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"2014 Calendars Are Here!"
We can hardly believe it! The Access Sacramento 2014 calendars are here. The New Year is around the corner and you can get your free calendar at Access Sacramento (limit one per person).
We have four styles to choose from including classic images from artist, Norman Rockwell. We also have beautiful images of "Celebration of African-American Art" by various artists, majestic images of America, and also lush scenes of California.
Items are limited and subject to a first come, first serve basis. Come into the Access Sacramento Main Office during our normal business hours, Monday through Friday between 9 a.m and 6 p.m. to pick up your copy.
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Orientation Class Available
Last Chance this Year!
Are you a Sacramento County resident who wants to share your thoughts, opinions, and ideas on local television or radio? Consider joining Access Sacramento! We are a free-speech forum that gets you 'access' to popular forms of media so you can do just that. We exist so that you can express yourself and share what you're passionate about on local television and radio. Did you know that as a member of Access Sacramento you get one hour of airtime each month? Did you know that members get to use most of our equipment for free? Want to know more? Come to our last orientation class of the year.
Access Sacramento's Orientation class meets on Wednesday, December 18 at 6pm.
The class is free and open to the public. It will last a little over an hour. It is also a mandatory step in becoming an Access Sacramento member and should be taken at your earliest convenience.
Sign up now as classes fill up fast and our next orientation class will not take place until January 2014.
The Orientation Class will give you a chance to ask questions and learn about our services and what we provide to the community and its members. We also will go over the standard classes we offer and member benefits as well as getting a tour of the facility.
The class is taught by our Executive Director, Gary Martin and occasionally by staff persons Michelle Barbaria and Elizabeth Harrison.
All classes are provided on a first come, first serve basis, so take advantage before the classes fill up. You must be a member in order to take our standard classes, but orientation is open to everyone and is the first step in becoming a member of Access Sacramento.
We hope to see you there!
For more information on class availability contact Access Sacramento's Front Desk at:
(916) 456-8600 Ext: 0.
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Access Sacramento
(located inside of the Coloma Community Center)
4623 T Street, suite A
Sacramento, Ca. 95819
Our regular office hours are Monday through Friday 9-6. Memberships must be done in person between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
We are close on City recognized Holidays.
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Place Called Sacramento Film Festival DVDs Available for Purchase
DVDs with all 10 films from the Place Called Sacramento Film Festival are available to purchase with a credit card by calling the Access Sacramento Front Office at 916-456-8600 extension 0.
Cash or check purchases can be made by coming into the Front Office and checks can be mailed to:
Access Sacramento
4623 T Street, Suite A
Sacramento, CA 95819-4743
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"Fall Classes Scheduled" 
Our newest schedule is out and classes have been added. If you are already a member of Access Sacramento and your membership is up to date you can call and sign up over the phone using your credit card. If you are interested in becoming a member of Access Sacramento and would like to take the classes you must come and sign up in person for your membership. Orientation happens once or twice each month and is a good place to start. It is mandatory to attend one and it is free. You do not need to be a member to attend Orientation. You must be a member of Access Sacramento in order to take the other classes.
Upcoming Classes:
Orientation
Wednesday, December 18th at 6 p.m.
TV Studio Operation/Production
Saturday, December 7th at 9 a.m.
Basics of Digital Camera and Editing
TBA
*sign up is first come, first served. Classes fill up quickly and reservations are made only with payment.
Call the Access Sacramento office M-F between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. to sign up over the phone or drop by our offices located at 4623 T Street in Sacramento, 95819. We are located inside of the Coloma Community Center.
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Stay Connected with
Access Sacaramento!
You can get information about Access Sacramento in many ways. If you're away from home or cable TV, then watch us live from our main website!
Push Watch TV 17 for The Sacramento Channel
Push Watch TV 18 for Sacramento Public Access
Follow us on Twitter
@accesssac
General Information
Get the latest on programming, upcoming classes or services, and news about Access Sacramento in the community.
@SacGOTW
Hometown TV Game of the Week
Learn what's coming up on the schedule, the latest about this week's game, and get in-game updates. Plus, if you send us a tweet during the game, your comment may appear on the air LIVE, Fridays at 7pm on Comcast and SureWest Cable Ch. 17, and AT&T U-verse Ch. 99. Replays on Saturdays at 11 a.m. and Tuesdays and 7 p.m.
Like us on Facebook
Access Sacramento
https://www.facebook.com/pages/A
ccess-Sacramento/170587545355
Learn about Access Sacramento in the community, information about upcoming classes, and current news and information affecting public access cable.
