Events

Keeping the oral storytelling culture alive in the Digital Age

At the end of the five-day training, the participants presented their stories on four different themes: Mental health, Child sexual abuse, LGBTIQ and Entrepreneurship. As the child sexual abuse story was being presented at the listening exhibition on the final day, the Executive Director of Organization for Youth Empowerment...

BY BCMD Media Lab

Celebrating the ending of 2021 Media lab class

Students and faculty from Motithang Higher Secondary School (MHSS) gathered together in the month of November at MHSS to celebrate the closing of yet another successful series of multimedia classes at the Media Lab. This initiative was a result of the wonderful friendship and shared belief in making learning...

BY BCMD Media Lab

Learning Video Editing Skills

The Media lab is alive with 73 high school students who attend regular weekly sessions to learn practical skills of using Adobe Premiere Pro to edit their videos. Tshering Selden, a student of 12 Arts B expressed that she enjoyed the video editing sessions and also joined the trainer...

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Media Lab class for Motithang Students Resumes

“Most of my media students have learned about movie, photography editing…when they have the equipment and they can practice on their own, that is an advantage for the students,” shared Ms. Jigme Choden, Principal of Motithang Higher Secondary School. In the month of August, Motithang students resumed their media...

BY BCMD Media Lab

Equipping Youth with Multimedia Skills

Over the years, the Media Lab fostered an innovative learning space for youth, where they were educated on using different multimedia tools. The ongoing sessions with the students of Motithang Higher Secondary School contribute to extending this initiative to youth in schools. Following the introduction to photography, students were...

BY BCMD Media Lab

Learning the Basics of Photography

“The students are lucky to be availing these multimedia sessions because when I was a student, there were limited opportunities to pursue my interest in multimedia,” says Siseer Chettri, the trainer for the Photography Basics sessions. The successful partnerships in the last two years with Motithang Higher Secondary School...

BY BCMD Media Lab

Davos Lab Dialogues

The Davos Lab Dialogue builds on the momentum generated from Reset! at The Media Lab conversation series conducted at the end of 2020. The Dialogues provide a space and platform to inspire, empower and connect young people around the world in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic through a grassroots response...

BY BCMD Media Lab

Basic Photography Training Closing

“I came to the photography training only expecting to learn how to take photos, however during the training I learnt that photography is also about telling stories” Tshering Selden, Grade 12, Motithang Higher Secondary School Family and friends joined the closing event of the Basic Photography Training on Sunday...

BY BCMD Media Lab

Basic Photography Training Commences

“Most people think photography is just about pressing the shutter button but when you photograph wildlife, you have to first develop a relationship to your subject. You have to wait for hours for the birds to come to you; then you have to make them trust you that you won’t harm...

BY BCMD Media Lab

Reset! At The Media Lab

The ‘Reset! at The Media Lab’ was initiated in order to provide a platform for young adults to converse with experts in different fields. The platform enables participants to connect with their country’s socio-economic and political issues by bringing them into conversation with practitioners who have the wisdom of...

BY BCMD Media Lab

Reimagining Bhutan’s Education & Economy

Three diverse speakers, an undergraduate student, an independent consultant in the field of Education & Social Development, and a teacher discussed in great length the impacts of the pandemic and its future implications in the forum “Reimagining Bhutan’s Education & Economy”.   Overall, by bringing together diverse speakers and audience,...

BY BCMD Media Lab

Facilitation training to co-facilitate the Youth Summit

Twelve YI participants with demonstrated leadership potential and interest underwent facilitation training to co-facilitate the Youth Summit expected to be attended by over 100 youths from around Bhutan. In the interest of collaboration, two youths from the Youth Centre in Paro were also trained in facilitation skills so that...

BY BCMD Media Lab

Amplifying citizens voice through filmmaking

15 participants attended a 10-day advanced filmmaking training resulting culminating in the screening of five short films. The training was designed in a way that stimulates social and civic consciousness in the participants first. This was achieved through bringing participants in conversations with professionals from the government agencies and...

BY BCMD Media Lab

The 13 Volunteer from Paro College of Education, Media Club practice for the upcoming theatrical performance at Paro.

BY BCMD Media Lab

Nuns to be smart on use of social media

The training enabled nuns to judge the credibility of information and news. For the first time, 16 nuns from nunneries in Thimphu attended a three-day News and Media Literacy Training from 30 August – 1 September at Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy’s Media Lab at Nazhoen Pelri Complex...

BY BCMD Media Lab

YI winter Camp 2019

Awakening socio-political consciousness: Winter YI kicks off at our Media Lab in Nazhoen Pelri Complex. “Through this cross the line activity, I feel blessed because I thought I was alone in these concerns but found out that others went through experiences that are even more challenging than mine,” said...

