Junction Arts & Media

JAM Scriptwriters' Group
2022-10-31 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-10-17 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-10-03 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Gather bi-weekly with a dedicated group to meet talented local writers, learn new script writing techniques, and receive peer feedback on your work.
Meetings are free of charge and not mandatory, but we encourage consistent participation to get the most out of this group!
For more information and to register, click HERE.

Halloween-O-Thon Spooktacular Showcase
2022-10-29 17:00 - 19:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Feeling tough? Come watch our Sickeningly Sweet Showcase of scary short films created by your community, and see if you can stomach it.
The showcase of films will begin at 5PM and conclude with an Award Ceremony.
Presented in partnership with White River Junction’s Gory Daze.

JAM Film Club
2022-10-26 15:30 - 17:30, 2022-10-19 15:30 - 17:30, 2022-10-12 15:30 - 17:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
It’s an after-school film club! Join us in the JAM space every Wednesday and connect with other young filmmakers. Learn what goes into making a movie, then put it to use making your own. All equipment will be provided.
For more information and to register, click HERE.

jamLAB: Camera
2022-10-25 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-10-18 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-10-11 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-10-04 18:30 - 20:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
This hands-on workshop series focusing on Camera fundamentals for creating moving images is suited to all levels. You are invited to bring media projects-in-progress or ideas you’re incubating. Equipment will be provided (or bring your own) and can be borrowed between sessions for optional “homework” activities. For more info and to register, click HERE

Spark! Halloween Party
2022-10-22 19:00 - 22:00 | Cornerstone Community Center, 14 Elk Street, Hartford Village, VT, United States
A family friendly Halloween dance and fundraiser! Food, punch, games, and raffles to benefit Spark! Community Center. Stop by to enjoy a live DJ, costume contest, a funky photo booth and more at the Cornerstone Community Center. Buy your tickets at the Eventbrite link below.

October jamLAB Weekend Intensive: Directing the Actor for the Camera & Camera for the Actor
2022-10-22 10:00 - 14:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
This one-day, hands-on workshop will explore the director’s role in bringing about powerful performances on camera. Participants will jump in on both sides of the camera – as directors, camera operators, and actors – in exercises taken from published narrative screenplays. Participants are also invited to share originally scripted scenes for activities ahead of time for workshopping with the group. Suited for all levels, no previous experience required. All equipment will be provided.
For more information and to register, click HERE.

StoryJAM: Bi-Monthly Storytelling Circle
2022-10-20 18:00 - 19:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
In a society increasingly divided and isolated, storytelling can bring us together.

Story Jam is a bi-monthly story circle where community members can meet to get to know each other through personal stories. All members of the Upper Valley community are invited to join the circle and share an unrehearsed 5-minute true story from their own life. No competition, no judgment, no lecturing, no ranting… Just share a story about something that happened to you and listen to other people’s stories. Whether you are a new or seasoned storyteller; whether you are shy or extroverted – all are welcome! The moderators will keep track of time to make sure everyone has a chance to speak.

The inaugural meeting is on Thursday October 20th, 6:00-7:30 PM
The theme is: A Scary Moment.
For more info, reach us at storyjam@uvjam.org

First Friday @JAM: Jennings & Keller
2022-10-07 17:00 - 19:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Jennings & Keller is an award-winning nationally touring duo offering up 21st Century Americana with influences in folk, jazz, and roots music fused into a unique eclectic style that is refreshingly diverse.
FREE

Moving in Stillness, Stillness in Moving: An Installation by Carla Kimball
2022-10-01 18:00 - 2022-10-22 18:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Opening night party and live performance: October 1st, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Upper Valley artist Carla Kimball will open her video/photo installation “Movement In Stillness, Stillness In Movement” which explores the idea of being on a journey in multiple layers. The installation will kick off with a live performance art piece in collaboration with movers Marie Fourcaut and Donna Steinberg, as well musicians Hilary Lynch, Devan Tracy, and Henry Danaher. An artist talkback and Q&A will follow.

Carla Kimball is a long-time photographer, dancer, and emerging filmmaker. She is most interested in engaging viewers in a direct experience of her images and films. Recently, her exploration of stillness and movement has led her to project images and films on floating panels of fabric. Multiple projects have evolved from this inquiry including films of performers moving from panel to panel through natural landscapes as well as dancers moving through still photos projected onto the panels.

This installation will be on display at JAM during our office hours Monday-Friday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm through October 22. Stop by and enjoy.

