Coming Events:
New year, new skills!
Mark your calendars every Tuesdays, from 4-6pm to develop your journalism skills and get hands-on experience in media production.
On January 20 and 27, join CUTV’s Vincent Stephen-Ong for a two-part workshop on video editing using DaVinci Resolve. The first session will introduce the software and cover essential editing techniques, including importing footage, cutting and trimming clips, adding background music and transitions, and exporting your first video.
The second session will build on these fundamentals with hands-on practice, studio workflows, and guided exercises designed to help you refine your editing skills and gain confidence working on real projects.On February 3, join CUTV’s Anthony Jean-Louis for a hands-on audio workshop focused on lavalier microphones, with an additional segment on boom microphones. Learn how different microphone types perform in various settings and fabrics, how to properly connect them to cameras, and practical techniques for reducing noise to capture clean, professional-quality sound.
On February 10, sharpen your interview skills with Local 514 host Kalden Dhatsenpa. Learn how to craft compelling questions, practice active listening, and take effective notes to confidently draw out thoughtful, authentic responses from your interviewees.
On February 17, get behind the camera in a hands-on Sony FX30 workshop led by CUTV Equipment Coordinator Nicholas Dundorf. Learn cinematic shooting techniques and practical camera skills you can immediately apply to elevate your next media project. (This camera is available to rent at the station.)
On February 24, dive into Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) research for journalists. This hands-on workshop explores ethical sourcing, verification techniques, and powerful tools used in investigative reporting. This will be perfect for strengthening your research skills and storytelling credibility.
On March 3, level up your visuals in a workshop on colour correction and colour grading using DaVinci Resolve with Ahmed Sobhy. From colour balance to LUTs, you’ll learn how to enhance your footage and give your videos a polished, professional finish.
Date: Monday, February 23, 2026
Time: Doors open at 5:00pm, meeting starts at 5:30pm
Location: QPIRG-Concordia, 2100 rue Guy unit #205
Come one, come all CUTV members to our Annual General Meeting!
Join us to learn about what we’ve been up to this past year and what we hope to achieve in this coming year. Also on the agenda is our board of directors election, and adoption of new bylaws. We will have fun raffle prizes (including an aging CUTV iMac!) and yummy food!
This AGM will be held in-person only, at QPIRG-Concordia. This location is on the second floor of an office building, which has an elevator and ramp access off rue Maisonneuve, and stair access off rue Guy. We will be running air purifiers, and masks will be available. Masking is encouraged but not mandatory. If you have any questions or concerns about accessibility, please write to us at info@cutvmontreal.org.
If you’d like to RSVP, please respond to this email so we have an idea of how much food to prepare!
Join the Board!
The CUTV board of directors is looking for new members to join! The board is a critical part of keeping us going as an organization, and we need you! There are seats available for both student and community members. We are looking for people with experience in and passion for radical media, film and journalism, nonprofit finance and governance, and collective organizing.
Never been on a board before? We offer training and ongoing support for new board members. Being on the board is a one year commitment, with monthly meetings. Directors can expect to dedicate about 5 hours per month to the board.
If you are interested in running for the board, you must fill out this form by Monday, February 16, to allow time to share the board nominees with the membership. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to come talk to us or write to info@cutvmontreal.org.
