Kenosha Community Media (KCM) invites you to take part in these upcoming activities:

•  Fridays, April 16 and 23 from 6-8 PM:  Take Your Photography To The Next Level.  Kenosha News photographer Kevin Poirier welcomes you to a two-evening course in the art of photography.   Call (262) 656-8497 to register.  This course is open to photographers of all skill levels.   Fee required.

• Saturdays, April 24, May 1 and May 8 from 8 AM-3 PM.   Video Production Course.   Don't just watch television, create it!   Learn video production as a hobby or for a future career by enrolling in Applied Video Production.   This course takes you through the basics in field production, TV studio production, and editing.  You'll receive hands-on training with equipment provided by Kenosha Community Media.   You'll create videos that you may air on Kenosha TV Channel 14 as well as online.  Call (262) 551-5924 to register.  Course is provided by Kenosha Community Media in association with Carthage's Enrichment and Continuing Education program.   Fee required.  Participants must be age 18 or older.

• Monday, April 26.   Southport Press/Sketchcrawl Kenosha Meetings.  Southport Press, the small press publishing division of KCM will host two meetings at Carolyn's Coffee Connection, 1351 52nd Street.  

From 6:00-6:30 PM, Southport Press will welcome everyone to learn about Sketchcrawl Kenosha.  Sketchcrawl Kenosha is a part of a world-wide network of sketchbook artists who enjoy documenting their community with the use of a pencil or a brush.  

Beginning at 6:30 PM,  Southport Press will host a follow-up meeting to its March gathering, so participants may work toward transforming ideas into projects that build community as they also reflect our area's rich environment in the arts, history, and culture.   Both events are free.  The public is invited.

• Saturday, May 15 at 10 AM.   Sketchcrawl Kenosha begins its Spring Crawl.   Meet at Carolyn's Coffee Connection, 1351 52nd Street, for a jolt of java or taste of tea before heading out with fellow artists to scenic destinations.   Destinations will be announced prior to May 15.   Join the Sketchcrawl Kenosha meeting on April 26 at 6 PM at Carolyn's Coffee Connection for details.  Photographers, writers, and videographers are welcome to accompany Sketchcrawl Kenosha and document the day and the surroundings.

 

Until this year, I'd never heard of white spaces or white space devices, yet, according to this article by Sascha D. Meinrath of New America Foundation, they "have the potential to be one of the most revolutionary new technologies to come along in the past twenty years".  Prometheus Radio Project has also recently provided an article on white spaces and promises more information in the near future. (While you're at the Prometheus Web site, please take time to read its home page on Prometheus ongoing' work to bring low power radio stations to more communities.)

The Board of Directors to Kenosha Community Media (KCM) invites you to attend a special meeting on Tuesday, June 23rd at 6:00 PM at the Kenosha Media Center, 1403 Washington Road (inside the Time Warner Cable building). 

Click here for an agenda of this meeting.

At this meeting, the Board will report on upcoming activities and events of KCM and solicit your input to help KCM continue to provide our community with the ability to share information via cable television and through other communication resources.

Like many media centers across the United States, KCM is facing economic challenges.  However, KCM is also embracing opportunities to build relationships with other non-profit organizations in the Kenosha area to not only strengthen KCM and these other organizations but to build awareness and provide services to Kenosha. 

No RSVP is necessary to attend this June 23rd meeting.   Both Kenosha TV producers and anyone interested in local media are welcome to attend.   If you have questions, please contact the Kenosha Media Center at (262) 656-8497.   Hours are 9:30 AM-10:00 PM, Monday-Thursday, and 9:30 AM-5:00 PM, Friday and Saturday.   The Center is closed on holidays, including on Friday, July 3rd and on Saturday, July 4th.  Please call ahead before visiting the Center.

Please note that the Center will also be closed on Thursday, June 25 until 5:00 PM.  It will be closed all day on Friday, June 26th.   The Center will also be closed on Monday, June 29th until 5:00 PM.  

Kenosha Community Media will be the videographer for the Community Spelling Bee, presented by the Kenosha Literacy Council.   This event takes place on Wednesday, April 22nd at the Madrigrano Auditorium of Gateway Technical College, 3520 30th Avenue, from 5:30-9:00 PM.   It features teams which represent area businesses and organizations and a panel of celebrity judges.   Tickets are $20.00 each or $150 for a table that seats eight.  

Local businesses and organizations will field their own spelling bee teams, competing for a team trophy, bobble-head individual trophies, and bragging rights. 

100% of proceeds support the English literacy programs of the Literacy Council. The 2009 Spelling Bee is sponsored in part by a generous donation from the John J. and Ruth F. Kloss Foundation.

