“Digital Elders Project”
We share Digital Skills with the People so they can archive their Cultural Heritage.

A Traveling Teen Video/Audio Collaboration between the WomanKraft Digital Arts Studio’s “Girls Making Media” and Earth Web Media.

Video artist Quynn Elizabeth created Earth Tribe TV to use, and to teach others how to use, video to tell stories of the Earth and those who honor it.

Quynn Elizabeth, internet TV producer and creator of www.earthtribetv.org is traveling around the western United States to bring digital recording and editing skills to Native community members who are interested in archiving the voices of their elders.   Between May and October 2010, Quynn will travel to the following locations to facilitate community/tribal youth in interviewing  elders and then participants will learn how to capture, edit and render their audio and/or video using basic technology to tell a story of their land and their elders.

Videos to be Created:
Earth Web Media is interested in creating one audio and/or video with local youth in each of the following areas.

1)  Salmon, Idaho:
2)  Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho: 
3)  Spokane, Washington: 
4)  Colville, Washington: 
5)  Twisp, Washington:
6)  Port Angeles, Washington:
7)  La Push, Washington: 
8)  Grants Pass, Oregon:
9)  White Salmon, Washington:
10) Celilo Falls, Oregon: 
11) Eugene, Oregon: 
12) Ely, Nevada: 
13) Cedar City, Utah:
14) Page, Arizona: 
15) Tucson, Arizona: 
16) White Mountains, Arizona: 

Each video will be co-created by teens in 12 contact hours (in either a weekend or 4-day workshop).  Earth Tribe TV will supply all equipment and supplies and will travel to the location. 

Results of Project:
1) As a group, youth will learn how to create a storyline, record both audio and video, edit and render to create a short video. 

2) Youth will use their storytelling skills to share the words of the elders in their community.  Video will be displayed.

3) Youth will upload their video to various internet viewing sites, thereby honing skills needed to be reporters and archivists for their community. Videos will be uploaded to YouTube.com, as well as the town’s or tribe’s website.

4) Each group of teens who create a video contribute to the larger project “The Elder Wisdom Project”, which will be available for viewers through the worldwide web.  Teens will see how their video fits with other teen videos to create a greater whole.

5) At the end of each workshop, every participant will write on the “Elder Wisdom Project” Blog about the process, their skills learned and their feelings about making a video/audio segment that can have an  impact on the world.

Videos that Quynn Elizabeth has created so far are displayed at:
Earth Tribe TV  www.earthtribetv.org
”Restoring the Elwha”  www.americanrivers.org/
”Salmon Nation Block Party” www.salmonnation.com/
”Calling All Earth Lovers!”  www.treehugger.com/
www.womankraft.org (video on “Home” and “Digital Arts Studio” pages created by girls and women, and facilitated by Quynn, through programs at WomanKraft Art Center in Tucson, AZ)

Facilitator:  Quynn Elizabeth
While making videos since 2002, in 2006 Quynn created Earth Tribe TV (www.earthtribetv.org ) which creates and provides internet TV programming that tells stories of the Earth and those who honor it.  That same year she created the Digital Arts Studio at WomanKraft Art Center (www.womankraft.org) in Tucson, Arizona (a non-profit arts organization) to teach video production skills to teen girls and adults.  In 2008 She created “Girls Making Media” www.girlsmakingmedia.com which has been funded by the Every Voice in Action Foundation and The American Association of University Women.  Quynn has assisted tribal youth (www.nativeimages.org  and www.klallam.org ) in creating audio and video PSAs since 2008 as well.

 In the summer of 2010 she will combine these projects by offering summer video workshops to youth in areas of significant environmental importance around the west, facilitating teen participants in archiving the stories of their elders, and the land around them. 

Earth Tribe TV is looking for a sponsor or sponsors for the video project in each area.  $200 per video covers travel expenses, supplies and instructor fees.  Sponsorship allows video workshops to be offered at no cost, thereby enabling teens from families of all income levels to participate.

As a sponsor, you will receive:
-Each video will display your logo with “this video made possible by __________” in a participant’s voice.

-Each completed video will be posted in YouTube.com, and your website (if you want it).

-A banner ad at www.earthtribetv.org

-All printed and promotional material will display your logo with “made possible by ______”. 

Your sponsorship will support youth in learning and sharing stories of the land where they live, using new and innovative media technology.  Your financial contribution to this 501(c)3 organization helps young people learn how to combine technical video skills with Earth stewardship into a new field of web-based storytelling. 

For more information please call Quynn at 520-954-2004 or email her at earthtribetv@yahoo.com