Media Literacy Education Week          

June 24-30, 2007

Saturday, June 23, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Alliance For A Media Literate America’s (AMLA’s) fourth biennial National Media Education Conference (NMEC). GMLP, local NMEC host,  presents GMLP’s Charles Klotzer Media Literacy Award to Charles and Rose Klotzer, St. Louis Journalism Review,  Missouri Room, Millennium Hotel, downtown St. Louis.  (Award at 7:15p.m.)

Sunday, June 24, 8:00 a.m. 

The Missouri Governor, Missouri Senate and City of St. Louis welcome AMLA’s NMEC and proclaim Media Literacy Education Week, Missouri Room, Millennium Hotel. 

Sunday, June 24, 2PM

Contemporary Art Museum- Community Media Arts Program “Neighborhoods in Focus…Aaron Aubushon and Katherine Adamchick “show and tell” regarding  the basics of visual literacy and video production, and how they get communities involved in  media , telling their stories, and ultimately becoming critical media consumers.

Monday, June 25, 4:30 p.m.

St. Louis Old Post Office, downtown St. Louis, Action Coalition for Media Education students meet.

Monday, June 25, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

AMLA’s  National Media Education Conference presents a YOUTH MEDIA SALON : Free and Open to the Public.   Missouri Room, Millennium Hotel, Downtown An Opportunity for Teens to Chat About Today's Media, featuring hip-hop experts and educators, MK Stallings and Angie Beatty, hip-hop The Saint Louis region is one of the most vibrant media education centers in the country, as its area youths will be the first to attest.   Join us as we stimulate thinking and conversation among area youths, ages 14- 19,  and hear about their "media neighborhoods."  They'll express their ideas about what media, today, means to them, what it says about their culture, and how it affects them, personally.    As well, adults –teachers, parents, chaperones-- are invited to tune in and check out what these youths are saying, and give a few opinions  of their own about youth and media, today.     Come hang out with us, network, and share your perspectives.   Win a media door prize!   

 

KWMU 90.7 – Saint Louis on the Air’s host, Don Marsh, discusses politics and the media with filmaker Frank Popper and State Senator Jeff Smith.

Tuesday, June 26, 7:00 p.m.

Film,  “Network,” as part of  the Webster University Film Series, followed by a media literacy panel, Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University, Webster Groves. 470 E. Lockwood St. Louis, Mo. 63119  Panelists:  Professors Kathy Corley and Art Silverblatt, Webster University, along with  Don Marsh, St. Louis on the Air, and Laurie Waters, KMOV, discuss how the film was so impactful.

Tuesday, June 26,  6:30 PM

In Illinois…Leu Civic Center, Inc. hosts an evening a media literacy education evening at the Mascoutah Public Library.  premieres newly-produced documentary on Media Literacy education, at the Mascoutah Public Library, 3 West Church Street, Mascoutah, Il.  Leu Civic center, Inc., a United Way Agency that serves the community’s children , hosts a Media Literacy Education Week event featuring the Connect With Kids Network’s  recently-produced documentary on media literacy. Illinois Tom Atwood, producer of the documentary introduces the work, and SIUE’s Mass Communications Dept. Chair., Patrick Murphy, leads media literacy discussion, afterward.   For more info on the event., please call 618-566-2562

Blogging Panel, “Why Blog?,” Lindenwood University, Spellman Center Leadership 4th floor.

Info and advice from top St. Louis-area bloggers and web experts.  If you've ever wondered what this whole blogging thing is, now is your chance to ask the experts.  Or, if you've already got a blog online, learn from the professionals how to make connections on the web and increase the traffic to your site.  How can you earn an income from blogging?   What is the future of this type of interactive media?

Moderator: Kammie Kobyleski - Lindenwood Univ. Asst.Professor (www.passionmeetspurpose.com)

Jill Hampton - Web Producer, KTVI (myFOXstl.com)

Dana Loesch - (www.mamalogues.com) - Mamalogues in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 

Benjamin Vierck – (www.stlbloggers.com) and (www.bloghorn.com)

Steve Patterson of (www.urbanreviewstl.com) 

Spellmann Center Leadership Room (4th floor), Lindenwood University, 209 South Kingshighway, St. Charles, MO 63301

Thursday, June 28, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. – Ron Carr and the Sounds of St. Louis @ The Westport Playhouse

In celebration of a week of stimulating media literacy activities, come and enjoy an evening of fantastic music created by renown St. Louis musicians.

Program:

7:00 – 8:00

- Welcome, Art Silverblatt, Media Literacy Week Committee Event Chair

- First Set - This portion of the program will be streamed live over the Internet.  Details for viewing this, and other Media Literacy Week events, can be found here.

8:00 – 8:20 - Intermission, Open Bar

8:20 – 9:00 – Second Set – Jazz & R&B standards

Admission is free, thanks to The Westport Playhouse, located at 635 Westport Plaza, Saint Louis, MO 63146 – in Westport Plaza, near Page Ave. and I-270.

Friday, June 29, open until 8PM

Ansel Adams: Reverence for Life, Washington University in St. Louis’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum,  Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts ….a media literacy view of environmental activism through the eyes of the celebrated and one of the world's foremost landscape photographers. The works included in Ansel Adams: Reverence for Life -- many of which are virtually unknown -- showcase the clean, lush vitality of the ocean, mountain streams, and lakes, which are shown alongside contrasting arid terrain. In this exhibition, by focusing on water and its role as one of our greatest natural forces, the works underscore the importance of the environment to Adams's work, as well as the ways in which his photographs raise awareness of environmental issues such as water scarcity still today.