Visual Poetry Jam

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A Visual Poetry Jam session is a free one-day session where you get to learn how to use a cellphone like an expensive DSLR camera and learn to edit your photos with the same program used by professional photographers. It is an arts program sure but mostly it is an award-winning creative wellbeing program too.

It is taught by a past winner of New Zealand's Creative Photographer of the Year

As this is a photography course we will be taking photographs of each other and sharing them. Some of the images might be used to promote the work of the students in the course and be provided to our funders in reports. Therefore we need permission to photograph you or your child in order to participate. By signing this form you will be giving us permission to photograph and use the images to promote the work of the youth and Click Happy as a program.

Are you over 16? *

Full Name/s of Workshop Attendee/s. If more than one youth registering, add their names here *

Email Address *

Cellphone Number *

Are there any concerns we should be aware of, regarding the safety of your child/yourself that could impact the ability to safely walk the neighbourhood and take pictures?

Name of your School / Organization or are you homeschooled or none of the above *

Name of Town/City or Area you live in *

If you are attending a library or community hosted workshop which one are you attending? *

Whanganui Library - Friday - 29 September - 10am – 3pm
An upcoming workshop

We run an online creative mentorship program that is free for students who have attended a Visual Poetry Jam. In the workshop, you will learn to improve your photography game and also make new friends with youth from all over NZ. The students in the program have even started their own by youth for youth magazine which you can help contribute to. Pro photographers are available to ask questions and help you learn to improve your innovation skills as well as their photography. It even has an award winning creative wellbeing workshop included in the program. Would you like to join us in the Click Happy Online program?

Yes please
No thank you

There are no costs invloved and the online mentorship is free for New Zealand Youth.

Signature

I give Click Happy employees, agents and successors the following rights: 1. to photograph, film, digitally record or video-record me and/or my child/ children; and 2. to make sound and voice recordings of me and/or my child/ children. These may be used now and in the future in any way that may be required. These reproductions or representations may appear as still camera photography and/or video images and/or digital images. Examples of uses include (but are not limited to) transmission in any manner and/or digital release, publication on the internet including social media, in promotional and educational material, in public exhibition or made available to our event collaborative partners (libraries, schools, and funders), both in New Zealand and overseas. Copyright, storing and ownership of the work will rest with Click Happy.

At the One day Visual Poetry Jam learn how to a cellphone like a DSLR:

How to freeze and blur motion.
How to blur the background in images (depending on the phone you bring)
How to improve their image composition
How to change colours in the images and make them richer and deeper.
How to edit images in Lightroom (a free app used by professional photographers)
What creative grit is and how to develop it.
How to build a creative community through collaboration and compassionate critiquing of each other's work.

What do you need to attend the Visual Poetry Jam Day?

Use of a cellphone or Ipad that has the following organized before the day.
- Enough room cleared so that they can take ample photos
- Fully charged with a charging cable and plug
- Lightroom App downloaded
- Telegram App registered with their name organized like this (their first name-school name-region ie Mary-Fergusson-Upper Hutt) registered with your supervision (this is where they will post their images and be able to collaborate and stay connected with the students they meet on the day within our private group. ) By listing their first name school and region it helps them remember each other and will help to build their regional creative communities.
- Links to those apps are found here:
- Apple
  - Lightroom
  - Telegram
- Android
  - Lightroom
  - Telegram
Terms and conditions signed by an adult
Lunch/snacks etc
Warm/wet clothing depending on the weather

What does it cost?

Nothing, it is free to attend thanks to our sponsors. (See down below)

Our wonderfully amazing brilliant funders & sponsors

Funders & Sponsors 2020/2021/2022/2023


	Far North Rodney North Shore Waitakere City Manukau Papakura Franklin Kirikiriroa / Hamilton City South Waikato Rotorua Tongariro Hutt Valley Wellington Central Otago Coastal Otago / Waitaki Wairarapa Kahungunu Ki Heretaunga Tamatea / Tamaki-Nui-A-Rua Great Barrier Manawatu / Horowhenua Whanganui / Waimarino / Rangitikei Auckland City South Taranaki Marlborough Mataatua Whangarei / Kaipara	Invercargill Henderson Kaipatiki Masterton Manukau Waikato Hamilton Wellington West Auckland Papakura North Shore Waitomo Rangitīkei Dunedin


And Youth Librarians! We had no idea how amazing these community treasures are until recently! Thank you to all of the Youth Librarians who have seen the beauty in the project and have invited us to bring it to their region and who are helping to spread the word. You have halved our work and quintupled the number of youth who get to experience this program. What gifts!