Scribe Video Center, the local nonprofit with a 35-year history of educating youth and adults on how to use electronic media as a tool for social change, has recently moved to a new location. The organization moved from its temporary home at 41st and Walnut to 3908 Lancaster Ave., where all in-house events and workshops will now be held. Currently, the organization is accepting donations that will go toward furnishing their new headquarters, including tables, chairs, speakers and more. Any size donation is welcome; for more information and how to donate, please visit this page.

Speaking of workshops, a new workshop series, “How to Create Your Own Podcast,” kicks off at Scribe Video tonight, at 7 p.m., and some spots may still be available. Participants will learn the basics of podcasting and how to develop their podcast ideas into fully-formed audio productions. Information on this and other upcoming workshops is available here. 

Scribe Video Center is also hosting several film screenings this and next month, including the Philadelphia premiere of Feminists: What Were They Thinking?, directed by Johanna Demetrakas. More information can be found here.

And here’s more great news for Scribe: In addition to community workshops and film screenings, the organization has been working on several community projects, and one of them, Muslim Voices, has just won a major award that will help expand it nationally. The project began seven years ago with a goal to deeply acknowledge and connect with Philadelphia’s Muslim population, and through Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Building Bridges Program funding, will be expanding out to other states.

“Scribe Video Center will be sharing with and teaching interested groups in other cities and states its methodology for co-creating with and producing the stories of Muslim organizations and communities—ultimately to support a stronger national understanding of Americans of all kinds,” Nina Chung, a communications associate for Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, wrote us in an email.

“Over time, the ‘Muslim Voices’ project has become a model for the nation … It is for this work that Scribe Video Center was selected out of 200 strong applicants to our funding competition and joins a cohort of only 15 organizations winning our support.”

(Photos courtesy of Scribe Video Center)