Native Media Program (fwd)

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Native Media Program
http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=collaboration&second=media

The Native Media Program of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the
American Indian (NMAI), includes two radio series, Living Voices/Voces
Vivas and Time. The Native Media Program is designed for individuals,
school and youth groups, museums, radio stations and media producers
that service Native communities of the Western Hemisphere and Hawai'i
to collaboratively produce audio segments and document community
experiences. The purpose of the Native Media Project is to actively
involve local communities in support of language preservation,
communication and oral history projects.

Living Voices/Voces Vivas
NMAI is soliciting proposals to interview individuals to be included in
the Living Voices/Voces Vivas Radio Series. Living Voices/Voces Vivas
is an audio series of short (5-minute) profiles representing many ages,
traditions, and perspectives. Profiles tell personal stories that are
educational, moving, and entertaining, incorporating community and
culturally-based perspectives.

The production cycle of Living Voices/Voces Vivas will target 15
individual profiles, and will be made available for broadcast by Native
and other community and public radio stations. For this proposal cycle,
the NMAI is requesting proposals that describe potential interviewees.
A review committee will recommend both interviewees and interviewers
who will be contracted to conduct the interviews and provide necessary
technical needs.

This series aims to reflect the diversity of contemporary Native and
indigenous people of the Americas and Hawai'i. As a series, these
modules will:

Tell a contemporary personal story of cultural preservation, language
preservation, artistic expression, or other positive experience
important to Indigenous communities

-Offer a wide array of indigenous voices of many ages, genders,
traditions and experiences
-Support tribal sovereignty and self-determination
-Display the full range of cultural expression and diverse activities in
indigenous communities
-Whenever possible, demonstrate a relationship to a tribal cultural
organization or the NMAI
-Reflect the geographic diversity of Indigenous peoples in the Americas
and Hawaii from both urban and rural communities.

Time Radio Series
As an on-site community collaboration between NMAI and Native and
indigenous media producers, the Time radio series offers Native
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and indigenous peoples of Latin America
the opportunity to tell compelling contemporary personal stories that
highlight a significant change, or a story framed in time. Distributed
as a series, short edited modules will be presented in a radio magazine
format. These modules will showcase culturally based stories centered in
time and communicate the concepts of five categories: Personal,
Community, Philosophical/Spiritual, Geography, and Time.

This series aims to reflect the diversity of contemporary Native and
indigenous people of the Americas and Hawai'i. As a series, these
modules will:

-Tell a contemporary personal story framed in the context of time
-Allow Native and indigenous people the opportunity to place their
experiences, perspectives, and traditions in the context of the bigger
picture of life
-Display the full range of cultural expression and diverse activities in
indigenous communities
-Display a wide array of Native voices of many ages, genders,
traditions, experiences, and reflect the geographic diversity of Native
peoples in the Americas and Hawai'i covering both urban and rural
community perspectives

The deadline to submit a radio series application is May 2, 2005.

Native Media Program information and application

Contact
For more information about the Native Media Program, including Living
Voices and the Time radio series, please contact:

Native Media Program
Email: begays at si.edu
Phone: 301-238-1546
Fax: 301-238-3200