Volume 4 Number 5
May 1, 2005

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EVENTS CALENDAR

The Events Calendar welcomes notice of film, video, and multimedia workshops, conferences, competition, and other news of interest to the media community. Please write us at: newsletter@proscenia.net

Up Coming Events:

Electronics Entertainment Expo
May 17-19
Los Angeles
Hottest new titles, latest industry developments and trends. This is the annual meeting of everyone who is anyone in this industry. Web Info.

Webby Awards
June 6, 2005
New York City, NY
The 9th Annual Webby Awards will take place in New York City instead of San Francisco this year where it originated. The Awards will honor the best web sites of the year.
  This year’s event also marks the debut of Webby Special Achievement awards,
which will recognize influential leaders using the web to reinvent,
business, entertainment, and popular culture. Recipients of the new awards,
which include Webby Person of the Year, Artist of the Year and the Webby
Lifetime Achievement Award, will be announced in early May.
  The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts
& Sciences, a global organization with a membership that includes musician
David Bowie, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, The Body Shop president
Anita Roddick, "Simpsons"creator Matt Groening, Real Networks CEO Rob
Glaser, and fashion designer Max Azria.

National Media Education Conference
June 25-28, 2005 - San Francisco, CA.
  The National Media Education Conference (NMEC) 2005 -- the largest, oldest, and most broad-based gathering of media literacy educators in the U.S. -- will be held June 25-28 in San Francisco, Calf. It is sponsored by the non-profit Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA).
  Presented every two years, this is the first NMEC to be held on the West Coast.
  The huge conference Bookstore and A-V Preview Room of media literacy teaching resources - books, videos, CDs, curriculum kits, etc. – will be provided by the Center for Media Literacy in collaboration with GPN Educational Media.
 More than 75 conference events, including keynotes, workshops, and preconference seminars provide many opportunities for learning how to do media education in the classroom as part of English, Social Studies, Health and other standard subjects.
 This year's theme - "Giving Voice to a Diverse Nation" - explores the role of media literacy education in enabling all individuals in our increasingly diverse society:
-- To participate fully in our information and media-saturated culture;
-- To be accurately represented in and by media; and
-- To acquire the skills, access and opportunities to tell their stories and hear their stories told.
  The AMLA calls for Americans to explore whether our media truly represent and serve citizens of all ages, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and income - and to find solutions in media literacy.
 Participants will be able to meet, hear, and exchange views with some of the top media education experts from the U.S., Canada and around the world. Featured speakers include David Buckingham, Alan November, Gloria Tristani, Kenneth Smith, Carlos Cortes, Ronald Takaki, and many more.
 Early discount is available for registrations by May 1. Conference organizers have accommodated tight budgets by obtaining low room rates and using a downtown San Francisco hotel that is accessible by BART from both the San Francisco and Oakland airports.
 Conference topics of interest to our readers include:

• Media Arts in Public Schools: Reflections, challenges, and successes
• Video Prism: Revealing the Spectrum of K-12 Video Storytelling
• And the Story is… Using Digital Storytelling to Find Voice
• Giving Voice: Arts & Media Literacy
• It Takes a Village with a Camera: Community Building Through Media Education
• Media Arts as a Tool for Cultural Respect and Understanding in the Elementary School Classroom
• Producing a ML Community: Lessons from the Summer Visions Film Institute, 2000-2005
• From Voice to Vision: Creating Poetry Videos in the Classroom
• EAT This!  Education Arts Technology in the Classroom    
• Arts, Design & Media Education Framework For 21st Century Literacy Skill

Full details are available at http://www.amlainfo.org/conference

SIGGRAPH 2005.
July 31 - August 4, 2005
Los Angeles, CA
The World's leading marketplace of computer graphics and interactive technologies.
www.siggraph.org/s2005

Northwest Film Center Events. Film screenings, workshops, classes and other activities in Portland.

Arts Electric Calendar. A worldwide calendar for new music, electronic music and the media arts. You'll find hundreds of events listed, as well as articles, interviews, and other writings.

Film Festivals. (Scout Report) Now that the Oscars and Golden Globes have all been awarded, some cineastes may think that the season of film celebration, award shows, and festivals is in a quiet slumber for a few months. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and a quick glance at the Film Festival website quickly dispels that misconception. Online since 1995, the site provides a great resource about previous and upcoming film festivals from all over the world. Here visitors can read the latest headline news from the various festivals, read coverage of the proceedings, and search a prodigious database of information. Visitors may also want to consider signing up to receive the free weekly newsletter or also viewing a selection of popular video clips culled from coverage of recent festivals.