“My Voice Counts” Youth Media Forum Kicks Off with Teen Digital Reel Honors

Posted on May 4, 2012 in Access Sacramento
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Hundreds of teens and their parents, friends and teachers, kicked off a week of activities celebrating youth created media projects at the Crest Theater Friday night May 4. For the first time in the 16 year history of the Teen Digital Showcase, Access Sacramento, UC Davis – School of Education, and The California Endowment, awarded $750 in Apple product gift cards to projects juried from Teen Digital project entries. Ron Cooper, Access Sacramento Executive Director, presented the “My Voice Counts” awards and t-shirts. The winning projects were:

First Place – “Texting and Driving – It Can Wait” from Christian Brothers High School students Jessica Szarek and Ryan Peadboy.

Second Place – “Think Before You Act” by Granite Bay High School students Eric Urmanita and Carson Johnson.

The evening was introduced by Dr. Bill Bronston, the inspiring leader of Tower of Youth activities now celebrating their 16th Anniversary. He introduced the special guest for the evening, Michael Lester.

Michael, a product of the Tower of Youth program and educated at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts, joined Spy Post, a small post effects house in San Francisco, in an effort to build a visual effects division in the company. As Computer Graphics Supervisor, Michael has spent his time creating a pipeline that could facilitate premier visual effects to be created quickly and efficiently.

Tower of Youth is an all teen youth media and communication arts organization dedicated to organize and promote digital literacy, education system modernization, a world class media workforce, economic and community development through its training, partnership networking and media entries programs. YOUTH ARE THE SOLUTION, NOT THE PROBLEM!

Congratulations to all the youth involved. Keep up the great work – remember “My Voice Counts!”

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Sacramento volunteers deliver signatures to place GMO initiative on the Novemeber ballot

Posted on May 3, 2012 in Access Sacramento, In Progress
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In rallies across state today, including one right here in Sacramento, supporters celebrated as the California Right to Know campaign filed 971,126 signatures for the state’s first-ever ballot initiative to require labeling of genetically engineered foods. The signature haul, gathered in a 10-week period, is nearly double the 555,236 signatures the campaign needs to qualify for the November ballot. If adopted into law by the voters, Californians will join citizens of over 40 countries including all of Europe, Japan and even China who have the right to know whether they are eating genetically engineered food.

You can check out what the speakers at the Sacramento rally had to say by watching the video above. For more information about the California Right To Know Act, click here.

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Tahoe Elementary’s Pancake Breakfast this Saturday

Posted on May 2, 2012 in Access Sacramento
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The PTA of Tahoe Elementary is having its annual Pancake Breakfast this Saturday to raise funds for student activities. For just $4.00, guests will receive a delicious stack of warm pancakes, sausage, fruit, and tea or coffee. Seniors and children under 6 get in for just $3.00. You can also have your car washed while you eat by one of the student volunteers.

Attending this event supports the Tahoe PTA.  The PTA provides classroom enrichment funds, Sly Park Trips, field trips, assemblies and other school improvements.

When: Saturday, May 5th, 8:00 – 12:00

Where: Tahoe Elementary 3110 60th Street, Sacramento

For more information call: 916-277-6360

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GMO Right to Know Victory Rally on May 2nd

Posted on May 1, 2012 in Access Sacramento
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On Wednesday May 2, community organizations will be turning in enough signatures to put the California Right to Know GMO labeling initiative on the ballot. This massive achievement represents the work of thousands of volunteers who are demanding the right to know what’s in the food we eat and feed our families.

The group unveil the number of signatures and hear from local leaders, farmers, concerned moms, sustainable businesses and supporters who are among the 90% of Californians who want to know if their food contains genetically engineered ingredients. We’ll wheel the petitions into county offices in baby carriages to represent the importance of this issue to children and future generations.

Sacramento residents are welcome to join the rally on May 2nd at 11:00 a.m., at the Board of Elections office at 7000 65th Street.

