took place at the Church of the Village in the West Village on...
FIELD BUILDING LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION Since our first professional development workshops for teachers 30 years ago, we’ve worked to expand student media arts production in schools across New York City - and beyond. We worked with teachers to not only bring more media making into the...