Dear Friends,

Another Kind of Girl Collective’s dream we’ve envisioned for years is alive, it’s happening - our artists are breaking barriers and laying fresh ground for our revolutionary, profound, new vision of collective storytelling and artistic expression. As young women we are creating a third space that spans vast geographies, languages, and cultures, to express and co-create our own stories, our own truths, in solidarity with one another.

Our creative work and relationships have grown and deepened in meaningful, unexpected ways -  we never could have imagined what these past two years of expansion and collaboration have brought to fruition. Our work has expanded from Jordan to Peru to New Orleans.

We are at a critical moment in AKGC's growth. We need your support now for AKGC’s artists, current projects and capacity building for long-term sustainability. Our goal is to raise $15,000 by March 20th. We are excited to share our journey with you, and invite you to join us in solidarity in THIS moment, THIS movement.


Another Kind of Girl Collective (AKGC) is by and for young women living in displaced, migrant or transitory communities around the world to connect and co-create films and multimedia artworks. It is a space across geographies where they can express their stories, collaborate, and develop a collective process for their artistic work to be experienced by one another, and on a global level.

AKGC’s roots grew from our first media arts workshop with young women from Syria in a netted picnic shelter inside Jordan’s Za’atari Refugee Camp. Nearly six years later, we have built and deepened relationships and collaborations with younger girls in our original Jordanian communities, and expanded the Collective’s work to two new communities of young women: Lima, Peru’s indigenous Shipibo community from the Amazon, and New Orleans’ Honduran migrant community.


OUR WORK AND HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT US
These are our current projects and capacity building efforts, and what we need for each as we forge ahead and deepen our work in 2020. 

1. CROSS-BORDER FEATURE FILM & TOUR: Co-directed by four young women – Karoli and Christy, displaced indigenous Shipibos in Peru, and Khaldiya and Marah, Syrian refugees in Jordan – this film is in post-production. Following completion, regional and international tours and workshops with filmmakers will be planned. Planning for our first tour is already underway for June 2020! The directors will meet each other for the first time, as well as meet with new AKGC artists in New Orleans (our first full AKGC artist convening from all three countries!).

WE NEED:
* Stipends for directors, editors and producers.
*Funds for post-production technical expenses.
*Funds for community, regional and international distribution and screenings of the film.
*Funds for outreach and planning for traveling tours of the film. 
*Funds for first 2 film tours: travel for directors and producers from/to Jordan & Peru, visa and passport costs, lodgings, ground transportation, per diems, etc. ($ or in-kind)
 
2. INTRODUCTORY FILMMAKING & DOCUMENTARY ARTS WORKSHOPS:
Partnering with grassroots community organization El Pueblo NOLA in New Orleans, we are running our intro workshops in Village de l’Est with recently arrived migrant and refugee teenage girls from Central America. 

WE NEED:
* Funds for 3 more DSLR camera kits and audio equipment, and a computer for participants.  
* Funds for meals, transportation, etc. for each workshop.
* Funding for community exhibition and screening.
* Stipends for AKGC and El Pueblo Nola facilitators of the workshop.


3. YOUTH-LED WORKSHOPS IN ZA’ATARI REFUGEE CAMP:
Older Syrian AKGC artists have begun jobs teaching media workshops to younger girls in Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan. 

WE NEED:
* Stipends for AKGC Peer Trainer-Facilitators 
* Funds for 6 DSLR camera kits, 2 audio recorders, 2 tripods
* Funds for meals and snacks during workshops
* Funds for a community exhibition and screening

4. GENERAL SUPPORT FOR AKGC:
AKGC directors and producers work full-time on the Collective’s ongoing work, which includes: facilitating and planning workshops, teaching advanced technical, storytelling and editing skills, training and supporting AKGC peer trainers, editing and production on artistic projects, outreach and distribution of films and media, planning for traveling tours, fundraising and maintaining relationships with funders, developing and connecting AKGC artists with professional networks, mentoring AKGC members re: life circumstances, education, health (physical and mental), financial well-being, etc. 

WE NEED:
* Stipends for AKGC Directors and Producers
* Stipends for in-country AKGC Producers (in Jordan, Peru and New Orleans)


Thank you for supporting Another Kind of Girl Collective and becoming a part of this crucial movement.

With much love and gratitude,

Another Kind of Girl Collective
www.anotherkindofgirl.com 


MORE ABOUT OUR WORK
In each community, we work with grassroots leaders and local organizations to recruit participants and design an introductory documentary video, audio, photography and writing workshop series specific to the needs, values and culture of their communities. 

Our work is rooted in intimate, long-term relationships with the girls and young women, and together creating a safe, adventurous space for self-expression and artmaking, emphasizing experimentation, exploration, cinematic storytelling, and their imaginations. Instead of using a single training methodology or extracting output-specific content, our collaborative process is guided by the artistic sensibilities of the young women themselves, and the mediums and stylistic choices they find most expansive in telling their own and their communities’ stories. 

These workshops initiate a process of deep mentorship, training, and collaboration – with one another, their local communities, and collective members worldwide. 

IMPACT
By working across borders, AKGC facilitates solidarity, understanding and collective power among young women in communities struggling for claims to political recognition, land or territory, and basic human rights. The larger vision is for collective members to travel with exhibits and programs of their own work that they curate; connecting with, teaching, and learning from girls and young women in communities similar to their own. Our long-term approach invests in AKGC artists’ professional development, providing further training, equipment, and access to paid opportunities and professional networks. In turn, these young women apply their skills and experience to community transformation – continuing to create artworks and media, expanding the reach of their stories, and transmitting their knowledge to younger generations. 

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