Summer Time: Think Volunteer Service Hours

WPAA-TV is an approved volunteer service site for the Wallingford School System and has supported college independent studies.  Maybe it is time to discover what WPAA-TV is all about.

OnTheParadeGround -- a concept still needing Humans

It is with great pride and enthusiasm that WPAA-TV Executive Director accepts the 1st Place Award for Diversity Empowerment on behalf of Penn’s Pals with a hope to be able to submit to this category every year from the annual creation & collection of Wallingford stories. 

She supported this effort as an OnTheParade Ground Volunteer.  Penn's Pals is now being edited by an Intern from Middlesex Community College. All interns are automatically considered OnTheParadeGround Crew.

To join with others to make Community TV in Wallingford send a note of interest to wpaatv@gmail.com. 

Congratulations On The Parade Ground Crew

At WPAA-TV Interns are being added into the mix as part of community volunteers supporting citizens with their communication goals as members of OnTheParadeGround Crews. So consider being an Intern!!

Producer participation in Alliance for Community Media is also encouranged and underwritten by WPAA. 

There is a overall sense of pride about of all of the submissions that represent how far WPAA has come as a community building organization with entries from Citizen Mike, SCOW, Penn's Pals in addition to ad hoc projects supported by the OnTheParadeGround crew:  (BAWA Health, Wallingford Community Theater, BenVentures, and Wallingford Chorus) and the very special Make-A-Difference TV Project "Sharing Joy".

Our community once again is honored with a 1st place recognition of Penn's Pals - Through Sophie's Eyes' in the category Diversity Empowerment.  Bravo.


 

the Show @ studioW and updates

Yes it has been rather random keeping folks up-to-date especially since WPAA-TV has been such a happening place in 2012.

Yes there are LIVE Bands Fridays at 9 PM at studioW.  Part of the randomness is due to the creation of a FB for the station.  So if you are on FB like us there to stay informed. I will do an occassional update here as well.

Update:
WPAA-TV is engaging photographers and musicians in creation of a hyperlocal experience on the Community Message Loop.  There is always room for more Peoples Pics and original local music.
send inquiry of interest to: otpg@comcast.net

Some of our newer programs could use some post production crew support.  Children's Program Penns Pals, Veterans All Theaters View, and MidLifeMatters.

Public Event TV: One Camera Shoot

Wallace Dam Fishway: Harry Haakonsen Dedication Video is complete.  I did not editorialize but I did edit the material presenting the nearly 2 hour event in 30 minutes, with a slight restructuring of the sequence of events.  I did give the project slightly more than one hour per minute of production attention. 

I enjoyed creating the lower thirds shad tag and I leveraged several web page mastheads.

It was a refreshing event to attend. I know that there was years of effort to get Town's cooperation for which there was ample credit bestowed and ironically, accepted. In reality it was informing but agonizing to watch each new Town Council get briefed on the project's value and to hear the same concerns about liability raised.
In the end there are many proud volunteers and hope for an easier future for the several varieties of fish that swim home.  For this cause I am not wearing the T-Shirt but it was rewarding to help tell the story via coverage of this Earth Day event.  Search Wallace Damn on the wpaa.tv calendar for play times between 4/25/12 and 5/20/12.  On VOD look for otpg Wallace Damn Fishway Dedication.

  

Poetry Returns to Wallingford - at least for a day

As other teams before them, this year's CT Teen Poetry Slam Team is making plans to go to San Franscisco, California to participate in Brave New Voices-Witness the Word 2012.  They will be using the WPAA-TV facility to workshop performance techniques and do a fundraising feature performance on April 14th at 8PM.  There is no charge for this performance: however, tax-deductible donations are welcome through their sponsor Piece Theatre.
Piece Theatre Founder and veteran performance poet Josiah Houston is this year's team performance coach. Among other Performance and Poetry accolades, he was a member of the CT Teen Slam Team from 1999-2001. He has subsequently led a dramatic life journey through the world of theater arts,  the lessons from which he hopes may benefit this fine group of young Connecticut writers: Sera Pisani, Julie Ficks, Sophie Dillon, Maggie Kearney, Kate Bartell, and Evan Knoll.

I had the benefit of working with veteran thespian John Basinger for one day.  One day with him transformed my awareness of what was possible delivering off the page.  April 14th is designed to have the same potential for this team. A combination of good writing and performance is still a rare experience.  I hope the folks in the Wallingford area come out and enjoy this event.

Josiah

Saturday April 14th

8 PM

28 So Orchard St. 

Children Stories: 2 languages

The youth content Media Zone on WPAA is 5-8 AM and Saturdays 5 AM until Noon. The following locally produced children stories in Spanish & English will be scheduled in this zone often in 2012.  They can also be viewed on VOD via the links below.

BENventures: I Can Do It produced by local Children's author Camila Gabriel with OTPG Support
These two Beatrice Potter Stories produced by SCOW the Spanish Community of Wallingford  with OTPG Support are also playing

The Story of Perico Rabbit - El Cuento De Perico El Conejo Tavieso : The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
The Story of Carlota Duck - El Cuento De La OCA Carlota: The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908)