Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival at Kendall/MIT Open Space
| Hours: | 6:00pm-10:00pm |
| Ages: | Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Outdoor |
| Cost: | Free see below |
| Category: | Fairs & Festivals |
Community Art Center's 25th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!!National Youth Film Festival, the longest running youth film festival in the country!
Join us for an evening celebrating teen voices from across the nation, featuring music from DJ Slick Vick, lawn games, food from The Pull Up, Taco Party, and Frosty's Ice Cream, the 2022 film reel, and a panel discussion with the featured filmmakers.
Since 1937, Community Art Center has served residents of the Port neighborhood in Cambridge, MA.
The organization opened its doors to arts programs for children and youth in the neighborhood, so that they would have the same access to arts-rich experiences as children and youth in the more resourced communities of Cambridge.
The Art Center became known as a space for young people to explore creative expression and build their narrative storytelling abilities.
It came to provide a safe, validating home for young artists to refine their skills and hone their strong voices.
Civic engagement and activism have always been a part of this story.
In 1996, six teen girls at the Art Center decided they'd had enough of the lack of representation and misrepresentation they were seeing characterized in the media.
They picked up cameras and began to tell their own stories, beginning Do It Your Damn Self!!, a film festival that is hyper-local, but with a national reach.
It has now become the longest-running youth film festival in the country.
| COST | ↑ top |
Free!
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
www.openspace.mit.edu/upcoming/community-night-diyds-festival
| LOCATION | ↑ top |
292 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02142 map
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- Shuttle service available for those in the Port Neighborhood and surrounding area:
- Picks up at Community Art Center (headed to MIT) at 5:45pm and 6:15pm
- Picks up at MIT (headed to Community Arts Center) at 9:45pm and 10pm
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