|
|
Channeling the Upper Valley
5 S. Main Street, 1st floor, White River Junction, VT 05001
| |
|
February 14, 2024
Thank you for considering a gift to support JAM's non-profit mission to build community through the media arts.
| |
|
"Afrofuturist Sci-Fi Punk Musical"
That's the mind-bending genre of film Neptune Frost, which premiered at Cannes and showed at WRIF (White River Indie Film Festival) in 2022. Filmed in Rwanda and set in Burundi, it tells the tale of an technokinetic runaway who falls in love with a laborer who mines high-tech ore. Dartmouth College professors Iyabo Kwayana and Misty De Berry dug deep into this acclaimed film and its significance in the history of Afrofuturism as a subgenre in a WRIF conversation moderated by Prof. Desirée Garcia. (The film is now available for streaming.)
| |
|
Coming up for air
Burlington, VT, playwright and poet isaiah a. hines took the stage at JAGFest 4.0. He describes his play (Re)Surface: A Poetics of Fish/Flesh as a "body drama" incorporating poetry, prostheses, gestures, drama" incorporating poetry, prostheses, gesture, and jazz that considers the queer black disabled existence. Born and raised in Vermont, isaiah’s work has a particular investment in the Black outdoors, black environmentalisms, geographies and ecologies, "an effort at rhapsodizing the monumentality of everyday black rural life."
| |
|
The power of the gaze
This WRIF conversation led by JAM board member Tamara Waraschinski with Taylor Ho Bynum, Director of the Coast Jazz Orchestra; Alisa Swindell, HOOD Curator of Photography; Lechelle Gray, Associate at the Creative Discourse Group; and filmmaker/JAM producer Jordyn Fitch unpacked issues of the cinematic gaze and power unearthed in Alain Gomis' documentary Rewind and Play (WRIF 2023, now streaming). The film's immersive portrait of Thelonious Monk shares unseen archival footage highlighting systemic discrimination while underscoring Monk's artistic brilliance, resilience, and composure in the face of disrespect and intolerance.
| |
JAM makes local government and school meetings for Hartford, Norwich, and Hartland, VT; Hanover, NH and Lebanon, NH (SAU88 only) available to the public. Watch LIVE on JAM cable channels 1075/1085 (Comcast) or 169/170 VTEL, streaming or JAM YouTube, or search JAM On-Demand for your town's meeting recordings. Pictured: Hartland School Board 02/06/24 | |
|
@ JAM & Briggs Opera House
| |
White River Indie Film Festival
Feb. 15-18
@JAM & Briggs Opera House
| Click above for WRIF 2024 trailer sneak peak at the best of new global and local indie cinema on the big screen at our 19th annual White River Indie Film Festival! Oscar-nominated yet-to-be released features, Emerging Filmmaker winning shorts, filmmaker talk-backs and panels, "Filmmaker Friday" workshops, and of course – the PARTIES! Opening night Gala 2/16 and Vampire Dance Party 2/17. THANK YOU sponsors and community partners for making WRIF possible! | |
Pre-Pre WRIF Opening Night
Feb. 14 9-11:30pm
@Briggs Opera House
The "Creature Feature Club" is back to do the time warp with you again this Valentines Day! Join us for an interactive, sexy, queer, freaky show with the traditions you love and some new surprises. Reserve your tickets with any WRIF pass! Otherwise admission is free by donation and first-come-first-served. Goody bags available for any donation amount ($10 recommended). This event is 17+.
| |
Shark-tank style competition
Feb. 15 6:00-7:30PM
FREE @Briggs Opera House
JAM is elated to once again host #PitchFest 2.0, a shark-tank style
competition where local film and media makers have 5 minutes to pitch their
ideas to a panel of judges in front of a live audience with the hopes of winning money to bring their vision to life. Come make some noise for local filmmakers at #Pitchfest 2.0, then stay for the premiere of CUSTODIAN, PitchFest 2023 winner Loren Howard's debut feature at 9PM.
| |
Media Arts Exhibit
Opens Feb. 15 - March 29
FREE @JAM M-F 9AM-5PM
Inspired by their love for the Metropolitan Opera's production of Akhnaten, twin sisters Amy and Terry Lawrence set out to re-create it in animation, crafting costumes, sets, and filming scenes in stop-motion, blending Terry's theater expertise with Amy's film background. They have gone on to produce many more, from music videos to full-fledged musicals. See their unique films and the sets and figurines on display at JAM.
| |
|
Media Literacy + Creativity
Starts June 24 - August 2
One-week JAM Camp, Animation Intensive, and 2-week Film Intensive are open for registration! Grades 4 through high school grads. Fee assistance/waiver available thanks to grants from Adimab, Jack & Dorothy Byrne Foundation, and Jane B. Cook Trust.
| |
|
What's your JAM?
JAM Equipment Orientation
Wed Feb 21 5:30-6:15 PM
Learn how to use our circulating A/V gear available FREE for local residents to achieve your production goals. Orientations cover proper handling. Let JAM help you fulfill your new year's resolutions to make that movie or podcast!
| |
The Briggs Opera House welcomes community arts groups to the historic theater in White River Junction, VT. JAM partners with Shaker Bridge Theater to manage rental reservations for available dates, with optional media production services when available. | |
|
@ JAM Podcasts & Audiobooks
| | |
|
|
MORE SCREAMING!
Ryan and David continue to seek everlasting world peace via tribal drumming, bureaucratic shenanigans, and light nudity. A cavalcade of colorful friends drop by to posit off the cuff theories about the meaning of life. Check out episode 5 – "We can't answer your questions"!
| | |
|
From around the region...
JAM (CATV) partners with the Vermont Access Network (VAN) for HD (high def) community-produced content on Comcast 1070 (VT) and streaming everywhere.
| |
JAM – Junction Arts & Media supports lifelong learning to engage the tools of media for individual and community expression in the Upper Valley. | |
|
JAM – Junction Arts & Media
5 S. Main Street, 1st Floor (in the Newberry Market)
White River Junction, VT 05001
Contact us at info@uvjam.org
| | | | |
