Youth

Speak, Think, Create
We organise media workshops for young people of different ages and various skills, aiming at encouraging their need to express, communicate and speak in a new language. We are interested in researching how they use new media and what is their developing relationship both to content, form and the digital tools.

National Students’ Theatre Festival, Nuremberg
In September 2010, Karpos in collaboration with T-NET (www.theatro.edu) were invited to offer a workshop at the National Students' Theater Festival in Nuremberg, Germany, a meeting among all german states where each year theater groups, from all over the country, exchange experiences, workshops and performances. The workshop focused on this year's theme "Theater and New Media" and aimed to explore the different means of expression between the theatrical stage and the camera. See a short video.

Videomuseums
"Video-museum" is a project bringing together a network of 10 High-school youth groups around the periphery of Attica, and four High Schools in the area of Frankfurt, aiming at inspiring those young people to work around the concept of making videos about something that is worth preserving in their OWN YOUTH Virtual Museum of Tomorrow. This project is run in collaboration with the Secondary Authorities of Education, through a Regio Commenius program. It has a strong democratic element as it refers to groups of young people who discuss and experiment around their own photographic, video or written work before making a final script.
www.videomuseums.eu (ask for our password to see the videos)

Student's Video Festival

The 6th Student Film Festival of Photostories & Short Films "Say it with pictures! 2010" was organized in May 2010 by the Secondary Education Department of Eastern Attica and implemented with the scientific guidance of KARPOS with the support of the General Secretariat of Youth. The Festival is organized annually since 2003 and supports both students and teachers in order to attain knowledge and techniques regarding photography and film and encourages them to become creative but also critical towards films and video messages. The festival is non- competitive but in 2010 "Awards and Honorable Mentions from the Audience" were established with two student and one professional jury, a fact that revealed the subjectivity of the decisions of each jury.

See some of the films that were shown during the festival!

Video workshop for the Stranger Festival

Stranger Festival is an initiative of the European Cultural Foundation, an international organisation that promotes creativity for young people for the past twenty years throughout the world. Karpos was a collaborative partner for two years and created a film workshop for young people aged 15-25 years in Lavrio (Attica province). In October, 2009, three young people that created a short film during the summer workshop, traveled to the Netherlands and participated in the International Festival "Don't be a Stranger".

http:/www.eurocult.org

http://www.strangerfestival.com/

Kindengarden Animation
Two nursery school teachers that participated in our Audiovisual Workshop for Primary Education of Evia Province in 2008 experimented with their pupils and completed two animated short films in various villages of Evia Province. This was a very interesting outcome where the two teachers put into use what they learnt and moved on even further!
Look how it was done...!

First Step

"Is that yours?" is a short film that was created from an Attica Secondary School during a script writing and video program called "First Step" initiated by the Greek Film Centre which gives young people the opportunity to use digital technology and create a short film.

The film deals with the impact of our actions in other people's life. The chosen subject was something that can happen to any child our age. In the story we created, we added elements from our every day life such as our relationship with our parents, the opposite sex and our friends.

The workshop