"Safeties are the last line of defense, and are thus expected to be sure tacklers. The free safety tends to keep some distance from the line of scrimmage, watch the play unfold, and follow the ball... Free safeties occasionally blitz as well" --Wikipedia, "Safety (American football position)."
Much like the mighty free safety*, Operations Manager Jenn Olivia unequivocally holds the BAVC team together and defends us against enemy plays. We sat her down for the WHAT I DO interview to hear about the good, the bad, and the HVAC.
The BAVC Board of Directors holds periodic and scheduled meetings in connection with its responsibility to oversee all BAVC operations. The BAVC Board conducts meetings in person, over the telephone and online. Twice a year, the BAVC Board invites the public to attend and participate in meetings related to SF Commons. These BAVC Board meetings are designated as "Public Meetings." For Public Meetings held in person, members of the public are invited to attend in person at the announced meeting location. For Public Meetings held via telephone or online, members of the public may access the meeting in real time by dialing into the designated conference call service or accessing the online meeting service provider.
In the new WHAT I DO interview series, we sideline BAVC Digital Pathways Audio Instructor Chris Runde.
Chris is a quiet storm. When not teaching digital audio to youth during the school year, he brings a dignified élan to the office every single day. We decided to sit him down for a heart-to-heart G-Chat about what makes him tick. Turns out, it can be found in the Whole Foods deli case.
Charisette Li joins BAVC's Next Generation department through the Chan Fellows Program. Charisette is a third-year undergraduate studying English at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. She is interested in using social media and journalism to help increase awareness of social issues and support the work of NGOs. In her public service involvements focused on journalism, Charisette has used her passion for NGO journalism at NeochaEDGE where she researched, interviewed, and reported on emerging underground Chinese artists. She has also served as the associate producer for the first documentary on Twitter. As impressive as this is, no one is safe from the BAVC Newbie Quiz. So, without further ado...
The Factory held its year-end screening on Tuesday, August 24th at the Pacific Film Artchive on the UC-Berkeley campus. The event featured the collected work from the past school year and summer: more than a dozen documentary, narrative and experimental films, many of which have already screened to acclaim around the country. The Factory year-end show also provided an opportunity to premiere the three documentaries that Factory youth made this summer while in partnership with East Bay non-profit organizations. Representatives from these three organizations - The Edible Schoolyard, Baypeace, and The Hatlen Center for the Blind - will all be in attendance at the event.
The screening will also provide an opportunity for BAVC's NextGen program to distribute copies of its newly-printed "Best of NextGen DVD," a compliation of the best films from the last seven years of youth programming.
at UC – Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive
2575 Bancroft Way
(Between College and Telegraph)
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tuesday, August 24th
Snacks, discussion at 6pm
Screening at 7pm
Panel discussion with the filmmakers to follow
For more information, contact: Jason Jakaitis at
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or 510.836.1055
BAVC is pleased to welcome Zoë Banks into a new position at BAVC: Web + Social Media Strategist. Most of you probably know Zoë already since she's been at BAVC for almost three years, working with all of you to get you into the classes you want and need in our Training and Resources Department. After some of Zoë's stellar blogs and vlogs it became clear that Zoë has so much to offer we needed her talents in BAVC's Social Media world. So at long last we get to pretend that Zoë is a BAVC Newbie and ask her all of those questions the rest of us have been subjected to over the last couple of years. So, Zoë:
The BAVC Blog 
