BCTV wins national video award & heads into summer!
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BCTV Wins Award
Live Events end with 7/4
Video Camp Premiere
Board Mtg & Annual Mtg Dates
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Telling the story of public access television, and doing an award-winning job of it.
Every year, BCTV's Production Manager Roland Boyden sits down to pull together clips and highlights for a "montage reel" for the Members Meeting in October. What may sound like a somewhat rote editing exercise becomes, in his hands, an opportunity for storytelling.  This is the second time in the past three years that Roland's montage video has won a Hometown Video Award from the Alliance for Community Media, a national organization of which BCTV is a member. What's unique about the 2013 montage is that it includes interviews with BCTV staff, board members, volunteer producers, and viewers. Consequently, it is a rich portrayal of the people we serve and why they feel BCTV is a critical community resource, along with being a snapshot in time of the programming we carried last year. From Roland's perspective, "having this video win confirms in a very public way what I've felt for a long time--that the videos BCTV producers are creating all the time, can have a real and positive impact on people--not just in here in our own community, but on a national level as well."

Title: BCTV Highlights: 2013 Year in Review

Category: About Access & Empowerment 
THE MONTAGE! Taking Public Access to the Next Level - 2012-2013 at BCTV
THE MONTAGE! Taking Public Access to the Next Level - 2012-2013 at BCTV
Congratulations to Roland and to everyone who was interviewed, created a program or worked on a camera for a live event last year. We can tell the story of BCTV only because you tell the stories of this community!
 
The first time, in 2011, Roland and executive director Cor Trowbridge flew to Chicago to accept the award. This year's ceremony is in Philadelphia. 

Live event season finishes with July 4th Parade
It's been a wild ride this June, with Representative Town Meeting the same week as the Slow Living Summit and Strolling of the Heifers.

One of the longest- running events on BCTV is "Brattleboro Goes Fourth", the July 4th Parade along Main Street. We'll be based at A Candle in the Night if you want to stop by to say hello. Watch live on Friday at 10 AM on Channel 8 or online by clicking here.

Slow Living Summit - one of the videos from this conference has almost 1400 views.

Strolling of the Heifers Parade - view photos here

BUHS Graduation 2014 - view photos on Facebook here

Leland & Gray Graduation 2014 - view photos here

 

Strolling group 2014
Live from the River Garden - BCTV's Heifer Stroll Crew 2014

Special thanks to our amazing volunteers who've been the backbone of our live event crew this spring: Mieke Blaushield, Joe Bushey, Janis Chaillou, Maria Dominguez, Nolan Edgar, Russ Grabiec, Martin Langeveld, Wendy Mason, Greg McAllister, Em Richards, and Kip Tewksbury.
Next week: Young Broadcasters Video Camp
Summer camp
Campers learn video skills while being wildly creative (really!)

You are invited to attend the world premiere of this year's video camp production in the BCTV Studio. It will be on Friday, July 11 at 3 PM and popcorn will be served! This tends to be a very jolly occasion with a room full of youthful energy and enthusiasm.
Upcoming Board Meeting & Save the Date!
The next BCTV Board meeting will be Wednesday, July 16 at 6 PM in the Brattleboro Municipal Center. Please call the office at 257-0888 for details. Board Meetings are open to the public. Find out more about the BCTV Board. 

BCTV's Annual Member's Meeting will be on Wednesday, October 1 at 5:30 PM in the BCTV Studio. Join us for the "State of the Station" address, producer awards, this year's montage, and our annual slideshow of volunteers and staff in action.
BCTV is community access television created by and for residents of Brattleboro, Guilford, Vernon, Putney, Dummerston, Newfane, Townshend and Jamaica, Vermont. Learn more at brattleboroTV.org or call 802-257-0888.