Entertain • Innovate • Empower – how Change Media can work for you:

• Time for change; You can use digital media to create relevant stories with your community / school
• Laugh, cry, be amazed; Watch fantastic films made by young people from across Australia
• Discover; Easy steps to build your own media center and raise community awareness
• Share; strategies to raise community awareness and increase student voice
• Pass it on; we demonstrate our challenge-based peer-education techniques so you can show a friend
  

Ideal for education / health / arts conferences, educators and organizations interested in using digital media for their projects: During our  presentation your audience will experience hands-on how digital media can empower.

Check out these projects to see the scope of the Change Media initiative:

10×14 Bricks – Stories from Youth in Lock-up This school based project in a juvenile secure care facility ran over 5-weeks, during 14 sessions, to train the students in digital film making and produce a crime prevention DVD resource.

Nukkan.Kungun.Yunnan, Ngarrindjeri’s Being Heard, This community project included a 4-day train-the-trainer production with a newly formed group of youth leaders, who were keen to set up a media hub to produce their own stories and record their Elders.

What’s Yours is Mine…d, This community project included a 4-day production with a newly formed group, who were interested in film making, but mostly had no previous experience.

Wurramooka News, This school project included a 4-day train-the-trainer production with selected student leaders, who were each responsible for learning specific digital media skills they could then share with the whole school.

Riverland Youth Theatre, edit-in-camera, This community project was a Sunday-one-day introduction session for interested community members, who were looking to meet others, learn about film making, create and have fun.

Our recent conference presentations include:

2012
Regional Arts Australia conference presentation in Goolwa, South Australia, October 2012

Turn to Community in the Arts: Presentation at the Victorian College for the Arts forum, Melbourne, June 2012
Innovative disruption and community arts: Get Off My Back!

2010
National CACD Leadership Laboratory, Mount Eliza, VIC, November 2010

Invited to the Banksia Environmental Awards presentation as Finalist in the Indigenous Caring for Country category, Sydney, October 2010

Awards Presentation to delegate plenary at Communities in Control, Melbourne, May 2010

Invitation to participate in the National Arts Curriculum Advisory Conference, ACARA, Sydney, May 2010

2009

Presentation; The Hero Project – Community Arts Practice; Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney, November 2009

Presentation; The Hero Project Success; Australian Secondary Principals Association, Adelaide, September 2009

10×14 Bricks presentation at the national Australasian Correctional Education Association conference, Perth August 2009

10×14 Bricks presentation at 4th National Indigenous Justice Forum, Adelaide

Presentation to ‘Whole of Government’ SA State Managers Forum, Adelaide, May 2009

Presentation to Lynn Bean, Assistant Secretary, DEWHA, Arts, Indigenous Culture, February 2009

2008

Presentation to BBC Cambodia for international Hero Project collaboration, Phnom Phen, Cambodia, August 2008

Presentation and online forum; The Hero Project supports communities to create their own media hubs; Mobilize This, Charles Darwin University, Darwin

Presentation and workshops; The Hero Project Success; Regional Arts Australia Art at the Heart, Alice Springs, October 2008

Digital Revolution SA showcase on new technologies; in Adelaide, April 2008

2007

Director’s talk, Is Your House Killing You? Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists, Nov 2007

Panel speakers and presentation; Involve; a Festival of Forums on working with Young People, Adelaide, Sept 2007

Presentations; ANZA Tech Gateway to the US Summit:  Silicon Valley venture capital and new media investors

Audio interview at ANZA Tech Summit USA November 2007:

Panel speaker and presentation; Australian Education Conference on Wikipedia and new technologies; in Adelaide, May 2007

Presentation; The Hero Project Success; Apple Australia Education Conference, Sydney, April 12-13 2007

Presentation; The Hero Project Success; Coding Cultures at the national media arts conference in Sydney, March 9 2007

2006

Presentation, The Hero Project Success; Making Links annual conference; Sydney, Nov 2006

Returning the Gaze: video production in communities; 3-hour Guest Lecture at Flinders University, Screen Studies, Adelaide

Presentation and workshop; The Hero Project supports communities to make their own media; SA Annual Regional Arts Conference, Berri

2005

Director’s talk, First Fleet Back, National Reconciliation Week, for Reconciliation SA

Returning the Gaze: the manifesto; 1-hour presentation for Electrofringe, Newcastle

2004

Director’s talk, First Fleet Back, University of Queensland, Brisbane

2002

Director’s talk, Holiday Camp, Straight Out Of Brisbane Festival; Brisbane, supported through ANAT

Director’s talk, Holiday Camp, Borderpanic Symposium; at the Performance Space Sydney