Contact: Leigh Ann Caldwell, DC Director: 202-596-1893
High School students from DC based youth media program “Radio Rootz” will conduct a live Internet broadcast from the Express Yourself! Youth Media Festival in downtown Silver Spring on Saturday, May 8th.
The festival is expected to attract at least 3,000 youth and their families. Radio Rootz students will conduct “live” interviews with young performers and artists and will broadcast the awards ceremony for the 5 performance categories for middle school, high school, and post-high school contestants. Radio Rootz students have been learning journalism and broadcast skills through out the school year. This youth led broadcast is …
WHO: Radio Rootz youth high school journalists aged 15 – 19
WHAT: Youth-led live broadcast from Express Yourself! Youth Media Festival hosted by the Gandhi Brigade.
The live stream will be active during the broadcast:
http://66.246.184.113:8000/youthmedia.mp3
WHEN: Saturday, May 8; 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
WHERE: Downtown Silver Spring, Colesville Road. The Radio Rootz “live” broadcast booth will be in the youth press tent located to the left of the stage. (See attached map.)
Radio Rootz DC Director, Leigh Ann Caldwell says, “The youth have spent the year learning how to conduct interviews, how to write for broadcast, and how to be journalists. At the Express Yourself! Youth Media Festival, their skills will culminate in a production that brings this exciting youth festival to people unable to attend.”
Radio Rootz is a college-level program that is building the next generation of dynamic media makers and inspiring community leaders! The year-long program works in DC public schools and culminates in a paid summer internship. Radio Rootz is a program of People’s Production House.
