{"id":1071,"date":"2012-11-09T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T00:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2018-02-01T01:00:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T01:00:40","slug":"kqed-edspace-youth-rise-up-at-the-baymn-media-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/11\/09\/kqed-edspace-youth-rise-up-at-the-baymn-media-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"KQED edspace: Youth Rise Up at the BAYMN Media Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 8, 2012<br \/>\nBy Matthew Williams<\/p>\n<p>On a beautiful fall Saturday in Oakland, students, educators and families filled the Kaiser Center\u2019s 400-seat theater to watch 20 compelling youth-produced films that focused on social change and the high school dropout crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The Rise to the Occasion Youth Media Festival was organized by KQED, along with other members of the Bay Area Youth Media Network (BAYMN), a consortium of more than 20 non-profits that believe in the power of media production to engage youth voice, self-expression and empowerment as well as to inspire social change.<\/p>\n<p>Films not only expressed the complexity of issues that cause students to dropout of high school, they also explored the topics of health, race, sexual identity and discrimination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/education.kqed.org\/edspace\/2012\/11\/08\/youth-rise-up-at-the-baymn-media-festival\/\">To see videos.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 8, 2012 By Matthew Williams On a beautiful fall Saturday in Oakland, students, educators and families filled the Kaiser Center\u2019s 400-seat theater to watch 20 compelling youth-produced films that focused on social change and the high school dropout crisis. The Rise to the Occasion Youth Media Festival was organized by KQED, along with other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/11\/09\/kqed-edspace-youth-rise-up-at-the-baymn-media-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">KQED edspace: Youth Rise Up at the BAYMN Media Festival<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[15,24,77,167],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","category-kqed_youthmedia_ag","tag-american-graduate","tag-baymn","tag-kqed","tag-youth-media"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}