The Santa Fe New Mexican GenNext’s Tori Velarde speaks with YMP’s Miles Tokunow and Monique Lacoste about the Audio Revolution! Showcase. The event was held at Santa Fe Complex on March 18, 2011 and featured live music, theater, dance, spoken word, hip-hop, commentary, video and more. Many of the performances came from YMP’s educational partners, who are regularly featured on Audio Revolution! Radio broadcasts.

KUNM’s News Director, Jim Williams, features “Youth Speak Out,” a series of 2 minute commentaries by youth.

Alex Wirth, a writer from Santa Fe New Mexican’s Generation Next previews YMP’s new partnerships and 2010 summer intensive:

“The Youth Media Project also is starting a partnership with Generation Next to bring local youth stories published in The New Mexican’s teen section to the radio.

‘We are just trying to give youth a voice — that’s the goal, and in order to do that we expanded our horizons by taking partnerships with organizations like Generation Next,’ Torres said.”

The Summer Intensive is underway! Click Here to see what the students are up to. This summer, Santa Fe Art Institute, Youth Media Project, and the College of Santa Fe will collaborate on an intensive, two-week workshop introducing the tools of multimedia production to a team of 15 young people. Workshop participants will develop skills [...]

Rio Grande SUN staff writer Lou Mattei dropped in on Youth Media Project’s recent summer workshop with students in the ENLACE program in Pojoaque and Española:

“Students discussed the two stories from several angles, including structure, emotional impact and the use of sound effects. Then they started brainstorming for their own story topics centered on the theme of freedom — or the absence of it.”

Youth Media Project’s Audio Revolution! brings you a music revolution!! Hosts Grannia Griffith (GG) and Ethan Parrott of Monte Del Sol Charter School take us through a musical miasma of local music, national music, and even….IRISH music!

School’s almost out, and that means that Audio Revolution! hosts Conor Cole and Mark Springer are taking a good hard look at education. Commentaries and stories from Alicia Lujan, Paul Van Sickle, Sam Pearson, Lexy McAvinchey, Pat Chavez, and Conor Cole explore topics ranging from dropping out to the inanity of school bureaucracies.

This week on Audio Revolution! hosts Sedona Walker Morrissey and Sergei Nurod explore the identities behind the acronym LGBT — Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. What is it like to have those identities as a teenager? And how is it to come out and express those identities openly during high school? Mark Springer, Conor Cole, Paul Van Sickle, Felicia Anaya, and Jesse Welsh explore these questions.