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Upcoming events:
WGXC Introduction to Audio Workshop
June 7, 2010: 11 a.m. – Sept. 20, 2010: 1 p.m.
WGXC Hudson studio
704 Columbia St., floor 2
Hudson, NY 12534
(WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) Event )
Ongoing audio workshop led by Dharma Dailey and Emily Bennison every Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn to record audio, edit stories, interview subjects, talk on the radio, care for equipment, and other aspects of radio. Contact Dharma Dailey at dharma [at] wgxc.org or Emily Bennison at emily [at] wgxc.org for more information. More
Catskill Farmers' Market
June 19, 2010: 9:30 a.m. – Oct. 30, 2010: 1:30 p.m.
Catskill Farmer's Market
Main St.
Catskill, NY 12414
(WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) Event )
Catskill Farmers' Market on Main Street this Summer, Saturdays, June 19-Oct. 30, 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
WGXC co-sponsors and will have a table with information on the station, and will be making recordings of musical performances, and interviews.
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Incident Report No. 35: WGXC/Prometheus Radio Project Barnraising
Aug. 27, 2010 – Oct. 1, 2010
Incident Report
348 Warren St.
Hudson, NY 12543
(WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) Event )
INCIDENT REPORT is an experimental viewing station for visual projects, located in Hudson, NY We are a model of portability, non-site, no-budget and low-maintenance. We offer an interface between the many publics of the street, and the concepts and issues generated by artists and social thinkers in a wide yet coherent spectrum. INCIDENT REPORT can generate new relationships with intuitive knowledge, visual intelligence, social cognition. We engage in formally arranged projects, as well as improvised situations. We are always open. For more information, contact: officer@incidentreport.info. This Incident Report contains information about the WGXC/Prometheus Radio Project Radio Banraising Sept. 24-26 in Hudson. More
Catamount People's Museum Opening
Sept. 4, 2010: 2:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Catamount People's Museum
21 West Bridge St.
Catskill, NY 12414
(WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) Event )
WGXC will be at the opening of artist Matt Bua‘s Catamount People’s Museum at 21 West Bridge St. in Catskill. The museum is a handmade structure in the form of a lounging bobcat using discarded tree branches and cut-offs from local mills. WGXC will have a live webcast from 2-6 p.m. Sat., Sept. 4, with performances by Bradford Reed and his Amazing Pencilina and Carmen Borgia. From Bua, “The interior of this over-sized Lynx Rufus houses a collection of materials and displays celebrating the people, stories and history of the Catskill Mountains. Content for displays are collected from both historical organizations and the surrounding community. The museum has a unique focus of seamlessly blending the stories, visions and personal collections of residents with the voices of historians. The folk legends, urban myths and favorite, almost forgotten tide bits on display make this new public space a place to soak in what this area is really all about.” More
ChatRooms at DRHA Conference | London
Sept. 6, 2010: 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.
(free103point9 Sponsored Event)
Caterini Dinopoulou, Maria Papadomanolaki
ChatRooms will be presented at this years DRHA Conference that is taking place at Brunel University, London.
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WGXC on Mexican Radio
Sept. 9, 2010: 6 p.m.
Mexican Radio
537 Warren St.
Hudson, NY 12543
518-828-7770
(free103point9 Event, WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) Event )
Come out to Hudson's Mexican Radio, and help bring community radio to Hudson. A portion of the proceeds from all dinners this evening will go to putting WGXC on the air at 90.7-FM, and bringing community voices to your radio. More
WGXC/Prometheus Radio Project Station Barnraising
Sept. 24, 2010 – Sept. 26, 2010
(WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) Event , free103point9 Transmission Art Event)
This September, Prometheus Radio Project and WGXC will hold Prometheus's 12th community radio barnraising. Radio barnraisings are weekend-long radio and movement-building events. Individuals from the local community, participatory media advocates, and artists from around the country will converge in Hudson, NY to share ideas, experiences, and skills in the launching of WGXC's full power community radio station.
The Prometheus Radio Project has helped many groups, including farmworker unions, civil rights groups, and rural arts organizations build their stations while training a new generation of radio organizers across the country. The collaboration with WGXC, which will broadcast at 3,300 watts as opposed to the 100 watts of low power stations, will be Prometheus's first full-power barnraising. This new station will be uniquely decentralized with three main studios spread out across the listening range, allowing broader participation from residents of New York’s Greene and Columbia counties. Partnerships are already forming with schools, music venues, and town halls to create live feeds from various locations, furthering the scope of the station.
WGXC: Hands-On Radio will be much more than just a radio station, with regular exhibitions and events, ongoing media trainings, a news blog, and community meetings. “We are all aware of the urgent importance of protecting and supporting our local resources, food system, watersheds, farmland, and local arts and cultures,” explains Kaya Weidman, a member of WGXC's Radio Council and co-founder of Germantown Community Farm. "WGXC is simply local media, a key tool for all these crucial issues."
