PSA: Youth Podcasting Workshop

This opportunity is specifically for youth living in Yellowknife, Ndilo, or Dettah

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Project description:

The grant proposal is to fund a two-day workshop for Northwest Territories Indigenous youth to learn the basics of podcasting with a focus on being able to document environmental contaminant issues affecting traditional foods and water within their communities or regions.

Podcasting offers a format to convey information to a broad audience as well as collect information from numerous interviewees, Elders, harvesters, food preparers and those who are observing environmental changes. It is also a format that is easily available to tech-savvy youth, can be successfully done with a smart phone and need not be expensive to produce. The participants’ podcasts could create a lasting record of contaminant issues as they are today, capture views of community members and Elders and provide a baseline for future changes. Involvement in podcast production will also increase youths’ interest, awareness and knowledge in contaminant issues within their communities, water and traditional foods.

The skills that can be gained through a podcasting workshop are transferrable to an unending number of topics as well as may be a stepping stone to employment opportunities or life-long vocations.

Particulars:

• The workshop would take place in the boardroom at the Dene National office in Yellowknife.

• Some funding will be available for travel/per diems

• Open to youth over 19 years of age

• Will take place October/November 2026

• No experience necessary but access to mobile phone will be

• Ten to twelve participants

Please reach out to Lee Montgomery (lmontgomery@denenation.com) for more information.