Catching up with ‘Schradee’
As part of our Community Media Week specials, Eric will be Zooming in to studioW from L.A. on Oct. 16th for a LIVE interview at 7:30 pm e.s.t. with our youth mentors He was station manager at WPAA-TV until 2010, while attending SCSU. His documentary ‘It Happened and Nobody Noticed‘ will be featured Sat October 14 & 21st 8 p.m. and ‘Zulu Summer‘ at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 21st Watch
As editor, Eric Michael Schrader won the Emmy for Outstanding Picture Editing For An Unstructured Reality Program for Life Below Zero twice. Nominated 2017,18,19,20,21 Winner 2017,2021
How Well Do You Know Us Contest
Throughout Community Media Week there are opportunities to help viewers be contest winners. The contest is in celebration of our 30th anniversary as a nonprofit public access station. The top winner will receive a $250 Stop & $hop Card.
How Well Do You Know Us video compilations with embedded contest clues are scheduled Sat. Oct 7 and 14 at 8 p.m. There are 30 questions about WPAA-TV including What is your favorite program? that everyone can answer.
The 30-question contest form will be available at WPAA-TV during Celebrate Wallingford from Noon to 5 p.m.
A Story Time Puppet Film
Unfortunately, our children need to become as prepared as possible for the likelihood of danger: World Premier of the film #TheSuperHero Within for elementary school-age children is Oct 16th at 4:30 pm, repeated every day until Oct 21st.
The Superhero Within is Active Shooter Awareness & Self Empowerment Training for Elementary School Children which carefully draws from the core protocol established by FEMA. The non-threatening and approachable puppet play features two characters, that teach one another how to discover their superpowers. The show focuses on self-empowerment, inner strength, and learning how to be aware of surroundings by using the senses of sight, hearing, smell, and intuition.
Celebrating The Work with Guests
A LIVE studio audience will be lavished with stories and refreshments from local businesses. They will experience a show & talk back with the Ubuntu Storytellers. And the world can watch. The performances will be LIVE from 7:30 to 8:30 PM on cable TV or via the website simulcast: Watch
#MoreThanTV begins with live studio audience events open to the public at no charge.
Tuesday Oct 17th at &;30 PM
Replay | Music Performances
Friday, Oct 20th archival content begins playing at 8 pm with short films produced by the WPAA-TV Community followed by the 2023 & 2022 #GreatGive06492 performances Be the Seed (8:45) and Open the Curtain on the Arts (10 pm). In 2023, Le’Mixx Band filled the studio with soulful jazz to the delight of all viewing.
Mike Casey, also now in LA, is releasing four tracks from this performance as an EP. The trio is pictured to the left with gG the Be The Seed personae. Here is a Space Chill teaser.
Mark your Calendars for Music for the Solstice on Sunday, Dec 17th at 7 pm. Same deal. Audience welcome. Elegant refreshments. No Charge. This will be invite only so let us know if you want an invitation.
Moses Yale Beach, Revealed
Our contribution to Wallingford’s 350th celebration is guided conversations about Moses Yale Beach, His Life, and Times. These will replay in the Life Long Learning schedule on Saturday, Oct 21st beginning at 5 AM. Professor Robert May, formerly of Purdue University, a specialist in 19th-century American history is the featured historian. He and Professor Oppelt, also chat with Professor Menahem Blondheim, who has vast writings on turn-of-the-century media, and AP Archivist, Valerie Komor. Beach was recognized as the Founder of the Associated Press in 2015.
Mission In Mosaic Open House
Each year, WPAA-TV celebrates National Community Media Day (Oct 20th) on the Saturday closest to that date with an Open House. This year in honor of our anniversary, we will be introducing the commissioned art, Mission in Mosaic, and recognizing the Mosaic Magic Team of Gallery 53 at 1 p.m.
We invite the public to celebrate this installation with us, view the #StreetshotZ Gallery & digital display, and experience holiday video message-making with our Green Screen in studioW. We are grateful for the original mission work in silhouette created by Elizabeth Tranzillo, inspired by our friend Bradford May and his service dog. They are all missed.