Andrea asks his students to write a song as part of the western music appreciation course at SACAC - Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication, New Delhi. 
Here's the result: the music, the faces, the joy and the fun coming all together in this videoclip. 
This is the purpose we feel media education should serve: helping people express themselves and make their inner Beauty and Truth heard. 

Watch the videoclip here: DB MAGIC CIRCLE  "Things are changing" 

Lyrics:::

WIND IS BLOWING ALL AROUND
I'M SO FAR FROM MY TOWN
ALL MY HOPES ARE FALLING DOWN

ALL MY LIFE IN FRONT OF ME
GIVE ME A RAY OF HOPE TO SEE
AND A REASON FOR ME TO BE

ALL AWAKE ON THIS NIGHT
FULL OF PAIN IN MY HEART
AND I'LL WAIT FOR THE MORNING
TO SHOW ME A WAY OUT

I'VE BEEN BLIND ALL MY LIFE
SUFFOCATING BY MY PRIDE
GETTING LOST TO THE OTHER SIDE

CLIMBING MOUNTAINS OF THE PAST
CROSSING RIVERS THAT WON'T LAST
OUT OF DARK WITH FAITH & TRUST

CAN YOU HEAR ME
I'M FIGHTING FOR MY RIGHTS
I KNOW THE THINGS ARE CHANGING

CAN YOU SEE ME 
NOW YOU AND I
WILL ALWAYS RISE TO BE

CAN YOU HEAR ME
I'M FIGHTING FOR MY RIGHTS
I KNOW THE THINGS ARE CHANGING

CAN YOU SEE ME 
NOW YOU AND I
WILL ALWAYS RISE TO BE

LIFE IS CRAZY BUT YOU NEVER LOSE YOURSELF
DONT GIVE UP AND YOU'LL NEVER EVER FAIL

CAN YOU HEAR ME
I'M FIGHTING FOR MY RIGHTS
I KNOW THE THINGS ARE CHANGING

CAN YOU SEE ME 
NOW YOU AND I
WILL ALWAYS RISE TO BE



Credits:::
Lead Singers: Abhishek Chaudary, Dikshit Sharma, Rahul Parmar, Ronex Irom, Samuel Thapa, Vikalp Kumar, Andrea Camerini
Guitars, Bass, Keyboards: Paras Khanna
Harmonica: Ankur Gupta 
Additional Keyboard: Vikalp Kumar
Additiona Bass: Lipok Ozukum
Mixed by Lalit Thapa & Mr Rajinder Singh
Videoclip by Laura Di Nitto & Andrea Camerini 

Open Your Eyes! media literacy project at TG GULP Kids News, RAI (Italy)

Enjoy the 15' short documentary film 

THAT'S THE RHYTHM OF LIFE 

and share it if you like it! 

The purpose of the project is to help kids learning 

how to speak up and make themselves heard. 

We don't want to tell stories, 

we want to listen to the stories children wish to tell us 

with their own voice, music, videos and images! 

Presentation of the short film THAT'S THE RHYTHM OF LIFE! Today in New Delhi!

 Today 9th December 2013 at 5 pm, the short film THAT'S THE RHYTHM OF LIFE! produced during a video workshop by Auromedia Team (Andrea & Laura ) with the kids of Bapu Dham - a very disadvantaged area of New Delhi where the young NGO "Rhythm of Life" has been working for the past two years - will be presented to the families of the young artists as well as to the public.

Being today Rhythm of Life's second birthday, the screening will be followed by a donation of a videocamera offered by SIRO SOLAZZI & ANTONIO MANGIARINI - two Italian friends and supporters  of the project - with the aim of creating an "OPEN YOUR EYES! MEDIA LAB" that will permanently work on audio-visual productions from kids.

All our friends are invited to join us today 9th December at 5 pm at Bapu Dham, opp. Jesus and Mary College, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi ! 

Just a few words about the OPEN YOUR EYES! workshop: 

The new literacy of the millennium is media literacy.

Being able to read and write is nowadays extended to the world of the media.

To participate the world we live in and to be proactive with our ideas and needs, we must be able to understand the language of the media and we must be able to express ourselves through that language to make ourselves visible and heard.  

The work with children starts with a stimulation on critical thinking about the media, then we help children empowering themselves by acquiring certain skills to express through the media language. After a short technical introduction on filming and then the creative process starts with understanding what is the story the group wants to tell. 

The main objective of the workshops is helping children learn how to speak up for their own rights and needs.

The outcome is a short film written, filmed and edited by the young participants. 

For further information, interviews and for participating the screening today or watching the film, please contact: 

Ms Archana

mob. ph. +91.921.2114112

Communication Officer

Rhythm of Life ngo

New Delhi 

More to come from Auromedia Team!  ;)

Auromedia Team at Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2013 in Doha, Qatar

As Auromedia, a unit of Sri Aurobindo Society, we were invited to Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2013 in Doha, Qatar, to take part to the Industry Forum as speakers. 
Sharing experiences of high quality media productions, projects and workshops was the aim of the 2 full days forum joined by the top of the world's experts in children and youth media gathered by Firdoze Bulbulia, president of CIFEJ, chairperson of Children Broadcasting Foundation of Africa, founder-director of ABC (Africa's Best Channel) and chairperson of the 5th World Summit on Children and Media held in Johannesburg, Southafrica in 2007. 

Auromedia Team [Andrea Camerini (right) & Laura Di Nitto (left)]

In the panel "Stop the Motion, I need to get on", not only could we introduce ourselves in our new role of Auromedia Team engaged in media education projects, but also we got the opportunity to present some beautiful Italian animation productions realized by La Casa dei Conigli which we find inspiring and relevant in the children's TV panorama with the original soundtrack by Nuove Tribù Zulu. 

 

The song 'Song for the World' was performed by a group of enthusiastic and talented young people with Andrea's support at the opening ceremony of the Forum. 

Once we were silent, then we were given a voice...
Once we were silent, now we can have our own voice

We believe children and young people should be inspired in understanding media and the world beyond the surface. They should be enabled to acquire the tools for decoding the media contents and messages and they should become able to express themselves through the media language in order to become proactive in the society, visible in the media and capable of speaking up and conveying their own values and ideas. 
As professional we believe we should facilitate children and youth in enjoying the exposure to high quality media contents, in the process of critical thinking and in the challenge of the creation of meaningful media contents and forms. 

Ajyal Youth Film Festival was a great opportunity to reconnect with the big world family of children and youth media experts from Argentina, Netherlands, Brazil, SouthAfrica, UAE, Dubai, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Zanzibar, Kenya, Sweden, Poland, Ethiopia, France, Italy, Nigeria, USA, UK + many more countries and the network is there to be joined to enhance each other's experiences, projects and work.The contribution of each single participant was extremely valuable and Ajyal signs one more step of this incredible children and youth media path, research and production network that is all the time ready to share, help, play and put always "our children first!". 

Firdoze Bulbulia (right) with Ajyal Festival Director Fatma Al Remaihi

Katara Cultural Village, festival venue

children and youth audience at Ajyal festival

More to come soon from the Auromedia Team :)