Click here to read Mallary's Pink Vaio Op-ed.
(CHBI Burnt Islands - Coastal Community Radio - has been on air since 2006.
Network 15 salutes the work of the volunteers who make NL community radio happen.)
Network 15 - the annual meeting of NL community media volunteers comes this year from
The Grenfell Interpretation Centre in St. Anthony.
From Thursday, October 22 to Friday, October 24 at 7 pm NL time we will host a Skype discussion of community
media stories and issues.
See the link in the sidebar for the latest information on how to join the discussion.
On Thursday Barry Rooke, executive director of the Nation Campus Community Radio
Association will join Kelly Russell (Radio Bell Island) and Gary Wilton (VOBB)
for a workshop on how to make a successful permanent
community radio application.
On Friday Anita Best (VOBB) will lead off on Tell Us Your Story - experiences
in NL community media.
On Saturday we will listen to stories from Canada and around the world. Mallary
has made contact with the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association.
Also Helen Hambly Odame will join us from Guelph, Ontario. She teaches at the
University of Guelph and has worked with rural radio and media centers all over the world.
She'll talk about her recent research in Sri Lanka where rural community radio has
struggled to navigate political conflict as well as meet the pressures of centralized web-based
broadcasting. Helen will also talk about the work of some of her current and
former students are doing in other countries such as Ghana, Bangladesh, Nicaragua and
here in Canada.
Network 15 talks to Australia!
Hi Mallary,
Thank you so much for your recent email regarding Network 15, and specifically, Canadian community radio.
CAAMA is Australia's oldest and largest community-based Aboriginal Radio station. Our broadcast
footprint covers most of the Australian continent, and with the advent of online streaming
a couple of years ago, we now go to 'the world'.
We have also reached out to Indigenous networks in other countries, and we have sent some of our
staff to New Zealand, North America and Alaska to visit, learn and offer an insight with regards
to how CAAMA operates. Importantly, it was also an opportunity to exchange cultural values.
We would be very happy to be a part of Network 15, and take part in Skype discussions,
and especially to open the doors for the future discussions and relationship building
with regards to community radio, and collaborative events. We can also send to you our
showreel to give your network stakeholders a feel as to what CAAMA does,
and it's community and national involvement in Australia.
Thanks again for contacting CAAMA Mallary. It was great to hear from you.
Kind regards,
Michael Robertson
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA)
All the Voices!
July: Network 15 coordinator Mallary McGrath produced a new Network newsletter. Click here.
mallary_m@hotmail.com
How to Participate
The Network could be described as an unfunded unstructured group of NL community media volunteers originally founded as Network 11/Norris Point; Network 12/Bell Island; Network 13/Corner Brook, and Network 14/Conche.
The first NL community media Network was proposed by MUN Extension in 1989.
This year the fifth annual community media practitioners meeting - Network 15 - is hosted in St. Anthony by Iceberg Radio FM 102.5 - What Would Dr. Grenfell Do Now?
We invite participation by everybody (it is participatory communications after all) in the Network 15 Hour at 7 pm Thursday to Friday, October 22 to 24.
Network 14 is hosted by Mallary McGrath, Ivan Emke and Fred Campbell as a global : ) call in/skype in talk show with recorded Network programs; pre-arranged interviews; call/skype ins; emails; Facebook/Twitter.
On Thursday Barry Rooke, executive director of the Nation Campus Community Radio Association will join us for a workshop on how to make a successful permanent community radio application.
On Friday Anita Best will lead off on Tell Us Your Story - experiences in NL community media.
On Saturday we will listen to stories from Canada and around the world. Mallary has made contact with the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association.
Also Helen Hambly Odame will join us from Guelph, Ontario. She teaches at the University of Guelph and has worked with rural radio and media centers all over the world. She'll talk about her recent research in Sri Lanka where rural community radio has struggled to navigate political conflict as well as meet the pressures of centralized web-based broadcasting. Helen will also talk about the work of some of her current and former students are doing in other countries such as Ghana, Bangladesh, Nicaragua and here in Canada.
Our practice is to ask people to sign up and then we will contact them during the program - CBC style : )
For example, if you want to skype-in, request contact from Skype Name ryakuga.
Or Twitter @ryakuga #network15
On Facebook go to ryakuga and post your message.
Or email mallary_m@hotmail.com