Redefining Media: Media Democracy and Community Radio
A CKUT 20th Anniversary Event
October 19th-21st, 2007
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Cost: Pay what you can
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Saturday, Oct 20th, 2007, 12:30pm - Shatner Ballroom, 3480 McTavish, 3rd floor
Community Radio Around the Globe
Discover community radio projects around the globe, as panelists share the history of community radio and current developments in different regions of the world.
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Speakers:
Seth Porcello, CKUT
Seth Porcello is an independent journalist, CKUT DJ, and auditory dumpster diver. He recently returned from an 8 month stay in Panama where he worked in an indigenous community in the province of Darien, teaching Audacity, facilitating workshops in sound recording, and building the first digital audio editing studio for cassettes in the province. During the summer of 2006, Seth spent 4 months in Palestine where he worked with the International Middle East Media Center as a News Editor. During this time he also produced a series of radio documentaries on life under Israeli occupation, one of which won the Nation Campus and Community Association's Best Documentary 2007 Award.
Roberto Nieto
Roberto Nieto has been a media activist since 1996. He has been involved in several community radio stations around montreal and has also collaborated with the world association of community radio stations (amarc) in various radio events around the world. In 2001, he was also involved as an activist in the anti-capitalist mobilization around the summit of the americas in quebec city and more recently he has worked with migrant workers to produced a weekly radio show informing them about their rights.
Nithya Vijayakumar, CKUT
Nithya Vijayakumar is an undergraduate student at McGill University in Political Science and Geography (Urban Systems). She has been working at CKUT-Radio since 2005 and is currently the Chair of the Bord of Directors. She is interested in community radio as a tool for civic participation and went to South India this summer to visit community radio initiatives there.
Evan Light, AMARCEvan Light started participating in community radio in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey in 1993 and is currently a member of the board of directors of the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA) and a longtime volunteer at CKUT Radio in Montreal. He has worked extensively with the World Association of Community Broadcasters (AMARC), most recently participating in the development of the first world standard for community broadcasting policy. Evan is currently a doctoral student in communications at UQAM where his research examines the intersections of democracy, alternative media and communication policy.