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2012 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies
Six social issue documentary teams were selected to develop interactive web, mobile, multimedia, and game projects at BAVC Media's 2012 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies from from October 12 - 19, 2012 in San Francisco. Projects included stories from local, national, and international producers on a wide range of social justice topics including homelessness, immigration, economic justice, educational opportunity, democracy and human rights. Producers Institute 2012 was presented in partnership with ITVS and Mozilla. Additional support wass generously provided by the Adobe Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Fledgling Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The Wyncote Foundation. Venue sponsors included [...]
Lost Treasures from Bay Area Art Archives
BAVC Media received funding from the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation to support a unique, collaborative effort to digitally preserve and exhibit seminal Bay Area audiovisual works that would otherwise be lost forever. BAVC Media's Preservation department worked with graduate students in California College for the Arts' Curatorial Practice program to assess hundreds of audiovisual assets from the archives of four iconic Bay Area art institutions — Southern Exposure, Headlands Center for the Arts, SF Cinematheque, and Intersection for the Arts — selecting 40 key pieces that have now been digitally preserved. Spanning the genres of experimental film, visual arts, literature, performance, music, and educational programs, the artists and works [...]
Preserving Dance Heritage
In 2007, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Dance Heritage Coalition (DHC) embarked on The Dance Heritage Coalition Dance Preservation and Digitization Project (DHC DPDP), an ambitious project to preserve and make accessible vital dance documentation, rare performances, and other notable works of America’s dance legacy. As the nation's sole non-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, and making accessible America’s dance legacy materials, the DHC encourages, initiates, and develops collaborative projects among the dance communities, library and archival fields, scholarly institutions, and individuals in four essential areas: access to materials; the continuing documentation of dance employing both [...]
SF Commons Open House
Come join SF Commons – San Francisco public access television, for our open house on September 6th from 7-8pm. There are many ways to participate in SF Commons. Public Access TV is a great way to get involved with your local community and to learn digital media skills. Come tour our facilities, meet the staff and network with other producers. For current SF Commons members there also will be an update on what’s new.  Come hear about the new Community Advisory Group that will start to meet in October 2013, and the new automated remote upload system that enables producers to submit [...]
Bye Bye Bullying
October is anti-bullying awareness month and the San Francisco District Attorney's office is presenting Bye Bye Bullying,  a video contest for middle school and high school students. Cyberbullying is a serious problem affecting 52% of the students in the U.S.  It involves using technology, like smart phones and the Internet, to bully or harass another person.  To recognize Anti-Bullying Awareness Month, the Women’s Steering Committee of the San Francisco District Attorney’s office announces the second video contest for students to address cyberbullying and harassment. The purpose of the contest is to encourage youth to discuss cyberbullying more openly and develop positive [...]
VA Recognizes BAVC Media with Golden Gate Bridge Award
This morning we were honored to be part of a gathering of veterans and program staff at the San Francisco V.A. Medical Center, where BAVC Media was awarded a Golden Gate Bridge Award "for outstanding efforts in expanding social, leisure, or work connections within the community." Our work with veterans is through an ongoing partnership with the Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center (PRRC), an important set of services and programs that support veterans who have mental illness. At the event, several veterans who have been through these outstanding recovery programs received awards recognizing their individual and personal achievements; and they were [...]
SF Stories: A Shared Experience
With support from the James Irvine Foundation's Exploring Engagement Fund, BAVC Media is working with local social service agencies to provide a series of digital storytelling workshops: SF Stories: A Shared Experience. Workshop participants learn digital storytelling from start to finish, and completing three-minute digital stories for exhibition on public access television, the Web and in non-traditional exhibition spaces, including at community events and at the social service agencies. Read more about SF Stories and BAVC Media's other digital storytelling initiatives here [internal link]. In January 2014, BAVC Media's Independent Media department launched SF Stories: A Shared Experience with our first partner organization Recovery [...]
War Gastronomy Live!
War Gastronomy Live! is a cultural heritage archive disguised as a live food and cooking show. Guests and comedians share stories and try to guess geographic trivia related to the foods they are experiencing. This project is in collaboration with Eating Cultures the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center and the Asian American Women Artists Association exhibition at SOMArts. War Gastronomy Live!  by Justin Hoover and Chris Treggiari. SF Commons and SOMArts will cablecast this event live on SF Commons: Thursday May 22nd and Friday May 23rd 7:30pm-8pm SF Comcast channel 76, Astound channel 30 and will stream online here [internal link to stream].
SF Stories: A Shared Experience – Veterans
With support from the James Irvine Foundation's Exploring Engagement Fund, BAVC Media is working with local social service agencies to provide a series of digital storytelling workshops: SF Stories: A Shared Experience. Workshop participants learn digital storytelling from start to finish, and completing three-minute digital stories for exhibition on public access television, the Web and in non-traditional exhibition spaces, including at community events and at the social service agencies. Read more about SF Stories and BAVC Media's other digital storytelling initiatives here [internal link to DS page]. Round three of SF Stories was a week-long digital storytelling bootcamp that was held at the Independent Living [...]
SF Commons to PhillyCAM: Communicating Full Value of Public Access
When the federal mandate for public access was handed down by the FCC in the 1970s, it ensured access to equipment, facilities and timeslots for independent producers of local television programming. In keeping with the times, public access stations in 2015 are often offering more services--access to broadband, for example, as well as new media training and social media tools to keep producers' content relevant in the digital era. How does this shift reflect the mission of public access? Technology has the ability to make our world both simultaneously smaller and better connected. Tying the power of television with connectivity results in [...]
