What is my passion and how can I use it in my work?
Who is my audience and how do I connect the work to the audience?
What are my strengths and weaknesses?
What resources do I need to improve them?
How does my work affect others?



Welcome!
This class is designed to challenge you to take risks inside and outside of school. It will help you to explore your role as a citizen of this world. You will pick a topic that you are passionate about and create a documentary video devoted to this topic. Consider the use of all different media. This is a place for exploration, we will work with a variety of different media including, video, sound and animation. Throughout the year we will look at activists who push social, political and cultural boundaries. Although, you may not be able to change the whole world, I hope that you will be able to gain the confidence and resources you need to help make it a more just place.

Here are some resources for you to look into :

Cost for Asthma
http://www.aafa.org/display.cfm?id=6&sub=63

Mission 350 - an international campaign that's building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--the solutions that science and justice demand.
http://www.350.org/mission

ENERNOC
www.enernoc.com

Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental ‘heresies’
http://www.ted.com/talks/stewart_brand_proclaims_4_environmental_heresies.html




National Foundation for Cancer Research
www.nfcr.org
The Breast Cancer Fund
www.breastcancerfund.org
America's Second Harvest
www.feedingamerica.org
Global Health
www.globalhealth.org
YouthAIDS
www.youthaids.org
Doctors of the World -USA
www.dowusa.org
ProLiteracy
www.proliteracy.org
Wildlife Trust
www.wildlifetrust.org
Prevent Child Abuse America
www.preventchildabuse.org
Environmental Defense Fund
www.edf.org
Star Light, Star Bright
www.starbright.org
Amnesty International USA- Action for Human Rights
www.amnestyusa.org
Best Friends Animal Society
www.bestfriends.org
International Child Art Foundation
www.icaf.org
National Alliance to End Homelessness
www.endhomelessness.org
Youth Advocate Program International
www.yapi.org
Free The Children
www.freethechildren.com -
Medical Research Charities- Combining forces, finding cures.
www.mraa.org
Child Welfare League of America
www.cwla.org
Transplant Recipients International Organization
www.trioweb.org
Haitian Hearts
www.haitianhearts.org
Domestic Violence
www.domesticviolence.org
Gun Control
www.guncite.com
Sex Education for the real world
www.scarleteen.com
GO GREEN
www.regeneration.org
CARE
www.care.org
Body Image
http://www.nowfoundation.org/
Burma Global Action Network
http://www.burma-network.com/
Locks of Love
http://www.locksoflove.org

http://sketchforchange.com
what happens when a group of artists get together and decided to make art and sell it to support Obama?

http://cms.komen.org/komen/NewsEvents/ArtfortheCureTM/index.htm

article about art done for breast cancer


Healing Body Image Disorders through Art- The Allasso Foundation
http://www.allassofoundation.org/

Vday - a global movement to end violence against women and girls
http://newsite.vday.org

Adios Barbie- a body lovin' site for every body!

http://newsite.vday.org/

Troubled Kids

Art Reach Art outreach- for children at risk, troubled youth, children and adults with special needs, the elderly and victims of crime

http://artreachonline.org

Art for survival resource list
http://www.artslynx.org/heal/survive.htm


Architecture of change: Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Enviornment
http://pingmag.jp/2008/06/27/architecture-of-change-sustainability-and-humanity-in-the-built-environment/

Architecture designed by the disabled.
http://www.art-architecture.co.uk/insideout_archive/

TED ( idea's worth spreading)
www.ted.com

Online Magazines: News and Forums

Big Red and Shiny
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl
Absolute Art
http://www.absolutearts.com
Artnet
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/frontpage.asp

Places in Boston:
ICA
www.ica.org

Boston Center for the Arts mills gallery
http://www.bcaonline.org

MIT List Visual Arts Center

http://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions

Boston Cyberarts Festival
http://www.bostoncyberarts.org

Art Interactive
http://www.artinteractive.org/

Artists for a Cause:

Protest Artists:

Jenny Holzer
www.jennyholzer.com

Alfredo Jaar

www.alfredojaar.net

Ethnicity and Social Violence

Laylah Ali

www.pbs.org/art21/artists/ali/index.html

Jeff Lieberman
http://bea.st