For more information about the GMO right to know act, visit http://www.pesticidewatch.org/.

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VIDEO: Dr. Oz encourages Sacramento to focus on health in the workplace

Posted on May 1, 2012 in Access Sacramento, Top News!
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Television’s Dr. Oz speaks to a large crowd in Sacramento about his plans to make the workplace a more healthy place for state employees. April 30th, 2012.

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Dr. Oz visits Hiram Johnson High School

Posted on April 30, 2012 in Access Sacramento, Top News!
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Television’s Dr. Oz paid a visit to Sacramento’s Hiram Johnson High School to honor the students who have decided to make healthy food a part of their daily life. Four teams faced off in a challenge to see which could make a healthy and tasty breakfast in less than 10 minutes.

Dr. Oz talks to Felix Martin, a Health Corp Coordinator about the importance of breakfast

A panel of judges and the audience at large reviewed the four teams breakfast options to decide which was the best tasting of the bunch. It was very difficult for the judges to choose as they were all very well made.

TV's Montel Williams tastes a fruit smoothie

“Smoothies are healthy alternative for breakfast when you only have fruit,” says Kieyre Arnold. ”We have bananas and raspberries and strawberries and ice, and a little bit of honey in our smoothies. It’s all natural and it has no fat in it.”

Students having fun preparing tasty fruit smoothies

Dr. Oz was making a series of stops all throughout the Sacramento region on Monday as he prepares to roll out and promote several programs focused on health.

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What would you like to see different in Sacramento five years from now?

Posted on April 30, 2012 in Access Sacramento, La Familia, Top News!
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Last week, I asked the members of La Familia’s Youth Voice Program what they would like to see in the Sacramento of five years from now. Their answers were insightful, everything from jobs and cleaner streets to gangs and entertainment, these young people shared a lot of great ideas. I hope you’ll enjoy listening to the conversation.

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Proposed New Projects for Next Fiscal Year – July, 2012 thru June, 2013

Posted on April 28, 2012 in Access Sacramento
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Staying Relevant in a Fragmented World – Access Sacramento has submitted our annual grant request to the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission. We are requesting status quo funding for Operations and for the purchase or lease of new equipment. This mid-year 2012 report, marks an important benchmark in our successful efforts to build a network of “Neighborhood News Bureaus” in South Sacramento and in the coming years, expand to multiple sites throughout Sacramento County. We will continue our existing programs and services working with hundreds of volunteers and nonprofit organizations. If SMCTC agrees to our grant request, here are five key initiatives we hope to launch in the coming fiscal year:
·      “LIVE” Event Television on Channel 17 — Our coverage of countywide community events and high school sports will take a big step with “LIVE” coverage of at least twenty Hometown-TV and Game-of-the-Week productions in the coming year. Advances in using bundled cell phone bandwidth now permits “live” television signals to be carried back to the Coloma Center for cable channel and Internet transmission.
·      Expansion of “Neighborhood News” Countywide — The launch of AccessLocal.tv and the “Neighborhood News Bureaus ” (NNB) projects will continue to grow within South Sacramento and beyond. Our two-year NNB efforts launching new equipment and training, has been most successful and instructive. This report outlines exciting plans to gradually expand services Countywide with assistance from key community organizations including: The California Endowment, The Sacramento Public Library, The Nonprofit Resource Center, Asian Resources, Inc., City of Sacramento Neighborhood Services, several local neighborhood associations and others.
·      Countywide Communications Needs Assessment — New initiatives will also include implementation of a Knight Foundation “Community Information Tool Kit”. The “Tool Kit” is a communications needs assessment to “help community leaders harness the power of information to advance their goals for a better community” … by providing … “a simple, easy-to-use set of online tools to help you take stock of your community’s news and information flow and take steps to improve it.” (from their web site: www.infotoolkit.org). Access Sacramento, working with other groups in workshop settings and using Knight designed online research tools, will achieve an overall goal of “building a stronger community through information exchange”. The Knight Foundation program has been beta-tested in Macon, Georgia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and San Jose, California. It includes an analysis of all media in the area – commercial radio, television, community nonprofit media, and newer forms of social media.
·      LP-FM Community Radio FCC Application — Our community radio volunteers are working hard to complete an application for a Low Power FM radio license (LP-FM). It has been a decade since the last LP-FM, 100 watt, community radio frequency was permitted by the Federal Communications Commission in the Sacramento Region. The application window has been opened again and our twenty years of community radio on the cable system will be documented in our application. If successful, “The Voice of Sacramento” will reach a diameter of 6 miles from the transmission source and be able to cover the majority of Downtown and Mid-town Sacramento. We should know the outcome by the Fall of 2012.
·      Coordination of Major PEG Access Conference — The 2012 Alliance for Community Media Western States Regional Conference will be held in downtown and Old Sacramento on October 18-20, 2012. This six-State event shall invite hundreds of public, education, and government access and community radio leaders to discuss and plan best practices for their communities. This prestigious gathering is being coordinated by management and staff from Access Sacramento, Davis Media Access, the Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium, KVIE (PBS), and the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission Metro 14.
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ACCESS SACRAMENTO presents EXPRESS YOURSELF FESTIVAL and 13th Annual “PLACE CALLED SACRAMENTO” CAST & CREW CALL

