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Canadian Club of the Yamaska Valley meets on Mon. March 7 with Jody Robinson, archivist at Eastern Townships Research Centre, Bishops University at 2 pm at Auberge West Brome. Topic Keeping it in the Family, tracing your family’s roots and preserving your family papers. Non members $10. Information 450 243 6524 (Meredith MacKeen)

Radio Communautaire Missisquoi (RCM) is pleased to announce the winners of its Radio Drama Writing Awards 2010. The distinguished panel of judges for the competition – Alex Paterson, Frances Gallagher and Jefferson Lewis – have completed their review of the entries. They met recently to select the winners and reached a unanimous decision that the prizes should be awarded as follows:

Alex Paterson, Chair of the Panel, said that the judges had been impressed by the quality of the entries and commented that “the entries proved once again that our community is blessed with a variety of talented writers whose style and imagination can produce interesting material. Hopefully by contributing to the 2010 competition, our contestants will encourage more entries in 2011.”

Patron Louise Penny thanked all the entrants for deciding to enter this new Competition and for the commitment and effort that they had dedicated to writing a new play. She went on to congratulate the winners and commented “It’s thrilling to have radio plays about the Townships being written and produced. And such a high calibre! As someone who also writes about the Townships, I know what a rich canvas it is. And now we’re discovering, thanks to CIDI, ever more artists, ever more writers, ever more voices – and more stories to tell about a place we cherish.”

Radio Communautaire Missisquoi plans to launch Radio Drama Writing Awards 2011 next summer at WordFest in Knowlton. Its goal is to promote new radio plays about some aspect of life in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, past or present, and to increase awareness of the possibilities and scope of radio in the field of drama. The RCM Radio Drama Writing Awards have been established with the aim of encouraging writers of drama who live in the Townships, or who have some close connection with it.

RCM acknowledges with deep appreciation the encouragement and generous support of the Competition’s Patron Louise Penny, internationally acclaimed Townships writer, and her husband Michael Whitehead. It also thanks The Townshippers’ Cultural & Research Foundation for its grant to help organize this Competition.

RCM is grateful to The Chawkers Foundation for providing the enabling grant to launch the new program “Townships Radio Theatre”. This will make it possible to invite Sunshine Theatre Productions to mount a professional production of one or more of the winning radio plays from the Competition.

The entry deadline for the drama Writing Awards 2010 is fast approaching. You have until December 17 to enter this prestigious competition sponsored by Radio Communautaire Missisquoi. RCM is very pleased to announce its distinguished panel of judges for the competition:

Alex Paterson, OC, OQ, QC, Ad.E; author of “My Life at the Bar and Beyond”, he was until recently Chancellor of Bishops University, and is an Emeritus Governor of McGill; he has acted at the Centaur Theatre, he has been an active supporter of Knowlton’s community theatre, a patron of Theatre Lac Brome, and he has contributed his leadership and time to a wide range of community, educational, and public service projects.

Frances Gallagher; began her film career at Potterton Productions in Montreal doing continuity, film and sound editing, script writing and production. She went on to produce TV commercials, shorts and documentaries, and established the film production company 3 Themes Inc.; she then devoted herself fulltime to writing. Frances has been a script reader for the National Film Board and Telefilm among others; and she has given writing workshops at Bishop’s Knowlton campus, and for the Quebec Writers Federation.

Jefferson Lewis began as a radio writer, and has since written (and occasionally directed) more than 60 screenplays in both French and English, from documentaries to feature films and everything in between. He works as a script consultant and workshop leader across North America and Europe.

This panel will select the best scripts in January. A final adjudication will be completed and the award winners will be announced in February 2011. The First Prize will be $500; the Second Prize will be $350; and the Third Prize will be $150.

RCM’s goal is to promote new radio plays about some aspect of life in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, past or present, and to increase awareness of the possibilities and scope of radio in the field of drama. The RCM Radio Drama Writing Awards have been established with the aim of encouraging writers of drama who live in the Townships, or who have some close connection with it.

Once again, the deadline is December 17. Send your entry form with four paper copies of the script to: Radio Drama Writing Awards 2010, Radio Communautaire Missisquoi, 305B Knowlton Road, Town of Brome Lake, Quebec, J0E 1V0. Further details are available at www.rcmmedia.org.

RCM acknowledges with deep appreciation the encouragement and generous support of the Competition’s Patron Louise Penny, internationally acclaimed Townships writer, and her husband Michael Whitehead. It also thanks The Townships Foundation for its grant to help launch “Townships Radio Theatre”.

Contact: Kate Wisdom for RCM at 450 242-4421
10-12-06

Former Brome County News editor creates It Gets Better video

It gets better. That’s not a cliche — it’s the truth, according to Eleanor Brown, a former editor of both the Brome County News and the daily Sherbrooke Record who has written, recorded and posted a video for the It Gets Better campaign. The project aims to reassure bullied gay and lesbian young people that they can survive high school, especially teens living in the Eastern Townships.

