Congratulations! Delridge RecTech teens and international collaborators score big with animated-poem video

Teens in the RecTech Youth Media Institute program led by Leslie Howle at Delridge Community Center are among the collaborators in that animated-poem video, which scored big in this year’s international Adobe Youth Voices competition, landing second place in the Animation category. The news comes from Seattle Parks’ Parkways website. The poem is written and spoken by Seattle artist Hollis Wong-Wear (who herself has West Seattle ties, including past work at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center). It’s about growing up – something we never quite seem to complete, no matter how “old” we’re lucky enough to live to be. Take a few minutes to look and listen, above.

P.S. We last featured RecTech in our coverage of the Delridge Projects Workshop a month ago – and we see via their website that the Delridge-focused mini-doc they screened there is available for online viewing, with a longer version in the works to be shown at the Delridge Day festival August 8th.

3 Replies to "Congratulations! Delridge RecTech teens and international collaborators score big with animated-poem video"

  • HappyOnAlki July 2, 2015 (1:22 pm)

    Congratulations indeed! This is fabulous! Way to go, RecTech folks!

  • Lori Leberer July 6, 2015 (6:33 am)

    One of the other collaborating sites for this project was Seattle World School. HIgh Point resident and art teacher Lori Leberer and several students from all over Seattle, including current Chief Sealth students, contributed stop-motion animation to the project. Congratulations to all of the collaborators on such a great piece! Thanks Hollis for the beautiful poem!

    • WSB July 6, 2015 (7:21 am)

      Thanks and congratulations – please keep us in mind for a heads-up on cool projects like this – I wouldn’t have known about the award if I hadn’t gone to Parkways looking for something else, and recognized the mention of RecTech since we’ve had occasion to cover the program now and then … TR

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