BY BCMD Media Lab

MDL for Teachers of Special Needs School

The Special Needs School teachers were trained on how to deal with flurry of unregulated and unverified information to make them smart and responsible consumers and creators of digital information. A total of 17 teachers from Wangsel Institute in Paro and Muenseling Institute of Khaling, Trashigang and an employee...

BY BCMD Media Lab

Photography Training

Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy  is training media officials from the Parliament in Photography. The first day of the training started with the composition, exposure triangle and co-relationship between Aperture, Shutter, and ISO. Thank you International IDEA for supporting us.

BY BCMD

Through the lens of the youth

The second day started with the recap from the first day. The participants then learnt how to find the right composition and how to identify the main point of interest. During the afternoon they learned how lenses control the image and then the participants went out on field work...

BY BCMD Media Lab

Through the lens of the youth

Photography Training 21 youth from Motithang Higher Secondary School attended the three days training at the BCMD Media Lab organised by BCMD in collaboration with UNICEF. The youth’s learned about how to identify the subject and composition. “Using Depth of field and learning how to use it, gave me...

BY BCMD Media Lab

The Media Lab maintenance

The Media Lab carried out a regular maintenance to provide better facilities to the Media Lab members and visitors.

BY BCMD Media Lab

Media Classes with Motithang Higher Secondary School

The students from Motithang Higher Secondary School had their regular media classes at the BCMD Media Lab. This week they learnt how to write a script. As an activity the students did a short activity, where they acted on a script with different emotional situations involved. “It’s not only...

BY BCMD Media Lab

Upcoming training

BCMD in collaboration with UNICEF is organising: Photography Training for “In school youth”  If you are interested please contact: Pasang Dorji Contact No: 02 339725/ 77223957 Email: passangdorji@bcmd.bt

BY BCMD Media Lab

Learning to lead the change

Learning to lead the change @Peer Facilitation with BCMD. Thank You UNICEF Bhutan for your continued support. This will go a long way in creating a socially conscious citizenry to lead the “CHANGE”.

BY BCMD

News and Media Literacy for CSOs

In the wake of increasing incidents of online confrontations, misinformation, fake news, and disinformation, Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy (BCMD) is stepping up its efforts to expand its News and Media Literacy workshop. On June 29-30 BCMD conducted another workshop at its Media Lab for 24 communications officers...

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Second Photo Exhibition by Adolescents

Monks and nuns with 10 other out-of-school adolescents concluded their second photo exhibition on May 4-5 that was held at Royal Textile Academy. Sharing his experience at the exhibition, one of the participants, Deyon Phuntsho said that the training made him realise that attractive photography is not just about...

BY BCMD in collaboration with UNICEF

Multimedia Training Begins for Youth

Students will learn film-making for the next few months with BCMD. This year, 46 students from Motithang Higher Secondary School are attending multimedia training in Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy (BCMD) Media Lab at Nazhoen Pelri Complex in Thimphu every Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. BCMD trained another...

BY BCMD

Youth to Address Local Issues

The participants visited the parliament to interact with officials from the National Assembly Secretariat Proposed Local Action Plans Zero Waste Policy Advocacy to Reduce Teenage Pregnancy 3Rs (Reuse, Reduce, and Recycle) of Paper Environmental Education Advocacy to Reduce Alcoholism A total of 24 students from schools in Thimphu and colleges...

BY BCMD

Photography Refresher Course for Nuns and Monks

Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy conducted the training in collaboration with UNICEF Bhutan at the centre’s Media Lab from 22-23 February. A total of 10 nuns from Drubthob Thangtong Dewachen Nunnery and Dechen Phodrang Monastery and a few other adolescents attended the refresher course facilitated by local photographers....

BY BCMD in collaboration with UNICEF

Conversation to Reflect Civil Society in Bhutan

Sustainability remains a big issue with the young civil society in Bhutan  Civil society in Bhutan might have taken a huge stride with receipt of a National Order of Merit (Gold) in 2016 from His Majesty The King, but sustainability remains a serious issue with most of the civil...

BY BCMD

Teachers were educated on being a smart news consumer.

Teachers were educated on being a smart news consumer. Teachers from a number of private schools and colleges in the country were trained on Media and Democracy Literacy during a two-day workshop Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy conducted from April 23-24 at its Media Lab in Nazhoen (Youth Development...

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Creating Opportunity to Tell Untold Stories

Members of civil society organisations (CSOs), government, and out-of-school youth were trained in multi-media production from March 24-27. A total of 17 participants attended the multimedia training facilitated by a member of Friendship Association Denmark Bhutan, Marie Thesbjerg Denmark. Besides filming, the participants learned important elements of production such...

BY BCMD

Inspiring active citizenship

  Think Critically When Consuming Information             Participants found the News and Media Literacy most relevant in the age of digital information. Increasing number of people including the members of civil society, teachers, nuns, and monks found News and Media Literacy workshop relevant and...

BY BCMD