BAVC News
We Are SF: Pathways To Citizenship
At the Bay Area Video Coalition, much of our work is to share diverse stories through art, education, and technology. For this reason, we are especially excited about the work being done by BAVC Media Productions in collaboration with the California Arts Council and San Francisco Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs (OCEIA). OCEIA offers a series of free citizenship workshops as part of its San Francisco Pathways to Citizenship Initiative. The initiative brings together multiple philantrophic organizations and community-based naturalization service providers to “develop new approaches, methodologies and service delivery models to promote citizenship and civic participation among San Francisco’s [...]
BAVC MediaMaker Fellows Get Some Attention
Courtesy of Michele Carlson and Art Practical. Photo: Michele Carlson. Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman first came to BAVC Media in 2012 as MediaMaker Fellows with their documentary project Living Condition, which vividly illustrates the experiences of those who have, or have had, family members on death row through an unexpected technique, animation. This unique approach provides Hibbert-Jones and Talisman with a broader palette with which to represent the descriptive and affective turns of their subjects’ testimonies while it starkly frames capital punishment in terms of what its human cost. We caught up with the duo – who are partners [...]
Next Gen Youth Deliver Report Cards on Tech
Over the past year the Next Gen team has been working on developing a Theory of Change; a living document that puts in writing our commitment to a shared vision, set of values, goals, and what we believe to be the best practices to achieve those goals. Though the full version isn’t quite ready to be shared, I want to elaborate on one of our value statements: ​ “We recognize that in order to imagine new career possibilities, young people need opportunities to gain industry exposure, therefore we provide opportunities for young people to develop positive adult role models representing [...]
2012 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies
Six social issue documentary teams were selected to develop interactive web, mobile, multimedia, and game projects at BAVC Media's 2012 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies from from October 12 - 19, 2012 in San Francisco. Projects included stories from local, national, and international producers on a wide range of social justice topics including homelessness, immigration, economic justice, educational opportunity, democracy and human rights. Producers Institute 2012 was presented in partnership with ITVS and Mozilla. Additional support wass generously provided by the Adobe Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Fledgling Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The Wyncote Foundation. Venue sponsors included [...]
Lost Treasures from Bay Area Art Archives
BAVC Media received funding from the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation to support a unique, collaborative effort to digitally preserve and exhibit seminal Bay Area audiovisual works that would otherwise be lost forever. BAVC Media's Preservation department worked with graduate students in California College for the Arts' Curatorial Practice program to assess hundreds of audiovisual assets from the archives of four iconic Bay Area art institutions — Southern Exposure, Headlands Center for the Arts, SF Cinematheque, and Intersection for the Arts — selecting 40 key pieces that have now been digitally preserved. Spanning the genres of experimental film, visual arts, literature, performance, music, and educational programs, the artists and works [...]
Preserving Dance Heritage
In 2007, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Dance Heritage Coalition (DHC) embarked on The Dance Heritage Coalition Dance Preservation and Digitization Project (DHC DPDP), an ambitious project to preserve and make accessible vital dance documentation, rare performances, and other notable works of America’s dance legacy. As the nation's sole non-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, and making accessible America’s dance legacy materials, the DHC encourages, initiates, and develops collaborative projects among the dance communities, library and archival fields, scholarly institutions, and individuals in four essential areas: access to materials; the continuing documentation of dance employing both [...]
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 [...]
