Featured story in the SouthCoast Today about our project’s impact on local youth:
By: Mike Lawrence
NEW BEDFORD — Wednesday night’s music video premiere and youth outreach event at the Zeiterion could give several young students an inspiring look at the bright lights of the performance industry — something that city resident and Tabor Academy freshman Mia Vaughn said she’s been trying to find for years.
“I’ve been searching since I was 9,” the ambitious Mia, 14, said Monday, referring to on-screen performance opportunities. “I had lost all hope for how to form my career in New Bedford.”
Mia said she’s performed in several plays with SouthCoast Children’s Theatre, is taking drama classes at Tabor and even auditioned over the summer, in Boston, for the upcoming Walt Disney Co. movie “A Wrinkle in Time.”
But she had never appeared in a music video until the recent production, at sites across New Bedford, of the video for Samantha Johnson’s “We Run This (with Pride).” The community-focused anthem premieres Wednesday night at the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center downtown.
“I’m hoping this kind of opens up new opportunities,” Mia said.
Creating new opportunities, dreams and inspiration for local youth is a theme of the event, which also will launch the New Be, New Me community outreach campaign. The New Be, New Me website, at WeRunThisNB.com, will contain a youth-friendly resource guide with links to information and resources to help youth become healthier and more community-minded.
Visionary Communications Consultants owner Ben Gilbarg led the music video’s four-month production, which involved more than 300 local youth and included an energetic march July 27 on William Street.
Casimir Pulaski Elementary School fifth-grader Johnnyel Vega, 10, took part in nearly all of those shoots, including a staged race in Buttonwood Park.
“When we were sprinting, we did like 200 takes — I was tired,” Johnnyel recalled Monday.
Creating new opportunities, dreams and inspiration for local youth is a theme of the event, which also will launch the New Be, New Me community outreach campaign. The New Be, New Me website, at WeRunThisNB.com, will contain a youth-friendly resource guide with links to information and resources to help youth become healthier and more community-minded.
Visionary Communications Consultants owner Ben Gilbarg led the music video’s four-month production, which involved more than 300 local youth and included an energetic march July 27 on William Street.
Casimir Pulaski Elementary School fifth-grader Johnnyel Vega, 10, took part in nearly all of those shoots, including a staged race in Buttonwood Park.
“When we were sprinting, we did like 200 takes — I was tired,” Johnnyel recalled Monday.
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