COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS
Aurora Picture Show's community collaborations bring creativity, personal expression, critical thinking, and media literacy to kids throughout the Greater Houston area. We collaborate with a wide range of schools, community centers, organizations, and hospitals to conduct creative workshops serving more than 1500 kids and teens each year. If you are an educator interested in Aurora conducting hands-on filmmaking projects with your school or group, or if you're an artist/educator interested in working with our ongoing projects, please contact Education Director Camilo Gonzalez.
Here are some films created through Aurora's collaborative workshops and residencies...
ANIMATION STATIONS AT HOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARIES
As part of Young Audiences of Houston’s “Neighborhoods, Identity, and Diversity Project,” Aurora presented a series of free, creative stop-motion animation workshops for kids and families at the Flores and Stanaker neighborhood libraries in 2nd Ward throughout May.
INVENTIONS
The culmination of a year-long stop-motion animation project produced by Aurora Picture Show and The Periwinkle Foundation as part of the Arts in Medicine Program at Texas Children’s Cancer Center and Hematology Service at Texas Children’s Hospital. Young patients imagined "inventions" that would make the world a better place and created short animated vignettes about them.
MAGIC POWERS
Animated vignettes by young patients and their siblings (ages 4-16) at Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers in which they creatively imagine their own special powers and how they could change the world. This project was produced by Aurora Picture Show and The Periwinkle Foundation as part of the Arts in Medicine Program at Texas Children’s Cancer Center and Hematology Service at Texas Children’s Hospital.
POSTCARDS FROM SPACE
A collage of visions from the patients of the universe and their own transmissions back to Earth telling us what we are missing out in deep space. This project was produced by Aurora Picture Show in collaboration with the Arts In Medicine Program at MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital, and was shown on the International Space Station!
I DREAM
Aurora Picture Show’s Camilo Gonzalez with was invited by The Periwinkle Foundation to work with the children in the Cancer and Hematology Centers to create a short film. Over the course of eight workshops held in the clinic and at Aurora Picture Show, children and long-term survivors worked with the artists and volunteers to create I Dream.
STAR GUIDES
A project produced by Aurora Picture Show in collaboration with the Arts In Medicine Program at MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital, patients and artists create a moving image collage of their visions.