Crowdsourced VT Toy Story: WRJ Premiere
2023-12-10 16:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Grab your partner and join us at JAM for the local premiere of Crowdsourced VT Toy Story! Created by more than 200 people of all ages and experience levels (including our very own Advanced Animation JAMcampers!) from across Vermont (and just a smidgen from the rest of New England), this remake of the good ol’ animated frenemy movie is chock-full of your favorite moments and some new ones.
Crowdsourced Cinema VT is a statewide creative challenge, produced by the Media Factory in partnership with an alliance of Vermont community media centers. The organizations are all members of the Vermont Access Network, (VAN), a membership organization of the 24 regional Community Media Access Centers operating more than 80 local cable channels across Vermont.
Thanks to a grant from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, this premiere will have captions. This event is FREE and open to all ages! RSVP Below!

JAM Script Writers' Group
2023-12-11 18:30 - 20:00 | 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. We workshop stage plays, screenplays, radio/podcast scripts, and any story that’s meant to be performed!
REGISTER HERE

Anonymous On Location POSTPONED
2024-01-07 15:00 - 17:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Anonymous Coffee House and JAM present “Anonymous On Location.”
Celebrate community music producers, Chad Finer and Barbara Krinitz in JAM at 3PM with a projected installation of the local live performance archive these two dedicated videographers have created for JAM over the years. Then, head up to the Briggs Opera House at 4PM for live music by Still Hill, The Halley Neal Trio, & Patrick Ross!

ABOUT OUR PRODUCERS AND MUSICIANS
Chad Finer
Chad Finer produces “Music in the Upper Valley.” Born and raised in New England, Chad got his start documenting live performances by recording Mende women’s music while in the Peace Corps in upcountry Sierra Leone in 1968. Chad came up to the Upper Valley in 1970 to attend Dartmouth Medical School and worked as an ER physician for 35 years in the area. Despite both his Mom and Dad being accomplished violinists, Chad has no musical talent. His interest is in recording and archiving music performance in the Upper Valley area. Watch Chad’s videos here!

Barbara Krinitz
Hailing from New York City, Barbara has been living in the Upper Valley for 12 years and producing programs with JAM for the past 11 of them. Barbara’s oeuvre includes two music programs (“Have You Heard?” and “The Magic’s In The Music”), local history programs, a 3-minute storytelling series, and a few other programs on topics that interest her. You can watch Barbara’s videos here!

The Halley Neal Trio
Halley Neal is a folk singer and songwriter based in Nashville, TN. Joined by her backing band, Halley’s sound combines inspirations of classic folk music with bluegrass instrumentation, and her live shows center on themes of positivity and peace.

Still Hill
Formed in early 2016 and hailing from the woods of central Vermont, Still Hill plays a unique blend of progressive bluegrass dipped in folk, Americana, and old time roots music. Still Hill’s original songwriting, instrumental improvisation, and 3-part harmonies will make you hoot, holler, dance and leave you wanting more each and every time.
Patrick Ross
Vermont born, fifth generation fiddle player, Patrick Ross won the Vermont-State Fiddle Championship at age fourteen.His solo concerts include a world wide range of fiddle styles as well as songs he has penned with guitar, banjo, mandolin and cello. For full length videos and other musings please visit www.patrickrossmusic.com.

Animation Domination Workshop!
2024-01-13 11:00 - 13:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Anyone can animate!
All ages are invited to drop by and take part in this hand drawn animation workshop. Participants will rotoscope (trace real video footage) onto blank notecards then learn how to digitize their drawings to create animations ready to share via social media and more. Feel free to bring a piece of video you’d like to rotoscope or even your favorite book passage/song you’d like to write out and animate! Local animation enthusiast and shenanigan aficionado Alex Roberts will be on hand for instruction, to share his animation work, and to offer encouragement.

Animation Domination is hosted by Alex Roberts. Alex received his BA in Film & Electronic Arts at noted “weird person school” Bard College. His thesis film, Celestial Railroads explores landscape and motion through 16mm black and white film and rotoscope animation. His latest animation project, entitled <n0stalg1a>: Random Access Dreams, will accompany the set by his band The Y Lie at The Main Street Museum on Saturday, January 20th. Alex is a firm believer that “Animation Is For Everyone, Never Stop Animating!”

