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ASBURY PARK CIVIC MEDIA ARTS
PROJECT (AP-CMAP)
Leo Aristimuño, Director
AP-CMAP is a COMMUNITY BASED PROJECT led by Rutgers
University Professor Leo Aristimuno with collaborating
organizations including, among others, The Garden State Film
Festival, and STARS Community Development Corporation,
Brookdale Community College-Asbury Park Higher Learning
Center, and Asbury Park Community Collaborative.
OUR MISSION: to develop integrated and sustainable
community-based projects that use media arts to enhance civic
participation in Asbury Park.
Specifically, we aim to address 3 challenges facing
the Asbury Park community:
- Low Civic Participation
- Lack of local media and cultural venues
addressing the needs and telling the stories of the
community.
- Lack of activities for the community's youth and
young adults.
The ASBURY PARK CIVIC MEDIA PROJECT will provide
participants the opportunity to
- Gain specific skills in media production
- Produce media projects, including short films,
DVDs, and web sites
- Identify, discuss, and impact social issues
affecting their community.
- Learn to participate in and impact the
decision-making institutions that make up the City's
civic life.
- Explore ways in which media can be used to
address social issues and to create social change.
- Create a community-based network of people
watching locally produced media, addressing local issues,
and mobilizing to improve their communities.
We will do this by offering :
- Hands-on Media Production Workshops
- Civic Life Workshops facilitiated by civic and
community leaders
- Guided Production of Media Arts Projects that
will address social issues and will utilize new
technologies like cell phones, digital cameras, and the
Internet.
- Screenings, exhibition and distribution
strategies that will engage the community in civic
discussion and civic action.
Our target audience is primarily youth and young
adults from the City's West Side. However, this projects is
open to anyone who wants to use the arts to enhance civic
life in Asbury Park. We encourage inter-generational,
inter-institutional, and inter-cultural
collaboration.
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