A Place Called Sacramento Film Festival
https://www.facebook.com/
groups/343414605740324/
Find details about this year's 10 films, production news , and the crews, directors and stars. World Premiere Sunday Oct. 6 at 1pm at The Crest Theatre in Sacramento.
LiveWire
https://www.facebook.com/g
roups/133349386715657/
LiveWire is Sacramento's longest running LIVE weekly talk show and it can be seen every Wednesday at 5pm on Comcast/SureWest Cable Ch. 17 and AT&T U-Verse Ch. 99. Find out about current guests, topics and see highlights from shows.
Facebook Fan Sites
"Listen Up Sacramento!"
https://www.facebook.com/g
roups/108782482477651/
Fans of Access Sacramento's twice monthly music performance show "Listen Up Sacramento!" offer info about performers, singers, and bands that have appeared on the show including new performance announcements and news from the groups.
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Community reports from our
Neighborhood News Bureaus.
Click here.
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Next time you are in the office, ask to to join the Access Sacramento - SaveMart SHARES program. We will give you a plastic SHARES card. Hand the SHARES card to the checker each time you check-out at SaveMart and they will donate 3% of your total grocery bill to Access Sacramento.
This costs you nothing - the 3% comes from SaveMart as a supporter of our nonprofit organization. Once you get into the habit of remembering your SHARES card, the rest is simple. Thanks to you and SaveMart for supporting Access Sacramento.
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2013 Workshop Schedule
Click on the image above to view the Access Sacramento workshop schedule
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2013 Program Schedule
(Click on the image above to view Access Sacramento programming schedules
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Watch Access programming on Comcast OnDemand today!
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Click to listen to Access Sacramento's own locally produced radio station.
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Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman - Progressive news stories from around the world!!
Weeknights @ 6pm & 12am
http://democracynow.org/
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"Media Edge" is a video magazine series offering two hours of in-depth, thought-provoking, progressive viewpoints every week. The series features segments created by "Media Edge" producers, along with nationally distributed videos and documentaries.
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DW-TV (Watch Deutsche-Welle TV in English) Daily News from the heart of Europe. Plus Arts, Travel, and Entertainment features. Weeknights 5:30 pm & 11:30 pm on Channel 17 and on Channel 18 every other hour.
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New T-shirts Available in Office
WWe are all about storytelling. Your stories- my stories-everyone. Check out our new t-shirt design now available in the office for only $12 each.
Remember the Story is You
check them out!
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Thank you for your support.
Gary Martin, Executive Director
Access Sacramento
4623 T Street
Sacramento, CA. 95819
(916) 456-8600 #100
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Want Your Event to be on TV?
Apply for Coverage
Access Sacramento regularly televises community events like stage shows, guest speakers, awards banquets, parades and sporting events as part of a Hometown TV grant from the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission.
The events are selected from applications sent in by event organizers from non-profit community groups, typically six to eight weeks in advance.
The application is available from the Access Sacramento website by pushing the button, "Hometown TV - Your Event on Cable.
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Hometown TV crew at the Asian Performing Arts Festival (from left) Director Dev Singh, Engineer Richard Langley, Camera operators Danny Mendonsa and Bruce Riggs, Audio Engineer Thorunn Gudjonsdottir, Camera operator Adrian Gonzalez and Access Sacramento Board of Directors member Edgar Calderon.
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If selected, Access Sacramento's remote television production truck will roll in complete with multiple cameras, audio equipment and a mini TV control room for use in capturing your event for broadcast on television.
On a normal schedule, the production equipment and supporting crew members arrive approximately four hours before the event starts to lay power and camera cables, to place microphones or test a feed from the event's audio mixer, and to make sure everything is working before the public arrives.
In most cases, some minor editing is done to connect the different segments of a production, although in very rare cases an event is covered LIVE on our channels. The Elk Grove Western Festival parade and the Galt Independence Day parades were both broadcast live in 2013.
If your event is selected, the value of the Access Sacramento's in-kind donation is typically valued at between $2,000 and $2,500 depending on the number of staff needed to support the event.
In return, Access Sacramento requests the sponsoring group provide appropriate ad space in their printed program (if there is one,) and that the group provide the TV crew a picnic lunch midday.
The Hometown TV grant is what also pays for Access Sacramento's production of the regular Game of the Week broadcast of high school and college sports.
Since the beginning of our fiscal year July 1, 2013, Access Sacramento crews have covered a variety of topics and events including: Sacramento's "Dialogue on Mental Health," the Tejano Conjunto Music festival, an unemployment seminar, highlights of the Metro Chambers Small Business Expo, Skip's Music Stairway to Stardom Teen Band Competition, presenters at the Asian Pacific Islanders American Voter Education day, a United Nation's guest speaker, the kickoff of Runaway and Homeless Youth month, and the Asian Performing Arts Festival, among others.
