CoLab: CityLab 

CityLab was the first installment of CoLab, a youth-led platform for digital storytelling and collaborative media experiments at Elsewhere—a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC. Over the course of 10 weeks, CityLab worked with high school age youth from around the Triad of North Carolina to explore digital storytelling, and produce media experiments on issues ranging from audio experiments exploring the Citizen’s United Case, video works about bullying, and photographic essays on climate change and imagination.

2012 CityLab Zine:

Project: The Futility of John S. D. Smith, 2012

Filmmaker: Opal Byers

This movie is about the futility of a small football player toy.

Project: Citizens United Audio Documentary, 2012

Creator: Anonymous
Sound: Allie Corcoran
Summary: An exploration of the Citizens United v.FEC ruling and an homage to NPR

Greensboro became the 12th city in North Carolina to approve a resolution calling on Congress to overturn Citizens United v. FEC. That’s the 2010 landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows for unlimited spending by corporations and special interest groups to influence elections.

Project: Primary Variety: A Responsive Range, 2012

Laura Hutchinson / sound

An exploration of emotion through sound

Project: Imagination is Mind Boggling, 2012

Famatah Tamba / sound & photo

Project: SOS Animals, 2012

Nyah Harris / sound & photo

My project is about helping save endangered animals.

Project: Why the Violence Bro?, 2012

Chaz Foxx / film

It’s about violence and how we can stop it. Interviews and newscasting.

Project: Wrap-Up!, 2012

Aldon Pennix / film

A media exploration of the CoLAB experience.

Project: The Great Debate, 2012

Marcus Andrews / stop motion

The next election with a twist...