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Transmission E04 – A Local Show Celebrating the Artistic Voices of San Francisco
TRANSMISSION Episode 4  -  August 2015 Radical Thinkers, Shakers and Movers This month we’re featuring a dynamic range that includes legendary iconic activists to young authors, comedians and skaters from all around the Bay Area. Segment 1  (1:05)Emory Douglas - Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers presenting his work to the Bridges Fellowship at BAVC Media.Emory Douglas served as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party creating graphics and illustrations that became iconic for their portrayal of black America in the 1960's and1970's.  Emory still creates art and promotes activism across the world and he engages with [...]
Transmission E03 – A Local Show Celebrating the Artistic Voices of San Francisco
TRANSMISSION Episode 3 Program List - July 2015Women Heard Around the Bay This month we’re featuring an all-star cast of female poets, musicians, storytellers, comedians and performers from around the Bay Area. Segment 1 (1:05)SF Stories With support from the James Irvine Foundation's Exploring Engagement Fund, BAVC Media collaborated with Recovery Survival Network to provide storytelling workshops to San Francisco-based individuals who might not otherwise have the opportunity to tell their personal, important stories. The workshops, called SF Stories: A Shared Experience, teach participants the technical and creative tools for creating a digital story on their own from start to finish.Here is a [...]
Transmission E02 – A Local Show Celebrating the Artistic Voices of San Francisco
Transmission Episode 02 - June 12, 2015Segment 1 (1:27)SOMArts presents the News This month hosted by the Queer Cultural Center - The News is a monthly offering of performance featuring new queer work. On the first Tuesday of each month The News casts a spotlight on performance pieces, experiments, debut works, and works in progress by pre-selected solo artists, groups, or troupes. Acts featured -Jezebel Delilah X from Peacock Rebellion’s Brouhaha and the Congregation of Liberation presents Black Don’t Crack: Black Don’t Crack is a multi-media musical that will affirm the healing and liberation that happens when queer black people connect [...]
Transmission E01 – A Local Show Celebrating the Artistic Voices of San Francisco
CLICK "SHOW MORE" TO JUMP BETWEEN SEGMENTS   Transmission Episode 01 - May 8, 2015 Segment 1  (1:04)BAVC Media's The Factory Films Bay Area Girls Rock Camp - a film by Lily Yu, Judy Lee and Jeremiah Mellor Segment 2 (9:15)SOMArts presents the News  This month hosted by the Queer Cultural Center - The News is a monthly offering of performance featuring new queer work. On the first Tuesday of each month The News casts a spotlight on performance pieces, experiments, debut works, and works in progress by pre-selected solo artists, groups, or troupes. Acts featured - Althea and the Graceland [...]
Miles to Go
This video demonstrates the progress that still has to be made if America wants to consider itself a leader in gender equality. TRT: 3:36
Youth of Chinatown
"The Youth of Chinatown" is a film following the youth participants at the Chinatown Community Development Center in San Francisco. Through the San Francisco Public Utility Commission the youth learn about relevant environmental issues such energy conservation and the drought in California. This summer they attended workshops and field trips and gave their knowledge back to the Chinatown community in hopes to encourage more people to be conscious about water, energy, and waste. Part of The Factory’s Summer 2014 Community Filmmaking Partnership.Screened:October 2014 - First Friday Shorts at The New Parkway, Oakland, CA
History in these Streets
A short documentary about the Black Panther Legacy tours of West Oakland and the sites of historical significance that the City of Oakland has chosen to ignore. 7 minutes.
Momo
An observational documentary about two Tibetan refugees living in North India and their daily routine of making steamed dumplings to sell at a town market. For a delicious momo recipe and all things Tibetan visit, YoWangdu Tibetan and World Gift Shop http://www.yowangdu.com/tibet/tibetan-food-recipes/tibetan-dumplings.html
Guillermo Gomez-Pena at The Exploratorium
The Preservation department, at bavc.org, has started cleaning and digitizing the Exploratorium's video collection. http://www.exploratorium.edu/ This is 'La Poocha Nostra' Archival footage, from 1988. Guillermo Gomez-Pena is a bay area artist whose work in performance, video, installation, poetry, journalism, photography, cultural theory and radical pedagogy explores cross-cultural issues, immigration, the politics of language, the politics of the body, "extreme language" and new technologies. For BAVC Media Promo use Only