If you have questions about whether your event might be appropriate for a Hometown TV grant, please call Access Sacramento Executive Director Gary Martin at 916-456-8600 ext. 100
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Wednesday 5 p.m. on Live Wire
The Nutcracker 'Sweet' & Actor's Theater of Sacramento
LiveWire is happy to welcome guests from The Nutcracker "Sweet" Wednesday at 5 p.m. on Access Sacramento Channel 17. This very special performance features ballet as well as a variety of dance styles. It is presented by The NaTalia Johnson Ballet Conservatory. The kick-off event which includes a Holiday fundraising bazaar with lots of goodies is happening on Saturday, December 7th at 6 pm at the Sierra L. Center on Folsom Blvd. in Sacramento and is Hosted by the Girls Self Esteem Program. The Nutcracker "Sweet" will be performed live on December 24th and December 25th at the Guild Theatre in Sacramento.
For more details about The Nutcracker "Sweet" log on to www.GirlsSelfEsteemProgram.com
Live Wire is also happy to hear from Ed Claudio from the Actor's Theater of Sacramento. The theater, which also hosts workshops all year around is having their annual Christmas Show Special which runs December 13th through the 22nd at the R25 Complex at the Three Penny Theatre in midtown in Sacramento. Tune in to see what the Actors have in store for you this Holiday Season.
Please visit www.ActInSac.com for details about their classes and annual holiday performances.
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Tune in to LiveWire! on Wednesday, December 4 at 5 pm on Access Sacramento channel 17. You can also watch online the same time it airs at AccessSacramento.org and click on 'watch 17'.
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Student Essay's Air on Access Sacramento this Sundayer 
This Sunday's edition of Media Edge includes the "PSR 2013 Scholarship Essay Contest Finals." This year's Scholarship Essay Contest, sponsored by the Sacramento Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, was recorded by a Media Edge crew on April 28, 2013 at the Dante Club in Sacramento. The winning essays were chosen from entries submitted by greater Sacramento area high school students that reacted to this year's prompt, a position statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics in April 2000: "Firearm regulations, to include bans of handguns and assault weapons, are the most effective way to reduce firearm-related injuries." After the finalists read their essays, the authors of the top three essays earned $3,000, $2,500 and $2,000 scholarships, and the other seven each earned a $1,000 scholarship. Episode #448 of "Media Edge" airs on Access Sacramento Sunday, Dec. 8 from 8-10pm on Channel 17. "Media Edge" is a video magazine series presented on many cable access channels in the United States. "Media Edge" has offered two hours of in-depth, thought-provoking, progressive viewpoints every week since April 2005. "Media Edge" features segments created by local producers, along with nationally distributed videos and documentaries. Most of our episodes since 2009 can also be watched online. Web Site: http://www.WeTheMedia.tv Available online episodes: http://archive.org/details/mediaedge |
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Cable Commission Meets Thursday
The Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission meets for its regularly scheduled board meeting this Thursday at 2:30 p.m.
The board meets at a different location this month because the Board of Supervisors chambers are being remodeled. The Thursday meeting will be in the Sacramento Historic City Hall Council Chambers, 915 I Street, 2nd Floor, in Sacramento.
The Commission agenda includes possible reports from the three area cable services, Comcast, SureWest and AT&T U-Verse and from the Channel Licensees including Access Sacramento, Capital Public Radio, KVIE, the Religious Coalition for Cable Television and the Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium.
The commission's legal counsel will also report in executive session on the SMCTC's lawsuit in Los Angeles against Pacific Bell / AT&T California regarding how Public, Educational and Government Access Channels are broadcast by AT&T under the state's cable franchise laws. A report out from the executive session may not be required.
The public is invited to attend and comment on agenda items or other cable issues as desired.
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Digital Filmmaking Camera Demo
The Capital Film Arts Alliance (CFAA) and the Art Institutes of Sacramento present a free demonstration next Tuesday of one of Hollywood's most versatile digital cameras from RED Digital.
The Red, Epic and Scarlet Cameras have been used to make this winter's current releases "The Hobbit, Desolation of Smaug," "Robocop 2014," " 300: Rise of an Empire," Thor The Dark World," and "Enders Game" plus plenty of others.
The dense high quality 4K images from a these cameras produces film quality or better images, perfect for today's live action movie with their need for superior visual effects.
Representatives from RED Digital will talk at next Tuesday's CFAA meeting to demonstrate the 4k workflow and will show off their newest offering, the new EPIC-M black and white camera.
Admission is free.
The CFAA meeting is held at the Art Institutes of Sacramento, 2850 Gateway Oaks Drive, Sacramento Room 244 from 7-10 p.m. on Tuesday Dec. 10.
