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SF Commons Open House
Come join SF Commons – San Francisco public access television, for our open house on September 6th from 7-8pm. There are many ways to participate in SF Commons. Public Access TV is a great way to get involved with your local community and to learn digital media skills. Come tour our facilities, meet the staff and network with other producers. For current SF Commons members there also will be an update on what’s new.  Come hear about the new Community Advisory Group that will start to meet in October 2013, and the new automated remote upload system that enables producers to submit [...]
Bye Bye Bullying
October is anti-bullying awareness month and the San Francisco District Attorney's office is presenting Bye Bye Bullying,  a video contest for middle school and high school students. Cyberbullying is a serious problem affecting 52% of the students in the U.S.  It involves using technology, like smart phones and the Internet, to bully or harass another person.  To recognize Anti-Bullying Awareness Month, the Women’s Steering Committee of the San Francisco District Attorney’s office announces the second video contest for students to address cyberbullying and harassment. The purpose of the contest is to encourage youth to discuss cyberbullying more openly and develop positive [...]
VA Recognizes BAVC Media with Golden Gate Bridge Award
This morning we were honored to be part of a gathering of veterans and program staff at the San Francisco V.A. Medical Center, where BAVC Media was awarded a Golden Gate Bridge Award "for outstanding efforts in expanding social, leisure, or work connections within the community." Our work with veterans is through an ongoing partnership with the Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center (PRRC), an important set of services and programs that support veterans who have mental illness. At the event, several veterans who have been through these outstanding recovery programs received awards recognizing their individual and personal achievements; and they were [...]
SF Stories: A Shared Experience
With support from the James Irvine Foundation's Exploring Engagement Fund, BAVC Media is working with local social service agencies to provide a series of digital storytelling workshops: SF Stories: A Shared Experience. Workshop participants learn digital storytelling from start to finish, and completing three-minute digital stories for exhibition on public access television, the Web and in non-traditional exhibition spaces, including at community events and at the social service agencies. Read more about SF Stories and BAVC Media's other digital storytelling initiatives here [internal link]. In January 2014, BAVC Media's Independent Media department launched SF Stories: A Shared Experience with our first partner organization Recovery [...]
White House names BAVC Media key partner in announcement of national jobs initiative
San Francisco, CA – On Monday, March 9th, 2015, the White House announced a new jobs initiative, TechHire, and recognized TechSF as a national model in workforce development. TechSF is an initiative led by the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development (SFOEWD) that is coordinated by BAVC Media—along with other San Francisco-based key partners such as Zendesk, Jawbone, Salesforce, AT&T, IBM, Autodesk, and City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, Academy X, Bayview Hunter’s Point Center for Arts and Technology, Year Up Bay Area, West Ed and Treehouse—to help job seekers, entrepreneurs and freelancers obtain employment in high [...]
BAVC Media announces release of QCTools: an open source software for video archivists
San Francisco, CA — Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) is excited to announce a prototype for analog video digitization in QCTools, a free and open source software that allows archivists and media makers to analyze and better understand their digital video materials. Supported by the Knight Foundation’s summer 2014 Prototype Fund, with initial concept support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, QCTools can now be further explored as a video digitization tool, offering analysis features never before seen in proprietary capture software. “We’re very excited for this opportunity to make a vital contribution to the preservation field. Thanks to the [...]
BAVC Media’s preservation program announces new online preservation resource supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
San Francisco, CA – Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) announces the release of AV Compass, a free web-based resource created to empower individuals and organizations to take urgent first steps to preserve their audiovisual media collections. Developed with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, AV Compass features eleven short instructional videos, five PDF guides, and a preservation inventory tool.Many individuals and organizations hold significant audiovisual content that illuminates their own unique histories and those of their communities and times. As certain media formats become obsolete and as functioning playback equipment becomes more challenging to obtain and keep in [...]
BAVC Media and SF OEWD hold unprecedented symposium on the future of freelance labor
San Francisco, CA – Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media), Gig Union and, the San Francisco Office of Economic & Workforce Development (SFOEWD) are proud to present WorkShift 2020, a symposium on contract work and the future of labor on Wednesday, April 29 at 3pm at the Kanbar Forum at Exploratorium (Pier 15, The Embarcadero) in San Francisco, California. The event is free and open to the public. By the year 2020, 40% of the U.S. workforce will be freelancers and contractors; a trend that is fast-becoming the norm in San Francisco. WorkShift 2020 brings together national and local government and industry [...]
BAVC Media announces Susie Cagle as Summer 2015 Artist-In-Residence
San Francisco, CA -- Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) is pleased to announce that Susie Cagle will be the Summer 2015 Resident for BAVC Media’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, made possible in part through the generosity of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.  The AIR program will give Cagle access to BAVC Media’s state-of-the-art technical facilities and in-house expertise, along with the opportunity to produce work in collaboration with BAVC Media programs. Cagle plans to work on an interactive, animated piece about the growth of contract labor in the American workforce, a topic she’s been researching [...]
