Photo of the Week: 2.19.2010

February 18, 2010

VOICES Photo:  Krystle Marie Chavez, Brian Hernandez, Cassandra Valadez

voicesTV takes home 8 awards from the MLK Day Film Projét Short Film Festival!

January 19, 2010

A big thanks to all that were involved and congrats to all the winners, especially to our own Jose Morgan who won “Best Documentary” and “Best Film”!

Youth Winners:

Best Screenplay A Look Around (City High)
Best Documentary Jose Morgan’s Last Day at the Drive-In (VOICES)
Theme Integration Noor Jabbar’s Senior Refugees (VOICES)
Non-Profit Entry Juan Acedo’s [...]

voicesTV submits 8 shorts for MLK Day Film Projét Short Film Festival!

January 18, 2010

 
Who needs the Golden Globes when you’ve got voicesTV? voicesTV had 8 youth submissions! Come out and support youth and adult media!
Celebrate MLK Day “A day on, not a day off” January 18th with the MLK Day Film Projét Short Film Festival. Short films are based on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s concept of “Beloved Community.” [...]

Editorial: Brigette Dumais on Jazz Solos and Social Skills

December 4, 2009

Jazz Solos and Social Skills
By:  Brigette Dumais, 16, Tucson High Magnet School
The coffee shop at the Idyllwild Arts Academy in the mountains of southern California had several round tables that could sit four or five people at once, wooden floors and big windows that faced the forest. It smelled like rain and freshly brewed [...]

Tucson Weekly: Stephanie Fleming on supporting her soldier brother

December 3, 2009

Click here to read the story on the Tucson Weekly’s website.

Guest Opinion: I am a proud sister of a U.S. Army veteran
by Stephanie Fleming
When I was young, my brother Patrick and I were always close. We would play Zelda together, or eat buttered tortillas and watch The Emperor’s New Groove.
In 2005, all of that changed. [...]

KUAZ: Lewis Dawley-Hill on Cosplaying

November 24, 2009

Lewis Dawley-Hill, 15, Canyon Rose Academy
Lewis, a “self-described all-around nerdy teen,” shares his adventures in cosplay, in which he dresses up as his favorite villain from a video game and prepares for his first major cosplay convention.
AZSpotlight_2009_11_20_Voices_L_Dawley-Hill.mp3
(VOICES Photo/Lilliana Lopez)

The Bat Mitzfit: How I Found Womanhood and Lost Religion

November 24, 2009

By:  Dylyn Shapiro, 17, City High School
My cheeks were as hot as fresh Hamentaschen cookies. I was up on a podium, reciting from the Torah at my Bat Mitzvah, the traditional rite of passage for most 13-year-old Jewish girls. My eyes, wet with salt water, gave me a blurred view of the Hebrew texts. I [...]

voicesTV films TPAC Open House

November 10, 2009

Bicycles, Air Supply, Mariachi, cheese…what else can you ask for? Filmed by voicesTV: Avory Baur — Tucson High, Ricardo Bojorquez — Pueblo High, Anastasia Moneymaker — EDGE Highschool

Halloween “Spooky Photo” Shoot-Out

November 2, 2009

In honor of Halloween, the entire Youth Apprentice staff of VOICES Documentary Arts Program participated in a “Spooky Photo Shoot-out” photo competition in which youth apprentices were divided into two groups – Magazine & Radio, Photography & Video. Within these two groups, youth apprentices were paired into teams for a timed photo exercise. Each duo [...]

KUAZ: Christina Lopez on her spooky experience with the spirit of ‘La Llorona’

October 30, 2009

Christina Lopez, 17, a student at City High School, recounts her frightening experience with the spirit of “La Llorona”, The Weeping Woman, on a dark night along the Santa Cruz River.
KUAZ: Christina Lopez on La Llorona

(Photo by Lilliana Lopez)

RadioActivism: Charlie Franco on never taking off his childhood Godzilla costume

October 19, 2009

RadioActivism 10.12.09 Voices Charlie Franco Godzilla

(Photo/Lilliana Lopez)

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