AmeUp Presents: Insights into Building a Successful Rural-Based Business with Matt Dunne, Executive Director, Center on Rural Innovation
2022-09-27 08:00 - 09:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Bring a coffee and join Matt Dunne, Executive Director of the renowned Center on Rural Innovation in conversation with the AmeUP Upper Valley creative community at the new CATV / JAM studios in White River Junction. This event is free but RSVP is requested to: AmeUpCoffee@gmail.com
Matt is a true thought leader when it comes to rural innovation. In addition to an early career in politics during which he served seven years in the Vermont House of Representatives on progressive economic efforts and youth empowerment, Matt was employed by the Clinton Administration as Director of the AmeriCorps*VISTA program overseeing 6000 full-time people in the fight against poverty. Following his later work as a strategy consultant to nonprofit and for-profit companies, Google hired Matt to create their community affairs program. More recently, his passion for empowering rural communities was turned into action with an appointment at the MIT Media Lab and when he founded the Center on Rural Innovation, an action tank dedicated to closing the opportunity gap in small towns and where he now serves as Executive Director.
Don’t miss hearing what Matt has to say about what Vermont and U.S. rural businesses need to know to thrive.

DJ Academy Demo Class
2022-09-25 14:00 - 15:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Learn the art and science of DJing with DJ Sean! Come by JAM and take a free demo course from the Upper Valley Music Center’s newest curriculum. DJ Academy includes the history of DJ’ing, reviewing and testing key equipment, mixing and playing music, downloading and organizing your own music library, and the entrepreneurial skills of starting and running a DJ business.
Ages: 12+

Live From 1085: JAM Launch Party!
2022-09-23 17:00 - 19:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
We’re live from 1085! Stop by to celebrate the past and the future of Junction Arts & Media on September 23rd from 5-7 PM at our “Live From 1085!” launch party, hosted in our new JAM location (5 S. Main Street, White River Junction, VT). Enjoy nibbles, drinks, a confessional booth, highlights from years past, and our multi-generational media making community.

JAM RetroTECHtive Exhibit
2022-09-12 09:00 - 2022-09-24 17:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
September 12 through the 24th, come find yourself, your community, and our histories in CATV’s open archive! During our open hours, we will be displaying a retrospective of CATV programs from the past 30 years. Watch selected content (newly digitized from our DVD archive) or search through our robust collection of physical media.

First Friday
2022-09-02 17:00 - 20:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
White River Junction hosts First Fridays, where shops, studios, and galleries stay open late. It’s an impromptu first Friday of the month party and exhibition.
Come dance with us, enjoy some delicious food and stroll our fancy new sidewalks to check out First Friday festivities with music at JAM, Long River Gallery, Flourish Beauty Lab and others in the WRJ downtown. Be sure to make your way to the Tip Top Building where Tip Top Pottery will be open ’til 9pm and hit up Ava’s Candy for a late summer ice cream cone and chill with a craft cocktail at Wolf Tree. Our local businesses on the Gates-Briggs block can use your extra love and support as we recover from recent basement flood. See you there!

POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER – AmeUp Presents: Insights into Building a Successful Rural-Based Business with Matt Dunne, Executive Director, Center on Rural Innovation
2022-08-29 08:00 - 09:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER
What does it take for a small town or rural business to be successful in America today?
Bring a coffee and join Matt Dunne, Executive Director of the renowned Center on Rural Innovation in conversation with the AmeUP Upper Valley creative community at the new CATV / JAM studios in White River Junction.
Matt is a true thought leader when it comes to rural innovation. In addition to an early career in politics during which he served seven years in the Vermont House of Representatives on progressive economic efforts and youth empowerment, Matt was employed by the Clinton Administration as Director of the AmeriCorps*VISTA program overseeing 6000 full-time people in the fight against poverty. Following his later work as a strategy consultant to nonprofit and for-profit companies, Google hired Matt to create their community affairs program. More recently, his passion for empowering rural communities was turned into action with an appointment at the MIT Media Lab and when he founded the Center on Rural Innovation, an action tank dedicated to closing the opportunity gap in small towns and where he now serves as Executive Director.
Don’t miss hearing what Matt has to say about what Vermont and U.S. rural businesses need to know to thrive.