Poetry for Palestine
2024-01-17 17:00 - 19:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Join Upper Valley for Palestine for our first community event, which focuses on uplifting the voices of Palestinian poets as well as poets in solidarity with Palestine. The event will begin with a poetry reading, including an open mic portion for those who are moved to share their own words or read from a selection of provided poems. The remainder of the evening will include children’s storytime featuring Palestinian authors, art-making and poetry writing stations, and opportunities to connect with local, state, and national organizing efforts towards a ceasefire and Palestinian liberation.
Upper Valley for Palestine (UV4Pal) is a solidarity coalition of organizations as well as unaffiliated locals in the Upper Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire who are advancing the fight for a free Palestine right here in our community. We seek to organize against hate, apartheid, and oppression as we help build toward liberation and a just peace for Palestinians.
Our members currently include comrades from Jewish Voice for Peace VT/NH, the Upper Valley Democratic Socialists of America, Sunrise Dartmouth, and the Dartmouth Palestine Solidarity Coalition. If you or your organization are based in the Upper Valley and would like to get involved, please contact us at uv4pal@gmail.com!

Story JAM: Bi-Monthly Storytelling Circle - Theme: “I can’t believe I did that!”
2024-01-18 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 next circle will be held on Thursday, January 18th from 6:00-7:30 PM
For more info, reach us at storyjam@uvjam.org

Finding Babel: A Tribute To Isaac Babel
2024-01-23 16:30 - 21:00 | Dartmouth 105, Dartmouth Hall, College Street, Hanover, NH, 03755, United States
4:30 PM Performance by Andrei Malaev-Babel
7:00 PM Film Screening and talk back with director David Novack and Samantha Davidson Green
“Finding Babel follows Andrei Malaev-Babel, a Florida acting teacher, as he retraces the steps of his grandfather, Isaac Babel, the author of “Red Cavalry” and “The Odessa Tales” and a vivid chronicler of the early years of the Soviet Union. A Jew who, working for a newspaper, had gone riding among Cossacks, Babel is discussed as a voracious observer of details and ambiguities. Arrested in 1939 by the Stalinist secret police and executed in 1940, he was granted posthumous official rehabilitation in 1954. Much of his work is lost.” – The New York Times
Find out more here.

Lampshade Poets Open Mic
2024-02-01 19:00 - 20:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
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In 2012 David Celone couldn’t find a poetry reading group in the Upper Valley area, so he started his own, offering readings both at his then Long River Studios Gallery in Lyme, NH, and WRJ, where Lampscapes owner Ken Blaisdell opened his store to the event. Two of the original poets, Janet Watton and Pam Ahlen, will resume the readings at JAM, open to all Lampshaders as well as any poet who is interested in reading an original piece or two. Poets have the opportunity to be videoed for JAM’s community access station and YouTube channel if they wish.

A Dialogue (Number One)
2024-02-03 17:30 - 19:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
A Dialogue (Number One) is the first movement of Rachel Bernsen’s new, loose performance suite, NOVEL FORMATS. Each movement will invite a different group of artists to experiment with a fluid vision of performance. Here, she’s brought together an ensemble of two dancers, three musicians and a visual artist, utilizing their range of expertise and individuality in the service of enacting her improvisational and choreographic structures.
Featuring
Rachel Bernsen (instigator/director/dancer)
Ellen Ahern Smith (dancer)
Tomeka Reid (cello)
Kyoko Kitamura (voice)
Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet)
Lindsay Packer (visual, light artist)
About the Artist
Rachel Bernsen is a dancer, choreographer and improvisor committed to interdisciplinary practice. She makes work in collaboration with musicians, visual artists, and writers and has choreographed for theater, opera and other large scale productions. She’s also an Alexander Technique teacher. rachelbernsen.com

WRIF Event: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Live Shadowcast
2024-02-14 21:00 - 23:30 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
White River Junction based shadow cast, the Creature Feature Club, will do the time warp again this Valentines Day, February 14th! Join us for an interactive, sexy, queer, freaky show with the traditions you love and some new surprises. Reserve your tickets with any WRIF pass, otherwise admission is free and first come first serve. Goody bags available for any donation amount ($10 recommended). This event is 17+.
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named ‘Rocky’.
Tickets & Festival Passes Available Here: https://uvjam.org/wrif-2024/

