CMAP Goes To The Gilroy Garlic Festival....

This weekend at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, you can find over 40 CMAP volunteers, our staff and board members at our booth near the Cook-Off stage. 

We’ll be capturing this year’s fun with entertaining photos and videos of you and your family members with your heads poking through our “Garlic Clove Family.” CMAP folks also are covering all activities at the Cook-Off stage on Friday-Sunday, and can be found throughout the festival capturing and quickly editing our individual segments and programs featuring 2011 interviews with festival chefs, VIPs, local celebrities, and local residents.

Our uniquely local programming of the Festival will be aired on our cable channels and online at www.cmap.tv starting at 5pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Stop by and visit at the CMAP booth and find out how you can get involved in your local community media center. Check out our promo video for this year’s festival at:

http://youtu.be/zZOeddFh12U

This summer CMAP has been busy with many new community-based programs such as our support of the “Spice of Life Downtown Farmers Market” which is a project of Leadership Gilroy. CMAP will also be hosting Leadership on August 19th for a media and video production training for class members.

Check out our staff-produced promotional video for this great local project: http://youtu.be/1ssCxoD8zQA 

CMAP’s youth programs are in full swing including our recent screenings at the San Benito Youth Digital Media Festival. The films being premiered represented entries from San Benito County students, as well as the top selections from eight youth media education programs operated by CMAP in collaboration with local schools and non-profit organizations.

CMAP digital literacy programs teach students how to write, direct, produce, shoot, edit, and act in their own short films, culminating in their final group projects.

CMAP provides year-long and summer media education programs to Hollister youth in partnership with San Benito High School, the Hollister Youth Alliance, Si Se Puede Community Center, Panoche School, the San Benito County Free Library, Rancho San Justo Middle School, and through afterschool programs at Brownell Middle School, the STAMP program with Gilroy youth from the Glenview neighborhood, the YMCA of San Benito County located at; Gabilan Hills, San Juan, and Sunnyslope Elementary. These programs were funded through the support of the Zero Divide Foundation, the federal Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, the Packard Foundation and through a grant from the Community Foundation for San Benito County.

Take a look at what the youth in Panoche Valley had to say about their school and rural life there: http://youtu.be/1ssCxoD8zQA

This spring, CMAP offered a pilot program with the San Benito High School Journalism Program. See how our local high school youth are involved in a special preschool program at the high school: http://youtu.be/ure1L_v65YA

Students working with the Baler newspaper also created a number of videos describing their work on the school paper and how they are capturing and distributing community news: http://youtu.be/aQDDWSortcE

In Gilroy, youth from Brownell Middle School worked with CMAP staff to learn digital literacy, leadership and video production, creating videos with a positive message. Hear what they had to say about their experiences with CMAP here: http://youtu.be/gQVlNZbPlGw

CMAP staff recently donated a video production to the Hollister Downtown Association to help promote their downtown discount card. Find out how you can get discounts at local businesses in Hollister by watching the video: http://youtu.be/uPNr4RRJBVA

CMAP members and local producers are creating great television and YouTube content including the San Benito Chamber of Commerce’s “Going Green” program about sustainable businesses in our region: http://youtu.be/DYE-Nhqc4ds

Arts 101 promotes the local art scene in southern Santa Clara County and all of San Benito County. Check out their program at:

http://youtu.be/7ksVH6qMk6Q