What’s happening at TYPF?
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Upcoming Events – Feb 2011 at TYPF
An evening with Scott Beale, Atlas Corps
Youth Organizations Music Basti, The YP Foundation and Indian Youth Climate Network will be co-hosting the well known Social Entrepreneur at our offices, The Youth Hub, on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 from 6.00 to 8.00pm. Scott will be addressing young people that evening on political and personal strategies of change. Here’s a brief bio on him, if you’re interested in attending please RSVP with us theypfoundation@gmail.com – we have limited seating available so prior registration is required.
Scott Beale is a youth activist who became a diplomat who became a social entrepreneur. He began his career working in politics, in the White House in the late 1990s, and published a book titled “Millennial Manifesto: A Youth Activist Handbook” on how young people can make a difference. After politics, Scott worked at an international nonprofit called Ashoka: Innovators for the Public supporting social entrepreneurs around the world. He joined the State Department and coordinated the USG’s (Under Secretary General’s) efforts to fight human trafficking in India until five years ago he left his job to launch Atlas Corps. Atlas Corps is a J-1 international exchange program for the world’s best nonprofit leaders. They have had 75 leaders from 23 countries volunteer in the U.S. for 12-18 months to learn nonprofit leadership skills. The Brookings Institution has called Atlas Corps a “best practice” in international exchange and the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy named them one of the top ten international exchange programs in the country and Scott “Citizen Diplomat of the Year.” He’s given over 500 speeches all over the world (phew!) with his focus generally being on how young people can make a difference in the world.
You can read more about Scott and his work here.
The Open House Series
The Open House Series has finally launched! The Open House Series is an interactive, multi year workshop series for interested, upcoming and established young artistes that explore information, ideas and models that protect promote and publish Independent Music in India. The series is being launched in 2011, after a good one and a half year of brainstorming, research and evaluation with young people and artists from across the country by our arts team Silhouette. You can view more about their work on their programme page or email them at silhouette@theypfoundation.org.
We had an interesting first workshop on Careers in Music Journalism and Concert Photography on Jan 23, 2011 at the India Habitat Center, that brought together 100 young upcoming photographers and journalists with the vibrant faculty of our favourite witty Arjun S Ravi (Founder of Indiecision), Vijay Kate and Shiv Ahuja (Photographers Extraordinaire), Anup Kutty (of Menwhopause and Rolling Stone India fame), the legendary Uday Benegal (Indus Creed). Videos, Minutes, Documentation, Reviews will be put up by the Silhouette team soon!
The next workshop in the TOHS series is on February 13, 2011 – an interactive skill building and learning session on Music Production with the talented Anindo Bose (from Advaita) and the superb Vishal Dadlani (legendary frontman of Pentagram and Vishal-Shekhar). You need to sign up to attend the workshops, which are free. You can sign up here. The Open House Series is going to run from Jan to March 2011 and you can get regular updates on the programmes from their posterous .
