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YOUTH SHOWCASE

The 2022 OUR PRIDE Video & Arts Fest features a showcase of videos, music and art submitted by YOUTH (age 18 & Under) with the 2022 theme LOVE WINS! focusing on compassion, resilience and solidarity in the LGBTQ+ community.

The Video & Arts Fest includes a collaborative blended-learning educational program for YOUTH (age 18 & under))to create short videos about current issues and significant LGBTQ+ people, places and events.
Youth participants work in teams or solo to create video entries running 1 to 5 minutes in one of seven genres, including Social Video Series, News Story, Short Documentary, Creative Fiction, Music Video, Animated Short, or PSA, and incorporating original music, poetry and other creative content.

Through research, collaboration and production, the program creates a new awareness and understanding of history, culture and issues, while directly connecting youth with mentors and elders in a cross-generation learning and personal growth experience. ​
Youth under age 18 work with mentors and adult coaches (teachers/parents), while those age 18 & over participate independently, either solo or in teams.  Participants connect locally and around the world, as they gain a heightened awareness of the sometimes dramatically different LGBTQ+ social and cultural environments.
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Local Pride & Racism

Highlight local issues & community healing through compassion.

Human Rights

Elevate the visibility and protection of human rights around the world.

Mental Health

Show support and love for young people who may be struggling.
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CURRENT EVENTS . HISTORY . GLOBAL ISSUES

OUR PRIDE presents significant issues facing LGBTQ+ people and challenges them to produce video projects which highlight issues and solutions. The goal is to explore the lives and events which have shaped our world and are impacting our collective future.

​Participants connect locally and around the world, as they gain a heightened awareness of the sometimes dramatically different LGBTQ+ social and cultural environments.
FAIR . ACCURATE . INCLUSIVE . RESPECTFUL

OUR PRIDE Video Fest is designed to align with social studies standards and to meet mandates of inclusive education initiatives, including California's SB 48 FAIR (Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful) Education Act and other states' legislation which require public school history courses to be non-discriminatory and to integrate factual information about social movements, current events, and history of LGBTQ+ people into social science instruction.
NEW SKILLS . INTERGENERATIONAL . PERSONAL GROWTH
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Through research, collaboration and production, the program creates a new awareness and understanding of history, culture and issues, while directly connecting youth with mentors and elders in a cross-generation learning and personal growth experience.