Appalachian Media Institute
Through AMI young people in eastern Kentucky learn how to use video cameras and audio equipment to document the unique traditions and complex issues of their mountain communities.
AMI is a program of Appalshop, a community-based arts and education center in the coalfields of Kentucky. Based in the community media model and the artistic resources of Appalshop, AMI offers an intensive summer institute and year-round media production training with youth, teachers and community groups in central Appalachia.
People who work with Appalachian Media Institute
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Commentator Natasha Watts asks listeners to consider the real costs of the prescription drug addiction epidemic in communities across the country.
n eastern Kentucky storytelling is not just a pastime, it?s a way you communicate.
Bought by KRCB Voice of Youth
First-time voter Autumn Campbell from Jeremiah, Kentucky hopes that her vote really counts this year, because she has a list of issues that she wan...
Bought by WSCS-FM
Why should you vote? Eastern Kentucky youth speak out on how your vote can make real change.
Bought by WXLV-FM
A young woman from eastern kentucky shares her story about the stigma and difficulty of navigating an unwanted pregnancy in a community where even ...
Bought by WXLV-FM and YouthCast
Prescription drugs, especially oxycontin, has been a growing problem in southeastern Kentucky. Its not a problem most people want to talk about it...
Bought by YouthCast
Satanic and violent or just another genre of music? High school English teacher, Travis Fields, dispels some myths about heavy metal music.
Bought by WXLV-FM
Even though Danny ?Hoot? Campbell has developed ?rock lung? from working in the mines he still recommends the profession to the next generation. In...
Bought by WBEZ, YouthCast, and WKMS
Josh Fleming grew up in a family of miners. In this piece he talks with his father about what being a coal miner has meant to his family and why h...
Bought by The Nature Podcast, WBEZ, WXLV-FM, and WKMS
When faced with the prospect of working for minimum wage many mountain youth in eastern Kentucky choose to work in the mines rather than try to scr...
Bought by WXLV-FM, WXLV-FM, and WKMS