Brookline Access Television

Go Guerilla: iPad Video Editing

akalsow — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:51:09 +0000

Brookline Access Television Makes Video Production More Accessible

Brookline, MA, April 2013- Brookline Access Television is making video production even more accessible to the community by introducing our newest video production package, called Go Guerilla. Go Guerilla is an easy and educational introduction to video production for people of all ages. Go Guerilla is a useful tool to explore video production, civic journalism and to increase community awareness. The package includes easy to use equipment that can be utilized for interviews, short updates about organizations, webcasts, podcasts and community announcements. Go Guerilla is a beneficial platform for both technological experience and community awareness.

Go Guerilla includes equipment that is suited for in the field or on the go. This package can be used by simply one individual or for multiple person productions. Included is an ipad mini, light, a tripod for both the ipad and light, microphone, microphone attachment, XLR cable, headphones, and a charger for the light battery. These are basic tools for video, audio and visual needs, making Go Guerilla a terrific segue into video production. Not only is Go Guerilla a technologically educational experience, but it is also a simple way to learn how to educate the community on civic issues, events, concerns, local art or awareness on other types of community matter that can be broadcasted on BATV. Become a member of BATV to take advantage of our Go Guerilla package.

More about BATV: Since our founding in 1984, BATV administers airtime on the Brookline public access channels and provides Brookline resident and non-resident members access to its facilities and special programs such as Go Gorilla. In addition, BATV offers guidance on program development and technical training on field and studio equipment. Our facilities provide a regular forum for community members to educate and inform the community about issues and events of local, national, and global importance. BATV also accepts program proposals to cover on-location events of importance to the Brookline community.

For additional information, Contact:
Andrea Kalsow
Community Relations Coordinator
46 Tappan St., Top Floor, Brookline, MA, 02445
andrea@batv.org
617-731-8566

BATV Social Media Event

akalsow — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:17:28 +0000

How to do the Twitter

By Erin Clossy

I like Twitter, because it’s like eavesdropping on hundreds of conversations — some mesmerizing, a few just amazing, a lot just boring or stupid. And if you want to add to the conversation, no one thinks you’re rude or creepy (unless you are, in fact, a rude creep), because that’s what Twitter’s for: random interactions with other humans for the purpose of getting and/or giving more knowledge.

Don’t just take my word for it, though. If you come to the Brookline Access TV studios on Wednesday, April 3, 6-9 p.m., you can learn about the wonders of Twitter and how it can be used with a bunch of people who spend more time on social media than is generally considered healthy. BATV will probably record and replay it too, but then you’ll have to provide your own snacks.
The first panel, “Serving the Public,” is about using Twitter to share information and build community. Panelists are:

Daniel Riviello, director of communications and media relations for the Cambridge Police Department (@CambridgePolice)

Tom O’Keefe, better known as @BostonTweet, with his 79,000 followers and cool Boston ephemera

Jesse Mermell (@jessemermell), Gov. Deval Patrick’s communications director and until recently, your selectwoman

David Harris, editorial director at The Warren Group, and until recently, the Brookline TAB’s favorite boss (@DavHarris)

And the Brookline TAB (@BrooklineTAB), scourge of turkeys.

The second panel, “Promote & Grow,” is about branding and marketing, and is geared more toward businesses. Panelists there include BostonTweet again, Brookline Booksmith, and more.

See you around the hashtag!

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The Museum of Bad Art: Terrible Art with Mass Appeal

akalsow — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:04:49 +0000

It is called “art too bad to be ignored.” Since it opened in 1994, the Museum of Bad Art has worked to find and share the worst art you have ever seen. The Museum of Bad Art has three galleries in the Greater Boston area, including one in our very own building at Brookline Access Television.

As a staff, we have the pleasure of experiencing the art daily, and of sharing it with the public who walks through our doors to see it. Though the age, gender, and cultural background of the visitors may vary greatly, they all leave the museum amused and delighted.

There are two particular incidents that perfectly encapsulate the Museum of Bad Art in my mind.

Gov. Deval Patrick visits BATV

akalsow — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:37:10 +0000

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Brookline art exhibit features the work of women who became artists in middle age

akalsow — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:39:39 +0000

NEVER TOO LATE: “When I was growing up, there was a mindset that either you were born an artist or you weren’t,” said 51-year-old Lola Baltzell of Brookline. “If you weren’t identified in childhood as someone who was good at drawing, you weren’t encouraged to do art.”

It wasn’t until she was approaching 50 that, in Baltzell’s words, she discovered “that whole paradigm is untrue. You can be an artistic person even if you are not able to draw accurately.”

BATV to Air Live Presidential Inauguration coverage via Democracy Now!

akalsow — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:21:21 +0000

This program will air on our MUNICIPAL Channel Comcast 23, RCN 15.

Democracy Now! 2013 Inauguration Coverage
January, 21 8:00 am–1pm

Democracy Now! will provide an extended LIVE broadcast on 1/21/2013 from 8:00–12:59 ET to cover the Presidential Inauguration and observe Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Democracy Now! production team will be on location in Washington, DC to take a look back at President Obama’s first term in office, analyze prospects for his second term and provide live coverage of the inauguration proceedings. During the program, we will also examine the civil rights, social & economic justice and anti-war legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The program will include live and taped interviews, excerpts of speeches and performances. Possible guests include Angela Davis, Danny Glover, Alice Walker, Ralph Nader, Rita Dove, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Van Jones, Sonia Sanchez, Julian Bond, Marian Wright Edelman, Barbara Ehrenreich and Sweet Honey in the Rock and Mos Def.

Later creators: Exhibit highlights seven artists active after 50

akalsow — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:22:25 +0000

A quick look at the biographies of the seven artists included in the latest exhibit at Brookline Access Television isn’t exactly a stroll through central casting. All are over 50; one was a social worker, another taught German — not exactly stereotypical hotbeds of artistic inspiration.
But that’s sort of the point.
The show, “New Adventures: Artistic Expression in the Second Half of Life,” is intended to showcase the notion that at any age, no matter what your background, the creative spirit can be tapped.

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