Opera Action Figures Installation
2024-02-15 09:00 - 2024-03-29 17:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Stop motion animations by Thetford based twins sisters Amy and Terry Lawrence on display alongside their sets and figurines.
ARTIST STATEMENT
We loved the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Akhnaten so much we decided to make an animated version. In the spirit of making it up as we went along, we sewed costumes, built a set, lit it and filmed it. Amy had made stop-action animation before but never with the small wooden dolls called artist’s mannequins. We had to learn how these faceless dolls could express emotion–through body language, the tilt of a head, how they walked, climbed stairs or juggled. There was lots of juggling.
The process was so engrossing we began looking for other music we loved so we could create a story to go with it (Gershwin Station), or a story we loved (The Magic Doll) that needed music to fit. (Sibelius, who knew?) The Prisoner’s Song was a 1920s recording that told its own story. Thank You, Mr. Sondheim was a tribute featuring sets and characters from 18 shows in four minutes.
Animation allows Terry’s theatre background to blend with Amy’s film background. Terry can build models and sets while Amy experiments with pans, tilts and action-movie montages (Ninja Nannies—note the obscure but wonderful Bob Seger score). It’s always about music and story. The only question is whether we’re making music videos (Moon Buggy) or musicals?
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Terry Lawrence has an MFA in Theatre/Set Design and experience in model-making, props and set painting. She has found that directing for the stage helps when it comes to moving little wooden people around.
Amy Lawrence is a former professor of Film and Television at Dartmouth College. She has made animated films in several old-school formats including fabric shot on film, needlepoint animated in Photoshop, and puppet films made with Dragon. She currently makes films with her sister in their mom’s basement.

WRIF 2024
2024-02-15 17:00 - 2024-02-18 22:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
The 19th annual White River Indie Film Festival is coming February 14-18 2024!
Get in touch!

Interested in sponsoring or partnering with WRIF? Contact samantha@uvjam.org

WRIF Event: #PitchFest 2.0
2024-02-15 18:00 - 19:30 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
#PitchFest 2.0 is now a part of WRIF, The White River Indie Film Festival!
JAM is elated to once again host #PitchFest, a shark-tank style
competition where local film and media makers have 5 minutes to pitch their
ideas to a panel of judges in front of a live audience with the hopes of
winning money to bring their vision to life. This year we have a bigger
stage, more money to give away, and more opportunities to help you make
cool art! Don’t have your ideas totally fleshed out yet? No worries, you
can still get a piece of all the action as part of our live studio audience!
This marks the second year of JAM’s support for local filmmaking; following
this year’s event, 2023 PitchFest winner Loren Howard will premiere their
debut feature film, Custodian, at WRIF. Based in Claremont, NH, Howard
shot Custodian with $1,000 prize money from JAM, support from friends, and
pure New England grit.
For more info & PitchFest registration, visit https://uvjam.org/pitchfest-competitions/
Tickets & Festival Passes Available Here: https://uvjam.org/wrif-2024/

WRIF Film: Custodian
2024-02-15 20:00 - 21:30 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Travis, a musician living in his car, gets a job as a custodian at a music studio and starts recording his album in secret. Shot in Vermont and New Hampshire for a shoestring budget of $1,000, this is the debut feature by filmmaker and musician Loren Howard.
“You should see this movie.” – Cedar O’Dowd, WRIF Festival Coordinator
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Loren David Howard is a filmmaker from the small city of Claremont, NH. He works as an apprentice editor and post-production technician at Florentine Films, and self-produces films, skits, web series, and music videos. Starting off as a musician, he began editing early in life, putting together music videos and filming live events. Soon after high school, he honed in on his craft while taking filmmaking courses at Keene State College, and juggling public access television jobs to get more familiar with video technology. His love for filmmaking didn’t stop at editing, and he has a plethora of unmade screenplays, and a catalogue of short films he directed/produced. You can find most of his media on YouTube, on his channel, adbinormal choward.
Tickets & Festival Passes Available Here: https://uvjam.org/wrif-2024/

WRIF Event: Opening Night Gala
2024-02-16 17:00 - 18:00 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Celebrate 19 years of WRIF with good food, good music, and good people in the newly renovated Briggs Opera House Lobby. Mingle with filmmakers and film lovers alike as the festival kicks off.
RSVP Required. Tickets & Festival Passes Available Here: https://uvjam.org/wrif-2024/

WRIF Film: The Taste of Things
2024-02-16 18:15 - 20:00 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
France, 1889: Simmering passions between a master chef and his longtime partner bubble over in this sumptuous award-winning period love story. The film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant as a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
“This is a love story between grown-ups.” – Roger Ebert
“Not since Babette’s Feast have I wished I could smell and taste a film as much as this one.” – The Alliance of Women Film Journalists
Tickets & Festival Passes Available Here: https://uvjam.org/wrif-2024/

