Community Media - "Sights and Sounds"

A weekly newsletter from your friends at
Access Sacramento

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December 9, 2014 
In This Issue
RSVP Orientation Tonight
Free 2015 Calendars
Sign Up for 2015 Workshops
Donate to Access Sacramento
Game of the Week LIVE Friday
KUBU on Social Media
Member Milestones
This Week on LiveWire!
Silver Spoons Next Tuesday
Video Contest for Students
Symphony of 1000 Replays
Tower of Youth Films Dec. 28

Access Sacramento's Final 2014 Orientation Session Tonight! 

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Access Sacramento' final orientation for 2014 is tonight at 6pm.  

 

RSVP by calling 916-456-8600 ext. 0.

 

Access Sacramento's regularly  scheduled  Orientation Sessions resume in January on a new schedule. Orientations will be on the 2nd Tuesday and 3rd Wednesday.  

 

Orientation classes are free and open to the public. They last a little more than an hour. The orientation class is also a required step in becoming an Access Sacramento member and should be taken at your earliest convenience.   

 

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 providing a tour of the radio and TV studios and digital media lab.   

 

All classes are on a first come, first serve basis so signing up right away is crucial. We hope to see you there!

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Access Sacramento

(Inside the Coloma Community Center)

4623 T Street, Suite A

Sacramento, Ca. 95819

 

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.


Get Your Free 2015 Calendar!

The 2015 calendars have arrived!! Come down to Access Sacramento to claim your free 2015 calendar.



We have four different styles to choose from: Scenes of California, Scenes of America, Memorable Images by Norman Rockwell & Black History: A Celebration.
 
Come down to Access Sacramento located on 4623 T Street Sacramento, CA 95819 between 9am-6pm Mon-Fri to claim your free calendar while supplies last.
 
Limit one per member. For more info contact the front desk at 916-456-8600 Ext. 0.
 
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KUBU-LP  96.5 FM 
Click to listen to Access Sacramento's own locally produced radio station.

 

Winter/Spring 2015 Workshop Schedule

 

Click on the image above to view the Access Sacramento workshop schedule


Sac VIP's Restart in January

Video Industry Professionals

For more information visit Sac VIP's website at sacramentovips.com.
 

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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.



Donations to
Access Sacramento Help Youth, Health, Community Media

   

 

Access Sacramento is a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation providing low-cost or free radio, television and internet services for Sacramento County residents.

 

 

Your tax deductible donations support youth and adult training for job skills and work force development, promote health and community news through our channels and AccessLocal.tv, and promote Free Speech and the community voice: Making a Difference, One Voice at a Time.

Push HERE to donate today.

 
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Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman - Progressive news stories from around the world!!

 

Monday thru Thursday @ 6pm & 12am

Friday @ 5:30 pm and 11:30 pm 

 

 http://democracynow.org/    

   

 
 

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. 14. 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. 5 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. 14.  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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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.

 



Sacramento Adobe Users Group   

 

 

Sacramento Adobe Users Group.

Meets monthly.

 

http://sacramentoadobeusers.org/    


The Northern California Filmmakers Coalition 

 

 

The Northern California Filmmakers Coalition (NCFC) invites you to be a studio audience guest in the television production of  "Sacramento Film Works". RSVP by phone at 916-502-7068 or 916-384-5796 or

by email at info@tru-talent.com


California Film Foundation

 

Meetings are always the 1st Friday of each month.  

 

 

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Click below to join the Access Sacramento Facebook and

Twitter Family:

 

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Access Sacramento's Game of the Week Begins Basketball Coverage Friday at Monterey Trail Tourney 
 
Sacramento County's only full game broadcasts of high school basketball begin LIVE this Friday at 7pm when Game of the Week covers two semi-final games in the Mark Macres boys basketball tournament from Monterey Trail High School in Elk Grove.
Play by Play Announcer Will James (left) and Color Analyst Rick Stewart

Once again this year Play by Play will be handled by Will James, and analysis will be provided by Rick Stewart.

