The 8th grade Student Outreach Committee Of Gateway Middle School is pleased to announce a great event taking place next week. GMS students are collaborating with Global Lives Project to bring an exhibition to the school for themselves and the students at Creative Arts Charter School. Plus, GMS students are hosting a free open house for the greater public on Tuesday, April 15th from 3:30-5PM. Both school communities are welcome and encouraged to attend.
What is Global Lives Project?
The Global Lives Project is a volunteer-based creative collaboration focused on the cultivation of empathy across cultures. We curate an ever-expanding collection of films that faithfully capture 24 continuous hours in the life of individuals from around the world. We celebrate the diversity of human experience through the study and exploration of culture, status, ethnicity, language, and religion.
The Global Lives Project currently operates four programs:
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Video production: Global Lives is building an ever-growing, online video library of human life experience by coordinating volunteer filmmakers and translators worldwide, including a new series on transit workers funded by the NEA.
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Exhibitions: We build immersive video installations and host film screenings at museums, schools, and public spaces from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco to United Nations University in Tokyo.
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Web: With funding from the NEA, our new website will enable visitors to interact deeply with the content, generating thematic tags, translations, commentaries, and even new video submissions.
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Education: We provide enriching content and lesson plans to educators addressing themes of globalization and cross-cultural awareness through the lens of new media for grades 2-12.
Visit www.globallives.org for more information and to see the online video library.
Proposed Exhibit at Gateway Middle School
Global Lives Project will install eight 42-inch movable video screens at Gateway Middle School on April 14th, for one week. Mr. Bell’s and Ms. Gipson’s advisories, as their community service project, will own the production of this project, from fundraising to community outreach and awareness. In addition, the Bell/Gipson advisories will create and host an evening event on Tuesday, April 15th from 3:30-5PM that will be open to the Creative Arts and Gateway Communities.