An Invitation to Boston Area Centers For the last two summers, BIG (Brookline Interactive Group) has participated in Crowdsourced Cinema, a public art project formed by friends at Northampton Community Television (NCTV) in which the community collaboratively remakes a famous film by assigning each of the film’s scenes to different participating teams to interpret creatively, […]
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VAN of Vermont – April 2016 report
(adapted from Patrick Cody’s report to ACM-NE) Comcast Certificate of Public Good The biggest piece of work undertaken by the Vermont Access Network (VAN) in the past few months is the review of Comcast’s Certificate of Public Good (CPG) renewal. In Vermont, a CPG is the franchise license that a utility or telecom company must […]
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 […]
We’re all invited!
Mark your calendars for an afternoon adventure into the Community Vault, a special theatrical experience of the best archive and contemporary videos produced by community TV stations and local filmmakers. We have unearthed footage, both familiar and weird, retro dance parties of the 1990’s, to narrative shorts from the 2000’s. It is truly a mosaic […]
Retrospective Community Media Screening ...
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 these archived programs alongside contemporary media work and will create a dialogue between the past and the present, asking “What has changed?” and “What […]