Cambridge Community Television

Help us meet our goal before the end of the month - if you love for CCTV, support our Love for Free Speech campaign! Bit.ly/loveforfreespeech

If you love CCTV, join our Love for Free Speech Campaign! Help us raise $5000 before the end of February. We have never stopped believing in the power of this community, and will always be a welcoming space for people of all backgrounds. The media we create and consume should be a reflection of who we truly are. Donate here: https://lnkd.in/eT3f4EZq

Calling all artists! CCTV would love to honor your work! Submit up to 5 pieces of artwork—any material or medium—to be reviewed by our gallery advisors for the CCTV Member Showcase @ The Karen Aqua Art Gallery. CCTV will accept and review submissions until March 1st. Accepted pieces will be hung starting after February 24th, culminating in a celebratory showcase event on March 10th to honor the selected artists. To find out more information and apply, check out the following link! https://lnkd.in/esTdmAmn

Record a Video Message for the Community! Dear Friends, CCTV would like to invite you to?record a brief message?that will be broadcast to the community.?Community is everything, and we lean on each other for support during challenging times. This is your opportunity to?share your voice,?your strength,?your vulnerability?with your community. All you have to do is show up, it will only take a few minutes. Drop by CCTV at 438 Mass Ave during your coffee or lunch break between 1-5PM?on the following dates: Tuesday, February?4th,?Tuesday, February 11th, and?Wednesday, February 12th. If you're not able to make it but want to show your support for this program,?click here to make a donation ----> https://lnkd.in/ehWC_QSQ Thanks!

Could you be CCTV’s next ED? Find more information and how to apply here: https://lnkd.in/eMTytPeM #hiring #communitymedia #executivedirector #cambma

CCTV is looking for a Programming Manager! Please visit cctvcambridge.org/careers for more information. To apply, please email your resume and cover letter to [email protected] with the subject line “Programming Manager”.

Shout out to our friends at the Electronic Frontier Alliance for highlighting the impactful work of the Cambridge Digital Navigators this Digital Inclusion Week! We are stronger together in a world where everyone has access to technology to live, learn, work, and thrive.

Hot off the press! Read CCTV’s last quarter newsletter for updates, new classes, and more!

Congratulations to CCTV's Station Ops Manager Josh Artman on being a Certified Broadcast Networking Technologist!

Since 2009 (six years after graduating with a dual BFA degre from Mass Art) I began learning to create live and prerecorded shows for Cambridge Community Television, and, eventually, learned how to produce my own programs. These experiences opened my mind to a huge field of potential ways to express myself. Though film and videography had not been areas I studied while I was in school, I was very drawn to them as I got involved with a CCTV production crew that needed a cameraperson. Now, nearly sixteen years later, I am the director and producer of Live Wire Sessions with a co-producer I invited to help me and a crew that I put together to create a series of shows we called "Live Wire Sessions". When I started learning about video production with the Bandwidth production crew we would create shows involving one performance and those shows were usually broadcast live. Live Wire Sessions, however, is not broadcast live and we book three to five acts per show. Each show takes a total of about 5 hours to set up and shoot beginning with the performers arriving, setting up, doing sound checks etc. All performances are done in front of a live audience. Shows are produced for the public, and for our own personal enjoyment. Welove what we do, discovering performers and presenting them to audiences. I would never have seen myself making art that requires me to have technical skills related to cameras, audio equipment, lighting, and directing abilities. I didn't dream about doing this. But then the opportunity to learn about video editing, and video cameras and editing software and working together with a crew to make ideas come to life came along at just the right time and I took the plunge. It's not unheard of to start somewhere and then later find yourself searching more, following a path you didn't map out but which calls insistently and that through trial and error brings you to a way that is true to yourself. That happened for me. I still paint but it's not always with the same materials or tools I learned to use. There are elements that persist from art I was making years ago and that surprises me. It always feels good to see that happen. It's like something you're making really wants to be made and keeps sticking its head out and saying Hi there I'm here still. Investigate more. So in my painting practice I continue to do that. Exposure to experimental music was what led to overcoming an artistic block. After attending some noise performances I was inspired to pick up some older pieces of work I'd put to the side and started working on them and made dozens of new pieces. I also got up my courage to ask for help with learning how to use synthesizers. The discovery of how to do both music and visual art is the path I have always needed to explore and develop. Exposing myself to the world of experimental music and noise has helped me to feel more confident and satisfied in exploring all of my interests in music and visual art.