The Nickelodeon Theatre Hosts Come Around My Way: A Youth Media Project
May 13, 2015
COLUMBIA, SC – The Nickelodeon Theatre, South Carolina’s only non-profit art house film theater and its Helen Hill Media Education Center, will host the year end screening for their Come Around My Way: A Youth Media Project, a partnership between The Nickelodeon and C.A. Johnson High School. Come Around My Way is the culmination of 11 C.A. Johnson students’ media education and film production work in the 2014-15 school year. Members of the media and the public are invited to attend a free screening of the students’ work, a group film and a talkback following their films on Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 12 p.m. at The Nickelodeon at 1607 Main Street.
Come Around My Way is a 36-week, school year media education initiative funded by The Ford Foundation and the Nord Family Foundation for the Helen Hill Media Education Center at The Nickelodeon. The program aims to help high school students develop stronger video production and media literacy skills, increase their levels of civic engagement, empower them to express themselves through the moving image and create documentaries that responsibly offer critical analysis of social issues that affect the student’s neighborhoods. Classes were held after school at C.A. Johnson High School and Richland Library for two hours, twice a week. The students learned and applied moving image literacy skills and video production techniques.
Additionally, this year the students were inspired by current events and worked together as a group on a Black Lives Matter project, which The Nickelodeon will also screen as part of Come Around My Way.
“The Nickelodeon is so proud of these students. They committed to the syllabus we laid out and worked hard to learn media literacy skills while producing their own films,” said Media Education Director, Sherard Duvall. “The talent exhibited is beyond their years, and their films aren’t to be missed. This program is an example of The Nickelodeon’s belief that media education is an important facet of the organization’s role in our community.”
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