Make Media

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! 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].

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]