hello everyone i'm joanna jubilance editor of the belmont citizen herald and wicked local belmont dot com i'm also a member of the board of directors for the belmont media center welcome to this special edition of what's going on today we're going to talk all about the belmont media center and with me to do that is the executive director of the belmont media center jeff hansell welcome jeff hello julianne glad to be here ira how are you doing to agree i'm off deadline i'm always doing well let's talk about that yeah let me ask you a question how long have you been on the board now this is my second year on the board here yeah it's a three year seat i've got one more i'm going to last i think i've got one more year and i'm learning so much you know the two  so we have been a presence of town day for a number of years now and with the new van the newly designed vanished yesterday we it's actually the first year we'll have that town day we're going to have several things going on doing we'll have be interviewing some of the local businesses and i'm told that actually we do a new show here now called belmont in thirty which is all about what's going on in town government to try to you know we're attempting to keep people up to date about what's going on right couple of things we did we're going to do down there is we're going to have some stuff for kids to sort of ways for and interact with media centers or we're going to have a camera there on this big crane where people can come along and operate it you know and i'll write that until they lemonade and cookies we're going to have those are about a by part of the new bakery right leans right is right and then we're also going to be rolling out a new shopping bag that we're designing one of our students is and it's going to introduce a new campaign right walk take a bus ride your bike and you can park around behind all the stores a huge parking lot it's amazing sometimes people just sort of forget that and i'm one of those people i'll say oh there's no parking and i go yeah go you know gray have two locations in belmont yep want to talk about sports something that your paper covers as well oh yeah remind folks especially our volunteers students parents were always on the lookout for crew people to work on sports production so go to our web site and then click on the b h f sports t v link right at the top of the page if you can't find it call me up i'll tell you exactly where  to click go it's right on the on the front page and we've got some great participation this year from a lot of different students and depending upon the sport and the weather you know people come out we're also going to be covering the  patriots basketball game with v h s boosters right of course you want to go to the b h s boosters website and to get your tickets for that but we will be making a television production out of that should be a lot of fun anybody who wants to be on that crew again you can call us and let's remind people of what the d m c phone number is you know what it is right go ahead and tell us six one seven right four eight four two four four three very good bingo it a couple of things i want to bring up maybe you have some questions for me about it we're going to have an open and open house and an art reception part of that is about a members and friends are cho so any of you all that feature one artwork one piece of artwork from all of our members friends of d m c supporters a b m c and on june third that's the date we're going through a big party here we are looking to have some live music in the studio the reception of course all the doors will be open to d m c be able to check out some of the equipment look at the pod cast to dio and just sort of celebrate the summer we've done that a few times and it's always a nice way to get people to come down and check things out so what's the deadline for someone to submit their art for the any minute now no you've got plenty of time so go ahead and does it have to be ready to hang press pretty much a business and we tell you about a couple of other things orientation to community media now that's coming up on the first monday of june if you're interested in getting more involved in the media center that's a time to come down ask questions meet some other people take a tour so it's always the first monday of the month of june sixth then you're six please r s v p again you can call us at the number you can email patty had moment media dot org you can stock down and tell us you want want to stop by what time  if you have some questions you can call anytime but we do ask that if you want to come down to the orientation please do r s v p so we can write planned to make sure that we can talk to you show you what's going on and then we also have some classes so look at our web site under the learn link on our website yep they'll be more classes coming online we have a class on sunday camera how to use a field camera a lot of people individually learn that but we do like to say here's a class when i come in during that time and great a little more attention but again all the classes all the things we do what we're finding too is that people want to come in when they want to come in when they have time and so we try to customize that for people to say ok you want to be part of some of that coverage come on and you know adam or or jeremy will show you how to do that that's excellent so those library it's a collaboration between the library this seo a the belmont media center and the belmont historical society as well as the belmont says and harold are all collaborating on this and the way it works  is you can be a resident of belmont any age if you have a story to share that's that's what it is basically we have volunteers who take turns interviewing or you have a family member interview would be ideal this is modeled r we have a story project website which what is our web site and well we have a sound what's called a sound cloud page where you can actually hear all the story project interview so yes we had a few so far we had marius galli long time tell meeting looking for everybody right it's really that's right you have a story you grew up here maybe you spent some time here share a member i'm in and you know it's we don't want people to think only you know rightly certain people everyone really we're looking for everybody to come to be exciting one but it's true anybody i met someone recently who said she had a story to share so we have to set it up but she said she grew up in the belmont gardens part of belmont ok and she wanted to share her story about what gardens was like at the time there were green houses all over this street wow which are no longer there so that that's an interesting story well and the thing that people should know is that you can call the media center up any time we're open or send an e mail and reserve some time for it there's no deadline here it's is an open project it's a new effort by all of the organization so if you talk to your granddaughter or your uncle or another relative and say let's go down and talk about you know your time in belmont or some particular memories you know it's easy enough to call us reserve a time that we're open it's there's no in a living room and said right the belmont media center is still very comfortable at studio b which would be right is that first studio see you when you walk in yeah so but any time you want to do that folks and you if you about it that's how we're hearing that someone heard from somebody and then they want to do their interview so it's yeah it's not something that you know it's a good there's no deadline here there's no goal we're trying to reach other than trying you know getting people that come in and so we feel like this is going to be something that's ongoing you know now maybe some people come back in the summer you know the people that would be kind of fun to talk to talking about that is the parent or brothers i just saw an something new here you've got some new equipment well it's a lot of stations now a lot of community stations and as you know anybody listens to radio podcasts are hot they're interesting to people because they're easy to access you can listen to the many times you know you're not watching something on screen and so for people driving or doing other chores around the house right or when they're at work at times i  that as well as do a podcast we're doing that at the moment media center as well so we have the belmont media podcast network yes and some of the shows now are both on television and our podcast network again if you go to  to do that yeah start that very soon ok they're easy to do get if you don't want to be on camera that's the advantage of a podcast right come in sit down if you have a political interest of a cultural interest  human human interest we just started the first show of a show called off the page with a professor of literature from framingham state who's in the area who knows a lot of authors some in belmont so we have there's a lot of  show and she's going to do or second show here in may and then she a good doing a monthly program but it's basically interviews with authors talking about their novels and we hope then to expand that into nonfiction which is a big area  the web site click on the podcast link you've got and that's that will take and then they can go right to the sound cloud page where we are as we're i don't know any organization that's not working on their website and we are but we will feature the network through our website see be able to access directly but really it's so easy to to go to the sound cloud page sound cloud is a service that a lot of organizations use to host your podcast so go to our web site click on the podcast on the board on the chamber any oh in the chamber yeah yeah yeah i think that's his brother is that his brother i don't want to be known his father the father and you're a it's a great organization and they've got a lot of great events coming up but and we want to we also recently covered the state of the towns at the oakley country club he's probably see some pictures on the monitor oh yeah a lot of the folks came out and it's a it's a if you're looking to find out what's going on in the area  s this show once you click on the link to the state of that and you can get see it on our facebook page go to our website and find watch chamber actually that's all you need to do is buy much needed dot org slash watch slash chamber but it's easy to find and check it out you'll hear something from our town administrator from the police chief in watertown as well all right obviously issues and events in watertown affect  busy town and town meeting they have the financial town meeting coming up and you know am i going to be voting on ali financial articles oh i see so that's that continuation of yes ok i see and they do we just got we just finished the town meeting for the nonfinancial arkell's a lot of the community preservation funds were approved for projects such as new tennis courts around town that's a big one but there is a big debate going on so it so they're trying to move forward with this and there's going to be a public hearing a big public hearing which i'm sure you'll be covering may twenty third ok and may twenty third thank you for telling me you know where that's going to bat the beach street ok thank you because we actually we depend on hearing from everybody about writing events and we can we can cover them right sometimes you know it's funny because sometimes you hear about things that sometimes you don't know yeah but that's w are we are here to serve the community and and on our website you know when you want to watch a live government meeting a public me or or videotape you can just go to the link that says live right and  always has whatever the live event is on it particularly in terms of government and school board school committee planning board etc that's always a good place to see those live but yeah we'll be covering town meeting  so the story that it's funny when we first started expanding our live coverage of the first program there was an on demand show that people could watch afterwards was a warrant committee meeting i believe oh really and we put that on and like the next day i got a call from somebody well what are you going to put the next meeting on and i was like you know i must have been i did it's like but i mean it's like it just we just started and now it's like oh we can't live without this we need to have this all and so yeah a lot of and it's almost no different than a lot of communities where p s i depend on seeing these meetings right on their website through their media center to keep up with what's happening but yet that's the only way to do it generally if you're come cast subscriber just to if you're watching this then you know you know where to to to because you're watching us right right if you're watching on the website well you find it on the website but it's channel eight on contest channel twenty eight and rising for the government channel channel nine on comcast channel twenty nine on verizon for public access which is why we also put a lot of sports on there as well lot of sports coverage we were trying to increase the frequency of programming to give people a chance to watch it and then channel ninety six on comcast and channel thirty on bravo right has that information and a lot of repeat programs  where you can catch other things that you would see on i guess the of two channel that anything else we want to talk about i think make sure you come by may twenty first   i just love the name of the shell truthfully yeah what's going on what's going on while the guy who is running the camera on me right now hi david he brings us brownies every friday and he but she'll be back next time great hosting programs thank you 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