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<\/a>\nDesiree Carter, VDT, 22 Jan 2016,
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\nValdosta State showcases ‘Causes’<\/a>,<\/p>\n
\n\n“Causes” is a mini-festival created by Dr. Matthew Richard in the anthropology department of Valdosta State University.<\/p>\n
\n“I came up with this in 2008 when Facebook and YouTube were new,” said Richard. “It’s a neat way to challenge students and to show that things learned in class can be applied to real life.”<\/p>\n
\nTo Richard, this project embodies<\/p>\n
the best in education by combining critical thinking and creativity.<\/p>\n
\n“It allows students to look around local society and identify issues that they learn about,” said Richard. “I think this project represents a very grassroots phenomenon. In a forum like this, it makes people reflect and it challenges people.”<\/p>\n
\nThe festival has been hosted on and off for five years, with Richard learning something new from each experience.<\/p>\n
\n“The first year, many made videos concerning global issues,” said Richard. “I decided I wanted to focus on the local after that so that people would feel empowered and obligated to acknowledge the serious issues right here.”<\/p>\n
\nThe 2016 festival will include roughly 25 videos, each lasting 90 seconds. Each entry was pre-screened and will be shown via YouTube. This format will allow for the videos to be posted on Facebook after the festival.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nLIke Dr. Richard, I hope this becomes a VSU tradition.
\nPartly because now that we know how to do it, it’s a good format to
\nsummarize an issue.\n<\/p>\n\n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
90-second movie trailers of local issues, tonight at 7PM, Bailey Auditorium, VSU, Valdosta, Lowndes County, GA. We sent in some submissions, and I hope you did, too; once we thought of them as trailers, it was pretty easy (by “we” I mean Gretchen”). Desiree Carter, VDT, 22 Jan 2016, Valdosta State showcases ‘Causes’, “Causes” is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,40,134],"tags":[8736,9002,2639,9001,8717,270,8701,8702,12,7,6,1175,234,8743],"class_list":["post-15497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-vsu","tag-activism","tag-anthropology","tag-art","tag-causes","tag-community","tag-festival","tag-georgia","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-state-university","tag-video","tag-vsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15499,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497\/revisions\/15499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}