Ariel Valdez, CentroNia

What’s Next?

No Comments 20 December 2010

After six hectic, exciting months, Public Media Corps is winding down. I’m writing this now from my father’s house in New Mexico as a farewell post, after a nice ceremony where we all got together and had some food, and recognized students and organizations we’d bee working with. It’s been a trying experience which has [...]

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#3 ¿What’s Good, D.C.?:  Producer’s Perspective

Selina Musuta, WHUT

#3 ¿What’s Good, D.C.?: Producer’s Perspective

No Comments 16 December 2010

I produced the third show of the November 30 taping of ¿What’s Good, D.C.?.  I volunteered to produce that episode’s show on sexually transmitted diseases and infections.  Despite 5 years of experience in producing weekly and daily radio shows, this was my first time producing a television show.  Television and radio are really different.  Producing [...]

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Ariel Valdez, CentroNia, Fellows, Ward 1

Ward 1 Youth Speak Out: Part 3 of 3

No Comments 10 December 2010

GrayOnSYEP Click the link above to view Vincent Gray speaking about the Summer Youth Employment Program at his Ward 1 Town Hall. I started my time at CentroNia with the PMC during the middle of the Summer Youth Employment Program, or SYEP. Passions run high around this program because kids who worked in it didn’t [...]

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Garfield Terrace/Guerilla Arts Open House

Fellows, Garfield Terrace, Robin Hamilton, Ward 1

Garfield Terrace/Guerilla Arts Open House

No Comments 22 November 2010

For the Guerilla Arts students at Garfield Terrace, an open house means free food. Students jumped at the chance to have free pizza and candy – even if it meant having to listen to adults. The purpose of the event was to tell the kids about the calendar project Guerilla Arts is launching. As part [...]

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Garfield Terrace/Guerilla Arts Baba Ras D

Fellows, Garfield Terrace, Robin Hamilton, Ward 1

Baba Ras D

No Comments 18 November 2010

When a 6’5″ man with long dreadlocks and a booming, (if not imposing voice) comes into the room, everyone stops to listen. Some of the students at Garfield Terrace call him ‘African Man’, others say, ‘The Big Man with the drums is coming!’ Whatever the moniker, Baba Ras D commands the attention of those around [...]

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Behind the scenes at <i>¿What’s Good DC?</i>

Danielle Scruggs, Fellows, Gallery, PMC, Photos, WHUT, Ward 1

Behind the scenes at ¿What’s Good DC?

No Comments 17 November 2010

I took photos on the set of WHUT studios when we taped our first two episodes of ¿What’s Good DC? on Tuesday, Nov. 9th. The topics were School Reform (produced by fellow Mike Janssen) and Dropping Out (produced by fellow Ariel Valdez). It was a pretty hectic (understatement of the century) but exciting day.

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