This year, the Kaleidoscope Video Challenge is giving globally-engaged youth the opportunity to show how they are Global Citizens, through the medium of video.  MCIC is asking youth between 8 and 18 to grab their cell phone, camera or video camera and film a short video explaining how they are making our world a better place.   Do you know a youth who is…

In the Environmental Club at school?

Volunteering with a local organization?

An artist or writer who is concerned about the world?

Interested in writing to their local Member of Parliament?

Helping with issues like poverty, human rights, climate change, social justice, and the environment?

Ask them to create a video, under 5 minutes in length, about how they are involved in global issues. They can submit their video online before March 31, 2011 for a chance to win a video camera (or equivalent cash prize of $500) and a trip to Ottawa to participate in our national youth conference!

The Kaleidoscope Real World Video Challenge is a contest organized by MCIC in Manitoba and run nationally in conjunction with the other provincial and regional councils.  For more information, examples of past winning entries and to apply, check out www.videochallenge.ca or contact Sumeep Bath, Public Relations Coordinator at MCIC at pr@mcic.ca or (204) 987-6420.

Kaleidoscope Video Challenge UPDATE

MCIC has just announced that it will be hosting a one-day workshop where students will be able to spend the whole day planning, shooting and editing their submissions to the Kaleidoscope Video Challenge.  On Saturday February 26, students will come together and a video facilitator will guide them through the complete process of filmmaking, from the generation of ideas and the storyboarding, to the shooting, editing and submission of their Kaleidoscope entries.  Will the winning entry be shot during this workshop?  Do you know a student or a group of students who would be appreciate this excellent opportunity to learn hands-on filmmaking skills and the chance to create a prize-winning video?  Get in contact with Sumeep Bath, Public Relations Coordinator at MCIC at pr@mcic.ca or (204) 987-6420.