Been a while

Have you visited WCCA TV’s website recently? Check out our Worcester in Ten contest a fun and simple way to promote Worcester and your favorite things about the City.

have you seen my amazing JAZZED UP Trio we are busy performing weekly in multiple venues check us out at jazzedup.net or on facebook.com/jazzedupmusic

Happy Summer of 2017 !

WCCA TV 13 an institution that stands for media democracy and creative innovation

WCCA TV 13, is a community anchor institution that stands for media democracy and creative innovation. Community Media PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION is place where literally THOUSANDS come to share and participate in a free flow of LOCAL news and information. THIS IS YOUR TV STATION Worcester ! Media Democracy in ACTION !!!!

WCCA TV is a community media center in the hub of Worcester’s downtown.
Located in the Theater district of Worcester, WCCA operates as a community TV production house, as a school for communications technology, and community journalism and film and video arts. WCCA is also a neighborhood center and a performance venue.

WCCA TV is seen on local cable channel 13 in Worcester, and around the world, in real time, at http://www.wccatv.com There are over 4,000 video works also available for on demand viewing on our website. 100% of our programming reflect the interest of our local community , because they produce, present or appear on it. There are few organizations in Massachusetts that offer as diverse a membership and programming.

WCCA TV is the place where community and individuals are empowered are they LEARN, CREATE and CONNECT.

To learn more, please visit our website or give us a call at 508-755-1880 ask for Mauro.

JAZZED UP TRIO voted Best Entertainers : Worcester Living Magazine

Thank you !
Swing with JAZZED UP every other Saturday at the always delicious CORAL SEAFOOD, 225 Shrewsbury Street, Worcester
Starting September 13th

Visit http://www.jazzedup.net for booking and further information.
Perfect for ALL occasions.

We remember with THANKS GIVING +

Our prayers, thoughts, and remembrances, to ALL who served in the military, to ALL who risked their lives in love, honor, family and country. God Bless you. Have a wonderful and peace filled Memorial Day weekend.

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LOCAL VOICES MATTER

I certainly would not like to see the Worcester Telegram & Gazette be diminished in any way. Media convergence is happening everywhere and it is NOT in the best interest of local communities. What I see is an increase of corporate agenda and government propaganda. These pose serious threats to media democracy and democracy itself.

Internet, Wireless, and Cable giants are also merging and also forming spin offs that would literally redraw the map of cable services nationwide and again, not necessarily for the best interest of our communities or consumers. With less competition, comes less information,and less points of views, and the potential to influence your brain and spending, voting, and thoughts will be now in control of a very small few and WE ALL will have much less a “soapbox” to speak and share our point of view or to even hear any dissenting view or opinion.

While there are a lot of complicated layers to what is happening in these industries, and along with the added recent mergers and FCC rulings, the key concerns are the likely loss of competitiveness, and more importantly, the degradation of fair and unbiased access to venues to support the free and opened flow of news and information, the obvious decline of true media democracy, loss of local ability to influence higher spheres of society, a widening of the digital divide.

The last thing we need is for our voices and our community media programs to be muted. What would be left? Same high bills, same high taxes, and plenty of corporate and government propaganda to influence our thinking.

Who will be accountable for that?

Mauro DePasquale

 

JAZZED UP swings at CORAL SEAFOOD August 17 at 6:30PM

JAZZED UP Trio brings in the swing for part two of Restaurant week at CORAL SEAFOOD, Sat. August 17 starting 6:30-8:30.

Mauro DePasquale on vocals and piano , Ed Conley on drums and Phil Madison on bass.

Treat yourself to a swanky elegant atmosphere, great food, super nice service.

If you like the music of Buble’, Sinatra, Bennett, Connick Jr., you will love JAZZED UP !

See you Saturday kids! And don’t forget  JAZZED UP is good for you.

Contact us to see if JAZZED UP may be available for your next event .

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JAZZED UP weekend ahead

Catch my jazz trio “JAZZED UP” this weekend.

Friday, JUNE 14th at the STEAK LOFT at 369 West Main St, Northboro, MA at 7PM and also on Saturday, June 15th at RITUAL, 281 MAIN ST WORCESTER MA at 8:30 pm. Nominated best JAZZ act in 2013 and 2013 Worcester Music awards. If you love Buble, Sinatra, Bennett, Baker, Connick Jr., you will love JAZZED UP !

 

WCCA TV 13 Public Access Community Media. Empowering Community for over a quarter of a century

Watching the station known affectionately by all as “THE PEOPLES CHANNEL”, WCCA TV 13, I am constantly amazed by the volume of works produced by our community members and the scope of the topics of community interest reflected in TV 13’s program schedule and the level of diversity. Every day there are people coming together at WCCA studios to collaborate on a project. Look at the program schedule, while certain groups are battling elsewhere in the World, at WCCA they’re peacefully sharing the channel and our studio technology, as they share their point of view or communicate important information and or events. It’s a window into Worcester and the world. Congratulations to all who participate at WCCA. You are phenomenal !

