When Our Paths Cross
Channel: LIVING SOCIOLOGY
Date: 2019-12-18

First Person, Plural on CFUV-fm, Victoria, BC 
Originally aired May 8, 2003

We begin this episode with a panel discussion by three of the organizers of a local, community-based, five-year research project called Promoting Action Toward Health (PATH). Doing community-based research can mean a number of things, but it mostly requires an understanding of what community is supposed to be and it allows for communities under scrutiny to both control and gain benefit from aspects of the research.  Today's discussion addressed the ins and outs of defining community in such a way that enabled both researchers and community members to glean what they need from the project.  

This discussion seemed completely appropriate considering this is the one-year anniversary show of First Person, Plural.  We began our career at CFUV-FM, here in Victoria, British Columbia on May 9, 2002.  Contemplating community seems appropriate for our anniversary for two important reasons:  (1) First Person, Plural examines how people interact with each other in groups of two or more people.  Community is a large part of what we think about on this show.  But equally important is that (2) CFUV is a community radio station.  Shows such as ours are meant to enrich and encourage community.  We hope that our self-reflective style of doing so has been useful to our listeners and website-visitors.

It wouldn't be an anniversary show if didn't take a moment to reflect upon the previous year and upon where we hope to go.  Our larger project is Cultural Construction Company.  In the next year, we hope to delve much more into video projects.  The radio shows we have produced along with our web pages have been useful in preparing us for digital video-production.   We cheerfully volunteered at CFUV, to produce this show, to gain the experience and to support community radio, which we feel is an important thing to support.  However, our ultimate goal is to create a sustainable livelihood from multi-media production.  So, this next year we hope to pursue projects with compensation.  Look for our video career (visit frequently, the site will be updated) to begin and for more tie-ins on the web between what we produce on the radio and video recordings.  

copyright: Carl Wilkerson and Pattie Thomas

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