Stories in Action

Four years in the making, “Going on 13,” a California Documentary Project film by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Dawn Valadez, follows the lives of four girls in the San Francisco East Bay Area as they navigate adolescence. Now you can see a rough cut of the documentary on Wed., Dec. 12, at 6:30 pm at KTOP Studios, 250 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Ste. 5354 in Oakland (near the 12th St. BART station). Reservations are required but the screening is free. RSVP to filmoakland@filmoakland.com or call 510-238-4734.

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Calling California’s teen librarians. The Council is seeking teen librarians interested in implementing a new ten-week digital photography project – How I See It: My Place — that aims to give teens a new way of thinking about the places where they live. Teen librarians will receive everything they need to carry out the program — activities, equipment, supplies, funds and training. Twenty libraries will be selected to participate. The program will take place during summer and fall 2008. An application will be available on the Council’s website from Dec. 10 until Jan. 17. Find out more.

“Who We Are,” an exhibit of essays by and photographs of students at San Quentin State Prison, will be at the at San Francisco Main Library’s Jewett Gallery until Jan. 20, 2008.

The men are enrolled in the only on-site, degree-granting college program in California’s entire prison system and wrote their essays as part of a California Story Fund project directed by Jennifer Scaife, of the Prison University Project. The photographs, by Heather Riley, depict the men in the classroom, in the yard and inside the cellblock.

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