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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Sunday, Oct 21st, 2007, 2:30pm - Shatner Ballroom, 3480 McTavish, 3rd floor
Creative Documentary Production
Tips on storytelling, sound gathering, content development, production techniques, as well as packaging and distribution for independent radio documentaries
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.
Asad Ismi
Asad Ismi is a writer on international politics specializing in U.S. policy towards the Third World and the role of Canadian corporations there. He is author of two books, nine reports, three radio documentaries and 90 articles published in 21 magazines. He has written for 23 progressive Canadian labour unions and non-governmental organizations including the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Canadian Labour Congress, the Halifax Initiative Coalition and MiningWatch Canada. He is winner of a Project Censored Award for his article "The Ravaging of Africa" which is also the title of his latest radio documentary. Asad holds a Ph.D. in War Studies from the University of London, England.
Kristin Schwartz, CKLN
Kristin Schwartz has worked in community radio since 1998. She is past Vice President and current Advisory Board member of the National Campus/Community Radio Association. She is the mother of one and is on parental leave from her position of News Director at CKLN Radio in Toronto. Her activist background includes many years in grassroots anti-racist movements. Kristin has worked with Asad to produce three radio documentary series with support from Canadian labour unions and progressive organizations. The most recent is "The Ravaging of Africa", about the destructive impact of US imperialism on the African continent, featuring voices of African activists interviewed at the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.