Show Us Your Moves!

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New! A video has been made from all of the photo submissions. Check it out here!

Thanks to everyone who submitted photos to "Show Us Your Moves!". Check out these images of how youth in Manitoba get around, what makes their travel easy, safe and fun... and what makes it not so great. (If you see one of your photos here without a title or description, contact erica@mbeconetwork.org/947-6511)

A group of 27 youth got together to discuss the photos and come up with advice for making transportation more "youth-friendly" in Manitoba. Here's the presentation we made to the Centre for Sustainable Transportation on Feb. 11, 2009. Several youth from Argyle were involved in the presentation - click here for the video they made.

About Show Us Your Moves!
Show Us Your Moves! is a project organized by the Manitoba Environmental Youth Network. It offers Manitoban youth the chance to record and share their transportation experiences in order to reflect on how transportation systems in our province can be made child and youth-friendly.

The results of Show Us Your Moves! will be shared with the Centre for Sustainable Transportation of the University of Winnipeg to assist them in developing “Guidelines for Child- and Youth-Friendly Land-Use and Transportation Planning for Manitoba”. Depending on the interest of the participants, the results may also be used in other ways to raise awareness about the importance of youth-friendly transportation.

Youth, ages 18 and under, can participate in any or all of the following parts of the project:

• You can record your transportation experiences (with photographs and/or written notes) to show examples of youth-friendly or non-youth-friendly transportation. If your photos include pictures of people (unless they are too far away to be recognized), you will need to ask for their permission before taking the photo, using this form. To be included in this project, your photos and notes must be sent to the Manitoba Environmental Youth Network by January 29, 2009. Photos can be submitted online and notes can be emailed to erica@mbeconetwork.org. Photos and notes can also be mailed to or dropped off at the Manitoba Eco-Network (see the address on the right-hand side of the page.) By uploading or submitting any photographs, notes, or other content, you grant The Manitoba Eco-Network and The Manitoba Environmental Youth Network the right to transmit, publish, display, and duplicate all content submitted, in any form, without any payment or notice.
  
  
• You can participate in a workshop on Jan. 29, 5:00-7:00 or Feb. 3, 12:30-2:30 at the Manitoba Eco-Network, 303 Portage Ave. At this workshop you will help to look at the pictures and notes collected by youth from across Manitoba and discuss how transportation could be more youth-friendly in our province. Pizza and bus tickets will be provided to everyone who comes to these workshops.
  
  
• If you are not in Winnipeg, you can organize a workshop in your community to look at the pictures and notes collected by youth from across Manitoba and discuss how transportation could be more youth-friendly in our province. We will provide you with discussion questions and cover the cost of food for the workshop.
  
  
• You can offer to work with a few other youth between Feb. 3 – 11 to prepare a presentation based on the discussions held at the workshops described above. If you are selected for this part of the project, you will also have the chance to help deliver this presentation at a meeting organized by the Centre for Sustainable Transportation on February 11, 2009 from 8:30 to 9:30 am.

Any youth, age 18 or under, who participates in any part of this project will be entered in a draw for a prize! To get involved, contact Erica (erica@mbeconetwork.org, 204-947-6511) to let us know which part(s) of the project you would like to take part in!