For more information, visit the Kenosha Literacy Council Web site here.  The Literacy Council provides English literacy education to adults with the assistance of trained volunteers.

 

Kenosha Community Media and Kenosha Public Library want to hear from you about your favorite book, CD, magazine, DVD, or audiobook.   Visit Southwest Library, 7979 38th Avenue, Kenosha, on Saturday, April 11th from Noon-3:30 PM where Library mascot Book Bug and friends will invite you to appear in front of a Kenosha TV camera to give us your review in sixty seconds or less.   All ages are welcome.   Your video may appear on Kenosha TV 14, the KCM Web site, and on social networking sites of the Kenosha Public Library.   It's fun.  It's free.  Tell your friends about it.   This activity precedes National Library Week, April 12-18th.  Visit Kenosha Public Library online here.

 

I recently received this article in which an associate editor of MediaShift discusses the current and future relevance of public access television.  You're invited to read it here and provide your responses to questions:

Is public-access TV still important or is it a relic of a bygone era?

How would it have to change in the future to stay relevant?

And, if you're a fan, what shows do you watch on public access?

 

 

One of my favorite Web sites is Ted.com (Technology • Entertainment • Design = TED) where some of the world's greatest thinkers and doers present their stories and ideas.  TED is embarking on a new experiment and hopes that someone like you, dear reader, may help them. 

Here's how: First become acquainted with TED.  New programs are available on a regular basis on this Web site.  I first became acquainted with TED through a link at ExposeKenosha.com which directed me to a marvelous talk by symphony conductor Benjamin Zander .  I later read his book, The Art of Possibility, which he co-authored with his wife, Rosamund, and am currently immersed in Mahler's 9th Symphony, conducted by Zander.  Zander is one of many creative thinkers who populate TED to share their wisdom and humor with you. 

Next, consider holding a salon or book club around TED content.  You could hold this activity in your home, at dinner parties, brown bag luncheons, or at the Kenosha Media Center, where you could screen TED videos on the Center's giant screen.  You could invite your friends and fellow Kenoshans to join you.  Your friends at Kenosha Community Media could help you put this type of activity together.    Anyone interested?

I read with dismay that Kenosha's online news source, The Daily Kenoshan, is for sale and could close down by the end of the month if no buyer comes forward.   I've enjoyed reading the Daily Kenoshan and hope I can continue to read it.   I think the future of journalism is online and that the Daily Kenoshan regularly has outdone that other news source/daily paper here in town.   Thank you to John Nordquist, owner/publisher of the Daily Kenoshan, Lisa Loring, editor, and all of the other contributors to it. 

How about it, Kenosha, will a viable new owner of this news source please come forward?  Click on the Daily Kenoshan logo for information.  You will be directed to DK's Web site.

 

I don’t know about you, but personally I would rather read everything on the computer screen than on printed paper. One of my reasons is that I don’t have to discard of anything after I’m done reading and also I’m a big supporter of a paperless environment and the idea of going green.

So, I questioned myself how I can promote this idea. Well, it just came to me in an email the other day, just like an answered prayer, at the very bottom it said:

Is it necessary to print this email?

 

Well, is it?

Got something to say or share?  Want to learn a new skill or start a new hobby?  Do you wish to promote your nonprofit organization?  Kenosha Community Media and Carthage's Enrichment and Continuing Education program are offering an Applied Video Production course in October/November.    Course dates/times are Saturdays, October 25, November 1, and November 8 from 8:00 AM-3:00 PM.   

In this course, you'll receive classroom and hands-on instruction in TV studio production, field production (camcorders), and video editing.   This course takes place at the Kenosha Media Center, 1403 Washington Road, and at a Carthage computer lab.   Once you complete this course, you may use the Media Center's resources (TV studio, camcorders, video editing) to create your own noncommercial programming.   KCM provides airtime on Kenosha TV 14 (Time Warner Cable), which reaches about 26,000 subscribers in Kenosha and more in the Town and Village.  

Absolute beginners and experienced videographers are welcome.   Course is open to adults who reside in the City of Kenosha, Village of Pleasant Prairie, and Town of Somers.   Representatives of organizations in these areas are also welcome to register and attend.  They do not need to reside in these areas if they are representing their organization, which has a physical address in the City, Village, or Town.   Cost is $45 for City residents who are cable TV subscribers (Time Warner or AT&T).   Proof of cable subscription required.   Cost is $50 for Town and Village residents or persons who do not subscribe to cable TV.

To register, please call (262) 551-5924 for Lynn Dahl, Carthage's Enrichment & Continuing Education Coordinator.