While I am away---open invitation to guest host

So do you have a passion for the 1st Amendment, live or play in Wallingford and want to help build the free speech community here, if so send a note to wpaa@7TownTV.org and maybe you can guest host this show while I am in on a far away Island.

I also want to share that I am on this Island with a very welcome map I have due to the generosity of Comcast. C0mcast distributed world maps to local education representatives at Advisory Councils over a year ago. Last month, I was able to secure the last one provided to CACSCC. It will be starting class with me at Manu'a High School on Ta’u Island. The yellow arrows on the map point to Wallingford, CT and Ta'u and Comcast. A World Map was on the wish list for from one of last years' teacher volunteers.

Community Producing - cablecasting July & August

I collaborated with CACSCC (Cable Advisory Council), hosting their Annual Education Event on July 9th. I spoke with three local Community Access Producers about Content, Style and how to get involved. I learned a few things ... I hope you get to check it out. At this link you will find a PowerPoint with of the information we discussed.

July - Global Volunteers from Wallingford

Between my 9 month volunteer teaching experience in Cape Town, So. Africa and Pago Pago, Samoa for 1 year beginning this July, I have joined the theater collective Royal Pyngwyn as resident playwright/artistic director. It has been a busy two months culminating in the world premiere of my play

Cracked Upon a Time.

Click here for more: http://www.royalpyngwyn.com/

One of the themes explored in that play is ... the nature of time’s passing and the certain inevitability of conclusion.

As part of my transition from this theater project and my next placement, I hope to talk with a few volunteers from Wallingford about global volunteering. To chat about how we can make our experience live beyond their conclusions. I think some of our stories may be of interest to others so I would like to roll tape - so to speak - while we chat for the this program.

Can you join me? Contact me at WPAA@7towntv.org. I will try to coordinate the particulars after the 30th.

Xploring Community from Behind the Lens-July 9th 2009

Three different methods -- Three different memory collectors

Sustaining the Public Voice: PEGPETIA

Applications are due and another opportunity will be pursued on behalf of the people of Wallingford with the goal being to raise awareness of our physical and virtual: Parade Ground

Telecast Schedule: Mon thru Friday @ 6:30 PM

On the Parade Ground will be re-telecast on a regular weekly schedule:
Monday thru Friday at 6:30 PM on Wallingford Comcast Cable 18- WPAA. Internet TV viewers will be able to see the program soon via a link at 7TownTV.org on the Wallingford pages.

The program will display the igive.com keyword WPAA portal call to action fundraising information for the WPAA CommunityBuilding project

Note:
Fundraising for local non-profits is not a commercial use of the television station it is a community use of the station.

Inaugural - VideoCast March 10

What better day to start a TV show about bringing sunshine to local topics of interest than the day after we loose an hour of sleep in preservation of daylight. On the Parade Ground is planned to be a forum for gathering knowledge about topics of public interest.

Callers will be encourage to share their knowledge, brainstorm ideas, and suggest if/then scenarios.The program will be facilitated by a resident of Wallingford. On the Parade Ground facilitator and crew will try to synthesize the topic in TV shorts that will run on WPAA's Bulletin Board. The discussion will hopefully build on each other. One topic may lead to the another On the Parade Ground theme.

This is not intended to be an opinion program it intended to be an informing program. Citizens can have expert knowledge or stories that can help to identify things that are good and should be preserved, things that are hurting and can be modified or uplifted or things that need to be eradicated. The programs first topic will be about the Parade Ground itself and the building on the Parade Ground identified for both restoration and demolition.

The telephone lines will open at 7:35 PM. Callers will have 2 minutes if the phone lines are busy. Longer if the finds the information truly 'informing'. The program is scheduled for 30 minutes.On the Parade Ground is intended to be public discourse TV. Come by the station call in: 203 294-9722 Join us if you have an informing story to share or insightful facts. For those with strong opinions on the topics - use this blog. Join us on Monday at 7:30 PM On the Parade Ground...Cable 18 in Wallingford to discuss just what a parade ground is anyway!!!
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WPAA Community Building Team