WORKSHOPS
(confirmed so far, more to be announced)
Community Building
iTrip Hack
Build your own amplifier / listening to EMR
Rural Media: Challenges, Opportunities, Strategies
Community Media Collaborations: Beyond Radio
Radio for Community Building
Technical Track
Transmitter-building Part I: Intro to Electronics
Antenna Masts, Towers and Poles
Remote Broadcasting
Streaming and Podcasting
Community News and Programming
Collecting Oral Histories
Facebook event page for WGXC/Prometheus Radio Project Radio Barnraising.
Click here for more information and complete registration information.
Registration includes:
* Access to all workshops
* All meals
* Housing (either indoor crash-space, camping, or a home stay)
* Childcare. We love kids - they are free! (NY certified childcare and children/parent workshops)
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WGXC/WORD
Sept. 24, 2010
Cannonball Factory
359 Columbia St.
Hudson, NY 12534
(WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) Event )
Words from local writers, authors, poets, rappers, and more. Curated by Chad Weckler, in association with WGXC/Prometheus Radio Project Barnraising. More details tba. More
Meshell Ndegeocello and Friends
Sept. 25, 2010: 9 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Club Helsinki Hudson
405 Columbia St
Hudson, NY 12534
518-828-4800
(WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) Event )
Join the legendary Meshell Ndegeocello and her collaborators to celebrate the live launch of WGXC 90.7 FM. In the midst of WGXC's "Radio Barnraising," a community media extravaganza involving three days of workshops, station building and performances, Ndegeocello will grace the stage of Club Helsinki to play a benefit concert for Columbia and Greene counties very own brand new community radio station. Joining her will be a variety of musicians to play this one very special show.
Tickets are $18 in advance until 9 a.m. Sept. 25 (below, through Brown Paper Tickets), and $25 that night at the Club Helsinki door. WGXC Founding Members and attendees of the WGXC/Prometheus Radio Project can purchase $15 advance tickets. Email tom@wgxc.org for discount code.
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Giant Ear))) hosted by Edmund Mooney, ASAE Symposium Wrap-up + Chicago Phonographers!
Oct. 2, 2010: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
(WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) Event , free103point9 Transmission Art Event)
The first half of the show from the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology will be remembrances of the recent ASAE symposium in Chicago, including audio recordings of activities and some interviews by Edmund Mooney followed by a second hour in which the Chicago Phonographers, a group dedicated to field recordings and soundscape composition will have their way with the Giant Ear...so to speak. Tune in at www.free103point9.org and www.wgxc.org More
Conflux 2010
Oct. 8, 2010 – Oct. 10, 2010
Conflux 2010
NYU's Barney Building
34 Stuyvesant St.
New York, NY 10003
(free103point9 Sponsored Event)
free103point9 is pleased to be covering this year's Conflux festival based on themes of INVESTIGATION, ACTION and TRANSMISSION. We'll be on site to record performances and interview participating artists. Conflux is accepting submissions for the 7th Annual Conflux Festival, which will run October 08-10! Through an open submissions process, Conflux will provide a platform for artists, urban geographers, technologists and others to organize and produce innovative activities dedicated to the examination, celebration and (re)construction of everyday urban life. Conflux proposals must be submitted by August 15 ($10 administrative fee). All proposals will be judged based on artistic merit, originality, and feasibility. Check the FAQ for guidelines and details. More
Distribution Regrant Seminar at Conflux 2010
Oct. 9, 2010
Conflux 2010
NYU's Barney Building
34 Stuyvesant St.
New York, NY 10003
(free103point9 Event, free103point9 in collaboration with...)
Join free103point9's Executive Director Galen Joseph-Hunter for an application seminar for the next cycle of Distribution Grants to New York State Artists.The deadline for online proposal submission is October 31. The 2011 Distribution Grant for New York State Artists provides support for the distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. More
WGXC Radio Day at Catskill Farmer's Market
Oct. 16, 2010: 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Catskill Farmer's Market
Main St.
Catskill, NY 12414
(WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) Event )
Join new community radio station WGXC for a special event at the Catskill Farmer's Market, Sat. Oct. 16, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Max Goldfarb's M49 solar-powered radio truck will be at the center of the market, with live musical performances from on top of the truck, and live DJs playing music and interviewing locals all day. Stop by and participate in community radio! Several special events will be set up in conjunction with this, and WGXC will have a table with information about becoming a WGXC Founding Member, and t-shirts, and bumper stickers, and more. More
The War of the War of the Worlds
Oct. 31, 2010: 10 p.m.
(WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) Event , free103point9 Transmission Art Event)
Tom Roe's sixth annual remix of the Orson Welles' radio theater classic "The War of the Worlds." Roe takes the original and layers on broadcasts of the world's current wars, and the disinformation accompanying current wars. This show comments on media manipulation in a similar manner to the Welles' broadcast, refiguring the hysteria for a media-soaked world. This year marks the 71st anniversary of the original broadcast. Tune in at www.free103point9.org or www.wgxc.org More
