JAM – Junction Arts & Media

Your gift builds community and empowers Upper Valley voices through the media arts.

OUR MISSION

JAM – Junction Arts & Media builds community in the Upper Valley of NH and VT through the media arts.  

OUR STORY

JAM is reimagining how we can harness the positive potential of the media arts to build community in the Upper Valley. Times have changed since our founding as a community access television station, and JAM is changing to meet our moment. Media matters more than ever, shaping our sense of self, family, community, politics and reality itself. Founded in 1993, CATV merged with the White River Indie Film Festival (WRIF) in 2022, moved to our new home base in downtown White River Junction, VT and created a new audio studio while expanding our services across the Upper Valley to become

YOUR GIFT

Your donation to JAM supports noncommercial, independent local media and a creative community that strengthens democracy and belonging for all. 

JAM is a multimedia playground for all ages.

JAM operates a free and accessible media arts "makerspace" that supports creativity in the media arts through exhibitions and events, media education programs across the life span, an audio recording studio and animation workshop. Participation in JAM events and media education programs, including our expanding JAM Camps, JAM Club after-school programs, media courses for adults, and Digital Creation for Seniors workshops, surpassed 3,000 in 2024.

JAM is a partner for participatory democracy.

JAM catalyzes civic engagement through on-location, hybrid media coverage of Upper Valley local government, school boards, and local activism. JAM's two non-commercial, non-partisan PEG (public, education and government) cable access channels, also available via streaming online and app, provide platforms for information and local voices. In 2024 JAM covered over 200 public meetings, candidate forums, and demonstrations.

JAM is a protector of free speech.

Rooted in our thirty-year history as a community access media organization, JAM enables the free expression and respectful exchange of divergent viewpoints as means to deepen mutual understanding, find common ground, and strengthen our social fabric. JAM operates our own independent server for "On-Demand" content, free from commercial influence, attracting more than 4,100 views in 2024.

JAM is a champion for healthier mediated lives.

JAM empowers community members of all ages – and especially youth – to become more "media literate" users and creators of media. At JAM, we reject "consumption" as our relationship to media in favor of empowerment through media tools to make our lives better. JAM brings the community together for live events on important topics, such as Cindy Pierce's "An Honest Conversation about the Online Lives of Teens" for parents and educators, and records them to expand the reach of these important local voices and resources. In 2025 JAM is launching the Youth Media Advisory Board composed of local teens who will shape the future of JAM offerings.

JAM is the Upper Valley's storyteller.

JAM incubates storytelling across media platforms, elevating local stories to global audiences and welcoming global stories locally. Created by the 2022 merger of Community Access Television and White River Indie Film Festival (WRIF), JAM – Junction Arts & Media supports free community storytelling, writing and poetry groups; the annual White River Indie Film Festival showcasing the best of local and global cinema; original podcast and audiobook creation on topics from environmental law to local history; film and video production; and experimental multimedia forms. Stories created at JAM build belonging in our community and produce a lasting record of life in the Upper Valley.

Thank you for considering a gift to JAM!

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