Druid City Girls Media began as the brainchild of a group of undergraduate students at the University of Alabama who asked why we didn't have a film school for kids (or, specifically, girls) in Tuscaloosa. Working with these students, I co-developed and directed Tuscaloosa's first girls film school, Druid City Girls Media Camp, during three successive, week-long summer sessions from 2017 to 2019. We taught media production, digital storytelling, and media literacy to a diverse group of local girls, who were mentored by undergraduate interns sharing their own creative talents and personal commitment to media making. Forced on-line by the pandemic, we then transformed ourselves—thanks largely to the work, again, of dedicated undergraduate interns—into a virtual platform for student work and a teaching tool for girls who could now find us on-line. More recently, in the post-pandemic moment, we have pivoted once more to begin encouraging girls (and, sometimes, boys as well) to find their creative voice and expressive passions through our after-school programming and in-school workshops in the Tuscaloosa City Schools.
Summer LearningDruid City Girls Media Camp ran for three summers, from 2017 to 2019, serving a diverse group of girls from the Tuscaloosa area.
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School WorkshopsStarting in 2019, DCGM began offering after-school and in-school workshops led by Dr. Brickman and teams of dedicated undergraduate students.
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Media ProjectsBegun during the pandemic, media projects by local girls and undergraduate students have transformed DCGM into a platform for creative work.
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