“Young people need to know that there are adults and other teens, gay and straight, who will be there for them,” said Brown. “Look around, ask for help. Keep asking for help — because you will find someone who will help you.”

And that goes for queer kids as much as for straight kids who are getting harassed because others think they’re gay, she says.

That also means that adults have a responsibility to step in and help. “If you see that someone is being hurt by careless bigotry, or nasty bullying, say something. Don’t let it go by. Our kids matter,” Brown says. “We need to let them know they matter.”

Brown was born in and grew up in Sherbrooke, and left the Townships. But in her 40s, she came back to become editor of The Record (the English daily based in Sherbrooke), and of the weekly Brome County News, where she remained for some two years. Then and now, she participates fully in her Eastern Townships community, bullies and bigots be damned.

She wants teens and young adults to know there’s a big community out there of people who do care about them.

Brown is an award-winning journalist. She has edited such publications as the queer biweekly Xtra and the education magazine Our Schools/Our Selves in Toronto, had a stint as news editor of the Montreal Mirror, spent a year working for the Toronto Star in Halifax, and has written for the Globe and Mail, Fab, Motion, TV Guide and the Law Times, among others.

Her It Gets Better video showcased on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=45vvM2aCN5U

Sutton, October 17, 2010

On Saturday October 23, Mike Burns will present The Water of the life, the tale of the Townships Trail, at Alec et Gérard Pelletier Hall in Sutton at 8 pm. The tale redraws the origins of the Eastern Townships. ” Once and once and once, and very good times, …. men gathered around a fire, whisky near to hand. And the place and time led the talk to turn to other places and other older times from which were spun the threads that brought them together.”

Here, Mike Burns, intrigued by the history of the Eastern Townships, has spun a colourful tale of the beginnings of the Townships. Initially told in concert and recorded, the story was then transcribed in its French and English versions. This book will be offered to the first fifty people to make a reservation.
Mike Burns was born in Ireland. He has been a storyteller for over 40 years and he tells, in Gaelic, English and French, the tales and legends of his homeland. He is frequently invited to storytelling festivals throughout Europe and North America. He has, for the last 15 years, been featured regularily in the Eastern Townships festival, “ Les Jours Sont Contés en Estrie”. The Water of Life will be presented in French on October 22 and in English on October 23.

Tickets ($15) are available in Sutton at Livre d’or Book store and Au Naturel Food store. In Cowansville you can buy tickets at Verveine & cie. You can also make a reservation by phoning at 450 538 0486. For more information on Salle Alec et Gérard Pelletier Hall, visit www.salleagpelletier.com

source
Michèle Normandin
450 538 0486

La Télévision communautaire de Waterloo vient d’apprendre avec étonnement que le diffuseur du canal communautaire VOX vient de décider de couper toute diffusion régionale et locale à partir de Granby entre le 13 septembre et le 28 novembre 2010, ce qui affecte grandement la possibilité de la TVCW de rejoindre son auditoire. Cette annonce est soudaine et elle met à mal la bonne collaboration du diffuseur avec la télé waterloise.

Heureusement, la TVCW est toujours accessible par son site web et la production devrait se poursuivre normalement cet automne.

Voici donc ici le communiqué que la TVCW vient de diffuser aujourd’hui en réaction à cette annonce.

Waterloo, le 9 septembre 2010

COMMUNIQUÉ

Pour diffusion immédiate

La télé communautaire disparaît du câble jusqu’au 28 novembre – La diffusion web de la TVCW lui évite un silence forcé.

La Télévision communautaire de Waterloo (TVCW) a été surprise, comme plusieurs téléspectateurs du canal communautaire (Câble 9 – canal VOX) d’apprendre il y a quelques jours que la direction de VOX avait décidé de cesser toute diffusion locale et régionale à partir de Granby pendant plus de deux mois dès le 13 septembre prochain. « Comment une entreprise aussi performante peut-elle ne pas avoir planifié de stratégie de diffusion alternative ni avisé son partenaire waterlois (la TVCW) dans un délai raisonnable? », se questionne Richard Morissette, le coordonnateur de la télé communautaire waterloise. Il poursuit : « Est-ce que VOX ne néglige pas ici son mandat prioritaire qui est de garantir un canal d’expression local et régional? Nous avons quatre émisions régulières en diffusion, en plus de l’assemblée municipale de Waterloo. Un tel bouleversement aurait exigé une stratégie réfléchie de notre part comme de la part de Videotron mais il est clair qu’elle n’a pas été correctement planifiée, ni ici ni chez Vox. »

Il s’inquiète entre autres de REFLETS, l’émission hebdomadaire waterloise, comme de STOP!, coproduite avec la radio communautaire CIDI, qui tient en ce moment un concours d’interprétation en piano, et dont le concept comprend le vote du public suite aux diffusions mensuelles. « C’est aussi dommage pour l’auditoire du canal communautaire et en particulier pour les personnes âgées qui nous disent particulièrement apprécier nos émissions. On vient de leur couper un lien privilégié avec leur communauté », rajoute Richard Morissette.