WCCA recently conducted a community media assessment and, as always, we continue to welcome your ideas on how we can improve the services and programing we provide.

Thank you and I look forward to seeing you on WCCA TV 13, “The People’s Channel”

Learn, Create, Connect !

 

 

One reason, out of many, why WCCA TV 13 matters

WCCA TV 13 Programs connects the world with Worcester while making meaningful impact toward peace and non-violent solutions. Congratulations to TV 13 community television producer Virgina Swain for giving us another example why public access television matters.

Enjoy the following article which was written by Melissa McKeon of the Worcester Telegram found in today’s T&G:

January 09. 2013 12:36PM

Cable show offers children worldwide forum

By Melissa McKeon CORRESPONDENT, Worcester Telegram

Virginia Swain will offer children across the world a forum on her cable TV show “Imagine Worcester and the World.”

WORCESTER.  Ten-year-old Xinyan of China is a lot like other 10-year-olds the world over. She loves her stuffed animals and has her favorite subjects in school (art, calligraphy) and the ones she dislikes (physical education), and she dislikes having too much homework.

But Xinyan will soon join a growing group of children whose voices, if Worcester’s Virginia Swain has her way, will reach across the world on all sorts of topics.

Ms. Swain, the host of the WCCA-TV 13 cable show “Imagine Worcester and the World,” will be giving children the world over the chance to participate in the show and give their opinions on subjects most of us hear about only from the so-called experts.

“For a couple of years now, I’ve been feeling that they’re missing from the public discourse,” Ms. Swain said.

Ms. Swain’s idea to make children part of her show probably has its roots in Ms. Swain’s past experience, teaching children while in the Peace Corps in Liberia. She taught fourth- and sixth-graders and later taught kindergartners.

In recent years, Ms. Swain has worked with the United Nations and has championed world peace causes through the U.N. while operating her own mediation and reconciliation service in Worcester. Hosting her local cable show gives her a forum.

It’s not the first time she’s given children a chance to air their unique viewpoints, either.

Several years ago, Ms. Swain produced a show with Nelson Place School third-graders discussing climate change with former U.N. Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury and his wife.

The students heard about climate change from experts, created images of what climate change did and how it could be changed, and created action plans for the future.

Their imaginings — and the energy they put into it — were powerful, Ms. Swain recalled.

“They were graphing their electric bills, they started to think about doing more bike riding instead of driving, all these paradigm shifts,” she said. “Naturally they affected their families.”

That experience gave Ms. Swain a template for what she’ll be doing with children on “Imagine Worcester” in the next few weeks: using those young imaginations to open a new vision of the world to her audience.

When the children in the Nelson Place School program brought the ideas they brainstormed home to their parents, they changed their own little piece of the world.

Something else Ms. Swain hopes will change is having children speak without the prompting from adults and let their original, unedited ideas find an audience.

In Ms. Swain, they’ll find a receptive audience.

“I don’t have the need for the kids to adopt my view,” she said. “My need is to allow them a voice.”

Ms. Swain plans the program to highlight children older than 7 and to also have a forum for the children who are shy and less able to speak in public. For those children, she plans an imaging project in which the artwork they produce will speak for them.

Paramount for Ms. Swain and foremost in the concerns of many parents is that the children in the program find a safe place, and a safe way to express themselves, in a world that hasn’t always been successful at protecting them. The privacy of the children in the shows will be protected.

The first children’s show will be broadcast in February, Ms. Swain said, and will be accessible to all, not just on Channel 13 in Worcester but also online at http://www.wccatv.com.

What can be gained by listening to children talk? Ms. Swain hopes it will help foster some intergenerational understanding and discussion, but in a way, it’s the children who will be setting the goals here.

For Xinyan, the goal is simple: “If we can talk more, countries will be closer.”

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WCCA TV’s BANDEdge Holiday Special part 2

WCCA TV’s BANDEdge Holiday Special part 2

WCCA TV 13 BandEdge Holiday Special part 2 ( aka Bandedge #39 2012 Holiday Music Festival, part 2) has been posted on the WCCA website for your enjoyment and convenience at
http://www.wccatv.com/video/band-edge/bandedge39
John Marderasian, Paul and Delores, Mauro DePasquale are featured in the spirited episode. If you are looking for a great holiday music gift to give for that music lover special friend, this double DVD set of BandEdge is the perfect gift idea and it can be available as WCCA TV’s gift to you for your donation of $32.00 to the station. Your donation check should be made payable to WCCA TV , 415 Main Street , Worcester, MA. 01608 ( Be sure to mention BandEdge holiday special 2012 in the check memo. Enjoy and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!