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What happened in Baltimore

Brendan Tenan was one of three people receiving a Paul Berg scholarship to go to the BeMore conference in July 2018.  The following comments are his take on that event: I had a great experience attending the 2018 ACM National Conference in Baltimore. I learned a lot from the panel sessions I attended. Also of equal importance […]

Three reasons to begin or renew your ACM...

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Alliance for Community Media – Northeast Region is a regional affiliate of the national Alliance for Community Media, which “represents over 3,000 Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access organizations and community media center throughout the country.” If you or your access center is a dues-paying member of ACM, you get reduced fees (sometimes to zero) […]

Who’s going to Boston in August…

…and why? Having the national Alliance conference take place as close as Boston is a once-in-a-decade opportunity for a lot of us.  Because the Northeast Region is not holding its own regional conference, we were able to offer more than one scholar­ship to Our Town next month.  The applicants and winners offered interesting thoughts on […]

One week left!

One week left!

Has your Organization now or ever been (in the last 2 years) a member of the Alliance for Community Media?  If so, there is still an opportunity to get 16 months of membership for 12 months’ worth of dues.  This offer ends next Sunday, January 31, 2016. Organizational dues are based on the size of […]

Locally Celebrating Local Access

Earlier this month Somerville’s SCATV sent an invitation to their June 20 Community Vault screening. A news article previewing the celebration appeared just before, detailing how they put it together.  But for those of us who couldn’t make the trip, how did it go? Erica Jones:  “We had around 50 people come. It was magical to see […]

Call for Entries: Community Vault Video ...

With media production technologies changing rapidly, our community is overdue for a retrospective of the productions and visions created and expressed locally over the years.  Community Vault will showcase archived programs from local Community Access TV stations alongside your contemporary media work. The program will curate these works to create a dialogue between the past […]