Les artisans de la télévision communautaire waterloise se réjouissent toutefois d’avoir mis en ligne leur site web il y a quelques mois. Leur auditoire ayant accès à l’internet pourra ainsi continuer de suivre toutes les émissions de la TVCW. Le site web est d’ailleurs en constante évolution depuis sa mise en service et il devrait selon M. Morissette continuer d’être de plus en plus convivial et efficace dans l’avenir. La TVCW invite donc la population de la région à visiter régulièrement son site durant l’interruption de service de VOX au www.tvcw.tv.

Source : Richard Morissette

Télévision communautaire de Waterloo (TVCW)

• Radio Communautaire Missisquoi’s (RCM) goal is to promote new radio plays about some aspect of life in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, past or present. The purpose of the Awards is also to increase awareness of the possibilities and scope of radio in the field of drama.
• The RCM Radio Drama Writing Awards have been established with the aim of encouraging writers of drama who live in the Townships, or who have some close connection with it.
• RCM is seeking original scripts in English for radio plays of 55 minutes duration.
• The Competition closes December 17, 2010. Award winners will be announced in February 2011.

RCM acknowledges with deep appreciation the encouragement and generous support of Louise Penny, internationally acclaimed Townships writer, and Michael Whitehead. It also thanks The Townships Foundation for its grant to help launch “Townships Radio Theatre”.

Radio Communautaire Missisquoi (RCM), a non-profit corporation, broadcasts to most of Brome-Missisquoi and to neighbouring Shefford County, an area with a population of around 85,000 people. Its community radio station CIDI 99.1 FM is located in the Town of Brome Lake, Quebec. The Eastern Townships of Quebec is home to many English-speaking Quebecers, and a significant number of its French and English residents are functionally bilingual. RCM broadcasts to Townshippers in both languages. It reflects and enhances the identity of the region in all its aspects: cultural, economic, educational, and recreational; and it does so through the quality of its locally produced and recorded entertainment and information programs.

RCM collaborates with arts and theatre organizations to promote the work of local actors, artists, musicians and writers, and to bring them to the public through radio as well as other media. This will be achieved gradually by creating opportunities for them to take part in the development of new initiatives such as “Townships Radio Theatre”. This program will present radio drama of all kinds over CIDI 99.1 FM.

The 2010 competition is only for English radio drama writers. RCM hopes to establish a similar competition for French radio drama writers in 2011.

The Entry Form and the Rules of the Competition, Notes on the Nature of the Medium, Some Practical Points on Construction and on Presentation, and a Sample Script Layout are attached. They may also be downloaded from RCM’s website www.rcmmedia.org

Entrants are required to submit four paper copies of the script with a completed entry form. All entries must be received by December 17, 2010.

Send entries to:
Radio Drama Writing Awards
Radio Communautaire Missisquoi
305B Knowlton Road
Town of Brome Lake
Quebec J0E 1V0

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Maison des Jeunes Lac Brome is hosting an open house / yard sale on saturday october 3rd from 9am to 3pm.

Come support your local youth. Music, snacks and a raffle will also be available.

270 victoria (behind the community center) (450)242-2020 ext:320

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In The Press

if you are a writer and have your works published in the local press, you might be intereseted in increasing the life span of your articles by having them posted here, “In The Press”.

Check it out, click the In The Press category, if you like the idea simply register (it is free) and send me a note.

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Membership

CIDI 99.1 FM is your community radio station. Our mission is “Being Who We Are”.

If you listen to it and enjoy our programs, tell us who you are and become an RCM member. Send us $10 along with your name, email & postal addresses and phone number, so that we can let you know about key events and keep you informed. We need your interest and support to keep growing. Help us get our tower and transmitter up on Patch Hill.

Get in touch with us at Radio Communautaire Missisquoi, 305B Knowlton Road, Knowlton QC, J0E 1V0. Email: (through our contact form); Telephone: 450 242-9873.

(web site free registration is not associated to the membership status, it just grants users’access to the web site’s tools)

Gifts (donations)

The CRTC has licensed Radio Communautaire Missisquoi to provide community radio services to all of Brome-Missisquoi

We have to raise $150,000 to put our tower and transmitter on Patch Hill so that we can expand our broadcast signal to include the entire Brome-Missiquoi region.

A receipt will be issued for all gifts of $25 or more made through RCM’s partner Townshippers’ Research & Cultural Foundation, which has charitable status for tax purposes.

• Please make your cheque payable to “Townshippers’ Foundation”;
• Designate “RCM Patch Hill Project” on the memo line;
• Print and complete the form below, then mail it with your cheque to Radio Communautaire Missisquoi, 305B Knowlton Road, Knowlton QC, J0E 1V0.
• Do not include a membership fee as part of your gift.

RCM will process the form and forward it with your cheque to Townshippers’ Foundation. The Foundation will issue your receipt, send it to you direct and credit your gift to RCM.

Townshippers’ Foundation : www.townshipsfoundation.ca

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