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celebrating 20 years theCCTV Voice and Vision of Cambridge OPEN STUDIO 1988-2008 THE CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY TELEVISION NEWSLETTER OCT/NOV/DEC 2010 CCTV ON THE MOVE INSIDE Backyard BBQ 2010 Spotlight On Siobhan Bredin 3 The rains wouldn’t wait, but that did not dampen the spirits of the hundreds who attended CCTV’s Backyard BBQ on September 16th. As the program Production Dispatch 4 began, the drops fell; gracefully and efficiently, the staff and volunteers moved the party indoors. Programming Notes 6 The Leading Role Award was presented to Officer Michael “Whitey” Daniliuk of the Cambridge Police Department, Bob Youth Media Program Hurlbut, Executive Director of the Cambridge Community 7 Foundation, and Khari Milner, Director of Complementary Learning Partnerships for the Cambridge Public Schools. They Production Groups 8 were introduced by Mo Barbosa, Rick Harriman and Susan Richards. All were recognized for their support and advocacy of Video Training i 9 youth in Cambridge. Drive by Gallery 13 The food, provided by many local restaurants, was delectable. Zili Misik rocked for one set before the rain. This year’s Silent Auction Development 14 donations took the fundraiser to a whole new level. MAC 14 The Backyard BBQ provides much-needed funds for CCTV’s Youth Media Program. Studio Space 15 Photos on this page by Matt Landry. More photos and a full list of NeighborMedia 16 Sponsors and Donors is on page 18. computerCENTRAL 17 Annual Meeting 18 About CCTV 19 Sponsors and Friends Back Page Follow CCTV on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. Look for cctvcambridge! And don’t forget cctvcambridge.org Member Social 11/11!! All members are encouraged to come to the CCTV Member Social on WELCOMEW e l c o m e Thursday November 11th at the Tavern in the Square, 6pm-8pm. We newN e w will showcase some recent video production work by members, intro- members duce new production groups a CCTV, and allow members to pitch M e m b e r s ideas for new television programs. This is a great opportunity to get to Engels Ady, Mark know other members! Appetizers will be served. Cash Bar. Anderson, Rachel Banks, NeighborMedia Seeks New Community Correspondents! Toni Begman, Natalia Do you have a passion for Cambridge and want to learn more about Boltukhova, Tracy A. our community while sharing stories about the many interesting things Brooks, Robert William that happen here? CCTV offers extensive training, support, access to Bruce, Judy Elizabeth equipment, and an outlet to distribute your stories while connecting Cortes, Huayn Ding, Aidan our community. See the NeighborMedia website for more details. Dougherty, Gary Dougherty, Fatma Member Advisory Committee Update Elshobokshy, Adriana S. The Member Advisory Committee (MAC) encourages all members to Freitas, Paul Gararirimo, use the suggestion box if they have comments or suggestions for Haggai Goldfarb, John improvement at CCTV. This box is checked regularly at the monthly Hallowell, Sidney Heath, MAC meeting, on the first Tuesday of each month, at 7pm; sugges- Rebekka Hiddleston, tions are then passed onto CCTV staff. MAC members also recently Wensly Joseph, Noah assisted with tabling at Area 4 Pride Day in September, an outreach Kirksey, Tara Kuglen, Nidhi event for CCTV. Kulkarni, Robert Laing, Shuo Cory Li, Sula Malina, Jordan Maltais, Najya Mawasi, Max McGleughlin, Nicole Merancier, Elizabeth Meyer, Stephanie Miceli, Zack Miller, Elisa Miranda, Good bye and Good Luck! Kathryn Mora, Santiago Moreno, Paul Morgan, Tom When I came here, I was new to the Nieradka, Maureen area, and was getting back into media after a hiatus. Now I look back with Nuccitelli, Pedro Canchari gratitude at the many great people I Palomino, Emily Partridge, have had the opportunity to work with Pleuni Pennings, Francisco and learn from – whether staff, Perez III, Robert Pilkington, members, or dedicated volunteers. Learning so much about this communi- Asad Rahim, Thanuji ty and Rajapaksha, Hasson J. Rashid, Dan Riviello, Public Access has been a fun and valu- able experience. So it is with sadness Blessing Rogers, Fernandel that I leave, but also with excitement as Salomon, Skip Schiel, I look forward to the next step in After an exciting and interesting year a career in media, my time at CCTV Benjamin Schooler, Michael and nine months here at CCTV, as the being instrumental to that. Shaps, Samuel Shaps, Membership, Outreach and Nilagia McCoy Carson Shelton, Elizabeth Promotions Coordinator, I am leaving for a position as an Account Manager Smith, Glenn J. Spiro, at WGBH. Darlene Strother, Barbara Whitaker, David Whitley, Behrrisferd Windross, M A C M E M