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A group of fourth grade students at Dianne Feinstein Elementary School just enjoyed a short stop-motion animation workshop with a little help from BAYCAT.

Animation student Gwydion brings us the first completed short film of Spring 2012! Look for it in the upcoming “Zoom In #23: What is Family”

Join our Youth Media Producers, BAYCAT Board and Team for YUMMY Food and Springtime fun! Families Are Always Welcome!

DATE & TIME:

Thursday, May 10, 2012
5:30pm-7:30pm

Special Presentation begins promptly at 6pm.

LOCATION:

BAYCAT
2415 Third Street (@ 20th Street)
Suite 230
San Francisco, CA  94107

FOR MORE INFO:
Contact Arlene Hale at 415.701.8228 x200
arlenehale@baycat.org

LIVE BROADCAST: http://baycat.org/baycatlive/

Last Friday, students from Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ Young Artists workshop created this short promo for their upcoming performance “Urbanian.” Great work by first-time animators!

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee & Budget Director Kate Howard

BAYCAT President & CEO Villy Wang was invited to sit at the table for the Arts & Culture budget meeting with Mayor Lee on April 13, 2012. Thanks to the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Mayor’s staff for inviting us to participate! We look forward to future conversations.

BAYCAT is proud to be part of an important new video project that will be used to train service providers in San Francisco to be better equipped to work with LGBTQ youth.

We will be bringing people into our interview booths to be asked to talk a bit on camera about their personal experiences, saying a bit of scripted text, or both. People will have the option to remain anonymous on video, though the more people we can show the stronger the pieces will be.

We are asking for LGBTQ identified youth, the parents of and service providers, to please let us know a two hour time frame that they can commit to coming by to take part and help us out in this important video!

Further questions can be directed to Ariel Dovas at arieldovas@baycat.org

To register your involvement, please contact us at 12nyouth@baycat.org.

Thanks for helping to spread the word!

They walk, they talk… and above all our Animation class ROCKS!

San Francisco State University’s Institute for Civic and Community Engagement (ICCE) just awarded BAYCAT President & CEO Villy Wang with its 2012 Community Service Learning Award!

An award is given annually to one community partner each spring to honor the outstanding work community partners have had, not only on students learning, but on faculty’s awareness of community needs. Winners receive a gift certificate for $250 and an award certificate at the annual CSL “Awards for Excellence” event in April. Nominations are accepted each fall.

Villy Wang This year’s Community Partner honoree is Villy Wang, President and CEO of BAYCAT: the Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology, a nonprofit community media producer that offers free classes, internships, and employment to underserved youth and adults in digital media arts and design. Through project-based learning and access to the latest digital technology, students are able to learn professional media applications while discovering their innate artistic abilities. With an undergraduate degree in Engineering and Economics from Brown University, and a JD from Northwestern, Villy brings a unique 20-year background in education, arts programming, nonprofit business and law to BAYCAT that inspires students to tell their transformative stories to others and in thus doing, empower themselves as lifelong learners. She has been a tireless supporter of SF State’s Department of Design and Industry and its community service learning program, where students gain an understanding of the historical, social, economic, and political factors of community art and positive change through social enterprise.

Learn more about ICCE here.

For our first foray into hand-drawn animation our Spring 2012 Animation Crew tried their hands at the light table.

Students from MYEEP’s annual career day event visited BAYCAT on February 17, 2012. In between learning about career options in the media arts they created this fun stop-motion short!