Junction Arts & Media

JAM Film Club
2023-01-25 15:30 - 17:30, 2023-02-01 15:30 - 17:30, 2023-02-08 15:30 - 17:30, 2023-02-22 15:30 - 17:30, 2023-03-01 15:30 - 17:30, 2023-03-08 15:30 - 17:30, 2023-03-15 15:30 - 17:30, 2023-03-22 15:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | 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.

#PitchFest
2023-01-28 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Rescheduled! #PitchFest will commence on January 28th!
Do you have a dream project you’ve been wanting to work on, but haven’t had the time or resources? Let’s make it happen! Pitch Fest is a JAM event geared towards paying creative people to make interesting things happen. Contestants can be awarded $250, $500, or $1000 for their proposal.
Anyone can make a pitch regardless of age, experience, taste in ice cream, etc. Everyone’s invited!
You’ll have 5 minutes to make a case for your idea before a panel of stunning, yet ferocious judges. Think Shark Tank, but with less ads.
For more detailed information on what to pitch and how to sign up, please visit our webpage

January Media Lab: Editing
2023-01-31 18:30 - 20:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
A tour of editing software and techniques suited to all levels, this hands-on workshop series focuses on editing fundamentals that are used in the creation of successful story-telling media. You are invited to bring your own media projects or a folder of practice media will be provided. Editing equipment and software is all available—or bring your own laptop! These resources may be utilized in our office between sessions for additional fun/experience.
For more info and to register click HERE

FIRST FRIDAY @ JAM: A NIGHT OF RADICAL LOVE
2023-02-03 17:00 - 23:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Spend the First Friday of February 2023 with us at JAM, with a visit from our good friends at Valley Improv!
5:00-7:00: Radical Love All Ages Dance Party
7:30-8:30: Valley Improv in the key of ‘love’
9:00-12:00: Radical Love After Hours Dance Party

JAM Scriptwriters' Group
2023-02-06 18:30 - 20:00, 2023-02-20 18:30 - 20:00, 2023-03-06 18:30 - 20:00, 2023-03-20 18:30 - 20:00, 2023-04-03 18:30 - 20:00, 2023-04-17 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.
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.

Flux/Flow/Elegies: An Installation by John R. Killacky
2023-02-11 19:00 - 20:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Vermont artist John R. Killacky will kick off JAM’s month of Radical Love with “Flux/Flow/Elegies.” His intermedia installation features three recent video pieces, including the premiere of one inspired by the Fluxus movement of the 1960s that valued process-oriented art and a dialogue between artist and spectator. The other works include a collaboration with choreographer Eiko Otake speaking to their dead mothers and an abstract work with tears. Killacky’s videos have been screened in festivals, galleries, museums, hospitals, and universities world-wide and are in the collections of numerous libraries and universities.
Drinks and hors d’oeuvres reception with the artist Saturday, Feb.11 7-8:30pm. Installation on display at JAM Feb 1 – Feb. 28 from 9am-5pm Monday-Friday.

Rocky Horror Picture Show: Live Shadow Cast!
2023-02-11 21:00 - 23:00 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
JAM is primed and ready to transport you straight to Transsexual, Transylvania for one night only as we present the Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live shadow cast of familiar Upper Valley faces. This show is rated NC-17 and audience discretion is advised.
Saturday, February 11 at the Briggs Opera House. Doors open at 8pm, show begins at 9pm. First come, first served. Doors will close once seating is at capacity.
Highly suggested donation: $10.

Story JAM: Bi-Monthly Storytelling Circle
2023-02-17 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 Friday, February 17th from 6:00-7:30 PM
The theme is: Love For more info, reach us at storyjam@uvjam.org

Fun with Green Screens! FREE Media Lab
2023-02-25 10:00 - 14:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Wanna go to space? We can take you there! This weekend intensive is all about green screens. Why to use them, how to use them, and everything in between. Participants will learn how to set up green screens, light them for filming, and how to edit that footage in post to create transportive backdrops from your wildest imagination. We will also explore practical and optical effects that can be used in conjunction with a green screen to truly make that movie magic come to life. Suited for all levels, ages 12 and older, no previous experience required. All equipment will be provided.

JAM Media Lab Leaders: Chico Eastridge & Jordyn Fitch
Registration Fee: Free! RSVP Required

RSVP HERE!

