KZMU's "Voices of Youth" Production Guidelines

Voices of Youth (VOY) is an interactive, community-based photography and audio project based in Moab, Utah. It is designed to place area teenagers in closer touch with the history, folklore, people, and place of their immediate culture and community. The toolkit associated with the project offers two components which are both available for download: Voices of Youth Production Guidelines and Voices of Youth Description and History. The first, VOY-Moab Radio, is a five-page project primer by Bruce Hucko which describes steps needed to make a successful audio story. The second, Voices of Youth Description and History, describes its history and these goals:

• to connect area youth with their community in a strong, positive manner so they’ll not be “at risk” of losing their community identity
• to teach the arts of creatively documenting, in sound and photographs, the rich traditions, arts and lifeways, practiced by their community
• to give youth a voice, offering their community the opportunity to see and hear the interests and concerns of these often overlooked citizens
• to re-instill in this community an appreciation of the diverse elements that make it unique, so that they won’t be lost or forgotten, and
• to serve as a model project for rural communities throughout the West.