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.” [...]
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)
Benefit for VOICES, Inc., & Chax Press on October 30th
October 12, 2009
KUAZ: Katie Tarter on Being in the Band Family
September 5, 2009
VOICES: Community Stories Past & Present Inc. High school student Katie Tarter talks about her impending decision to continue with music in college after she graduates from Tucson High School this May.
KUAZ: Katie Tarter
Katie Tarter, 17, is a senior at Tucson High School. (photo by Reyes Suarez/VOICES)
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I (Heart) Downtown Tucson poster project
August 20, 2009
Posters in celebration of downtown Tucson are now hanging in the windows of Hotel Congress. The I (Heart) Downtown Tucson is a VOICES, Inc. production, in which youth artists interview and photograph Tucson residents about their downtown love stories. Guest artists Kimi Eisele and Josh Schacter led the project. Funding provided by Tucson Pima Arts [...]
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Avory Baur
Avory Baur, 16, Tucson Magnet High School
I honestly never expected to actually get hired at VOICES, but I am really glad that I did. I’ve always been flaky, noncommittal and self-deprecating, but being at a place where people actually care what I have to say as helped me immensely. I’ve developed as a filmmaker, writer, [...]
