Summer Training
2010 Summer Training info will be posted in the spring. Meanwhile, check out what we did last summer!
Getting Creative About Climate Change:
AYEA 2009 Summer Training!
Read the Training Report-back from AYEA’s 2009 Summer Training!
AYEA’s 2009 Summer Training is Getting Creative About Climate Change. Art in Action trainers from Oakland, California are headed back to AK to partner with Alaskan artists and AYEA teens – it’s going to be a fun-filled week!
- Learn about climate change and renewable energy
- Share ideas and network with teens from all over Alaska
- Play outside & spend the week camping in tents
- Explore your creativity through writing and art to express your ideas on the environment
When: July 20-24
Where: Arctic Valley (30 minutes north of Anchorage)
Cost: $100 tuition + travel to Anchorage Fundraising assistance available!
Who: Teens, 14-18 years old, from rural and urban communities, who care about the environment and want to make a difference in their communities!
Contact AYEA Staff with questions:
Megan: mcbridem(at)ayea(.)org or 907-339-3908
More information about the Training:
The AYEA Summer Training: Getting Creative About Climate Change is for teens who want to learn about environmental issues in Alaska and make a difference in their communities. At the training, teens will use writing and creative art forms to creatively express their ideas and thoughts on environmental issues like climate change and renewable energy.
For this event, our training team will be made up of Alaskan Spoken Word and SLAM Poetry artists, digital storytellers from Art in Action in Oakland, California and experienced AYEA teens! Our trainers focus on socially relevant popular education, community building, and creative expression related to Climate Change. The Training will allow youth to explore leadership development and environmental activism in areas chosen by AYEA youth.
When is the 2008 AYEA Art in Action Training?
Monday, July 20 – Friday, July 24th. Participants traveling from outside Anchorage may need to arrive in the evening of July 19th or early Monday morning. Teen participants are expected to stay with the group throughout the whole week and participate in the entire event. If you wish to arrange their travel so you have extra time in Anchorage with family outside of the AYEA training, you are welcome to do so.
Where is the Training?
The Training will take place in Arctic Valley, Alaska (30 minutes north of Anchorage). AYEA will provide transportation from Anchorage to the Training site in Arctic Valley on Monday, July 20 and back to Anchorage on Friday, July 24.
Cost:
The tuition is $100 for the 4½ day training. This includes all housing, meals, transportation from Anchorage, training materials, equipment, and staff instruction! Travel costs to Anchorage are not included. AYEA staff can help applicants with fundraising, and AYEA has limited scholarships available. (Please fill out the scholarship application.)
Who Should Apply?
Teens age 13-18 can apply or be nominated for the event. All you need is interest and an open mind! We encourage 2-4 youth per community to apply to create a local peer network after the event. Twenty youth will be accepted.
What Should I Expect?
You should expect an intense, creative, youth-driven training. If accepted, you should have some interest in environmental topics/issues; be willing to work with youth from diverse communities & cultures; have a desire to learn more about yourself as a leader; and expect to develop your own story/ creative art piece on global warming and your connection to the environment.
Who is Involved?
Alaska Youth for Environmental Action
Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) empowers young people to impact environmental issues in Alaska through skills training, action projects, campaigns, and civic engagement opportunities. AYEA’s values of youth empowerment, sustainability, diversity and collaboration with others are reflected in the organization’s objectives of being an active and creative voice within Alaskan communities. We promote environmental leadership by hosting statewide skills training, like the AYEA
Art in Action Training: Telling Our Stories.
Art in Action empowers youth leaders by engaging arts for social change through personal, social, political, and cultural education. We work collectively with youth from diverse historically disenfranchised communities impacted by violence through programs in music, media arts, spoken word/poetry, dance/theater, storytelling, and painting. Xiomara Castro and Maryam Roberts will be joining AYEA for the second time running to host a Digital Storytelling workshop with participants. For more information please check out http://artinactionworld.org/. Click here for examples of Digital Stories.
Inner Stage Poetics
Inner Stage Poetics is an artist collective based in Anchorage, Alaska. Their main focus is to help the youth experience and understand the nature of performance poetry. The artists design and instruct courses on SLAM poetry–an emerging art-form based on originality, memorization, and sonic expression. Students will learn about the history and psychology of oral tradition; the importance of recital, audience, and community. Once these ideas are discussed students will dedicate most of their time to workshops with the instructor and other students. They will develop self-expression and learn how to craft their personal art into something others can learn from. It is the view of Inner Stage Poetics that art comes from the individual but must be experienced by the community. This has been the motivating philosophy for artist/poet Mickey Kenny who runs Inner Stage Poetics with the help of other local writers. Mickey was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska and received his B.A. in Creative Writing and Philosophy. He has been an active member of the SLAM poetry movements in Bellingham, Anchorage, and Seattle–where he performed at the 2008 GRANDSLAM earning the reputation as one of the best SLAM poets in the northwest.
