SECTION 1: OUR MISSION

Mission: Through media arts education, Wide Angle Youth Media cultivates and amplifies the voices of Baltimore youth to engage audiences across social divides. Our programs inspire creativity and instill confidence in young people, supporting them to navigate school, career, and life.

Vision: We envision that a new generation of media makers, particularly youth from historically minoritized and marginalized communities, will flourish through creative expression and equitable access to professional resources and skill-building opportunities. All levels of the Baltimore-area media arts and communications fields will reflect the full spectrum of residents.

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Media Arts Education

Equipping students with tools and knowledge to analyze, assess and produce high quality community media about social issues that are important to them. Foundational skills (critical thinking, media literacy, technical skill building, workforce readiness, artistic expression) are integrated into classes, as youth also analyze social systems and create issue-based projects that promote social justice.

  • Community Media: Community Media is media produced with integrity and in collaboration with members of a community (not by outsiders), who are able to share its history accurately, with nuance, understanding, and respect. Community media addresses and is thoughtful towards a community's needs and goals.

  • Collaborate with: Our curriculum encourages students to lead the message making. Media Instructors and staff act as fellow creatives, mentors, and facilitators supporting the growth of students. Classrooms are spaces for mutual skill sharing, building self confidence, and encouraging civic engagement.

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Amplify Youth Voice

Wide Angle’s tagline and a common call to action.

  • Amplify: To support and boost people and existing efforts; to expand a message (eg: youth perspectives), to a larger audience.

  • Youth: Young people; specifically middle school, high school and college-age students. We prefer this term to “kids”, which can be disempowering or belittling.

  • Voice: A person's opinions, thoughts, and/or beliefs that can be shared through any medium (i.e. film or graphic design) to express themselves.

 

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