RSVP to: info@capitalfilmarts.org to reserve a space for this FREE event.
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Get your Stairway to Stardom
DVD today!
The Access Sacramento Hometown TV crew documented top beginner rock bands at the 33rd annual Skip's Music "Stairway to Stardom" competition at the downtown Crest Theatre earlier this year.
All 11 competing bands perform and are interviewed on the program. Judges selected "War Paint" for first place, "Contrast" for second place, and "Failed Diplomacy" for 3rd place.
The competition began when musicians were auditioned, placed with other beginners, and then challenged to collaborate, write their own songs, and prepare three original compositions to present on stage in front of judges, fans and TV cameras.
The 2-part DVD showcases each band's performance and features exclusive interviews with the performers and their coach. The program includes at least one song from each band and features many musical styles.
Enjoy the Stairway to Stardom experience now! Buy the 2-part DVD at Access Sacramento for only $30. You can place an order over the phone by calling the Front Office at (916) 456-8600 Ext: 0.
Cash or check purchases may be made by coming into the Front Office and checks can be mailed to:
Access Sacramento
4623 T Street, Suite A
Sacramento, CA 95819-4700
Look for Stairway to Stardom 2013 to air on Channel 17 in December. Exact date and time will be made available as the date gets closer.
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"Time to Flow"
Tonight, Tuesday, at 11 pm on Ch 17
By Listen Up! Co-Producer, Michelle A. Barbaria
Looking for some original rappers? Sacramento has talented and unique local performers that are sure to please. This episode of Listen Up! Sacramento features past performers including Random Abiladeze, Israel, and A Cowboy and a T.H.U.G. Each of them has their own style. Random Abiladeze takes his raps to a deeper lever of understanding. Israel speaks to the pleasures of life and A Cowboy and a T.H.U.G. share their dynamic skills that only Sacramento has to offer. Enjoy the show!
Listen Up! Sacramento's "Time to Flow" episode airs tonight at 11 p.m. on Access Sacramento channel 17. You can watch the simulcast online at the same time at AccessSacramento.org and click 'watch 17'.
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Listen Up! Sacramento features local musicians of all genres and languages. Opinions or statements made on the program do not reflect the opinions of Listen Up! Sacramento and the staff of Access Sacramento. If you are a musician in the Sacramento region and you'd like to be a guest on the show you can submit your information and include a sample of your music or a link to your music to: Listen.Up.Sacramento@gmail.com
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Mental Health Dialogue Featured in Access Sacramento TV Special, Continues to Air
Sacramento residents participated in a "National Dialogue on Mental Health" in July, and a TV special documenting the discussion and the call to find community-based solutions to mental health needs can began airing on Access Sacramento on Saturday at 8 p.m.
The hour-long special first aired at 8 p.m. Nov. 30 in Sacramento County on Comcast and SureWest Cable Channel 17 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 99. For those not in Sacramento County, the program can be seen on the Internet from AccessSacramento.org.
Additional replays are listed below:
FULL BROADCAST SCHEDULE:
Sunday, Dec. 8 at 5:00 p.m.
Monday Dec. 9 at 9 a.m. (Internet only)
Tuesday Dec. 10 at 1:00 a.m.
Information about how to participate in the National Dialogue with printable discussion guides can be found at http://www.creatingcommunitysolutions.org/
A full report on the results of the Sacramento dialogue is available for download from
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/
u/63932895/CCSSummaryReportFinal.pdf
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Tips for Local Small Business Continues to Air on Access Sacramento
The Hometown TV special featuring business consultants with a series of advice for small businesses in a special presentation about the Sacramento Metro Chamber's Small Business Metro Expo began airing Saturday, at 6 p.m. on Access Sacramento.
The two-hour highlight show can be seen on Access Sacramento, Comcast and SureWest cable channel 17 or AT&T U-Verse channel 99. The program will also be streamed on the web from
AccessSaramento.org Push Watch 17. Additional replays are listed below:
BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Sunday, Dec. 8 at 6:00 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 9 at 10:00 a.m. (Internet Only)
Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 2:00 a.m.
The program is created under a Hometown TV grant from Access Sacramento, a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation that operates public access cable channels in Sacramento County.
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Santa's On His Way!
We just got word from the North Pole that Santa Claus if prepping his sleigh for his world tour. He'll be stopping by the set of LiveWire on Wednesday, December 11th at 5 pm. He is hoping to see the local boys and girls from around the neighborhood. In honor of his special visit we'll have some special guests that will be reciting poems, a local musician, and a group sing-along. We invite you to tune in and enjoy some Holiday cheer. Santa's on his way!
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