Say it Loud, Say it Proud! was an inter-generational collaborative community media project administered by the Black Community Resource Centre in Montreal. The project’s focus was to work with with high-school-aged youth and community members to create video histories of their communities.

For nine months in the 2009-2010 school year, we worked with nearly 100 Montreal youth through our programs at James Lyng and Riverdale High Schools. Students learned the art and craft of video production through hands-on instruction using professional equipment graciously offered by our partners at Concordia University Television and Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.

Working with students as part of their school curriculum, the Say it Loud, Say it Proud! project produced two series of four videos, as well as a hip-hop history of Montreal’s Little Burgundy community. In addition, we produced a teacher’s resource guide which you can download here if you’d like to include any of our work in your school’s curriculum.

We invite you to explore our site and check out the work produced by our talented participants.