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Moses Yale Beach-Revealed 225 Years from his Birth (with Mansion Cookies)
2025-01-09 10:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Wallingford Senior, 238 Washington St, CT, United States
Moses Yale Beach was born 225 years ago on Jan 15th. But his birthday was recorded incorrectly as Jan 7th in several encyclopedias, news releases, and internet blogs.
We will discuss local history and the publishing of the book ‘The Check Minus’ and the 250th anniversary of the nation’s birth.
Anise cookies by The Tasky Sprinke.
https://patch.com/connecticut/wallingford/calendar/event/20250109/5520ddc0-c83d-49bd-9f76-56acae745cee/what-we-have-discovered-about-moses-yale-beach

Early Winter Solstice Performance (Custom Groove)
2024-12-08 19:00 - 20:00 | WPAA-TV and Community Media Center, 28 So Orchard St, Wallingford, CT, 06492, United States
Instrumental and vocal jazz tunes by the likes of Bob James, Spyro Gyra, and Chuck Mangione, with arrangements of classic pop songs and timeless standards.
LIVE Streamed wpaa.tv/watch

Gnome Night
2024-12-06 17:00 - 21:00 | WPAA-TV and Community Media Center, 28 So Orchard St, Wallingford, CT, 06492, United States
Come meet our Gnomes. Play Games, Puzzle, find Gift Bargains like our book TheCheck Minus.

Community Media Day - Greenscreen Fun and more
2024-10-20 12:00 - 17:00 | WPAA-TV and Community Media Center, 28 So Orchard St, Wallingford, CT, 06492, United States
Open House.
Music, puppets, and more music. Featuring all ages green screen fun.

Noon – 2:30 Green Screen Fun (All ages) Bring props. Come in costume. If you wear green you will disappear. It is a choice.
People of all ages explore the magic of video production selecting from 100s of holiday images to choose their green screen backdrop. There will be opportunities to win prizes throughout the afternoon. Best planned use. Best local business. Most enthusiastic. Most community-minded.
3 – 3:45 pm Listen to stories by puppeteer Iyaba. reats & puppet activities to follow. Who wants to be in the story circle?
We never charge a fee.
Community Media Day is a nationwide celebration of ‘by the people’ media making. In Wallingford, our greenscreen fun holiday greetings tradition started in 2005.

WPAA-TV is Wallingford’s volunteer-run award-winning community TV station with a youth-led TeenTigerTV program for media makers (15 to 25). Most participants are socially or economically disadvantaged.
Our Pledge:
To provide a brave, safe, creative space for a diversity of expression within our community and beyond.More.Than.TV
More.Than.TV: A Community Access TV Station with community space for meetings, theater, art exhibits, and special programs and internships of various kinds.
Our volunteers are dedicated to supporting social action art, digital media & civic literacy projects in the public interest.
Freeman Penny Quinn, 1st Free Speech ambassador, a blue penquin, is our mascot. Hercules, a transformational tiger embodied as public art in a mural on our building is our inspiration.

Help #TeenTigerTV Save the Planet
2024-09-25 - 2024-09-30 | CT
Support our #TeenTigerTV youth program between September 25 to 30th because it is good for you. With this code FALL30, you get 30% off. (We get 20% of the purchase price). You will be automatically entered with 2 chances to win our #CelebrateWallingford2024 TruEarth (Help our Youth Save the Planet) gift bucket.
Shop: our link tru-earth.sjv.io/wpaatv
or use the blue QR Code.
Help Us Save The Planet

Summer Neighborhood Picnic | WPAA-TV
2024-08-06 18:00 - 20:00 | WPAA-TV and Community Media Center, 28 So Orchard St, Wallingford, CT, 06492, United States
Band: Adult Supervision
LIVE Music begins at 7 pm:
Have a melty evening with us. Crispy Melty by Caseus Food Truck from 6-8 pm
Check out the gallery. Enjoy a few tunes—dinner by invitation only.
Email wpaatv@gmail.com subject Picnic if interested in a Gallery Walk-thru and Dinner. Dinner on us by reservation only.
Please consider helping with the tip: Suggested donation of $2
Our music events are always free and shared on cable TV and the Internet | wpaa.tv/watch Onsite visitors can experience the show in studioW or watch the large screen in the front window with Bluetooth Sound for those picnicking outside.