Myth Makers – Musical Play Premiere
2022-08-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Hotel Coolidge, 39 South Main Street, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
In a thousand years, will there be music, or will music have to be conjured? (NOTE NEW LOCATION at HOTEL COOLIDGE)
Call it a utopian play — that is forward-looking, proposing something nearly perfect — seeking to be perfect as in the perfection of imagination — which, granted, is not real. Come see it anyway, a soap bubble reflecting the sky!
Original musical play written and directed by Duncan Nichols featuring Kate Magill, Soren Lavoie, Chico Eastridge, Emily Eastridge, Chris Hebb, Chiho Kaneko, WIll Moore, Noor Taher, Neal Meglathery, Henry Nichols, Alden Nichols, Rias Blaas, and Dan Daneen with costumes by Abby Smith, paintings by Antoinette Jacobson, and Dramaturgy by Mike Backman and Nora Jacobson

This event is a fundraiser for DIGS (Doorways Into Good Shelter) digsvt.org. DIGS is a housing organization in Lebanon/Hartford to help directly shelter unhoused people. We will be raising money for two of their small mobile houses — it’s a good cause and needs our support. Pay what you can. For your safety, the audience is asked to wear proper masks. Make plans to come and bring a little of your great energy, it’s a Sunday evening, and not a long show. Get back to your bed early! Help us celebrate the music and the future! Spread the word!

JAM Pop-Up Party
2022-07-30 16:00 - 20:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Come celebrate our successful crowdfunding campaign this Saturday from 4 – 8pm at JAM (5 S. Main Street White River Junction, VT in “Newberry Market” between Piecemeal Pies and Tuckerbox). There will be catering by Fulla Flava and music by DJ Sean! See you there 🙂
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

jamCAMP: Martial Arts Movie Making Camp @ Okinawan Dojo
2022-07-25 09:00 - 2022-07-29 11:30 | Okinawan Dojo, 351 Miracle Mile, Lebanon, NH, 03784, United States
(NOTE: Registration for this camp only is handled directly through Okinawan Dojo.)
Would your child like to be a martial arts movie hero? (Or villain, maybe?)
In this popular camp, our instructors will help students create, rehearse, and film their very own martial arts movie.
Okinawan Karate Academy will partner with a professional filmmaker from CATV for this special camp.
Open to ages 6 and up, beginner to junior black belt.
9-11:30am at Okinawan Dojo, Lebanon NH
Tuition is $199 plus $25 tech fee

JAM Benefit A/V Yard Sale
2022-07-23 08:00 - 11:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Looking for another way to help build a new home for media arts in the Upper Valley?
Donate used camera/audio/ lighting gear any time until July 23, or come by and pick up a treasure!
JAM A/V Yard Sale
July 23 8am-11am
5 S. Main St., 1st floor
(former Newberry Market)
White River Junction, VT

Junction Dance Festival
2022-07-22 - 2022-07-24 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Free Dance Workshops, Screenings & Performances
Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Briggs Opera House
Click HERE for more info

jamCAMP: Animation
2022-07-18 13:00 - 2022-07-22 16:00 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Campers create their own animated characters and worlds through a variety of animation techniques, including stop-motion, claymation and motion-capture!
Entering grades 5-9
Directed by Jordyn Fitch
1-4pm at the Briggs, S. Main St., White River Junction, VT
($175, afternoons only)
To register, please visit our website.

jamCAMP: Breaking News - Multimedia Journalism
2022-07-11 09:00 - 2022-07-15 15:00 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
What are the roles and responsibilities of “the media” in our democracy? What makes a good story? How do we know “truth” in reporting? High school-aged participants will seek answers to these questions and more as active reporters. Choosing current issues of concern to them, participants learn responsible journalistic practices across digital media, including text, podcasting/radio, and TV/streaming. Nationally and locally recognized professionals from the field will share techniques for conducting interviews, verifying sources, evaluating “truth, and making strong creative choices of form and content to achieve engaging storytelling of service to the public.
Entering grades 9-12
Guest journalists include Maggie Cassidy, VTDigger, Jim Kenyon, Valley News, Rob Gurwitt, Daybreak, and Elizabeth Wilcox, author and journalist
9am-3pm at the Briggs, S. Main St., White River Junction, VT ($400)
To register, please visit our website.

Uprooting Addiction – Free Film Screening
2022-07-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Building a Positive Community (BAPAC) presents UPROOTING ADDICTION: Healing from the Ground Up, an important film about Trauma, Addiction, and recovery. This 1-hour film will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.
FREE Admission
at the Briggs Opera House
7:00 PM
RSVP (not required)
