The Bay Area Video Coalition, or BAVC (pronounced “bay-vac”), is a nonprofit media arts center that was founded in 1976 by a coalition of media makers and activists who wanted to find alternative, civic-minded applications for a new technology - PortaPak video. Our continuing mission is to inspire social change by enabling the sharing of diverse stories through art, education and technology. Tips for using the BAVC website.

LATEST PAID JOB POSTINGS
The most recent paid jobs postings . . .
→ Call for Artist Educators – Visual Arts: New Media, Theatre, Music
→ Junior Editor
→ JVC HDV 720 Capture Needed
→ Video Producer/Editor
→ apprenticeship program
→ Fundraising Manager/Producer
→ Assistant Editor / Media Compression Specialist
→ 09/10 TMS digital storytelling fellowship
→ Seeking Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 PRO
→ Office Manager/Ass't to the Executive Producer

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UPCOMING EVENTS
May
We Own TV Launch Party
May 14, 2009
(Special Events) Don't miss this special BAVC event! BAVC Mediamaker Award recipient Banker White and co-producer Black Nature join us for the launch of the new website for WeOwnTV , a collaborative media project t...

BUMP Records Artist Release Party!
May 15, 2009
(Next Gen Screenings & Events) BUMP Records Artist Release Party! Friday, May 15th 7:00pm - 10:00pm Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland featuring Anais Kane, Cassie & Maad Tah Special Performance by Krystle Azul (BUMP Alumni)[B]

Screening: His Girl Friday
May 27, 2009
(Next Gen Screenings & Events) The Factory will be hosting a screening of Howard Hawk's screwball classic His Girl Friday (1940), starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, on Wednesday May 27th at 5pm. Following the film, youth ...
June
Innovation Salon: The Hybrid Tomorrow: Journalism, Documentary and New Media
June 2, 2009
(Special Events) Join BAVC for our 5th Innovation Salon, presented in conjunction with the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies. The “changing media landscape” is a buzzphrase we all don't want to hear...

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BAVC Blog

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by Angelo Sacerdote, BAVC Preservation Program Manager

By now, you may have read about these old moon tapes on http://www.moonviews.com.  In case you haven't ... Lunar Orbiter images were initially captured on film by a satellite orbiting the moon.  The satellite took photographs, developed and dried the film, then scanned the images and sent the data back to earth where it was recorded onto 2" tape by radar data recorders in order to give us information about where to land when we sent Apollo up there.  Back then, they reconstructed the data into images and printed pretty good pictures.  The original film is lying in the wreckage of the satellite up there on the moon somewhere.  

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Image "We Own TV" Launch Party

Don't miss this special BAVC event! Mediamaker Award recipient Banker White and co-producer Black Nature join us for the launch of the new website for WeOwnTV , a collaborative media project that promotes self-expression as a way to explore our shared humanity and build a foundation for the future.

Come to the launch party to hear the music of the Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars, celebrate the work of these award-winning producers, check out the new site that profiles their community media projects from West Africa and be part of the ongoing effort for social change and entrepreneurship in the region.

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