TeenTigerTV Summer
2024-07-15 10:00 - 2024-08-26 16:00 | WPAA-TV and Community Media Center, 28 So Orchard St, Wallingford, CT, 06492, United States
Award-winning since 2014. Our Summer TeenTigerTV 2024 is all about U. We encourage young people (ages 15-21) interested in media production or advocacy to inquire through the website, or just show up.
#TeenTigerTV is free, flexible, and tailored to participants’ interests media skills development program. Our annual six-week summer program begins July 15th. If life allows, the best option for the full experience is to show up on July 15th at 10 am.
Summers are full of other things like family vacations so we are flexible. You can still join in any Mon-Wed between 10 -4 on or after July 15th.
Who can come: We offer training and support for all high school-age youth in Wallingford. Youth from neighboring communities can participate, if we are not a capacity. So if interested inquire. It may work out. Sometimes we feed you.
Teams explore a variety of media formats related to graphics, storytelling, TV, and film. These skills will prepare you to enter video festivals. We encourage our participants to enter the C-SPAN competition studentcam.org.
If you applied to Workforce Alliance Summer Employment through Wallingford Youth & Social Service we are a host site. You can be paid to participate in this program.
Summer 2024 Is All About U

Ubuntu Storytellers: Family Reunion
2024-06-16 15:00 - 16:30 | WPAA-TV and Community Media Center, 28 So Orchard St, Wallingford, CT, 06492, United States

TeenTigerTV Media Mingles
2024-05-20 18:00 - 20:00 | WPAA-TV and Community Media Center, 28 So Orchard St, Wallingford, CT, 06492, United States
May 20
June 3,10.17.24

Ubuntu Storytellers
2024-05-19 15:00 - 16:30 | CT

Open studioW Come Fool Around With Us
2024-05-06 18:00 - 20:00 | WPAA-TV and Community Media Center, 28 So Orchard St, Wallingford, CT, 06492, United States
Open studioW is a transformational Make TV opportunity.

#TheGreatGive06492 Online Fundraiser
2024-05-01 08:00 - 2024-05-02 20:00 | CT

Be The Seed #theGreatGive06492 Launch Performance
2024-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | WPAA-TV and Community Media Center, 28 So Orchard St, Wallingford, CT, 06492, United States

Nelson 'Carty' Ford Memorial Art Gallery Dedication #SocialActionArt
2024-04-30 18:00 - 18:30 | WPAA-TV and Community Media Center, 28 So Orchard St, Wallingford, CT, 06492, United States
On April 30th, family, ARTivists, and community leaders will gather to honor artist, Nelson Ford. The WPAA-TV and Community Media Center #socialactionart Gallery dedication will be at 6 pm. The Nelson ‘Carty’ Ford Memorial Gallery is an integrated gallery in the gathering spaces and walkways of WPAA-TV and Community Media Center.
Nelson served on the WPAA-TV Board of Directors from 2015-17. Subsequently, he served as the arts ambassador. A few pieces from his fine art series, Bricks in Search of Words, remain on loan, said Artistic Director Josiah Houston. “He influenced the media centers’ use of public art to solve problems. The organization’s journey into #MoreThanTV began as a #PowerfulWildFree4Arts project to resolve a blight problem. After a nor’easter in 2013, the north side of WPAA-TV’s renovated 1924 cow barn was visible and ‘ugly’. In 2015, transforming ugly into a tiger mural was a literal stretch for Ryan Christenson. ARCY is now an internationally renowned large-scale muralist, and the tiger is known as ‘Hercules’.
Nelson supported the permanent installation of #StreetshotZ by photographer Charles Buzinsky. This remains the featured installation. It includes photographs, a book, and a digital photo display. It is designed to elicit support for programs helping housing and food-insecure neighbors.
#SocialActionArt by ARTivists is ‘justice’ work. It gives voice to the silenced, or marginalized, to better understand our collective humanity and the earth we share. Its public presence provides an opportunity for conversation and compassionate change. Few artists claim this space beyond the protest signs and posters. For them and their work, we offer our brave, safe creative space in Nelson’s honor.
Flipped from the 1960s Civil Rights headlines, the “We Are Not Like You” series by Brother Iyaba Ibo Mandingo, provokes necessary discussion of our shared ‘differently’ history. Source materials are to be part of the installation. The evocative vessels and shadow boxes by Susan Clinard are timeless.
The sculpture ‘Conversation‘ by Ann Lehman, ‘Mission in Mosaic‘ by Gallery53 artists, and Wally political cartoons by Kevin Markowski are in the collection. Musicians may appreciate the reflective take on Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” Album Cover on loan from photographer and music man Robert Sims and the reclaimed music swag by Tim Sway of New Perspective Music. Tim designed the gallery dedication sign with reclaimed barn wood. Upcycled art speaks to care for our planet. Pieces are integrated throughout the space: Upcycled Mobiles to Karen J Wassmer‘s Dragonfly, Sun and Seasons. Jahmal Henderson’s Legacy of a Black Man Series & Fannie Lou Hamer You Can Pray
More about Carty: A 1963 graduate of Paier Art School he held day jobs as a graphic designer and pursued fine arts and his interest in history. His fine art was exhibited from 1991 until his passing. He began his major work The Awakening in a scroll 2 ft. by more than 500 ft. It explored the evolution of ‘One Race with many faces, colors, cultures, and nations’.