Posted on April 28, 2012 in Access Sacramento
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Access Sacramento invites you to our Express Yourself Festival and “PCS” Cast & Crew Call on Saturday, June 2nd from 1 to 5 pm in the Auditorium and Television Studios at Coloma Community Center, 4623 T Street, Sacramento. Access Sacramento welcomes participation by filmmakers, artists, musicians, actors, major media organizations and nonprofit groups. Additionally, you can sign-up, audition, and help make a movie this summer. No experience necessary. We need hundreds of local volunteers to make ten short films THIS SUMMER.
We will showcase major media contributors such as The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Press, KCRA Channel 3, KXTV News 10 and many others. Access Sacramento and other nonprofits will demonstrate their web sites and invite you to submit stories about your neighborhoods. Learn how these organizations invite “community reporting” from you and your neighbors.
Access Sacramento will showcase our volunteers, folks just like YOU, who have learned to produce short films, TV and radio shows. Additionally, maybe you will be selected to play a role in a “PCS” movie. Hear the ten filmmakers explain their projects. Bring headshots and contact info.

·       Ten movies need your help – are you ready for “lights, camera, and action”?

·       Come and learn how you or any Sacramento County resident can see yourself on TV or learn to host your own radio program.

·       Ask questions of local major media organizations, learn how to use their web sites and share your voice and organizational press releases.

·       See demonstrate of the chroma-key “green studio” and how easy it is to create public service announcements, talk shows and local newscasts.

·       Are you into music? In the television studio, we will demonstrate studio production skills with guests from our “Listen UP, Sacramento!” program featuring local bands and artists.

·       Our Media Lab will demo our new website AccessLocal.tv showcasing digital content from our Neighborhood News partner organizations.

·       Plus there will be food and fun for everyone. The celebration will showcase how Access Sacramento is “making a difference, one voice at a time.” See you here!
Access Sacramento and Coloma
Community Center
EXPRESS YOURSELF FESTIVAL
4623 T Street, Sacramento 95819
Saturday, JUNE 2 from 1 to 5 pm
Access Sacramento is a nonprofit community media organization dedicated to bringing the tools and training for television, radio, film, and use of the Internet to all Sacramento County residents. We manage cable channels 17 and 18 and the web sites AccessSacramento.org and AccessLocal.tv for neighborhood news organizations and community reporter stories.
CONTACT: Ron Cooper, Executive Director
Access Sacramento
4623 T Street
Sacramento, CA. 95819
(916) 456-8600 #112

 

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Titan TV for April 24

Posted on April 27, 2012 in Access Sacramento
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Here’s the latest from Luther Burbank H.S.

 

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