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Reflections on the first 11 days of fundraising

Fundraising is hard. 11 Days ago I launched the fundraising campaign of my project on indiegogo- which is a crowd-funding website. Since then I have raised $115. Some of it has come from sources that I expected. Most of the donations have come from people who I was pleasantly surprised to see that she donated to me. This I suppose is the ups and downs of crowd funding. As a principle I like the concept, it’s an easy, visible and transparent way for me to put together $3000 and provide incentives for the people who donate. However, generating the interactivity with the website and the actual activity of donating has proved difficult. Many people who I was hoping would donate have not yet and I hope that the pace of fundraising will pick up in the next 49 days.

Any hints/tips out there for engaging folks in fundraising? What would help encourage you to donate???


check out and pass on the link-

http://www.indiegogo.com/Re-Mapping-Our-histories

Youth Program!

I would like to announce that I will be working with the Teen Leadership Seminar at Mishkan Shalom, the teens there will have the opportunity to create video, audio and more while studying and thinking about community in a jewish context.


Description of the Re-Mapping Our (his)Stories Program:

If you were given the chance to tell your own story, what would you say? How would you show people who you, your family and your community are?

Do you see representations of yourself in the media already? Do they portray what you and your life is really like?

As a part of the "Re-Mapping Our (his)Stories" project, you will learn the skills and be able to create your own (his)story in the form of audio tracks, zines, still pictures and even video. The finished product will become part of an archive, or collection, where people all over the world can share their own story and hear and learn from everyone else's.





Additionally! I am inviting ANY groups who want to be part of this project to contact me so that we can work together on creating a way that everyone can contribute to the creation of this collaborative, multi-media, multi-community (his)Story.

Beginning the Curriculum

10 Lessons
2 or 3 Hours each
Media Production is integrated with each lesson

This curriculum is being created in order to be implemented as part of the Re-Mapping Our (his)Stories Project. The curriculum is a crash course in media production and media literacy that uses community histories as a tool for creativity and content. Ultimately, those who participate in this curriculum will gain the skills to create a media history as well as the tools to analyze their positions in the world and ideally this will serve as a space to allow youth to empower themselves through their place within (his)story.

The lessons are being created for different age ranges, some specified, some not, anyone wishing to utilize this curriculum should pay attention to the specific needs present within their space and target the activities to fit the group.


Introduction
Community
History
Your (his)Story
Recreating
Keepers of History
Creation
Production
Presentation
Installation



I would like to start implementing and actually using this curriculum, if anyone knows of groups who would be interested in this sort of on going project they should contact me at hhconnects@gmail.com

Re-Mapping Our (his)Stories

Re-Mapping Our (his)Stories is a collection of stories, a preservation of lives and a reconstruction of histories. Untold stories posses the power to analyze, restructure and overthrow the systems that hold us captive. Communities must unite around stories of common history to seek the roots of oppression and fight the systems that hide those stories in the first place. Re-Mapping Our (his)Stories is a multi-media exploration of history, her-story, my-story, and your-story.

This project is being created as part of my Division III Project (similar to a senior thesis) at Hampshire College. The project consists of the creation and implementation of curriculum with youth that invites youth to re-create their own histories in the form of a 'media history' which is a hybrid of an oral history and a video project.

Ultimately these projects as well as my own 'media histories' will be showcased in an interactive historical time line as well as online which will re-map how histories are organized and presented. I believe that if we re-frame how histories are created and presented it can bring attention to the intersections and relationships between different histories.

This blog will serve as a forum for updating people on the status of the project throughout the next year.