Co-Creation Initiative Participants

共同创造计划的社区合作伙伴正在制作非虚构的纪录片 projects related to their organization, community, history, and work. Each partner organization is at a different phase of working on projects and collaborations. If you are interested in connecting with the partners and CCI, please reach out to Angela Beallor-Press. 

Updated: April 2023

THE AUNTIES DANDELION, SPRING 2023- The Aunties Dandelion 是一个媒体艺术组织和一个由传统Onkwehon传达的变革空间:we (original peoples’) teachings. A collective of storytellers who are co-creating and 通过土地、语言和关系的故事，振兴一个广阔的全球社区.​ The Aunties Dandelion is seeking collaboration on their podcast and other multi-media endeavors. 

 

CAMP STOMPING GROUND, SPRING 2023-
Camp Stomping Ground is a children's sleep away camp located at the base of the Adirondack Mountains. Stomping Grounds的使命是激发下一代具有彻底同理心的决策 创造者，培养一种基于谦卑的好奇心，恢复正义，个人的文化 responsibility, and unbounded creativity. With the introduction of media-making into 营地的活动，成员营地踏脚石的工作人员寻求探索 媒体制作和纪录片制作与营地参与者合作，火博体育 College faculty and staff, and others in the surrounding community.

HUDSON MOHAWK MAGAZINE | SANCTUARY RADIO, Summer 2022-

The Hudson Mohawk Magazine is an all-volunteer, locally-produced news and public affairs radio show based in Troy, NY. This radio program advances their organizational mission to use art and 促进社会和环境正义及言论自由的参与性行动. 

从2022年夏天开始，MDOCS CCI支持与Willie Terry的合作 哈德逊莫霍克杂志和埃里克莫瑟教授(历史)有关劳工史. 在2022年秋季学期，莫尔瑟的“美国劳工史”课程的学生是 对当地工会领袖、普通工人进行口述历史采访， and labor movement organizers. These interviews are the beginning of a longer range 口述历史项目，最终将通过项目网站和电台提供 pieces via Hudson Mohawk Magazine and WSPN. 

 

HARM REDUCTION WORKS (HRW), Fall 2021-
A project of HRH43, Harm Reduction Works-HRW 以减少伤害为基础的自助/互助小组最初是否被设想为一种替代方案 to (though not in opposition to) abstinence-only organizations like 12-step, etc. 减少伤害的工作-人权观察是真正为任何人谁想知道更多火博体育减少伤害 以及它是如何起作用的，不管他们的使用或饮酒历史如何. HRW is a space for people to learn together in community.

 

During Fall 2022, 人权观察的成员一直在与露西亚·胡尔瑟教授的《火博体育》合作 course "Religion + the Scientific Imagination. With support from the Co-Creation Initiative, we have invited local Theatre of the Oppressed 从业人员，克里斯托夫·迪玛丽亚(Will Kempe Players)和Alÿcia培根(Mothers Out) Front) to facilitate several Theatre of the Oppressed workshops with students and Harm Reduction Works. The themes of harm reduction, mutual aid, addiction, community support, and more are woven into the workshop. 

 

KANATSIOHAREKE, Fall 2021-
一个可持续的，生活的Onkwehon:我们的社区以rotinonhsinni文化为基础 its language, land, and social structure. Kanatsiohareke is a Mohawk community, re-established in 1993. The community promotes the development 一个以豪德诺索尼人的传统、哲学和治理为基础的社区， and to contribute to the preservation of the culture of people as a framework for 它融合了传统的本土理念和新兴的环保理念， environmental ideologies that run parallel to these traditions.

自2021年以来，MDOCS一直在协助Kanatsiohareke档案的数字化. This includes audio cassettes, video material, photographs, documents, and more. During the Fall 2021 semester, Kanatsiohareke与Jesse O'Connell教授的“纪录片编辑” class. 该课程的学生主要使用档案中的材料，补充 with new interviews of members of  the extended Kanatsiohareke community. A memorandum 在组织、MDOCS和学生之间建立了一种相互理解的关系 Kanatsiohareke的所有工作都是为了扭转卡莱尔的影响 Residential Schools. 

In June 2022, Kanatsiohareke was awarded a Creatives Rebuild NY Artist Employment Grant! The grant supports a 2-year collaboration between Kanatsiohareke and Mohawk media artist Raienkonnis Edwards. The collaborators are conducting audio-visual 采访和捕捉掌握文化知识的豪德诺索尼长老的口头故事 that is critical to the preservation and future of the Six Nations tribes. Recordings 火博体育他们的传统教育——通过网络和社区档案分享——将 使传统教学和讲故事更现代化，更容易分享. 

NORTH COUNTRY UNDERGROUND RAILROAD HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, Fall 2021-NCUGRHA 是一个研究、保存和解释地铁历史的中心 Railroad, slavery and abolition in upstate New York.

NCUGRHA正在制作一部纪录片，讲述秘鲁几代人的故事， NY area family who were once enslavers before becoming abolitionists.