 

Two additional tournaments will be handled in the next two weeks, with regular season broadcasts beginning in January, 2015

 

 

Six of the dates will have live broadcasts and five will be tape delayed.

Schools include: Capital Christian, Christian Brothers, Franklin, Folsom, Jesuit, Monterey Trail, McClatchy, Pleasant Grove, Roseville, Rosemont, Sacramento, St. Francis, and Woodcreek.

Click AccessLocal.TV for the full broadcast schedule.

All cablecasts will be on Comcast & Consolidated Communications Channel 17 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14.  If you don't have those services, it can also be viewed on our website at AccessSacramento.org.   

 


Follow KUBU on Major Social Media and Stay Updated!

Interested in the happenings for KUBU FM and want to stay updated on information regarding the radio side of Access Sacramento?

Follow KUBU on Facebook and follow Access Sacramento on Twitter  @KUBU_965FM and stay updated with the latest information.

Want to join the Founder's Club? Its not too late!


With a donation at the Founder's Club Level you receive
  • Our Weekly Newsletter
  • Annual Radio Programming Guide
  • KUBU Bumper Sticker
  • KUBU Founder's Club Certificate
  • Social Media Shout Out
  • Name Added to KUBU Legacy Quilt

Our Indiegogo campaign offers many different donation levels to chose from each with its own unique rewards, allowing you the freedom to pick what works for you.

  

Visit our Indiegogo campaign at

KUBU Community Radio.

  

With your support, we can keep KUBU operating and serve our community, one voice at a time.

 


MEMBER MILESTONES

Access Sacramento Member
Named CEO of APAPA

Congratulations to member Mayue Carlson who has been named the new Executive Director for the Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association.

(From Left) Access Sacramento Executive Director Gary Martin. Access Sacramento Board Member Edgar Calderon, APAPA Executive Director Mayue Carlson, and Sacramento Chinese Culture Foundation Member Gordon Jin

Carlson is a licensed real estate agent and the president of the Sacramento Chinese Culture Foundation.  She has been a member of Access Sacramento since 2000.

APAPA logo _Sept 2012 Carlson previously served as as APAPA CEO and president in 2007 and was a founding board member in 2004.

Congratulations to Carlson on her new appointment and best wishes as she takes on this new opportunity.




CONGRATULATIONS MEDIA EDGE
500 Episodes

Last Sunday Sacramento producer Randy Van Dalsen's "Media Edge" program completed its remarkable 500th two-hour weekly program.

"Media Edge" has presented in-depth, thought-provoking, progressive viewpoints since April, 2005. The program involves both local Sacramento programs shot by "Media Edge" crews and nationally distributed documentaries and videos.

On behalf of Access Sacramento's Board of Directors and staff, we congratulate VanDalsen for his dedication and congratulate him on the successful completion of 500 episodes.



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IMBA, "Pen to Paper"

& Andrew Castro

Tomorrow at 5pm on Channel 17 

 

This week on LiveWire, we have three guests! That's right, three guests who will all be performing live on the show. The Sacramento Instituto Mazatlán de Bellas Artes (IMBA), Singer/Songwriter Andrew Castro, and Hosts Olga and Patrice from the KUBU radio show, "Pen to Paper" will all be joining us this Wednesday.

 

 

IMBA became a means for Sacramento's youth to learn about Mexican heritage and develop their kinetic and artistic abilities. They will be on the show to give us a taste of their performance on December 22, 2014 at Harris Center For The Arts, Folsom, CA.

 

Their website: www.imbasac.com 

 

Andrew Castro is a San Francisco Bay Area based musician that will be with us to promote and share his music. Andrew has spent the last couple of years performing in California all the way to New York.

