Detroit Future Media (DFM) will host an info session about their free media training workshops on November 29, 2011. The session will take place at 4126 3rd St, Detroit, MI 48201 from 6PM-8PM.

DFM Coordinators will explain the program as well as the application process and criteria for participation. Additionally, alumni will share their experiences and provide additional insight.

The highly in-demand DFM workshop series, now in its second year, are 20-week trainings for Detroiters interested in building Detroit’s media economy through the creation of grassroots media, and community cultural production.

The workshops offer intensive trainings in video, graphics, and web design with a focus on education, entrepreneurship and media-based community organizing. Participants will graduate with the unique skill sets necessary to train other Detroiters in digital media, create their own jobs, foster collaborative forms of community wealth creation, and lead media-based community organizing projects for a better Detroit.

The session is free and open to the public. Those that apply can be ages 18-80, have a basic understanding of computers and passionate about positively transforming Detroit.Applications will be accepted Nov. 28 – Dec. 4.

The Detroit Future Media Workshops are made possible through a grant awarded to the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (DDJC) by the Broadband Technology Opportunity Program of the American Recovery And Reinvestment (Stimulus) Act.

The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition is comprised of people and organizations in Detroit who believe that communication is a fundamental human right. We are securing that right through activities that are grounded in the digital justice principles of: access, participation, common ownership, and healthy communities.