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Building community in the Upper Valley of NH and VT through the media arts.

Weekly Highlights // April 16, 2025

WATCH

@ Streaming on UVJAM.ORG, JAM On-Demand, JAM YouTube, and the Cablecast app

JAM Government Channel on Comcast 1085/VTel 170

JAM Upper Valley Channel on Comcast 1075/VTel 169

Zines & comics

TWISTin' zines!


Throwback to the third annual Twin State Comic and Zine Fair (TWIST)! Eager patrons browsed zines, comics, and art by 30+ local cartoonists and zinesters at the Upper Valley’s only comic and zine fair! 10/4/24 produced by Chico Eastridge & Kushal Jayakumar for JAM.

Storytelling

Cringe worthy


Laugh, cringe, and cry at funny and heartfelt autobiographical stories recited from memory by 8 superb storytellers at the AVA Gallery & Art Center’s most recent Mudroom storytelling event. 3/13/25 produced by Richard Neugass & Jan Abbott for JAM.

Vermont history

Coming home


Explore the search for home with the WRIF 2025 talkback for Far Out: Life on & After the Commune, a film about radical journalists who left cities to live communally as farmers in 1968. 2/16/25 produced by Jay Beaudoin, Jordyn Fitch, Maeve Littau, & Mike Cannon for JAM.

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT @ JAM

Pictured: Hartland Selectboard 4/7/25

This week's civic highlight: The Hartland Selectboard members discuss road maintenance and the town and highway capital plan. Tune into JAM's coverage of this or your town's government and school board meetings live or pre-recorded @ UVJAM.ORG/WATCH

View Public Meetings

CALL TO ACTION

@ VOTE for JAM!

"Best Nonprofit" Contest by SEVEN DAYSIES!


Help us win a $10K grant from the Vermont Community Foundation by voting for JAM! (1st round ends 4/28)


INSTRUCTIONS:

1) Click the link below. Sign in to register your name, ZIP, and email. Confirm your registration w/ code sent to your email.

2) Link should return you to the "Best Nonprofit Voting Page" (first link).

3) Type in JAM, and select JAM – Junction Arts and Media from the dropdown menu

VOTE for JAM here

GATHER

@ JAM

Zine workshop

Make a breakup zine

Fri May 2 5-7PM

FREE @JAM


We’ve all been through a breakup…but have you ever made a zine about it? On First Friday, join CCS Fellow Arantza Peña Popo in finding catharsis through making zines about heartbreak!

Register Here

Community dialogue

"Healthcare is a Human Right"

Sun Apr 27 2-4PM

FREE @JAM


Share healthcare stories at the VT Workers’ Center's presentation on Medicaid cuts and how we can fight back! Snacks provided!

RSVP Here

Video & board games

Game Night

Every 4th Tuesday

Tue Apr 25 7-8:30PM

FREE @JAM


Play video and board games! We provide the games and consoles, but you can bring your controller. 14+ or accompanied by an adult.

RSVP Here

JAM events are made possible in part by grants from VT Humanities, VT Arts Council, NH Charitable Foundation, the Couch Family Foundation, and by charitable contributions from community members like you!

FILM @ HOPKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS & JAM

Get Tickets Here

No Other Land

Sun April 27 4:30PM

Ticketed event @ Loew Auditorium


A WRIF encore and Oscar-winning vérité doc follows a Palestinian activist and Israeli journalist as they work together to document the destruction in the West Bank. Discussion follows. Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Department of History, the Leslie Center for the Humanities and JAM - Junction Arts & Media. 

YOUR "HUMAN ALGORITHM"

JAM Staff Featurette: Sharing the humans behind the magic of JAM

Production Manager

Jordyn Fitch


What do you do?  I manage productions and make sure that we cover as many community events we can. I also do a ton of media education with folks of all ages. 

What do you love about JAM? I love the creative and aggressively wholesome workplace environment. I also love that our bottom line is providing a service and creative outlet to the community and everyone who lives here. 

What upcoming event are you excited about? I'm hyped for pride prom! It's one of my favourite JAM tentpole events.

CREATE

Media Education @ JAM

NEW! Youth leadership opportunity

Youth Media Advisory Board

1 monthly meeting (time TBD)

Applications now open


Are you an influencer? Or an aspiring one? Join the JAM Youth Media Advisory board to share YOUR opinions on social media and digital well-being and influence programs at JAM! (Ages 15-21)

Apply Here

Youth media arts camps

JAM High School Animation & Film Intensive Camps

July 14 - Aug 1

Registration now open


We still have spaces for high schoolers to dive into media arts at JAM this summer! 1- and 2-week camps. For high schoolers.

Register

JAM media education programs are made possible in part by grants from Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, Jane B. Cooke Trust, the Joyful Living Fund, Adimab LLC, the Couch Family Foundation,

and donations from community members like you!

Community Arts space available for rentals

Reserve the Briggs Opera House

for your next event or show

The Briggs Opera House welcomes community arts groups to the historic theater in White River Junction, VT. JAM partners with Shaker Bridge Theatre to manage rental reservations for available dates, with optional media production services when available.

Reserve the Briggs Opera House

SUPPORT JAM

How does my gift help JAM?

When you make a gift to JAM – Junction Arts & Media, your donation enables JAM to empower all Upper Valley residents to have a creative voice, actively participate in local democracy, and find joy and belonging in the Upper Valley community. JAM is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Your gift may be tax-deductible.

Give to JAM 

JAM Drip

Spring is here... Look cool for a worthy cause! Check out the selection of mugs, hoodies, t-shirts, crop-tops and more available at Strong Rabbit Design. A portion of all proceeds supports JAM's nonprofit work to build community in the Upper Valley through media arts.

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JAM – Junction Arts & Media

Contact us at info@uvjam.org

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