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Transmission E13 – A Local Show Celebrating the Artistic Voices of San Francisco
Segment 1 (1:27)Autumn Moon Festival-An annual festival celebrated when the moon is believed to be the biggest and fullest; in order to honor the moon’s symbolic relationship with the important fall harvest. In Chinese culture, a full moon is a symbol of prosperity, happiness, and family reunion. San Francisco's Chinatown holds a  yearly celebration of the 1000-year- old holiday for locals and visitors alike. Segment 2 (8:00)Institute on Aging One Love- Seniors citizens learn to the art of graffiti from LA artist Man One. Segment 3 (12:48)SF Commons Special- Public Access Television serves the city as one of the last [...]
Transmission E12 – A Local Show Celebrating the Artistic Voices of San Francisco
Segment 1 (1:00)Black Lives Matter- Black Lives Matter protest at San Francisco’s Civic Center. Segment 2 (5:25)Moving Words- Moving Words is a collaboration between the men in the Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP), facilitators in the USF Performing Arts and Social Justice Department and the Bay Area Video Coalition - SF Stories. The class was an opportunity to develop and create personal artistic expressions while developing creative material as a group. Featured here is a collection of voices, music, flows, rhythms, movement and writing. With support provided by the San Francisco Arts Commission. Segment 3 (16:58)BAVC Media's The [...]
Transmission E11 – A Local Show Celebrating the Artistic Voices of San Francisco
Segment 1 (00:58)San Francisco Pride Parade- Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Celebration, usually known as San Francisco Pride, is a parade and festival held at the end of June each year in San Francisco, California, to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their allies. This segment features highlights from the 2016 Parade. Segment 2 (10:37)Institute on Aging LGBT Senior Prom- On June 18th 2016, Institute on Aging hosted its very first LGBT senior prom. Sadly, many in the LGBT community have been victims of abuse, bullying, and oppression. This abuse prevented many from enjoying/attending their high [...]
Transmission E10 – A Local Show Celebrating the Artistic Voices of San Francisco
Segment 1 (1:21)Beyond the Blues- Ending the Prison Industrial Complex led by composer, bassist, and bandleader, Marcus Shelby, the series explores the prison industrial complex, restorative justice, prison abolition, the death penalty, the school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration, and more. The evenings include special guests, readings, live and recorded music, poetry, and video. These discussions are open to anyone interested in ending the prison industrial complex and how music and art can be used as a powerful vehicle in that process. Â Segment 2 (7:08)Borderlands-On Mothers Day 2015, Naima Shalhoub and her band went into the Women's County Jail in San [...]
Transmission E09 – A Local Show Celebrating the Artistic Voices of San Francisco
Segment 1 (1:10)2016 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival-The 2016 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival now celebrating its 49th year, is one of California’s most prominent celebrations of Asian traditions. Each year, over 200,000 people attend this dazzling display showcasing the color and grace of the Japanese culture and the diversity of the Japanese American Community. Segment 2 (3:15)Emory Douglas - Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers presenting his work to the Bridges Fellowship at BAVC Media.Emory Douglas served as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party creating graphics and illustrations that became iconic for their portrayal of [...]
We Are SF: Pathways To Citizenship
At the Bay Area Video Coalition, much of our work is to share diverse stories through art, education, and technology. For this reason, we are especially excited about the work being done by BAVC Media Productions in collaboration with the California Arts Council and San Francisco Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs (OCEIA). OCEIA offers a series of free citizenship workshops as part of its San Francisco Pathways to Citizenship Initiative. The initiative brings together multiple philantrophic organizations and community-based naturalization service providers to “develop new approaches, methodologies and service delivery models to promote citizenship and civic participation among San Francisco’s [...]
BAVC MediaMaker Fellows Get Some Attention
Courtesy of Michele Carlson and Art Practical. Photo: Michele Carlson. Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman first came to BAVC Media in 2012 as MediaMaker Fellows with their documentary project Living Condition, which vividly illustrates the experiences of those who have, or have had, family members on death row through an unexpected technique, animation. This unique approach provides Hibbert-Jones and Talisman with a broader palette with which to represent the descriptive and affective turns of their subjects’ testimonies while it starkly frames capital punishment in terms of what its human cost. We caught up with the duo – who are partners [...]
