Building community in the Upper Valley of NH and VT through the media arts. | | Weekly Highlights // June 4, 2025 | |
VT Humanities
We are who we are thanks to memory, yet it is forgetting that allows us to navigate through life. Reflect on losing memory in art, literature, history, and politics with Ilan Stavans, renowned essayist, professor, translator, and publisher, in a VT Humanities event at the Norwich Public Library. 5/21/25 produced by Bea Couser for JAM.
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Memorial Day
Norwich commemorated Memorial Day with a parade and ceremony organized by American Legion Post #8, which stopped at Fairview Cemetery and Tracy Hall. Hartford American Legion Post #26 and Jeffery S. Holmes Post #84 organized a parade and ceremonies, which stopped at Veteran’s Memorial Park. 5/26/25 produced by Rick Russell for JAM.
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Performance
Celebrate Upper Valley music and listen to the excellent Lebanon High School spring concert showcase, where the orchestra, choir, and jazz band performed genre-spanning pieces, calypso music, classical tunes, and songs from familiar greats such as Ella Fitzgerald. 5/20/25 produced by Jordyn Fitch for JAM.
| | Pictured: Norwich Selectboard 5/28/25 | | This week's civic highlight: Watch the Norwich Selectboard discuss revisions to a controversial proposed animal control or leash ordinance. Tune into JAM's coverage of this or your town's government and school board meetings live or pre-recorded @ UVJAM.ORG/WATCH | | | | |
Thanks to your support, JAM is a FINALIST in the Seven Daysies! Help us win a $10K grant from the Vermont Community Foundation by voting for JAM! (Voting round ends 6/10)
INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Click the link to your left. Click on Junction Arts & Media, and it'll take you to a register/sign-in page. Enter your email. Then, enter your name and ZIP.
2) Confirm your registration with the code sent to your email (extra step to prevent multiple votes).
3) Link should return you to the "Best Nonprofit Voting Page" (first link).
4) Select Junction Arts & Media from the multiple choice questions.
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Please consider supporting JAM for NH Gives, 24 hours of granite state generosity to support the important work of nonprofits in our region. Your gift to JAM during NH Gives helps learners of all ages access JAM's media education programs, events, equipment and facilities, including the JAM High School Media Fellowship and Digital Creation for Seniors programs.
Save the date for June 10-11, 5PM-5PM to support JAM's work fostering democratic participation and nurturing all generations of Upper Valley storytellers!
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Pride Month
Fri Jun 6 7-11PM
$5-10 donation @JAM
On First Friday, JAM’s Pride Prom returns! Theme is “Cruising”––button yer best breeches and sail VT’s high seas! We’ll rock out to local music, take photobooth pics, and crown Prom Royalty!
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Writing group
Every other Monday
Mon Jun 16 5:30-7PM
FREE @JAM
Gather bi-weekly with a dedicated group of talented local writers for an informal peer review circle. To join, email: cedar@uvjam.org
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Video & board games
Every 4th Tuesday
Tue Jun 24 6:30-8:30PM
FREE @JAM
Play video and board games at JAM! Bring your own controller if you have one. You must be 14+ or accompanied by an adult.
| | 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! | | |
@ JAM Podcasts & Audiobooks
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JAM Podcast
NEW! Episode 5: Vital Communities' Communications Manager and local sweetheart Rebecca Bailey joins Samantha to reveal the brass tacks of Upper Valley Listservs and all the ways they act as connective tissue for the people, places and things of our unique collection of rural towns.
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Youth media arts camps
July 14 - Aug 1
Registration now open
We still have spaces for high schoolers to dive into advanced filmmaking and animation this summer! 1- and 2-week camps.
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NEW! Youth leadership
1 monthly meeting
Applications now open
Are you an influencer? Join the Youth Media Advisory board to share your opinions with the JAM staff and board and shape JAM programs on social media and digital wellbeing. Ages 15-21
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JAM Competitions
May 30 5PM - Jun 1 6PM
Registration now open
Are you a filmmaker? Do you love a challenge? On 5/30, contestants will have 48 hours to write, shoot, edit, and export an original short film! Then join us at JAM on 6/1 for a celebratory evening screening and PRIZES!
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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!
| | | | 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. | | |
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.
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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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