** Extended deadline - July 20th ( 11:59PM)! **
Climate change means our lives will be defined by the disasters each new season brings. In this intensive summer training\ , you’ll learn how to communicate the human impacts of those disasters usin g trauma-informed journalism techniques. As members of the Climate Disaster Project\, an international teaching newsroom\, you’ll work with disaster-a ffected community members to gather oral histories of their experiences and adapt them into stories that can be shared with the news media. In doing s o\, you’ll build solidarity around those experiences\, re-focusing climate coverage on its human-scale\, present-tense impacts.
Thursday 17 August 2023 - Friday 18 Augus t 2023
tentatively\, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM both days
Thursday 31 August 2023 - Friday 1 September 2023
tent atively\, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM both days
All training will occur in-person on the UBC Vancouver campus. A specific v enue on campus will be announced closer to the first date of training.
< p>A light break (pastry\, tea/coffee) and lunch (sandwich and snack) will b e provided each day.
Upon completion of the program\, participants will receive a certification in trauma-informed jour nalism from the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Victori a.
Work by former Climate Disaster Project students includes:
[buttons][button link_text="“Without Mother Earth\, we won’ t survive”" link_url="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bY6lVyt2L2Go8yaF4vnR 0mpiz2xpGTN9/view?usp=sharing"][button link_text="“Climate disaster: an ora l history”" link_url="https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/aptn-investigat es-joins-team-to-tell-stories-of-the-climate-crisis/"][button link_text="“W e’re all climate disaster survivors”" link_url="https://drive.google.com/fi le/d/1RBHtnrmoIL1EIJ2GGLiPPG6T8WFqf0QV/view?usp=sharing"][button link_text= "“Profiles of Resilience”" link_url="https://fvcurrent.com/p/profiles-clima te-disaster-project/"][button link_text="“Bracing for disasters”" link_url= "https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/04/03/Bracing-For-Disasters/"][/buttons]
< p>Priority will be given to CCJ-affiliated grad uate students\, but advanced undergraduates and community members with prio r experience with climate justice\, journalism\, and/or oral history work a re also encouraged to apply.
Please send the following materials to climate .justice@ubc.ca with the subject line\, “Application: Climate Disaster Project Summer Training":
Applicants will be notified whether they were sele cted or waitlisted by 14 July 2023.
Don't hesitate to direct any questions to the CCJ's Administrative and Program As sistant\, Jack Suchodolski\, at the following email: j.suchodolski@ubc.ca
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