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Channeling the Upper Valley
5 S. Main Street, 1st floor, White River Junction, VT 05001
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March 6, 2024
Thank you for considering a gift to support JAM's non-profit mission to build community through the media arts.
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JAM produces live coverage of local selectboard and school board meetings for Hartford, Norwich, and Hartland, VT; Hanover, NH and Lebanon, NH (SAU88 only) to inform the public, promote civic democratic engagement, and safeguard transparency in government. Many nights of the week, you will find JAM's staff covering as many as 4 simultaneous meetings. You can tune in LIVE on JAM cable channels 1075/1085 (Comcast) or 169/170 VTEL, streaming on our website, or JAM's YouTube channel, or find recordings by searching JAM On-Demand for your town's meeting recordings. It's a particularly challenging budget year for Upper Valley towns. JAM commends the elected officials, volunteers and citizens demonstrating their commitment to grassroots democracy and collective problem-solving. Pictured: Norwich Town Informational Meeting 3/4/24 | |
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Major Attraction
"Why isn't Black history American history?" Former Hartford Selectboard member Joe Major posed that question during a talk last week in Windsor sponsored by JEDI, the town's Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee. "Be comfortable in the uncomfortable," said Major, who now serves as a JAM board member. "We cannot progress unless we're uncomfortable and talk about things we don't talk about."
Courtesy of WOA – Windsor On Air
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Labor Pains
Dartmouth labor groups held a town meeting for unionization last month at the Church of Christ in Hanover. Rev. Gail Kinney of Meriden, NH called for a faith-and-labor alliance. Lebanon City Councilor Karen Liot Hill, a Dartmouth alum, spoke in solidarity. "I've been here 34 years....Until the student-worker collective came on the scene, nothing really happened, and in two years, it's incredible," said SEIU local president Chris Peck.
Produced for JAM by Jordyn Fitch
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Perfect Ten
Jeff Friedman of West Lebanon read from his latest (and tenth book), Ashes in Paradise, at the Norwich Bookstore. He calls his work prose poems, comic sketches, micro-stories, and fabulist inventions. Many were written "during dark times," according to him. They tell tales of a monster hunter who may be a monster, a woman who gives birth to herself, as well as avocados, test tube orgasms, vampires, spots, masks, and a chair.
Produced for JAM by Celeste Pfeiffer
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Solving the VT Housing Riddle
That's a major goal of State Treasurer Mike Piecialk. The good news is young affluent families are moving here. The bad news is the supply of affordable housing is tight. "It's not going to get better anytime soon...for a decade or more," he told listeners at Hartford's Cornerstone Community Center. "Senior housing is going to be critical for us to focus on moving forward."
Produced for JAM by Jordyn Fitch, Charlie Rose and intern TOJ Marceau
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Community event
Sunday, March 10 2-3PM
FREE @JAM
Cuts to Medicaid, skyrocketing costs, denial of care — we’re all impacted by the growing crisis of for-profit healthcare. The Vermont Workers' Center's Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign is on tour this spring to hear from YOU and organize to make healthcare a public good for all.
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Oscars Party
by Revolution
Sunday, March 10
6:30-11:30PM
FREE @JAM
Come celebrate the 96th Academy Awards with Revolution and Junction Arts & Media inside JAM. Dress Code: Black Tie DIY.
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Film & live comedy
Friday, March 15
Film Premiere 5:30PM
Live Performance 7-8PM
FREE @JAM
Make it a double feature at JAM on the Ides of March with Opera Action Figures short film premiere of Thank You, Mr. Sondheim with filmmakers Amy and Terry Lawrence. Then get ready to bust a gut with Valley Improv at 7PM. The show will be a whole hour of wild and hilarious improv inspired by audience suggestions—come down and laugh!
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Bi-monthly storytelling circle
Thursday, March 21 6PM
FREE @JAM
This month's theme: "Crossed Wires"
In a society increasingly divided and isolated, storytelling can bring us together. Story Jam invites all members of the Upper Valley to join the circle and share an unrehearsed 5-minute true story from their own life. No experience necessary! Learn more in Daybreak.
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Live performance
Monday, March 25 7PM
@Briggs Opera House
Cindy Pierce will touch your heart, make you laugh, and likely inspire a tear or two as she shares stories of her beloved mother, Nancy, and her family’s journey with dementia on a tour that just might help you discover that we’re all in this together.
A benefit for the Walk to End Alzheimer's and JAM.
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SUMMER
Starts June 24 - August 2
One-week and 2-week options
Grades 4-high school grads
One-week JAM Camp, Animation Intensive and 2-week Film Intensive are open for registration! Grades 4 through high school grads. Fee assistance/waiver available thanks to grants from Adimab, Jack & Dorothy Byrne Foundation, and Jane B. Cook Trust.
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SPRING After School
JAM Club
Starts March 20-May 22
Wednesdays 3:30-5:30PM
Grades 6-9
It’s an after-school movie and media making club! Connect with other young media makers. Spring Session will include units on drone and GoPro shooting, podcasting, animation, and scripted filmmaking. Fee assistance/waiver available on request.
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SPRING
Starts June 24 - August 2
Discover the art of digital creation with JAM's 12-week workshop for seniors (age 60+). Whether it’s a digital scrapbook, documentary video, an Instagram account you can share with your grandkids, your own podcast, or other tools empowering you to tell your own story! Presented in partnership with Bugbee Senior Center. Made possible by an anonymous grant through the NH Charitable Foundation.
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ON-GOING
JAM Equipment Orientation
Wednesdays 5:30PM
Fridays 12PM
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!
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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 media production services when available. | |
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@ JAM Podcasts & Audiobooks
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Need a book to get you through mud season?
Browse the offerings of Shelf Help, a podcast where local booksellers help you answer one of life’s trickier – and we’d argue extremely important – questions: What should you read next?
Shelf Help is a collaboration between the Book Jam, a nonprofit designed to inspire readers; Yankee Bookshop in Woodstock, VT; Norwich Bookstore in Norwich, VT; Still North Books & Bar in Hanover, NH and JAM.
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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.
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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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