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Adobe Youth Voices and Next Gen’s Career Panel
On February 11, BAVC Media Next Gen and Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) held a career panel for young professionals at City College of San Francisco. The panelists shared advice and discussed how they've forged careers in the game, design, film, coding and audio industries.
Next Gen students talk racial justice on KALW’s ‘Your Call’
Three Next Gen students made their radio debut last month on KALW’s Your Call program, hosted by Rose Aguilar. The discussion was candid, with students touching on the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement, their own experiences interacting with the police, and how young people have plenty to contribute to social justice movements.
“I would be lucky if I found one”: Reflections on the 2015 Lesbians Who Tech Summit
The Lesbians Who Tech Summit, held at the Castro Theatre in February, created a radical, wonderful, alternate reality in which the tech industry wasn’t represented by the shirtless brogrammers on Dice.com’s now-ubiquitous billboards, but by the 1,200 (mostly) queer women in attendance.
Recap: Makers, Learners, Seekers
I recently had the opportunity to participate in the webinar "Makers, Learners, Seekers: Showcasing Your Work Through Portfolios and Certification" as part of @america's Makers in American Spaces webinar series, where the audience explored non-traditional ways of assembling knowledge outside of the classroom.
Reflecting on the Preservation Access Program’s First Year
By Moriah Ulinskas In the Spring of 2013 BAVC Media launched the Preservation Access Program [INSERT LINK], a program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The goal of this program is to connect individual artists and small to medium-sized arts and culture organizations to resources for audiovisual preservation planning and to subsidize (by as much as 70%) the cost of preservation migration (digitization) for participants accepted into the program. Our goal was to get artists and organizations to think about the future of their legacy recordings and to do the work of inspecting and inventorying their tapes and understanding how [...]
Return of the Open Mic Night
For the superstitious scheduling a live television show for Friday the 13th might seem like a bad idea. But for SF Commons Producers, the return of the Open Mic Night was all the more memorable precisely because it took place on 3/13/15. The free-form flow of the Open Mic Night is very much a part of the history of San Francisco Public Access television, and is a tradition that pre-dates SF Commons itself. Captured by a traditional three-camera studio setup, the Open Mic offers BAVC Media's diverse community of Producers a chance to share and celebrate their voices together. Black Diva Media's Idell Wilson, known for her lively [...]
#SFCOMMONSENSE: FOURTH FRIDAYS WITH SF COMMONS
Free expression is at the heart of public access television. As many of the Public Access Producers are longtime City residents, their accounts and memories of San Francisco and the changes that have occurred in their tenure here provide rich material for their shows. This Spring, SF Commons staff launched #SFCommonSense a new live show that brings together members of the public access community to showcase their diversity of opinion. While topics vary each month, the spontaneous dialogue is intended to tap into concerns of San Francisco’s residents, old and new, alike. The first panel, held in March, tackled issues facing women today for [...]
Highlights from BAVC Media’s first Bridges Fellowship
The following reflections were provided by two peer mentors from the Bridges Fellowship program, which just completed two intensive week-long series of career workshops and trainings in June and July.
Watch: Dark Room – The Factory’s Summer Filmmaking Showcase
If you missed Dark Room, the summer screening by students in BAVC Media’s advanced video production program, The Factory, you can still watch the films online. What you won’t be able to experience was the amazing ambiance of the Roxie’s large theater, free slices donated by Goat Hill Pizza and the most delicious juices and smoothies donated by Voila! Juice Co., and the voices of the filmmakers themselves reflecting on their work.
Read Now: BAVC Media Preservation on Jerome Caja’s Home Videos
Pop over to our Preservation program's Tumblr to read BAVC Media Preservation Fellow Lauren O’Connor's eloquent post about the significance gleaned from preserving the intimate home recordings of the late, great San Francisco visual artist, performer, and drag queen Jerome Caja. O'Connor writes: The great pleasure of preservation is to pop in an unassuming, archaic tape and, while digitizing, encounter a world or a person that one has never encountered before… and to play a small part in keeping that content alive for somebody else to encounter and be inspired by one day. Go read the whole thing! BAVC Media is digitizing Caja's tapes [...]