Past events:
Get ready for an awesome night! 🎬 This March 8, CUTV and the Concordia Film Club are teaming up for a Community Film Screening at J.A. de Sève Cinema. Doors open at 6:30 PM and the screening kicks off at 7 PM. Got a short film you want to share with the community? You’re in luck! Submissions are still open until February 25. Don’t miss your chance to be part of the lineup! Click the submit button below to submit your film. Heads up, CUTV members! We’ve got some exciting workshops for you! Led by experienced media professionals from our team, these sessions are a great opportunity to hone your media production skills for your next film, research, or any other media-related project! 🎤 On November 18, join CUTV’s Anthony Jean-Louis for an in-depth session on lavalier microphones. Discover the differences between various models, how to choose the right one for different settings, connect them properly to cameras, and get practical tips on minimizing noise for clean, professional audio. 🎥 On November 25, learn the best practices in conducting interviews with Local 514 host, Kalden Dhatsenpa. From preparing effective questions to active listening and note-taking, this workshop will help you build confidence in eliciting thoughtful genuine responses from your interviewees. 📸 On November 26, L’Organe’s Audiovisual and Production Coordinator, Nathan Pupo-Greene, will teach you how to operate Blackmagic cameras. This bilingual session will cover camera setup, media transfer, and hands-on practice, so you can confidently handle the equipment. Kindly note that this workshop is designed for audiences with basic camera knowledge. 🖥️ On December 2, join CUTV volunteer, Ahmed Sobhy to dive into Colour Correction and Colour Grading using DaVinci Resolve. This will cover topics including the basics of video color correction, applying LUT’s, checking colour balance, and many more. Note that all equipment that will be used in the workshops can be rented through our website. Want to be part of Canada’s oldest campus television station? Join us to meet the CUTV crew, learn about our programs, and find out how you can get involved. Volunteering with CUTV is a great way to build your media and video production skills, connect with other students, and become part of a creative, collaborative community. See you there! New dates and times announced for the remainder of the summer journalism meetups! The final three meetups will be on: Thanks to everyone who has come to the first two workshops! We can’t wait to see your finished projects! We’re launching a new program designed to provide more mentorship and training to new journalists. Each month we’ll be holding mini-workshops to help develop the skills you need to make videos, and supporting you to develop your own video project. Over the course of the series, you’ll be working independently or with a team to bring your own project to life. Monthly meetups happen on a drop in basis. You do not need to come to every meetup and you can always join later in the season! Meetups will consist of two parts, a pitch meeting, where you are invited to bring story ideas or choose one from our staff, and a skill development session, where we’ll do a mini workshop and some exercises to practice skills needed in making video journalism projects. We encourage you to work in pairs to support each other, but you can also work independently, or with a larger group. The program is designed to help facilitate the completion of one video project over the summer, but you are welcome to take on more video projects if you finish one and have time for more. May 29, 2025 Calling all members! Join us for an open meeting where members, staff, and community will help shape the future of CUTV. We’ll start with an overview of what CUTV does—journalism, training, screening, equipment lending, studio, livestreams, projects—and a few things it could do—pitch sessions, programming. Then it’s your turn: share your thoughts on what’s working, what’s not, and where we should go from here. This meeting will help guide the board in planning the next three years of CUTV’s operations. Come dream, reflect, and strategize with us! Meeting ID: 891 131 0238 Passcode: 828 Can’t make it to the visioning meeting? Have your voice heard by filling out our survey about what projects we should prioritize this year. We’re launching a new program designed to provide more mentorship and training to new journalists. Join us for our new monthly journalism meetup series, where we’ll be holding mini-workshops to help develop the skills you need to make videos, and supporting you to develop your own video project. Over the course of the series, you’ll be working independently or with a team to bring your own project to life. Monthly meetups happen on a drop in basis. You do not need to come to every meetup and you can always join later in the season! Meetups will consist of two parts, a pitch meeting, where you are invited to bring story ideas or choose one from our staff, and a skill development session, where we’ll do a mini workshop and some exercises to practice skills needed in making video journalism projects. Meetups will take place at the CUTV studio (2110 rue Mackay, 4th floor) from 12-2pm on Tuesdays each month. May Meetup: Pitch and Research June Meetup: Technical Training July Meetup: Interviews August Meetup: Editing September Meetup: Wrapup Questions? Send us an email at outreach@cutvmontreal.org. CUTV and L’Organe will be co-hosting a screening of mathilde capone’s feature documentary, Éviction, followed by a Q&A with the director. mathilde is a feminist, anti-colonial, lesbian and queer activist, documentary filmmaker and popular education facilitator. We invite you after the screening to stay for drinks with CUTV and L’Organe to celebrate the end of the semester. Doors open at 6pm, screening starts at 6:30. The film will