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Describe the Who We are: community benefits The Santa Ana Youth Media Project has set out to document and uplift of this event Orange County youth voices through media projects that center self- expression and storytelling. We believe that Orange County youth have seas of stories, that, through acts of artistic creation, can be moved to nourish, heal, and build our communities. We collaborate with high school students and community members to bring their ideas and art to life. Through energetic dialogue with youth and providing a collaborative, encouraging workshop space, we want to resource their work as we bring in our own creative and educational experiences to the conversation, and to provide them with a platform to publish and broadly share their voices, experiences, concerns, hopes, and dreams! All our projects are youth - directed and influenced in the vision -making with our team acting primarily as support and guide for the execution. The video essays/productions have been produced via narrative inquiry, research investigation, and creative visual media resources that highlight youth context, local his/herstory and research (Morrell, & Duncan -Andrade, 2005). Event purpose: The Dream FWeaving Film Screening will highlight two videos produce by the Santa Ana Youth Media Project of two Century Student Alumni on youth expression. The first film on Youth Poetic expression is titled "Home un Lugar para Todes" a beautiful visual and poetic expression of their home of Santa Ana. The other film is a music video (Title forth coming) were a High School student wrote song lyrics expressing familiar struggles and love, and later expresses them through music. The High School Student collaborated with Chapman University Music Education majors on composing the music of the video and, ultimately creating a filmed music video. Both of these films will be screened and celebrated on this night for their peers and community to watch. Benefits to the community: Very rarely do we ever see youth collaborate with College students to make their expressions and dreams come true. This project amplifies youth voices in ways that are visually available for all community. Equally these projects are youth lead, and ultimately for emphasizing youth agency. The community has an opportunity to see the talent and possibilities for what youth can accomplish for themselves and for their community when given the resources and expressive opportunity. This project was also build in collaboration with Century High School Teaching Academy Director Mr. James Ovenson, and this event becomes a culmination of collaborations between the Santa Ana Youth Media Project, Century High School, and Santa Ana Youth. It is always beautiful to see our youth being celebrated. Amount Requested 5000.0