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Channeling the Upper Valley

5 S. Main Street, 1st floor, White River Junction, VT 05001

December 13, 2023

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JAM is a non-profit media arts organization that depends upon community support to make media arts programs, events and services accessible for all. We are 60% of the way to our annual giving goal for 2023 to keep it coming in 2024.

If you love JAM programs, please consider making a donation!

Pictured above: Crowdsourced VT Toy Story screening 12/10/23

JAM Advanced Animation Camp animators

Photo by Kate Barber for JAM

WATCH

Broadcasting now @ JAM Upper Valley Channel on Comcast 1075/VTel 169 & 1169

Broadcasting now @ JAM Government Channel on Comcast 1085/VTel 170 & 1170

Streaming @ uvjam.org, JAM On-Demand, YouTube

Let's "Gather"



Hooray for first-time novelist Ken Cadow of Norwich! His debut novel Gather is honored as a 2023 National Book Award finalist in the Young People's Literature category. It tells the tale of Ian Gray, a resourceful rural Vermont teen whose mother is struggling with addiction. We caught up with Cadow for his reading at the Norwich Bookstore.

Produced by Jordyn Fitch for JAM

Hartland Holiday



Let's look back at 2022's Hartland Holiday Variety Show. Highlights include traditional carols by the Hartland Holiday choir, an excerpt from Handel's 'Messiah,' a Bach suite for piano performed by Alison Cheroff, a reading from Jean Shepherd's 'In God We Trust' by Daniel Patterson, and Karen Hansen performing at 16th-century work on hurdy-gurdy, a hand-cranked string instrument.

Produced by Jan Abbott for JAM

Lynx rufus rufus

Better known as the Eastern Bobcat, this elusive 'wildcat' is fairly common in our area. Most active at twilight, it has few natural predators and only rarely attacks humans. Here, stewardship director Jason Berard of the Upper Valley Land Trust finds snowy bobcat tracks. He explains how his group designed the Clay Brook Trail in Lyme to minimize impacts to wildlife. 

Courtesy of Upper Valley Land Trust

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: SAU 70 School Board 11/28/23

GATHER

@ the JAM space

Animation workshop for all ages

Animation Domination

Saturday, Jan. 13 11AM-1PM

Free@JAM



"Animation Domination" is an inclusive workshop led by Alex Roberts for people of all ages interested in hand-drawn animation. Participants will engage in rotoscoping, tracing real video footage onto notecards, and then learn how to digitize these drawings to craft shareable animations, suitable for social media. Participants are encouraged to bring their preferred video clips, book passages, or songs to animate.

CREATE

@the JAM space

What's your JAM?

JAM Equipment Orientation

Wednesday Dec. 13 5:30-6:15 PM

CANCELLED today

Learn how to use our circulating A/V equipment available FREE for local residents to achieve your production goals. Orientations cover proper handling. Sign up for an orientation in the new year!

Reserve 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 Theater to manage rental reservations for available dates, with optional technical/media production services when available.

LISTEN

@ JAM Podcasts & Audiobooks

JAM on VT Healthy Communities Podcast

Empowering Vermonters to Make Better Places



Healthy communities require safe streets and sidewalks; inclusive gathering places and green spaces for everyone to enjoy; and easy access to medical services and fresh food. If you live in a rural town in America, these things can be hard to come by. Join Suzanne Kelley and Richard Amore in Small Towns, Healthy Places, the podcast that explores the intersection between health equity and community design in the State of Vermont.

Episode 7 (starting approx. 11mins) features JAM. Executive Director Samantha Davidson Green speaks about JAM's successful 2022 Better Places crowdfunding campaign and matching grant that transformed JAM and a downtown White River Junction space into a "multimedia playground for all ages."

JAM Audiobook

Coming soon!

Prelude



In the spring of 1854 seventeen-year-old Adeline Elizabeth Hoe began to keep a daily diary. Filled with six months of the details of a young girl’s life, the diary offers a wonderful window into the mind of an educated young woman from a well-to-do family living in Lower Manhattan in the turbulent decade before the Civil War. Her meticulous record of the elegant music, dances and literature she and her sister enjoyed is juxtaposed with her matter-of-fact relation of epidemics and sudden deaths, conveying a vivid picture of mid-nineteenth-century life.

Plainfield, NH author Helen Davidson, a descendant of Adeline, transcribed the diary with her husband, Richard Davidson. Helen wrote the novel Prelude, while transcribing Adeline’s diary, re-imagining the life of this spirited young girl.

Davidson is bringing this beautiful novel to audio book format. Look for the release coming soon!

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