NCUGRHA的成员正在与MDOCS以及纽约州立大学普拉茨堡分校的媒体学院合作 on the development of a film script. During Fall 2022, Larry Jorgenson (Philosophy) has connected with NCUGRHA in his class 'Memory and Retrospective Justice.' 

 

THE PEOPLE'S VOICE, Fall 2021-Dec 2022
The People's Voice 一个非营利性的新闻媒体集团是否解决了边缘化群体的关切 in Saratoga Springs, NY and the greater Capital Region. TPV is seeking to craft media 与首都区各城市的各种社会正义运动有关的工作.

During the Fall 2022 semester《火博体育官网》正在与Amy Oh教授的经典课程《火博体育官网》合作， Modern Politics' and Professor Lowery Parker's Environmental Studies and Sciences 'Political Ecology' course. Student groups are working with TPV on various research 项目涉及萨拉托加市议会、萨拉托加县住房问题、环境问题 justice campaign related to the Dunn Landfill in Rensselaer County, and more. Students will create podcasts, fact sheets, videos, and more. 

BLACK DIMENSIONS IN ART, INC. (BDA), Spring 2021-
Black Dimensions in Art is the longest running black arts organizations in NYS (outside of NYC). In anticipation 在2025年成立50周年之际，BDA正在进行采访和记录工作 of the organization's past work, and archival research. In Fall 2021, BDA partnered with Theatre Professor Eunice Ferreira’s course, 'Theater: Social Justice & Change,' introducing students to current artist members as well three of the founding members. 

 

在2022年春季，学生们致力于数字化BDA材料，档案研究， and conducting interviews. Students Maria Staack (‘22), Will Carter, and Maelcom Thayer 采访了黑人维度艺术中心的艺术家Francelise Dawkins during Spring 2022.

截至2022年秋季，“艺术中的黑色维度”将继续制作一部视频纪录片 and exhibitions in 2025.

 

C.R.E.A.T.E. COMMUNITY STUDIOS, Spring 2021-
Local arts organization C.R.E.A.T.E Community Studios began working with Professor June Paul (Social Work) during the Fall of 2021.

从那时起，他们还在历史博物馆举办了五次开放麦克风讲故事活动 Frederick Allen Elks Lodge. In January 2022, during MLK weekend, a work-in-progress 展览“消除面孔和空间:萨拉托加斯普林斯城市更新的遗产” will be installed at the Saratoga Springs Library.

 

LIGHTS OUT NORLITE | SARATOGA SITES AGAINST NORLITE EMISSIONS, Spring 2021-
Lights Out Norlite 萨拉托加反对诺里特排放的网站致力于关闭和清理 of Norlite, LLC a hazardous waste incinerator operating in the city of Cohoes, NY. 他们的重点是外联，以提高公众对Norlite的影响的认识 有毒气体排放，激发草根运动，迫使政治家，执法部门， and regulatory agencies to act.

During the Spring of 2020, “熄灯诺丽特”的成员与莫德·爱默生(英语)的“文学”课一起工作 以及“环境”，学生们带来了“小说和非小说叙事的研究” to bear on a current regional environmental justice concern: the contamination of drinking water by the industrial pollutants PFAS." Students produced a range of final 项目包括给编辑的信，一系列戏剧独白，一场运动 poster, ArcGIS mapping and more. In Fall 2021, Environmental Studies & Sciences seniors enrolled in the year-long capstone course had the opportunity to work closely with the community group. Lights Out Norlite also worked with faculty in the Chemistry Department. 

 

NDAKINNA EDUCATION CENTER, Spring 2021-
Ndakinna Education Center 有阿本拿基血统的当地家庭是否在他们的家庭中举办教育中心 lands. Beginning in Fall 2021, members of Ndakinna have partnered with Professor Siobhan Hart, hosting student visits from various courses at Ndakinna Education Center. 

During Spring 2022, 西沃恩·哈特教授和莱利·马洛里(22岁)精心制作了一项独立研究 to indigenous history of the area and Abenaki language. During their 2022 Summer Collaborative Research, the two participated in the MDOCS Storytellers' Institute, working with Ndakinna Education Center on a series of interviews about their family, land, and the mission of the center. This has culminated in a short film, created by Siobhan Hart and Riley Mallory, in collaboration with Dr. Joseph Bruchac, Jesse Bowman Bruchac, and Jim Bruchac, through the support of the MDOCS Co-Creation Initiative. The film, Ndakinna, is slated for completion in early 2023. 

 

TROY 4 BLACK LIVES (T4BL), Spring 2020-Winter 2021
Troy 4 Black Lives is an intergenerational collective of volunteer organizers from Troy, NY who have 多年来，我一直致力于挑战暴力，野蛮和致命的力量 Troy Police Department and local officials against ALL Black Diasporic lives. The group is working on a podcast to capture their efforts behind the historic event, Troy Rally for Black Lives on June 7th, 2020, that brought 11,000 people together peacefully in Troy to celebrate and affirm Black life. During Spring 2022, Troy 4 Black Lives visited Winston Grady-Willis' class 'Seminar in Black Studies.'