New Youth News Correspondents

Welcomed To AccessLocal.Tv

This week, four new youth Neighborhood News Correspondents join the AccessLocal.Tv team after a countywide search for student participants. Zaire Johnson, Jennifer Nievera, Carly Wipf, and Yeshahyah "King" Yisrael join returning Correspondents Mario Ayala and Sage Lauwerys for this 14-week summer program.

Neighborhood News Correspondents are trained by AccessLocal.Tv Youth Media Coordinator Isaac Gonzalez to create written articles, produce a podcast, and host a television program, all of which feature stories about from the communities of Sacramento County. Correspondents who complete their tasks are provided with modest compensation thank to the generous support of The California Endowment.

"These young people enter the program with wide eyes and curious minds," says Gonzalez. "We give them the tools and training needed to take their aspirations to the next level via digital media and journalism."

Most of the content produced by the team centers around the Sacramento Building Healthy Community initiative, created by The California Endowment.  The 10-year, $1 billion effort is focused on 14 communities throughout California and is designed to increase the health outcomes of its residents. Locally, over three dozen organizations and individuals receive support from the Sac BHC program with the goal of making South Sacramento a healthier place for the residents of Oak Park, Colonial Heights, Lemon Hill, Fruitridge Manor, Tahoe Park, and adjoining South Sacramento neighborhoods.

Cosumnes River College Names New Radio, TV & Film Professor 

Long time Cosumnes River College part-time instructor Lauren Wagner will be the new full time professor for the college's well-respected Radio, TV and Film Production program beginning this Fall. 

CRC Professor Lauren Wagner will begin her job in August, 2014.

Wagner actually earned her Associate of Arts degree in RTVF from CRC many years ago, before completing a Bachelor's degree at San Francisco State and her Master of Fine Arts in Film from USC.

Wagner follows in the footsteps of her old professor, Gary Martin, now the Executive Director here at Access Sacramento.  "I guess I'll have to stop calling it 'Gary's Office' when I move in later this summer," Wagner said during a CRC faculty gathering last Thursday.

Martin will be honored with the title Professor Emeritus during this Thursday's commencement exercises at Cosumnes River College. 

New Classes for Film Makers

Acting for the Camera

Make-Up Basics for Film and TV

While judges review scripts submitted in the 15th Annual "Place Called Sacramento" script competition, Access Sacramento is offering three special classes to help students understand the process of story telling on film.  

Short Film Production Tips with Nate Schemel

This class will be held in early summer- TBA

$50 

Acting for the Camera

Instructor: Charlie Holliday 

Saturday, May 31  9 am to 5 pm

$25

Make-Up Basics for Film and TV

Instructor: Arabella Grayson

Saturday, June 14th 9am to 1 pm

$35

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Story Time Tomorrow at 5pm on LiveWire!  

Author, Iris A.B. Barnett will be a guest on the show this week. She will be telling us about her historical novel "His Time" about Dr. Herbert Guice, D.D. and the impact he had on her life. The author has life experiences in helping create a better community for her friends and family to live and for all of us. Join us to hear more about her story and the story of her friend.

We will also get a visit from some Sacramento story-tellers. There is a summer series of story-telling events. Most of the events will be happening at the Avid Reader on Broadway in Sacramento. A local group of story-tellers speak of their life experiences in a creative and inspiring way. Watch LiveWire! on Wednesday to learn more.

For event listings log on to www.AvidReaderBooks.com/events

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Filmmaker, Gary Nyland 

is Preserving State Fair History

Under the auspices of Access Sacramento, I'm making a short documentary about the history of the State Fair that will be screened at the Crest Theater in October 2014 as part of the 15th annual A Place Called Sacramento film festival. It will play outside of the regular competition as a legacy film, intended to showcase both the historical richness of Sacramento as well as spotlight the filmmaking talents of a PCS alumnus.

I'm a Sacramento native, have been attending the Fair since its heyday on Stockton Blvd. and this project will be a publicly accessible guide to Sacramento's colorful past, a map to her present condition and a light on her future possibilities.

I am searching for images, both still and moving, of a state fair that's been held continuously since 1854. I'm also searching for posters, programs, collectibles, ephemera, news articles and anecdotal remembrances. Happily, Sacramento seems to be the perfect place to research this very popular annual attraction.

The intent here is not as a profit-making venture but as a love letter to my home town and a community-building inspiration.  Having grown up here in a pre-preservation era, I am acutely aware of how easily our fantastic past can be bulldozed and quickly forgotten.

Any resources that you can share with me will be greatly appreciated, both by me and by generations of Sacramentans.

Sincerely,

Gary Nyland

California State Fair...Then & Now

garynyland@hotmail.com

Letters of Support Needed!

Assembly Joint Rresolution 39, authored and introduced by Assembly member Roger Hernandez asks that Congress eliminate outdated language that harms the way Public, Education and Government access cable stations are funded.

nd if AJR 39 passes the Senate, it will move directly toward Washington.  

Your letters in support of AJR 39 are needed now more than ever.

Candidate Forum Airs Throughout

May on Access Sacramento 

"Celebration of the Arts" 

in Honor of Cesar Chavez

Slated for Friday 7 pm