 

Andrew's information is here:

www.andrewcastromusic.com 

 

 

Our final guests are the hosts from the 96.5 KUBU radio show "Pen to Paper", Olga and Patrice. "Pen to Paper" is a poetry radio show that invites local poets to read and discuss their work. Being poetry writers themselves, Olga and Patrice will be in to promote their show and read their own poetry.

 

For More about KUBU:

Radio Program Schedule 

 

Join us and tune in to LiveWire! at 5 p.m.  Wednesday, December 10th on Access Sacramento channel 17. You can also watch the simulcast online the same time it airs at www.AccessSacramento.org and click 'watch 17'. The encore presentation airs the following Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

 

 

"Silver Spoons"
Tune in
 Tuesday, Dec. 16th  at 11pm  
By Listen Up! Producer, Erika Kjelstrom
 
 


 

"Listen Up! Sacramento" is pleased to present the wildly entertaining and fabulously dressed, Silver Spoons! Silver Spoons are Sacramento's version of a 1970's SuperGroup made up of members of such bands as Broken Voice Club, Honyock, and The Kelps. If you enjoy the music of Lindsey Buckingham as well as The Strokes and Spinal Tap then get ready for a Spoonful of this trio! You can find out more about Silver Spoons:

 

Press Contact:  elijahliam95@gmail.com

 

Web:

https://www.facebook.com/thesilverspoonsband

 http://silverspoons.bandcamp.com/album/runt-e-p

 

Booking:  elijahliam95@gmail.com

 

Tune in to "Listen Up! Sacramento" at 11pm on Tuesday, December 16th on Access Sacramento channel 17. You can also watch with our web simulcast at the same time it airs at www.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


High School PSA Constest
Presented by Access Sacramento

Access Sacramento is providing a unique opportunity for high school media production classes in Sacramento County.
 
Media Production Students are given an opportunity to create a public service announcement for a local nonprofit or governmental agency. These organizations will then select as many of the PSAs as they like for cablecast on Access Sacramento.
 
Selected PSAs will receive an Award of Excellence certificate from Access Sacramento. Access Sacramento will judge all of those selected and award cash prizes to the top three! 
 
The three local organizations student participants will be creating PSAs for are:

Sacramento's "Symphony of 1000" 
Three Chances to Watch Next Week  
 
The area's largest group of musicians ever gathered in one setting are featured in Access Sacramento's Hometown TV coverage this Friday of the "Symphony of 1000" from the Sacramento Youth Symphony.  The group performed in the Memorial Auditorium October 12.
Sacramento's Memorial Auditorium
Below are the upcoming playback dates for the Hometown TV event, "Symphony of 1000":

 

Saturday, December 13th @ 6:00pm

Sunday, December 14th @ 10:00am

Monday, December 15th @ 2:00am

 

All cablecasts will be on Comcast & Consolidated Communications Channel 17 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14.  If you don't have those services, it can also be viewed on our website at AccessSacramento.org at the time listed above.  Feel free to share this schedule with your friends!  The Internet stream is not video on demand.  Thank you for your support of local community and public access television in Sacramento County.


18th Annual Tower of Youth
Film Festival

On Oct. 3rd, The Crest Theatre hosted the 18th Annual North American All Youth Film Festival, which showcased the best US and Canada teen youth videos.
 
This 5 1/2 hour event's last playback date is

 

Sunday, December 28th @ 2:00pm

  

Cablecast will be on Comcast/Surewest Channel 17 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14, Pacific Daylight/Standard Time, unless otherwise specified.  If you don't have those services, it can also be viewed on our website at www.accesssacramento.org and click 'Watch 17' at the time listed above.  Feel free to share this schedule with your friends!  The Internet stream is not video on demand.  Thank you for your support of local community and public access television in Sacramento County.

 
  
  Thank you for your support.

    

  Gary Martin, Executive Director 

  Access Sacramento
  4623 T Street
  Sacramento, CA. 95819
  (916) 456-8600 #100