be in french with english subtitles. Q&A in french with whisper translation to english. Film synopsis: Since 2010, Parthenais has held within its walls the life of a whole queer community. They are gay, lesbian, trans, and they live together in Centre-Sud in the heart of Montreal, in a triplex that is falling apart. Between the parties that sometimes welcome more than two hundred people until the wee hours of the morning, the collective dinners, the great joys and the small despairs, this old flat has transformed the lives of its tenants. Twelve years later, the building is bought by a wealthy family who wants to live there, gentrification being the order of the day. This marks the end of a mythical space that has transformed Montreal’s queer scene for a decade. The boxes are too small to contain all the stories that have taken place within these walls. EVICTION is the story of this turning page, as the distraught residents search for a new place to call home in the midst of a housing crisis and land speculation. Join us for an exciting talk with documentary filmmaker Ariel Nasr on April 2 from 1-3pm in PR Building room #100 (2100 rue Mackay, right next to the CUTV studio). Ariel will be discussing his experience in the film industry, what the current state of documentary filmmaking is like in Canada; navigating funding and distribution; unique challenges faced in documentary filmmaking; ethics and conduct or how to navigate sensitive topics. Come with any questions you have about producing, directing, documentary or narrative filmmaking! Ariel Nasr is a Montreal-based filmmaker and producer whose films include Hot Docs audience award-winner, The Forbidden Reel (2019) and Canadian Screen Award winner The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2011). Other directing work includes Good Morning Kandahar (2009), and La Mosquée (2018). As an independent producer Ariel was nominated for a 2013 Oscar for half-hour fiction, Buzkashi Boys, shot entirely in Afghanistan. As a producer at the National Film Board of Canada (2020-2024), Ariel produced and co-produced award-winning documentaries. A citizen of Canada, Afghanistan and the USA, Ariel was the recipient of the 2024 TIFF CBC-Films Screenwriter Award for his screenplay, Daudistan. Please confirm your attendance by emailing outreach@cutvmontreal.org. This year’s Grassroots Video Journalism is just around the corner! GVJ 101 is a full day workshop led by CUTV’s staff journalists covering all the basic concepts of grassroots journalism. If you’ve been waiting for a chance to get involved at CUTV, or wanting to get your start in community oriented journalism, you won’t want to miss this workshop. Both a theoretical discussion and hands-on experience, this workshop covers topics including framing, ethical considerations, media literacy, and the importance of independent journalism in the current media landscape. Participants will also learn how to research, conduct interviews, cover protests, and find their voice through interactive exercises. Free lunch will be provided! Spaces are limited, so register early to save your spot. In a time of multiple and intensifying crises, Progressive Publics is rooted in a commitment to social justice and asserts that both the academy and the media are public goods that have crucial and entwined roles to play in critical analysis and knowledge mobilization and dissemination. This project triangulates three sectors—independent media, the academy, and the broader public—through connecting crucial questions of the present and how to live collectively in more just relation to media and scholarly communication to promote access, social justice, and community engagement. The second Progressive Publics Symposium will take place in Montreal on February 28th and March 1st, hosted by Dr. Shama Rangwala (YorkU) and Andre Goulet (Harbinger) and featuring interviews, academic panels and a live variety show with scholars and the independent journalism community in conversations exploring surveillance and prison abolition, Canadian media and Palestine, data justice, the future of journalism and more. FRIDAY, February 1st at 1pm FREELANCE JOURNALISM WORKSHOP (Room 1.605, EV Building) Presented by The Canadian Freelance Union & Community University Television FRIDAY, February 1st at 2pm INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM SUMMIT (Room 1.605, EV Building) Bringing together independent media organizers and journalists, researchers, and funders to share their strategic proposals for independent media in Montreal, responding to the particular media ecosystem and its challenges and opportunities. FRIDAY, February 1st at 6pm LIVE VARIETY SHOW (Reggie’s Co-op Bar, Hall Building – 2F) Featuring Pivot editor-in-chief Claire Ross, independent journalist Rachel Gilmore, Harbinger Media broadcasters Megan Linton and Paris Marx and the New Feeling music journalism cooperative SATURDAY, March 1st from 11am-5pm ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM (Room 1.605, EV Building) Panels connecting public scholarship, journalism and independent media curated by the Data Justice Hub, le coop de solidarité Pivot, Montreal community journalists The Rover and La Converse, Palestine advocacy organization Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, think tank le Institut de recherche et d’informations socioéconomiques, journalism advocacy group Femmes Experts and investigative journalism publisher The Breach
We’re looking for students to volunteer with us this semester! Whether you’re interested in community organizing, journalism, supporting our depot, or helping with CUTV’s archival footage, there’s a place for you on our team.
Summer Journalism Meetups
6pm
CUTV offices (2110 Mackay #403)Member survey
The schedule and workshop topics:
DAY 1: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1
DAY 2: SATURDAY MARCH 1
