Workshops

Girls work with TVbyGIRLS in a variety of ways including workshops (long term and short term) mentoring and the creation of film and television projects.

Our short-term workshops are open to all girls and are an introduction to our curriculum model and philosophy. Girls work with still images and conceptual thinking, making posters and print public service announcement ads. They are introduced to collaboration, the emotional aspect of images and cultural perceptions of gender roles through advertising. Girls excited by the work in this workshop generally move into longer-term workshops or our mentoring program.

Our long-term workshop model works within specific cultural communities with girls who already have a relationship with each other in some way. These workshops are an opportunity for a group of girls to create together around a theme of importance to the group. The TVbyGIRLS philosophy of girl driven decision-making, multiple points of view on any issue and strong visual and metaphorical language is present in each workshop. Very often girls from these workshops continue to work with us in mentoring programs.

In our long term mentoring program, each girl is assigned an individual adult mentor who works with the specific learning styles, challenges and strengths of that individual girl. This is our most comprehensive work, continuing with girls over several years and expanding their leadership opportunities and challenging their media making skills.

In all of our programs, girls create video projects to share with an audience. To create work that is shared with a wider community is a vital part of the TVbyGIRLS philosophy. Girls from our mentoring program will have the opportunity to become the creative editorial board of TVbyGIRLS television broadcast specials. Currently, video projects created by the girls are shared in screening, festival and educational settings across the country.

• Media Literacy Workshops
• Internet Workshops
• Workshops for Teachers
• Video Production Workshops

TVbyGIRLS continues to conduct Introduction to TVbyGIRLS and Visual Literacy workshops. If you are between 11 and 18 and interested in finding out more please send us an email. rebecca@tvbygirls.tv.

Results of Girls Involvement with TVbyGIRLS
We have seen girls who are having a difficult time in structured school environments shift their academic achievement.

Girls have applied for college with the help of the mentors and received scholarships.

Girls have stepped into leadership positions in their schools, their homes, and their social circle and found themselves more equipped to share solutions to the problems they see.

Parents report more interest in social justice and different cultural perceptions.

Parents talk about finding their girls more motivated and engaged.

We are working together to help shape a better world and it is working!