|
|
Channeling the Upper Valley
5 S. Main Street, 1st floor, White River Junction, VT 05001
| |
|
January 31, 2024
Thank you for considering a gift to support JAM's non-profit mission to build community through the media arts.
| |
An evening of poetry
Thursday, Feb. 1 7-8:30PM
FREE @JAM
In 2012 David Celone couldn’t find a poetry reading group in the Upper Valley area, so he found a group of local poets and started one. Resurrecting after a pandemic hiatus, the Lampshade poets are back, now meeting bimonthly at JAM. The event is free and open to the public, including poets who want to share their work with the opportunity to be recorded for JAM’s cable and YouTube channels.
| |
Live performance
Saturday, Feb. 3 5:30-7PM
FREE @JAM
A Dialogue (Number One) is the first movement of Rachel Bernsen’s new, loose performance suite, NOVEL FORMATS. Each movement will invite a different group of artists to experiment with a fluid vision of performance. Bernsen brings together an ensemble of dancers, musicians and a visual artist, utilizing their expertise and individuality to enact her improvisational and choreographic structures. (No RSVP required.)
| |
White River Indie Film Festival
Feb. 15-18
@JAM & Briggs Opera House
| The best of new global and local indie cinema hits the big screen at WRIF, White River Indie Film Festival, for our 19th year in White River Junction. See unreleased features from Cannes, New York, and Berlin Film Festivals and Oscar-nominated PERFECT DAYS from Wim Wenders and animated feature ROBOT DREAMS. Stay for filmmaker talk-backs and panel discussions, including with Vermont-Iranian filmmaker Sierra Ulrich (director JOONAM), to deepen the impact. FILMMAKER FRIDAY Master Classes from local experts offer creative on-ramps. And of course don't miss the PARTIES! Opening night Gala 2/16 and Vampire Dance Party 2/17! Explore pass options and details here: | |
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+.
| |
|
Strum and Drawing
Graphic novelist James Sturm, the co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies, spoke on "Adventures in Cartooning" at the Norwich Bookstore, and JAM was there. He talked about his adaptation of the classic novel "Watership Down" and why he draws comics. "One of the reasons is to feel I have agency in a world that feels like there's a fire hose coming at you," he said. "It allows you to slow things down."
| |
|
WRIF 2023 Rewind
WRIF 2023 showed RACIST TREES, a documentary about racial tensions in a historically Black Palm Springs neighborhood. The film's post-screening panel brought together Upper Valley fair housing advocates Andrew Winter (Twin Pines), Laura Di Piazza, and Conicia Jackson in a discussion moderated by JAM board member Joe Major on the impact of government housing practices, their legacy of racial discrimination, their impact on the civic spaces we share today, and actionable paths towards designing inclusive, equitable communities.
| |
|
He's an affectionate nine-year-old German Shepherd who loves toys. West Windsor's Lucy Mackenzie offered him for adoption in this month's video. Other available pets include Harris, a two-year-old cat; Shadow, a Lab mix; Ginger, an affectionate pit bull; Yang, a hound puppy; Luna, a calico cat; and Griffin, a shy male cat. "All these critters are definitely looking to make you laugh," says volunteer Rebecca Haynes.
| |
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: Norwich Selectboard 01/24/24 | |
|
Media Literacy + Creativity
Starts June 24
One-week JAM Camp, Animation Intensive, and 2-week Film Intensive are open for registration! Options for grades 4 through recent 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
Friday Feb 2 12-12:45 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 technical/media production services when available. | |
|
@ JAM Podcasts & Audiobooks
| | |
|
|
NEW Podcast made at JAM
Muddy Gnomes is a new podcast that explores life, leadership, positive thinking, cold immersion, the ice bath experience, getting out of our comfort zones, and the power of saying YES! Join Arjan van der Schoot, Staci Baker, and Chris Flockton for a lively and funny discussion that just might change your life.
| | |
|
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
| | | | |
