Delta Media Arts Program

The Delta Media Arts Program is a media training and after school program targeting local youth.  Participants learn basic community media production with an emphasis on documenting local, oral history.  The skills we offer include basic camera operation, video and audio editing, as well as distribution.  These are valuable skills that work in the real world of today.

The Delta Media Arts Program is in the process of developing an archive of interviews collected by the youth participants and leading them in editing and producing a final video which illustrates the breadth of these interviews.
 

Community media activities are beneficial and powerful tools that document realities and put a human face on distressed communities.  They also build local capacity by training youth in media techniques.  Rural Delta youth have gained marketable telecommunication skills without leaving their home area to acquire them.  The Media Arts Program offers self rewarding creative knowledge.

Delta Media Arts Program Goals: 

• Develop a video fundraiser (to help program become self sufficient/sustainable)

• Increase youth participation (volunteerism) by visiting schools and making students aware of the program, as well as the benefits the program has to offer

• Improve community awareness (by getting parents involved with the program)

• Developing an archive of the videos collected

• Expand program to include students from other service areas (Panola and Tallahatchie counties)

• Record the history and development of the Delta Media Arts Program