At the very end of June/ beginning of July, I’m going to be working with IkamvaYouth to produce a one-off mini-mag… in just one week… with a group of young people during Winter school.

We’re looking for volunteer mentors in design, illustration, writing, photography, advertising and anything publishing related to help us pull it off. Details below…

IKAMVA LIVE

IkamvaYouth is partnering up with Live Magazine to produce a one-week youth-created mini-magazine sprint this winter school.

We need volunteers to run workshops & tutorials and to mentor our learners during the afternoons, 29 June – 8 July.

The objective: Producing a youth-created publication that is distributed far and wide – featuring exciting photography, content and editorial created by young people from the townships, and offering advice, information and inspiration for its readers.

The plan:

1. Basic journalism, photography, illustration and content creation workshops are delivered by industry professional volunteers.
2. Overseen by mentors, the Ikamva Live team brainstorm, plan and create content for a mini-publication, working together in one space – based around a theme for the magazine – to be decided in the sessions…
3. The content will be decided by the young team themselves, with support from mentors, but also include contributions from other strands of activity taking place over the winter school fortnight (including photography and creative writing workshops). Mentors will encourage a mix of entertainment and education, with inspiring and useful information for the target readership.
4. After the production sprint, two to three young people will collaborate with a professional designer to lay out the publication, while others plan the distribution strategy.
5. The publication will be printed and distributed via key youth channels, and via the contributors themselves.
6. Would also be cool for a sub-team to land an advertiser to help get some of the costs covered.

For more info or to offer help, get in touch with me: gavin at livity dot co dot uk

Or Joy Olivier from IkamvaYouth: joy at ikamvayouth dot org.

Let’s go!

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