Unlearning old mistakes: An Indigenous youth-led participatory video project with Sc’ianew youth

Participatory video is a powerful tool for community-led research. It requires the researcher to put aside their own biases and assumptions, allowing community perspectives to shine. As a student researcher, I learned firsthand the value of participatory video when I began replicating a common mistake made by generations of ethnographic filmmakers: the desire to stage…

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Insights from our Indigenous Associates: Skills and knowledge-sharing

At InsightShare, we place Indigenous People’s wisdom and knowledge at the heart of our work. Through our extensive long-term work to seed community video hubs in the last two decades, we constantly seek opportunities to involve Indigenous participatory video facilitators we train in facilitating projects for civil society actors.  Establishing locally-led video hubs In our…

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Meet the Mentors

As we move into the third phase of the Living Cultures Indigenous Fellowship, we interviewed mentors of three different hubs to share their journey over the last couple of months. Sinegugu, Samwel and Magella share personal experiences as mentors of the Amadiba (South Africa), OLM-T (Tanzania) and Gurapau (Kenya) hubs, respectively.  The local mentors are…

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