Ubuntu Storytellers
2024-04-21 15:00 - 16:30 | WPAA-TV and Community Media Center, 28 So Orchard St, Wallingford, CT, 06492, United States
Contemporary Stories of the Diaspora
Ubuntu Storytellers return. Share a Sunday afternoon with them, elegant refreshments, and experience personal and direct conversation about the theme.
Personal narratives of both ‘being’ and of being in the black and brown skin we’re in.
We are welcoming returning tellers:
Laconia Therrio ◊ Jezrie Marcano – Courtney ◊ Elisabeth Antonio ◊ Denise Keyes Page
Champagne Reception & Q & A to follow
Reservation suggested for the best seating option.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/contemporary-stories-of-the-diaspora-television-studio-performance-tickets-875397195577?internal_ref=social
Stories will be live-streamed on the WPAA-TV simulcast for friends who can not be with us in person. This series will not be shared on Facebook.

Meet the Tellers

Open StudioW Evenings
2024-03-05 18:00 - 20:00 | WPAA-TV and Community Media Center, 28 So Orchard St, Wallingford, CT, 06492, United States
OPEN studioW is a fresh approach to making WPAA-TV television studio resources available: Just walk in. WPAA-TV and Community Media Center schedules all resource use including studioW at WPAA-TV via this email address reserve@wpaa.tv But spontaneous is now an option.
studioW staff support is available Mon-Tues from 6-8 pm. Longer if needed. Any person eligible for our resources can reserve these evenings.
What is New
In addition to supporting spontaneity, users can arrive at 6 and be LIVE on TV at 7 pm. Our internet simulcast is automatic and Facebook Live is also an option. We will play content from the archives, “How Well Do You Know Us” if there is no fresh content being created in an Open studioW session.
Anyone can drop in and be on TV the same day if there are no prior reservations. However, we remain 1st come, 1st serve. Reserve to plan your use but spontaneity is now an option.
When you arrive you sign in, then determine with staff if studioW is OPEN.
If it is, you then discuss what you would like to do. You may need to create a graphic or load images you have for your plan. You can be a person with an idea, a grievance, a story, or a group of people with talent to share. You can start a conversation in the public interest that could become a regular show. How you use the tools and stage is up to you. That has not changed.
What has changed is that we are investing in staffing at pre-pandemic levels to enable TV to be produced 3 evenings a week. Thursday has a weekly reservation. The ability to be LIVE at 7 requires some coordination between our studio & cablecast functions so please keep that in mind. FB goes LIVE on our WPAATV Page. Like and Follow to maximize your experience. Wednesday will be added if there is community interest.
Join Us in studioW for what you are passionate about.
U are Us.
