Community Media - "Sights and Sounds"
A weekly newsletter from your friends at
Access Sacramento

Visit Sacramento's Historic Julia Morgan House 
Open House & Toy Drive - Dec. 9   
December 1, 2015 
In This Issue
Access Orientation Next Tues.
Show us Your Shorts TONIGHT
Live at McCarty's Toy Drive
Smile.Amazon.com Helps
"TEN YANiis" on Listen Up!
Theater and Dance on LiveWire!
Game of the Week Wraps Up
Stairway to Stardom Premiere
Annual Report Available
Enter the WAVE Awards

Access Sac Orientation 

Next Tuesday at 6pm    

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Access Sacramento's last free orientation sessions for 2015:

 

Tuesday, December 8

Wednesday, December 16

 

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

 

Access Sacramento has regularly  scheduled Orientation Sessions twice a month 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 gives you a chance to ask questions and to learn about our services and what we provide to the community and our members. We also describe the standard classes, member benefits, and provide a tour of the radio and TV studios and digital media lab.   

 

All classes are on a first come, first serve basis. 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, Closed Friday 12:30-1:30 pm. Memberships must be done in person between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

 

Winter 2015 Workshop Schedule

 

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

 
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  Click  to listen to Access Sacramento's own locally produced radio station. 

Sacramento Video Industry Professionals (VIPs)
Video Industry Professionals

Meetings are on the last Tuesday of every month at the Coloma Community Center.   


Capital Film Arts Alliance
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Regular Meetings on the 3rd Tuesday of every month at the Art Institute of Sacramento.  
 

Help Access Sacramento Donate a Car, Boat or RV

The Northern California Filmmakers Coalition  

 

The Northern California Filmmakers Coalition meets Wednesday's at

"Suite 210" 2830 G Street, Sacramento 

 

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

 
 

Stay Connected with 

Access Sacramento!

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

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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 & CCI 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 the current festival, production news , and the crews, directors and stars.  16th World Premiere Sunday Oct. 4 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/CCI 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.


Film Resource

One of the area's most comprehensive websites and resource guides for local information for filmmakers, crew, actors and outside-the-area producers to get to know our film community better.

 

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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. 


California Film Foundation
 
Meetings are always the 1st Friday of each month.  
   

SacCasting.com
Resource Registry for Actors, Directors & Casting Agents

 

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Community reports from our

Neighborhood News Bureaus   

Click here



Sacramento Adobe Users Group   

 

 

Sacramento Adobe Users Group.

Meets monthly.

 

http://sacramentoadobeusers.org/ 

 
DemocracyNOW
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/   


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Thank you for your support.

    

  Gary Martin, Executive Director 

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

INVITATION
Assemblymember McCarty's
Open House & Toy Drive
 
 
Access Sacramento is partnering with Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (CA-Dist. 7) for an Open House and Toy Drive next week in support of the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services.


Please RSVP for Dec. 9 4:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the historic Julia Morgan House at 3731 T Street, Sacramento. Light Refreshments will be served. RSVP HERE.

Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Dist 7) 
If you are able, we invite you to bring an unwrapped toy and to meet Assemblymember McCarty where you can learn about his district office and share your ideas about the state budget, upcoming legislation or other concerns for our area.

Access Sacramento will broadcast live from the Julia Morgan House during the event as a special
LiveWire! Host Ray Tatar receiving SARTA's Lifetime Achievement Award earlier this year
edition of LiveWire! - Sacramento County's longest running live community arts interview show since 1992. Host Ray Tatar will have special interviews with the Sacramento Food Bank and other non-profits in Sacramento County.

The Open House and Toy Drive is also supported by our donors: The Sacramento Association of Realtors, Diageo Wines, Device Brewing Company, and Oak Park Brewing Company.

For more information about this event or to download a flier, visit McCarty's Assembly District 7 website HERE.


Smile.Amazon.com Purchases Help Access Sacramento

 

This holiday season you can select Access Sacramento to get a donation when you purchase on-line goods from the Smile.Amazon.com website. 

 

 

Purchases are made in the regular way, but by STARTING with the Smile.Amazon.com website FIRST, a percentage of the purchase price will come back to Access Sacramento.

When you search for Access Sacramento, we come up as our official Tax ID name: Sacramento Community Cable Foundation.  A half-percent of the purchase price will come to us for each purchase when using this Smile.Amazon.com link.

We know you have choices to make and we thank you for supporting Access Sacramento.  Every donation helps.

"TEY YANiiS"
Tonight at 11pm on Channel 17
By Listen Up! Producer, Erika Kjelstrom 

 
"Listen Up! Sacramento" is pleased to present the smooth, rich sounds of the soulful, TEY YANiiS! Bringing his big Texas talent to the Sacramento music scene, TEY YANiiS' skillful songwriting shows a keen ear for both clever lyrics & rhythms. If you enjoy bars by artists like Digable Planets or Tribe Called Quest, then grab yourself a nice cup of "Coffee Brown" while you enjoy watching TEY YANiiS!
 
Booking & Press email: yaniismusic@gmail.com

 
Tune in to "Listen Up! Sacramento" at 11pm on Tues. Dec. 1 on Access Sacramento channel 17 on Comcast/Consolidated Communications and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14. You can also watch with our web simulcast at the same time it airs at AccessSacramento.org 
Watch replays of the episode on Wednesday at 3:00pm, & Thursday at 7:00am. 


 Theater and Dance on LiveWire! Tomorrow Night! 

We have advocacy, theater and dance, and an animal ambassador tomorrow, Dec. 2 on LiveWire!

Sacramento City College is featuring the UnSlut Project, a film that promotes gender equality and awareness. The Sacramento State Theatre Department will talki about
its Faculty Dance Concert happening Dec. 9-13, and the Wildlife Care Association will talk about its Nuts & Berries event coming up Sun. Dec. 13 and bring an animal ambassador into the studio.

