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November 15, 2023
Channeling the Upper Valley on
cable TV, streaming online, podcasting, socials & right here in your inbox!
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This is why I love my job... In the past week alone at JAM, I got to attend a mock Supreme Court case at VT Law School live-streamed by JAM media camp alums,
hear original poetry by the Lampshade Poets at JAM, make my first "Zine" at a family pop-up workshop with a Cartoon Studies visiting artist, feast and dance with Fulla Flava and DJSkar, premiere a new JAM documentary on local Native American history commissioned by the Lebanon Heritage Commission, watch a JAM live-stream of an Osher lecture on the upcoming presidential race, view the premiere of after-school JAM Club's final film, help record JAM's first local author audiobook, plan for WRIF (White River Indie Films) Festival 2024, and meet a first-time visitor to White River Junction, veteran and healer Mojisola Edu (pictured), who walked in the door and asked my favorite question:
"This place looks cool. What is it?" (...and proceeded to vlog a live interview with me about JAM on the spot!)
All of this while providing live coverage of municipal and school board meetings for five towns during budget season!
This was an exceptional week, but not an unusual one. The Upper Valley is exploding with creativity at the junction of media arts with poetry, music, scholarship, activism, and civic life. We are privileged to witness and channel this homegrown creativity every day at JAM, where we provide media tools, production services, safe spaces, collaborators and channels for community members to find both their voices and receptive audiences.
As JAM's cable viewership and funding diminishes, we are embracing film, podcasting, and the full range of new media platforms to connect our local community and cultivate a sense of belonging for all in the Upper Valley. We increasingly depend on individual contributions and grant funding to sustain our core operations.
If we're doing a good job and you support our efforts, please consider making a contribution to JAM to support a vibrant non-profit community media arts in the Upper Valley in the year ahead.
This week we celebrate the bountiful fall harvest of Upper Valley media content created by the virtuous cycle of gathering, creating, watching, listening, and being inspired by each other to create again. Thank you for being our co-creators in media and community. Come see us at JAM soon!
With gratitude,
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Samantha Davidson Green
Executive Director
samantha@uvjam.org
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Live Poetry Music Art @JAM
Sundog Poetry AMP Night
FREE @JAM
Thursday, November 16 7-9PM
Sundog Poetry presents AMP NIGHT – a periodic event series that explores the interplay of art, music and poetry. At this special Fall AMP Night in the Upper Valley we welcome former Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea with special guests Djeli, Nana¡, Diana Whitney, Barbara Murphy, and Jolivette ‘the poet warrior’.
Supported in part by Vermont Humanities,
this event will be recorded by JAM.
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GATHER > CREATE > WATCH > LISTEN >
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Ndakinna: This Place, Our Homeland
Ndakinna is the name for our region used by the Abenaki people. This video was produced by JAM for the Lebanon Heritage Commission to give context to the land acknowledgement adopted by the city, recognize the land's original Abenaki residents, past and present, and commit to understanding our past to benefit our future. "We need to be thankful to this land...that's the ultimate lesson," says Jesse Bowman Bruchac, Abenaki language instructor at Middlebury College.
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Renters, know your rights
Learn the facts in this presentation hosted at JAM by Corrine Yonce of VT's Fair Housing Project. Topics covered include privacy, security deposits, "safe and decent housing," protected classes, "reasonable modifications," retaliation, and eviction. If you're a landlord, this talk is definitely for you, too.
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On Nov. 6 Lebanon High School seniors played the role of Supreme Court justices, testing VT Law & Graduate School President Rod Smolla, who played prosecutor and defender in a case based on real cases concerning the limits of students' off-campus free speech rights. Live-stream produced by LHS student Annie Hanna through an Extended Learning Opportunity with JAM. Watch to learn how they voted!
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Upper Valley fashionistas vied for front-row seats at the Tip Top Couture Fall Fashion Extravaganza with Revolution in the Briggs Opera House. The show featured 48 local male and female models showcasing 75 looks. Of the outfits, more than 100 were vintage or contemporary. More than 25 pieces were upcycled or locally produced.
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The 2024 race for the White House will be one for the ages. Strap on your seat belt and settle in for this OSHER lecture series by Maynard Goldman who has served as a consultant for both parties. "One of the things that has happened in the last nine years is that it is very hard to decide what the facts really are with the likes of AI, social media, and misinformation," says Goldman, who has advised Rep. and Dem. governors in NH and Mass.
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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: Hartford Selectboard 10/31/23
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"Shall I introduce myself?" asked Noah Kahan when he came into the CATV studio in 2017 as a Hanover High School student to record one of his original songs.
If you're one of the few who still need Noah to introduce himself to you, enjoy this time capsule from the CATV archives... and then check this week's Grammy nominations.
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Humans are finger-lickin' good in "Chickens," a tale of avian menace. The Audience Choice Award winner in 2023's annual JAM Halloween-O-Thon, this henhouse horror story comes from the frightfully-feathered mind of Lebanon's Kelty Stone. Truly, this is terror at its beak. See this and 11 other Halloween-O-Thon tales to terrify on JAM's YouTube page.
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@ JAM Audio Studio in the Cartoon Studies Basement
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JAM's first audiobook
Prelude
Coming soon!
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!
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JAM – Junction Arts & Media supports lifelong learning to engage the tools of media for individual and community expression in the Upper Valley. | |
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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
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