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Share work @ Media Maker Monday!
Meeting on the 2nd Monday of every month, JAM welcomes Media Maker Members and their guests to a work in progress show and tell and peer feedback session.
Have a screenplay, rough cut, documentary project, podcast in progress, storyboard, pitch deck, or just an idea you have been kicking around for a while? Want to get feedback from peers and meet collaborators and mentors? This group is for YOU! Share your project, network with other artists, and see what projects creative people in the Upper Valley are making.
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Artist Spotlight
JAM Artist Spotlight: Andrea Marion
I was a 1970s hitchhiker, a teaching assistant in a French High School in ’80-’81, a corporate marketing manager for 20 years, a medicinal herb farmer for a few seasons, and the founder/owner of a yoga and mindfulness studio since 2006; writer/screenwriter as of 2020.
In 2008, I began writing, perched on the couch with a MacBook, typing away for days, years. I graduated from Dartmouth College in 2025 with a master’s in arts and liberal studies, writing concentration. During this time, I completed two novels, 720 pages of screenplay, and numerous essays and short stories. My fiction is published in “Clamantis”, the Dartmouth College Literary Journal. Scripts have won awards in 2025 film festivals, including the Oscar-qualifying Atlanta Film Festival. The limited series screenplay, “Make Tracks”, brings to life the freedom and optimism of the hippie days of 70s hitchhiking and hopping trains for 35,000 miles. The main character is Jack. His experiences are based on my husband’s real-life adventures between 1974 and 1979. The continuation novel, “Make Tracks”, is a magical realist love story about Jack and his true love, Char, caught in the adventures of their shortcomings. It is loosely based on my and my husband’s life after we met in 1979. In addition to the fiction, I produce a public access TV series, Community Mindfulness. It’s a weekly guided mindfulness practice suitable for those beginning or experienced in mindfulness.
Andrea's Movie Recommendations
Being Rose and Thrasher Road. Stories with heart, grit, passion, and wisdom – character-driven, location-rich, and action-loaded.