The Visions to Peace Project offers programs that prepare youth to serve as artists, activists, organizers, and visionaries with critical analysis and innovative solutions.
Let’s Get Free! Arts and Healing Program – Spring 2009
Vision is Power Arts and Organizing Program – Summer 2008
The V.I.P. 2008 Summer Program provided 10 teenagers with training and experience in arts activism, media justice, community organizing, popular education, and conflict transformation. Participants known as ViP served as youth staff of the Visions to Peace Project through the D.C. Youth Employment Program.
Flip the Script! Youth Media Arts Workshop – Winter 2008
In the 2008 Flip the Script! Youth Media Arts Workshop, four teenagers ages 13 – 18 learned documentary film production skills, developed a deeper understanding of violence against youth and created a documentary film to share youths’ stories and perspectives. The FLIP THE SCRIPT! Youth Media Arts Workshop was Visions to Peace Project’s first youth leadership training program.
Documentary: Vision Is Our Power (31 mins.)
“Different kinds of violence affect youth everyday — domestic violence, police brutality, verbal abuse, and gun violence, as well as other types.”
– Leon Baldwin, at age 13, Director and Lead Cinematographer
Using poems, personal stories, and interviews, Vision Is Our Power provides an alternative look at Black youth and violence in order to spark new vision and hope for safety and justice. Vision Is Our Power reveals why we dare not limit our vision.
Flip the Script! Youth Media Arts Workshop: The Preview
Saturday, January 26, 2008, 11 a.m. – 4 pm
Youth Education Alliance, 2307 Martin Luther King Ave. SE
FLIP the SCRIPT! was presented by the Visions to Peace Project in partnership with the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Straight, No Chaser Productions. Funding was provided in part by the D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities and the Open Society Institute along with in-kind support by the Youth Education Alliance.