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The Sacramento City College Communication Department will share information about its event featuring the documentary movie Unslut. They will also be holding a question and answer session with Emily Lindin, the founder of The Unslut Project. The project
promotes gender equality and awareness and is designed to create awareness about sexually bullying, and shaming issues. This event happens Wed. Dec. 2.

For more information click on The UnSlut Project     
Sacramento State's Theatre and Dance Department creates a unique and diverse environment to develop artists in the practice of theatre and dance. Sac State students and alumni are featured in the Sacramento State Theatre's annual Faculty Dance Concert 2015.  Their artistic and musical event happens Dec. 9-13. 
 
Click for more information on The Faculty Dance Concert 
  
The Wildlife Care Association (WCA) is a volunteer based association that rescues and rehabilitates wild animals. WCA receives more than 6000 animals each year. WCA hosts its 12th Annual Nuts & Berries event Sun. Dec. 13. 
 
For more information click on the Wild Life Care Association      
Tune in to LiveWire! at 5 p.m.  Wed. Dec. 2 on Access Sacramento channel 17. You can also watch the simulcast online the same time at AccessSacramento.org. The encore presentation airs Thursday at 7:30 p.m. And don't forget to like us at www.facebook.com/LiveWire.Sacramento


Hometown Sports 
Game of the Week Wraps 
Football Season

CIF-SJS Division II Semi-Final
Rocklin Thunder at Antelope Titans
 

You can catch the final game of the the football season from Access Sacramento's Hometown Sports Game of the Week tonight at 7:00 p.m. with the replay of the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division II semi-final playoff game featuring the Rocklin Thunder vs. the Antelope Titans.

Check out the video highlights with Will James and Jim Dimino on AccessLocal.TV:
 

Access Sacramento broadcast 10 regular season games and in a partnership with the NFHS Network covered three additional CIF-SJS playoff games.

Game of the Week will cover high school basketball season later in December.

The full Rocklin-Antelope football game replay begins at 7pm and repeats Wednesday at 11 a.m. on Comcast or Consolidated Communications Channel 17, AT&T U-Verse Channel 14 and streaming from AccessSacramento.org
 

Hometown TV Premiere
Skip's Music 35th Annual
Stairway to Stardom 2015


 
The 35th annual Skip's Music Stairway to Stardom 2015 was filmed at The Crest Theatre on Aug. 9, 2015 and featured 10 original youth bands formed just for this competition.

Special guests The Grey Area, Embryo, Grant Chesin, and Altessa also perform. Meet the bands during interviews of all acts by Staci Anderson. The show is emceed by Charlie Thomas of The Eagle. Don't miss this annual classic event -- with fully mixed audio maximizing each band's best song.

Tune in on the following schedule:

Saturday, December 12th @ 6:00pm
Sunday, December 13th @ 10:00am
Monday, December 14th @ 2:00am
 
Sunday, December 20th @ 5:00pm
Monday, December 21st @ 9:00am
Tuesday, December 22nd @ 1:00am
 
Tuesday, December 29th @ 7:00pm
Wednesday, December 30th @ 11:00am
Thursday, December 31st @ 3:00am
 
Sunday, January 3rd @ 10:00pm
Monday, January 4th @ 2:00pm
Tuesday, January 5th @ 6:00am
 
All cablecasts will be on Comcast/Consolidated Channel 17, and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14.  Or view streaming from  AccessSacramento.org.  Feel free to share this schedule with your friends!  Thank you for your support of local community and public access television in Sacramento County.
 

Board of Directors Approves
Annual Report and Fiscal Review
 
 
Nowruz Festival on Hometown TV
Annual reports "sound" boring.  But for the Board of Directors and Executive Director Gary Martin, it's a chance to review and celebrate 12 months of great programming for radio and TV and to be proud of the year's accomplishments.

Game of the Week crew reviewing graphics prior to kickoff.
Each year Access Sacramento prepares the info for the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission and our membership about training, equipment and programming activities, plus Access Sacramento's financial health during the 2014-15 fiscal year ending June 30, 2015.

A copy of the report is available from the home page at AccessSacramento.org.

Program activity highlights include continued membership growth, the launch of radio station KUBU, and completion of 57 Hometown TV or Game of the Week Activities.

The fiscal review was prepared by the accounting firm of Balarsky and Associates.

Executive Director Gary Martin is available to answer questions about the report by calling 916-456-8600.


Enter Your Best Video in the
WAVE Awards to Honor the
Best in the West


Late Deadline Dec.15

The annual awards competition by the Alliance for Community Media - West is accepting entries for the annual WAVE Awards through Jan. 1, 2016.

All videos may be entered whether they have been broadcast on an Access station or not. Video entries must originate in California, Nevada, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico or Arizona.

https://filmfreeway.com/festival/thewaveawards

The Western Access Video Excellence (WAVE) awards competition is accepting entries now.  The late deadline, with slightly higher entry fees is Dec. 15.  The final deadline is Jan. 1, 2016.
Entry categories include community events, information and news, sports, music, inspirational/religious, live, narrative film and documentary and plenty more.

Winners will be announce during the ACM-West annual conference, this year in Honolulu, Hawaii in mid-March. 

WAVE award entries will be judged and finalists will be named in Mid-January, with enough time for any entrants who would like to attend the awards ceremony to get the lowest airfares to Hawaii.

Competitive divisions allow similar skills sets to compete one again the other.  As always, videos that have aired on access channels in six western states compete as community producers (volunteer) or professional producers (paid),  A new division this year allows competition for videos that have not aired on access channels.

For more information on the conference, visit ACM-West.org