WRIF Film: Mami Wata
2024-02-16 21:00 - 22:30 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
In the oceanside village of Iyi, the revered Mama Efe acts as an intermediary between the people and the all-powerful water deity Mami Wata. But when a young boy is lost to a virus, Efe’s devoted but rebellious daughter Zinwe and skeptical protégé Prisca warn Efe about unrest among the villagers. With the sudden arrival of a mysterious rebel deserter named Jasper, a conflict erupts, leading to a violent clash of ideologies and a crisis of faith for the people of Iyi.
Vermont folk horror short, “The Thaw” will accompany this screening!
Tickets & Festival Passes Available Here: https://uvjam.org/wrif-2024/

WRIF Film: Join or Die
2024-02-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Join or Die is a film about why you should join a club—and why the fate of America depends on it. Follow the story of America’s civic unraveling through the journey of Robert Putnam, whose legendary “Bowling Alone” research into American community decline may hold the answers to our democracy’s present crisis. Flanked by influential fans and scholars — from Hillary Clinton, Pete Buttigieg, and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to Eddie Glaude Jr., Raj Chetty, and Priya Parker — as well as inspiring groups building community in neighborhoods across the country, join Bob as he explores three urgent civic questions: What makes democracy work? Why is American democracy in crisis? And, most importantly… What can we do about it?
“The seeming irreparable divisions in our country have been a hot topic of this year’s SXSW entries, but one documentary is preoccupied with finding solutions.” – Austin Monthly, The Films We Loved Most at SXSW
“Our democracy needs us to be joiners! …[an] urgent message.” – Hillary Clinton
Tickets & Festival Passes Available Here: https://uvjam.org/wrif-2024/

WRIF Film: Perfect Days
2024-02-17 15:00 - 16:30 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past. Japan’s entry for the Oscar, Wim Wenders is always human, humane, and warm.
“[A] simple, touching ode to working routine and everyday human connection.” — Variety
Tickets & Festival Passes Available Here: https://uvjam.org/wrif-2024/

WRIF Film: Four Daughters
2024-02-17 18:00 - 19:30 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters’ life stories.
“The form of “Four Daughters” — neither fiction, nor documentary; neither memoir, nor reportage — [is] oddly fitting, even when it keeps bumping up against Ben Hania’s oddly romanced filmmaking.” – Variety
“Ben Hania and her subjects give us a profound live window into the cycle of trauma and, in doing so, radically trace an under-recognized path between deeply personal pain and dogmatic extremism.” – Paste Magazine
Tickets & Festival Passes Available Here: https://uvjam.org/wrif-2024/

WRIF Film: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
2024-02-17 20:30 - 22:00 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha’s life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul’s last wishes before day breaks.
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal person is the top ranked 2023 horror film on Letterboxd.
Screening followed by a Vampire Dance Party at Junction Arts & Media.
Tickets & Festival Passes Available Here: https://uvjam.org/wrif-2024/

WRIF Event: Vampire Dance Party
2024-02-17 22:00 - 2024-02-18 00:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Don your velvetiest capes, sharpen those fangs, and come dance the night away to dark wave classics at our Vampire Dance Party. Immediately following our screening of Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. Costumes deathly encouraged.

WRIF Film: Robot Dreams
2024-02-18 11:00 - 12:30 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Dog lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, Dog, with great sadness, is forced to abandon Robot at the beach. Will they ever meet again?
“Poetic, lyrical, and nostalgic in both its setting and animation storytelling, Pablo Berger’s Robot Dreams is an incredible cinematic experience with a rich examination of friendship, told maturely and sincerely.” – Rendy Reviews
“Now the fierce battle for the title of the best animated film of the year has a new strong contender.” – IndieWire
Tickets & Festival Passes Available Here: https://uvjam.org/wrif-2024/

Draw Robot Comics with the Center for Cartoon Studies
2024-02-18 13:00 - 13:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
All ages are invited to join us in JAM for a Robot Dreams inspired comics activity after the screening, lead by Center for Cartoon Studies!

