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"Heating Up" rough cut (5:49)
Juan C, Lasana H, Isabel H, Aneisha M, Emmanuel S, Alice T, Amy Z, Jason T - Boston, MA
"Heating Up" - pitch
In 2004 a shoe-string visionary youth arts organization, Artists For Humanity (AFH), built one of the most environmentally sustainable commercial buildings in the country and first LEED Platinum Certified facility in Boston, the AFH EpiCenter. The arresting design and renewable technologies of the EpiCenter have won national acclaim and 13 design/engineering excellence awards. This 23,500 square foot facility houses teen art/design studios, employing 100-130 inner-city teens year-round, and a stunning youth art gallery. The EpiCenter builds youth empowerment through the opportunity to participate in groundbreaking ideas on sustainability and the future of society. At AFH teens see the importance of thinking big and pioneering change.
Through WGBH’s Heating Up! Open Call, AFH teen video apprentices will turn their cameras on the EpiCenter’s teen employees to capture the voices of Boston’s teen artists and their experience with the environment and climate change. Many AFH teens–mostly from underserved urban communities-are experiencing green design for the first time when they come to The EpiCenter. The Epi brings a diverse population and wide set of perspectives through its doors, leaving an indelible impression on all. Young artists are compelled to consider their relationship with the environment – whether they see nature as separate from or integrated with their urban lifestyle – and often create artwork in response to perceived dichotomy or harmony. They are inundated with news on climate change and renewable and non-renewable energy sources. Working at the EpiCenter serves as a powerful lesson for urban teens, showing them the practicality, purpose, and attainability of innovative climate change solutions.
Through video documentation, teen interviewers will ask their colleagues to consider: what the environment means to them; how climate change impacts their lives; how they contribute to or help stem environmental degradation; what they have learned from working in a green building; and how they envision the future of green development, urban planning, renewable energy, and our relationship with natural and built environments.
As mentioned, the exploration of these concerns can also be seen in art and design work created by AFH’s teen artists. In these cases, the work will be a catalyst for further discussion and will be a way to expose the conceptual side of the teens’ artwork. The sustainability and nature-centric artwork created at the EpiCenter (whether it be painting, photography, sculpture, industrial/graphic design, or video/digital work) will give a new face to the green movement, showing that not everyone concerned with the environment wears flannel and corduroys: environmentalism is happening in the midst of a very progressive, productive and innovative urban center. A WGBH sponsored video would be part of a series of multi-media artwork created around the theme of environment, climate change, renewable energy, the EpiCenter, and the young urban experience. This project will build off our new collaboration with Now or Never Media. We have also developed a plan to create traveling and virtual exhibitions of the series entitled The EpiCenter and The Ripple Effect.
In 2004 a shoe-string visionary youth arts organization, Artists For Humanity (AFH), built one of the most environmentally sustainable commercial buildings in the country and first LEED Platinum Certified facility in Boston, the AFH EpiCenter. The arresting design and renewable technologies of the EpiCenter have won national acclaim and 13 design/engineering excellence awards. This 23,500 square foot facility houses teen art/design studios, employing 100-130 inner-city teens year-round, and a stunning youth art gallery. The EpiCenter builds youth empowerment through the opportunity to participate in groundbreaking ideas on sustainability and the future of society. At AFH teens see the importance of thinking big and pioneering change.
Through WGBH’s Heating Up! Open Call, AFH teen video apprentices will turn their cameras on the EpiCenter’s teen employees to capture the voices of Boston’s teen artists and their experience with the environment and climate change. Many AFH teens–mostly from underserved urban communities-are experiencing green design for the first time when they come to The EpiCenter. The Epi brings a diverse population and wide set of perspectives through its doors, leaving an indelible impression on all. Young artists are compelled to consider their relationship with the environment – whether they see nature as separate from or integrated with their urban lifestyle – and often create artwork in response to perceived dichotomy or harmony. They are inundated with news on climate change and renewable and non-renewable energy sources. Working at the EpiCenter serves as a powerful lesson for urban teens, showing them the practicality, purpose, and attainability of innovative climate change solutions.
Through video documentation, teen interviewers will ask their colleagues to consider: what the environment means to them; how climate change impacts their lives; how they contribute to or help stem environmental degradation; what they have learned from working in a green building; and how they envision the future of green development, urban planning, renewable energy, and our relationship with natural and built environments.
As mentioned, the exploration of these concerns can also be seen in art and design work created by AFH’s teen artists. In these cases, the work will be a catalyst for further discussion and will be a way to expose the conceptual side of the teens’ artwork. The sustainability and nature-centric artwork created at the EpiCenter (whether it be painting, photography, sculpture, industrial/graphic design, or video/digital work) will give a new face to the green movement, showing that not everyone concerned with the environment wears flannel and corduroys: environmentalism is happening in the midst of a very progressive, productive and innovative urban center. A WGBH sponsored video would be part of a series of multi-media artwork created around the theme of environment, climate change, renewable energy, the EpiCenter, and the young urban experience. This project will build off our new collaboration with Now or Never Media. We have also developed a plan to create traveling and virtual exhibitions of the series entitled The EpiCenter and The Ripple Effect.
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