New Voices is a program produced by Prairie, Inc. for high school students seeking meaningful ways to engage their communities and voice their opinions. Work by Princeton High School Students will be on display May 28, 2010 at the downtown Coffee Emporium through the month of June.

Image by Nina

March 2: Introduction to class. Review of low income housing in Cincinnati and Metropole Apartment Building. Basic photographic composition: Available light portraits.

March 9: Presentation and site visits led by Jeni Jenkins. Visit Drop Inn Center and City Gospel Mission.

March 16: Visit renovation projects in Over-the-Rhine including Gateway District and construction at 14th and Vine.

March 23: Tour significant sites in Over-the-Rhine in the history of social justice. Led by Bonnie Neumeier from Peaslee Center.

March 30: No class, Princeton Spring Break.

April 6: Introduction to Metropole, visit residents.

April 13: Visit with Metropole residents.

April 20: Visit with Metropole residents.

April 27: Visit with Metropole residents.

May 4: Visit with Metropole residents.

May 11: Process/compile images for show.

May 28: Show work.

New Voices gives Princeton High School students an opportunity to learn and voice their opinions about low income housing beginning this March.

New Voices began its programming in August, 2009 with a group of SCPA creative writing students seeking a more meaningful connection with the Over the Rhine community in which their school is located. Students partnered with the Drop Inn Center, Cincinnati's largest homeless shelter to learn about its work and to form artistic collaborations with residents of the Center engaged in a creative writing program. Students also learned about the extensive development program initiated by 3CDC to reinvigorate and ignite reinvestment in retail and residential development of Over the Rhine.

Click here to see work by SCPA students.

This March, Princeton High School students will study issues of low income housing in downtown Cincinnati by learning about the history of social justice in Cincinnati, the current state of Over-the-Rhine and the develoopment efforts at the Metropole Apartment Building in downtown Cincinnati.

In the Fall of 2010, New Voices will continue with Sycamore High School Students.