WRIF Film: Orlando, My Political Biography
2024-02-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Writer, philosopher, and now filmmaker, Paul B. Preciado’s newest work is poetic in form and function. Hybridizing literary adaptation with modes of fiction and nonfiction filmmaking, Preciado uses Virginia Woolf’s 1928 century-spanning, gender-bending romance, Orlando: A Biography, as a template for the modern trans experience. Interlacing passages from the novel with contemporary testimonies, including the filmmaker’s own, the film fashions its focus on “gender poets,” those whose lives transcend the bounds of binary expression. Preciado’s cast of contemporary Orlandos offer intimate access and playful insight into their experiences with hormones, gender-affirming care, institutional erasure, and the political positioning of trans-people subjected to a normative regime. No two stories are the same, and, yet, somehow Woolf’s fantastical biography contains them all.
“Preciado’s superpower in this warm, generous movie is that while he speaks brilliantly to the cages of identity, he sees — and shares — a way out of them. He talks and listens, he exhorts and confesses. He insists on pleasure, speaks to happiness, invites laughter and opens worlds. Here, joy reigns supreme, and it is exhilarating.” – The New York Times
“Part trans documentary, part autobiography, and part adaptation, Orlando, My Political Biography, finds Preciado grappling with the possibilities and limits of this novel he loves.” – Autostraddle
Tickets & Festival Passes Available Here: https://uvjam.org/wrif-2024/

WRIF Film: Joonam
2024-02-18 17:00 - 18:30 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Filmmaker Sierra Urich grew up in rural Vermont, a place and an upbringing far removed from Iran, the homeland of her mother, Mitra, and grandmother, Behjat. Only knowing Iran through family stories, food, and holidays, and with the prospect of travel to the country a seemingly impossible dream, she embarks on a personal quest to make sense of her fractured Iranian identity. Named for a Farsi term of endearment, JOONAM is infused with humor and heart like only a film about family could be. Interrogating family history and memory, including her grandmother’s experiences as a preteen bride and her mother’s rebellious teenage years during the Iranian Revolution, Sierra Urich constructs a rich, personal film that poignantly reflects the experiences of the Iranian diasporic community and speaks to anyone affected by the dislocation that accompanies immigration.
Followed by a talkback with the filmmaker!
“A heartfelt exploration of those living within a diaspora, the fractured connection each generation has to their own culture, and the irrevocable bond of shared roots.” – Roger Ebert
“An especially timely meditation on what it means to be Iranian American in this moment.” – PopSugar
Tickets & Festival Passes Available Here: https://uvjam.org/wrif-2024/

WRIF Film: The Sweet East
2024-02-18 20:30 - 22:30 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Smack in the middle of a high school trip to our nation’s capital, self-possessed teen Lillian (Talia Ryder) breaks off from her classmates, kicking off a journey straight down the rabbit hole of the New Weird America. In the rollicking feature debut for both director Sean Price Williams (known for his grotty-beautiful cinematography for films by Alex Ross Perry and the Safdie brothers) and critic-turned-screenwriter Nick Pinkerton, the Eastern seaboard becomes the site for a deranged and hilarious autopsy of contemporary U.S. life in which Lillian becomes an indifferent sounding board to all manner of loquacious, callous oddballs, including a sexually numb, white supremacist pedant (a delightfully committed Simon Rex) and a pair of wildly excitable indie filmmakers (Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy O. Harris, comedy gold). Tying it all together is a performance of remarkable poise and confidence by Ryder (memorable in Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always), who provides the tender center to this cockeyed exhibition of all-purpose mockery.
“A fresh take from outside the echochamber.” — Polyester Zine
“Williams and Pinkerton fashion a panoramic burlesque of modern America from a series of barely exaggerated characterizations.” – Filmmaker Magazine
Tickets & Festival Passes Available Here: https://uvjam.org/wrif-2024/

JAM Scriptwriters' Group
2024-02-26 17:30 - 19:00 | 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.

Vermont Workers' Center Healthcare Is a Human Right WRJ Tour Stop
2024-03-10 14:00 - 15:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Come and share your healthcare story, learn how we can win universal healthcare in VT and get connected!
Cuts to Medicaid, skyrocketing costs, denial of care — We’re all impacted by the growing crisis of for-profit healthcare. The Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign is on tour this spring to hear from YOU. We’re organizing to take on the healthcare industry and its backers on Wall Street to make healthcare as a public good for all.
RSVP HERE

The 96th Academy Awards Hosted by Revolution
2024-03-10 18:30 - 23:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Come celebrate the 96th Academy Awards with Revolution and Junction Arts & Media inside JAM. Dress Code: Black Tie DIY.
THE VIBES
