This summer, four Summer Youth Employees from different parts of Chicago will:

- LEARN WOODWORKING

- LEARN VIDEO: FILMING AND EDITING

Project mission:

4 teenagers are trained by 2 master carpenters to learn woodworking, video making and editing. Most importantly, they learn cooperation: to work with each other, mentors, and artists, along with stick-to-itiveness. The program rethinks the potential of immersive body-based education. The high degree of the students' work and their esprit de corps confirms the value of treating education as a dynamic space: emphasizing bodily skills, repetition, and technique and an appreciation of older, often forgotten systems of production and bodily movement. While the woodworking honors craftsmanship, the video production allows for a highly experimental approach. The students film their woodworking process, interviewed the artists they worked with, and compile the footage into videos.

This project is made possible as a part of the Year of Creative Youth organized by Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE).