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Channeling the Upper Valley

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

November 22, 2023

Thank you for considering a gift to support JAM's non-profit mission to build community through the media arts.

GIVING THANKS TO YOU!

Cindy Pierce, Clint & Bonnie Swift, Joanna and Alex Rapf, Kelli Guss, Matt Bucy, Bill Stetson, Barbara Farnsworth, Zay Gomez, Johanna Lee, Pam Kneisel, Roberta Berner & Richard Abel, Bill Chabot, Kyle O’Dowd, Adams Carroll, Joe Major, Tracy Hutchins, Rebecca Bailey, Teppi Zuppo, Art Copoulos, Michelle Rogge, Beth & Kelty Stone, Jakob Breitbach, Carla Kimball, JAMMY & Pride Prom donors, Elizabeth Kurylo, Josh Graber, Tamara Waraschinski, Helen Davidson, Margaret Fanning & David Cate, Amity Ollis, Allan Bailey, Kate McCabe, Remington Lemal-Brown, Kirsten Kersey, Madeline Jones, Alberto Ruiz and Josh Graber

Your generous support this year to support JAM's non-profit work to build community in the Upper Valley through the media arts is keeping us going!

If you haven't already, please consider JAM

in your 2023 year-end giving.

Your contributions keep our media arts programs and services free and accessible to all Upper Valley residents – and beyond – including:

• youth media education camps and after-school programs
• adult media workshops
• year-round media arts exhibits featuring local creators
• coverage of 20-30 municipal and school board meetings monthly for live television and streaming
• WRIF (White River Indie Film Festival) & year-round issue-based film events, such as Farm-to-Film Fest 2023
• podcast production and hosting
• this fabulous newsletter! :)

A contribution of $50 or more makes you a JAM Member. Learn more about member benefits for individuals, families, students and organizations – beyond, of course, the priceless warm feeling in your heart of supporting creativity and community connection in the Upper Valley!

PATHWAYS TO GIVE TO JAM:

(1) Donate any amount ONLINE

or become a JAM MEMBER

(2) Mail CHECK to:

JAM – Junction Arts & Media

P.O. Box 141, White River Junction, VT 05001

(3) VENMO @junctionartsmedianhvt

(4) CASH donations:

Please visit JAM M-F 9am-5pm

(note: We will be closed Thursday and Friday this week for Thanksgiving)

5 South Main St., 1st fl, White River Junction, VT 05001

JAM is also seeking corporate underwriters and sponsors for its ongoing programs and WRIF Festival 2024.

Please contact Lisa Christie at lisa@uvjam.org

to learn more.

THANK YOU!!

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

Music to get you cooking



Head to Comcast Channels 1075 and 1085 for Thanksgiving. JAM has carved out local music marathons that day. See performances from Upstairs at Dan & Whit's, Classicopia from Lebanon's First Congregational Church, classical guitarist William Ghezzi, our long-running Live @ JAM series, the 2023 Riverfolk Music Festival (pictured), and more. Tune in and spend the day with us—and your favorite local musicians.

A couple of bros talk flicks



Fans of cult movies and horror films have a home at JAM. Our long-running "A Couple of Flicks" podcast is hosted by our very own Nick Arvizu, JAM Digital Content Manager. In this episode, he and co-host Tristan Goding take on Roland Emmerich's 1985's techno-horror-fantasy "Making Contact." In other episodes Nick tackles the long-running Halloween and 'Living Dead' series.

Global Fragility

Nassim Taleb, author of the acclaimed book Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, held court at Dartmouth's Dickey Center last month. His topic was "Connectivity, Global Fragility, and the Added Danger of AI." He calls Chat GPT "the most mediocre assistant you could ever have" and explains that "fake news" is nothing new—it impacted the French and Russian revolutions. 

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: Dresden School Board 11/14/23

GATHER

@ the JAM space

Celebrate 50 years of hip-hop

Hip Hop Holiday Party + Light River Junction

Friday, Dec. 1 5-7PM

Free@JAM

Sick of the hearing all the same Christmas music on repeat? So are we! Drop by JAM on First Friday 12/1 for a holiday party celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop and decorate a music inspired holiday cookie. Jayden will be playing some hip-hop classics as well as recent hits. A 100% Michael Bublé free experience guaranteed! In the JAM/WRIF’s winter solstice tradition, “Light River Junction” projections by local media artists will illuminate the cold winter night!

Join us for the local premiere

Crowdsourced VT

Toy Story

Sunday, Dec. 10 4-6:30PM

Free@JAM



Grab your partner and join us at JAM for the local premiere of Crowdsourced VT Toy Story! Created by more than 200 people of all ages and experience levels (including our very own Advanced Animation JAMcampers!) from across Vermont (and just a smidgen from the rest of New England), this remake of the good ol’ animated frenemy movie is chock-full of your favorite moments and some new ones.

CREATE

@the JAM space

What's your JAM?

JAM Equipment Orientation

Wednesday 11/29 5:30-6:15PM

Learn how to use any of our plethora of A/V equipment available to borrow FREE for local residents to achieve your production goals! Orientations cover proper handling and care. Sign up for the next orientation that works with your schedule.

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

JAM's first podcast

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!

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