Concordia University
Library Building, Room 1042
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, QC, Canada

The event is FREE and open to the public!

LINK: http://lifestoriesmontreal.ca/fr/publications/full-exposure-2009-photography-book-gracia-jalea

It is featured on the Montreal Life Stories Website. Here is an excerpt for the website:

Full Exposure 2009 is a participatory photography project for high school students from differing socio-economic backgrounds. It was developped by Gracia Jalea, a graduate student at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec as part of her Master’s thesis project.

This project will seek to examine the ways in which the class cultural values of society’s ruling elite are consistently privileged in the secondary school system which often encourages students from less-privileged socio-econimic backgrounds to supress their class identities and experiences.

“Inspired by visual pedagogy and PhotoVoice’s guding principles, I have developed a participatory action research project prototype that seeks to uncover whether photography can be used as an instigator for discussion on class differences in the classroom. My project will seek to provide high school students with the chance to learn digital photography skills that will enable them to express their class identities while also allowing them to consider, critique and discuss the impact that dominant class cultural values and ideologies have had on their education. In addition, as per PhotoVoice, my project gives participants to learn a new and potentially valuable skill.” – Gracia Jalea

Young image-makers from Maison des Jeunes CDN will gather with other groups to exchange their work in the urban imaginary as part of the RIDM festival!

Monday, November 16, 2009, 6:00pmm, RIDM Lounge, Cinémathéque Québecoise
335, boul. de Maisonneuve Est, Montréal

For its 12th edition, the RIDM has partnered up with local youth groups for a second year, to organize a unique evening of community and culture. The event, bringing together music, video screenings and discussion, will represent over a dozen groups and will be moderated by Nantalie Indongo.

Coming from the four corners of the city, youth participants will express their points of view on the possibilities and challenges related to living in the city. Films will explore themes related to an array of topics, bringing stories of the particular to the public and will help to create artistic exchanges between youth from the city’s different neighborhoods.

Participating groups will be: Oracle Productions, the Inter-Tribal Youth Center, Full Exposure (in collaboration with Mapping Memories and Maison des Jeunes CDN), Crocodile Roux, Homeless Nation, Next-Gen NDG (a Head & Hands pilot project), ), 100 heures Chrono (Initiative Tialing Dialo et Vues d’Afriques en collaboration avec Via le monde), Pact de Rue (projet Drop-in 1830 St-Michel), Centre Jeunesse de la Montérégie, Vision Jeunesse, X-art (La voix du changement), Make Music not War and other surprise musical guests!

In partnership with Parole citoyenne / CitizenShift, and the Segal Center.

Lundi 16 novembre 2009 à 18h00
Monday, November 16, 2009, 6:00pm
RIDM Lounge
Cinémathéque Québecoise
335, boul. de Maisonneuve Est, Montréal

Participants will learn:

Digital photography skills

Advocacy techniques

To learn more about these workshops, refer to the About Us and Agenda pages of this website.

If you are interested in participating, fill out an application form and email it to: fullexposure2009@gmail.com.

SPACE IS LIMITED