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Hey Folks

Life has been crazy on the takingitglobal front in vancouver, and it is about to get crazier. Recently I have been teeming up with two good friends of mine, Shannon Ross and Katie Roso of Vancouver Community Networks, in the application for grants for the hopefully upcoming Youth Media Coalition.

The YMC is being designed as a collaborative program between VCN, TIG, and numerous other community organisations to set up a series of workshops on Youth Generated Independent Media with a diverse group of comunity youth in Vancouver.

The project will be baddass.

It will train youth in the independent development and distribution of content (art, wiritng, journalism, etc) through a variety of mediums, including zines, blogs, photography, film, and other fun activities. We plan have the media generated by the YMC promoted at the Media Democray day and East Side Culture Crawl taking place in Vancouver next year.

For TIG, the opportunity will be to train youth with our online tools, and promote the same, as all of the project organisation and implementation will integrate things liuke project and gorup pages, and possibly even utlise the GTA's for certain workshops.

Any way, we are in the process of applying for the Vancouver Foundation's Youth Media Philanthropy grant to the tune of $5000, and are quite optimisitc/. We are also preparing another grant proposal for the Canadian Council for the Arts.

Should be a blast. Hopefully we'll get the funding, but if we do, I can honestly say this will be an awesome project and a greta opportunity for both TIG and Vancouver youth.


March 16, 2008 | 6:54 PM Comments  0 comments

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Hey Folks

Last week was very exciting, as the first week of the YouthPolitik program took place and was a resounding success. I am especially proud, because it was for this week that I, as a TakingITGlobal representative, had the opportunity to help design the Youth Politik sessions on Urban Sustainability.

It was a lot of fun - we had 60 highschool-age youth calculating out their ecological footprints, and then we had an open forum discussion on that acitvity. Then we (the City of Vancouver sustainability office team and I) broke up the groups into mini-groups which brainstormed different ways (both individually and as a society) that we could reduce our ecological footprints. It was a lot of fun, and a great start to the Youth Politik experience.

In April, we will start the activation phase, which is great because that's when we will use both the guides to action and tig project pages to have the youth begin their own project proposals. I can't wait!

February 26, 2008 | 4:57 PM Comments  0 comments

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Exciting stuff recently. I was approached the other week by a friend of PJ Partington's who runs the climate change project for TIG. His friend, Maia Green, has come up with the idea of starting a summer camp youth about ennvironmental leadership in their community (Vancouver).

It sounds like a great idea to me: now it's just the little tiny problem of making it happen. In her quest to see the camp come into existence, she has approached tig for some help - mostly just getting her in touch with organisations, funders, and people in Vancouver that might be interested in getting involved with the camp. Also, TIG will run the online component of the camp, and provide workshop materials through the Guides To Action.

Exciting stuff - I should be writing more on this recently, and I imagine that a call for vopluneteers will go out in the next western canada newsletter. Also, if anyone reads this blog and wants to get involved- feel free to send me a TIG message.

Bob

February 12, 2008 | 7:10 PM Comments  0 comments

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This last month has been a very exciting one out here in Vancouver, as it has been chock full of workshops, networking meetings, and the development of new partnerships.

On January 14th we had our first networking meeting, or Youth Jam. About 14 youth workers showed up from Vancouver Community Network, the city of vancouver, and several local non-profits and community centres. The meeting mostly took the form of different people talking about their organisations and what they planned on doing in the near future, in the hopes of finding ground for collaboration. Most importantly, we talked about how to use online tools to faccillitate collaboration in between the face to facemeetinging. all aorund it was a success, and our next meeting will be on March 10th.

Later in the week, I organised and facilitated my end of the B4B workshop with 9 enthusiastic participants from the Disability Resource Centre in richmond. Though it was a brutal 2 hour travel time (one way), the event was quite a success as the particpipants proved to love the use of webcams and headsets to communicate. However, i know that now the DRC is interested in followup with TIG, and currently i don;t know how to proceed with that.

I have been working a lot with the city's YouthPolitik program, and am helping out with a session on urban sustainability, and am helping to plan the activation phaswe of the project. That's excitiing because i have been able to work in TIG's GTA's to the activation phase of the project, and hopefully i will be able to integrate the online component so that participants can use the project pages in order to come up with their own projects, and possibly even apply for funding through them.

I also met up with a representative form the vancouver foundation, and found out about their youth philanthropy council grants which give up to $5000 for youth who come up with projects to improve theior copmmunity or foster psotive social change. Right now i hope to partner up with a gorup or org to use the gta's to come up with a project proposal, and then apply for funding. However, I have had so many troubles partnering up with groups to do workshops that i am kinda disheartended.

Which brings me to challenges. By far the greaterst one has been trying to organise a climate change worksahop. When i started out in september, i wsas told that Check Your Head in vancouver was excited to work through their sustainable schools program on a series of climate workshops. But every time i tried to get things off the gorund, they wouldn't comit, or act like it was the first time they were hearing about the project. In essence i wasted months trying to network with them. The pj got me in touch with the climate change youth coalition, and the envirnomental youth alliance, but in both cases they basically blew me off once i really came to them with a workshop proposal. In essence, it seems like all these other organisations are underfunded and suspicious of collaborating, because they think TIG and groups like us our trying to poach their networks for their own nefarious needs. Anyway, I have all but given up, b8ut i will continue to try.

Another problem has been to come up with a concrete goal for the network I have been developing.

And of course the ever present problem is how to translate offline acitvities into action on the tig site. I am lookin forard to the team meeting to hear about other people's strategies, cause this one has me kind of stumped.

February 7, 2008 | 5:56 PM Comments  0 comments

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November Blog

Hey Guys

It has been both a frustrating and productive month.

Frustrating because both my climate wqorkshops and the B4B workshops got pushed back a month. However, it has been productive because I feel like tons of new connections are being made and that there are tons of things to concentrate on for next year.

For one, on Saturday I plan on manning a table at the eco fair at the Climate Day of Action demonstration at the Vancouver Public Library. Not only will it be an awesome event, it will give me the opportunity to finally meet up with some of the people form the CCYC and Canadians For Kyoto, and try to drum up some support for January's climate workshops with Check Your Head.

Also, tomorrow I will be going to a meeting of the Fearless Media Collective, which will be interesting. I hope that CLC can become a useful community partner in the youth component of the collective. Though a large part of the collective is creating their own web community, it would be nice to get that community linked to corresponding project pages on TIG which can allow us to profile their events and publicise their activities, which I think would be mutually beneficial.

Other than that, I am now looking into speaking at the 2008 ICT Summit to be hosted this February in Vancouver. The theme this year is using communication technology to create community capitol, which is really what TIG is all about. So that's also somehting I am excited about.

There are other things going on right now : I continue to work with VCN, the Youth Politik program, and other such exciting things, but I think whatr I've written sums up the most recent, more exciting developments.

Anyway, that's it for now- hope that eeryone has a lovely Holiday and is enjoying their respective TIG work.

Until next time

Bob Neubauer
BC Youth Engagement Coordinator
Vancouver, Canada

December 5, 2007 | 3:43 PM Comments  0 comments

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