B E R S A D V I S O R Y C O M M I T T E E Cody Yiu =Marie Celestin=David Clarke=Clyde Hicks=Elizabeth Kanze=Lynette Laveau Saxe=John Melczer= =Laura Montgomery=Beth Walsh=Maurice Wilkey= Siobhan spotlight on Bredin A Cambridge resident for more than 25 years, the strengths that the program participants bring Siobhan has been a member of CCTV since 2009. In with them to help build capacity. I also write and addition to being an active participant in CCTV’s stage radio dramas. They are original plays written in NeighborMedia program, Siobhan recently had her the style of 1940’s radio mystery dramas – with live artwork featured in CCTV’s Drive-By Gallery, and she sound effects. And I enjoy traveling, dancing, and received the Producer of the Year Award at CCTV’s walking. Annual Meeting this past spring. We discussed her stories, her artwork, how she is reviving the 1940’s NM: What have you enjoyed most about your time radio drama and more. View Siobhan’s blog at here at CCTV? http://www.cctvcambridge.org/sbredin. SB: Well, there are so many things, but the first thing that comes to mind is the opportunity to get to know NM: Can you tell me about your involvement with people I would never have otherwise met. Then NeighborMedia? How did you get started, and what there’s the opportunity to develop all kinds of new content do you cover? skills – video production, editing. Finally, I have SB: I found NeighborMedia and CCTV when I was enjoyed the opening of different perspectives on looking for volunteer opportunities. I wanted to do media and community that I hadn’t really thought something interesting and meaningful, and when I about before. learned about NeighborMedia, I was instantly excit- ed about the possibility of covering Cambridge stories in-depth. I cover the arts – I’m an artist, and there’s so much going on in Cambridge with art. Sometimes I create profiles of artists, and combine images of their work with an interview, and I also cover arts events. Right now I’m covering a show organized by the Alliance of Cambridge Tenants, interviewing the organizers, the artists. It’s just interesting to be able to talk with people and learn about their experiences, their perspective on life, and how that influences their work. NM: You recently had a show in CCTV’s Drive-By Gallery. Can you tell me more about your artistic style? SB: I generally do semi-abstract landscapes. I might do something that’s loosely based on a Maine land- scape, but throw in some elements or colors that are associated with New Mexico. The past year, I’ve been doing more with symbols and dreamscapes. I use acrylics and I love color. What draws me in the most with art is the use of color. NM: What do you do when you’re not at CCTV? SB: I work at an educational non-profit called the Education Development Center; we work on educa- tion and health projects in the U.S. and around the world. Our mission and approach is actually quite similar to CCTV in that we focus on building off of OCT/NOV/DEC 2010 CCTV Open Studio 3 Production Dispatchcctvcambridge.org/production We reported last year at this time about our capital budg- There are a couple of great opportunities this fall that our et process, and it’s time to talk about this again. Each members can look forward to: year, CCTV’s board, staff and MAC come together in a committee to map out one year of capital spending. Local Elections Capital money is used for things like production equip- This year is a state election year and there are several ment, computers, servers, software, furniture, and other seats contested in the general election. This means there things that make it possible for our members and staff to are bound to be some candidates looking for time on our do their work. It’s usually this time of year that our com- channels, either as producers of their own programs or as mittee begins brainstorming and researching to spend guests on yours. We offer some specially designed elec- between $50,000 and $75,000 on new and improved tion programming blocks for viewers, but we’ll also try to equipment. Well, that was then. This is now. pass along candidate details to producers as opportunities come up. The capital money CCTV spends comes from a once per decade capital grant that is given to CCTV when the cable World AIDS Day: December 1, 2010 company renews its contract with the City of Cambridge. On this day, CCTV will stop all programming on Channel We are at the end of the ten-year license period and 10 to run a continuous list of those lost and affected by CCTV has used up the $500,000 we were given back in HIV/AIDS; viewers will have the opportunity to call and 2000. We managed it well, invested it carefully, spent in add names to the list.