Redlining Our Souls by media artist Laura Di Piazza
2023-03-03 09:00 - 2023-03-31 17:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Artist Laura Di Piazza (b. NYC) will exhibit work from her Redlining Our Souls (ROS) series, opening First Friday March 3 with the artist from 5-7pm and running through the month as the centerpiece of JAM’s March programming theme “Home in the World,” an examination of housing justice locally and globally. ROS includes redlining maps and description language issued by the defunct government-sponsored Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) highlighting blatant and coded racist housing segregation practices. The racist attitudes and language found in HOLC appraisal sheets and Residential Security Maps created by the HOLC gave federal support to real-estate practices that helped segregate American housing throughout the 20th century. [1]
The exhibition also includes a slide projection highlighting racial covenants in property deeds that included restrictive clauses which prevent white homeowners from re-selling or renting to Black Americans. The altered segregation redlining maps and descriptions are paired with the artist’s abstracted integrative paintings.
JAM will be giving away 6 free copies of Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law.
[1] Freund, David M. P. Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America. University of Chicago Press, 2010. Accessed 4 February 2023.

LUNAFEST: Films by & About Women
2023-03-10 17:30 - 21:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Vermont Works for Women (VWW) is kicking off the LUNAFEST® 2023 season, a film
festival of award-winning short films by and about women, in the Upper Valley! Join us
for an in-person screening at The Briggs Opera House on 5 South Main Street in White
River Junction, VT on Friday, March 10, 2023. Come to a reception at Junction Arts &
Media at 5:30 pm for food, beverages, and conversation, and enjoy the films starting at
7 pm.
Tickets are $15 for the films and $25 for the screening + reception.
Tickets are available now at www.vtworksforwomen.org/lunafest. Don’t wait! Ticket
prices go up $5 the week of the screening. All proceeds benefit VWW’s mission to
promote economic justice and advance gender equity.

White River Indie Film Festival
2023-03-23 18:00 - 21:00, 2023-03-24 17:00 - 2023-03-25 23:30, 2023-03-25 11:00 - 2023-03-26 23:00, 2023-03-26 11:00 - 2023-03-27 21:00 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
WRIF 2023 At JAM and the Briggs Opera House. Full line-up to be announced soon!
Founded in 2004, White River Indie Films was created by a small group of film lovers who wanted to bring works from outside the mainstream to an appreciative, film-loving audience. The first three-day festival was held in White River Junction, Vermont in 2005. From the beginning, our focus was on screening issue-oriented films, hosting discussions, and partnering with community organizations with the goal of inspiring change. Alongside this mission was the aim of bringing filmmakers and film lovers together to enjoy groundbreaking, provocative, and entertaining movies.

MATTER MATTERS - Video Art Installation by Jodie Mack
2023-04-13 - 2023-04-27 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Swing by and experience MATTER MATTERS, a video art installation featuring alternating projected loops of two animated shorts by renown animator and Dartmouth Professor, Jodie Mack in celebration of JAM’s April programming theme: Live on Earth!
Matter Matters
Animators are gardeners. The very definition of animation illuminates the medium’s capacity to bring things to life. These films use plants and other natural materials to center the animation as a site through which to consider grief, constant change, and transformation: a site that resists taxonomical classification and the rigidity of natural history in favor of illuminating the ineffable.
Jodie Mack (born 1983; London, UK)
Jodie Mack is an experimental animator. Her films unleash the kinetic energy of material remnants of domestic and institutional knowledge to illuminate the relationship between decoration and utility. Straddling the boundary between rigor and accessibility, her cinema questions how we ascribe value to things.
Mack’s 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Locarno Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Jeonju International Film Festival, and the Viennale. She has presented solo programs at the 25FPS Festival, Anthology Film Archives, BFI London Film Festival, Harvard Film Archive, National Gallery of Art, REDCAT, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, and Wexner Center for the Arts among others. Her work has been featured in publications including Artforum, Cinema Scope, The New York Times, and Senses of Cinema. She was a 2017/18 Radcliffe Fellow; a 2019 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts; a 2021 MacDowell Fellow; and a 2022 Visual Studies Workshop Project Space Resident. She is a Professor of Animation at Dartmouth College.
On display @ JAM from April 12-April 27

Story JAM: Bi-Monthly Storytelling Circle
2023-04-21 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.

For more info, reach us at storyjam@uvjam.org

Homes for Hartford/Heart & Home Community Art Project Paint n' Sip Night
2023-04-21 19:30 - 21:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
What does “home” mean to you? When we say, “we need to build more housing,” what should that look like?
Come give YOUR input as to how the Town of Hartford should update the Housing Chapter of the Town Plan and create some beautiful artwork around the theme of “home” at the Homes for Hartford/Heart & Home Paint and Sip, hosted by JAM (Junction Arts & Media) on Friday, April 21st at 7:30PM.
Join a state wide community art project sponsored by the Fair Housing Project and create original art that expresses what home means to you. While you’re here, painting and sipping, leave your input on what you believe the future of housing should look like in Hartford at the Homes for Hartford Community Input Booth.
Paint: Art Kits are free! And will be provided by JAM. Please RSVP to reserve an Art Kit.
Sip: BYOB!
Homes for Hartford Input: This booth debuts tonight and will live at JAM for the next few months as a hub for community input in a very important decision making process for the town.
