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REAPER is a digital audio workstation, video editor and metadata authoring software all packed into a resource- conscious and affordable package, with endless customization options, making it the go-to option for podcasters, sound designers, video editors and more. In this workshop you’ll get hands-on experience with REAPER and a brief overview of its ever-growing feature set. We recommend downloading the REAPER free trial for this workshop. Arya Afshar is a freelance audio engineer, musician and sound designer. He has dedicated his life to the art & science of audio recording, editing & production. In this workshop, he will walk you through the very basics of Audio, how it’s captured, edited and produced, and discuss the importance of good audio while sharing tips, hacks and workarounds to common audio issues. Please register for the event using the form below. You will receive the Zoom link on the day of the workshop. Please ensure you are a CUTV member before registering. Livestreams are a great way to engage with your viewers organically and create content that requires little to no editing. In this workshop you will learn all about the hardware and software required to stream on any platform, create transitions, manage CPU and GPU workload and more, all using the free and powerful OBS Studio. OBS Studio Arya Afshar is a freelance audio engineer, musician and sound designer. He has dedicated his life to the art & science of audio recording, editing & production. In this workshop, he will walk you through the very basics of Audio, how it’s captured, edited and produced, and discuss the importance of good audio while sharing tips, hacks and workarounds to common audio issues. Please register for the event using the form below. You will receive the Zoom link on the day of the workshop. Please ensure you are a CUTV member before registering. How do you tell a story through images? What issues can be effectively communicated in a photograph? In this workshop, photojournalist Diego Bravo Pacheco will discuss the essentials and key concepts to photojournalism. He will discuss his own work, successes he has had and challenges he has faced. Diego is an Indigenous-Mexican and Cuban internationally published photographer, journalist, filmmaker, and former professional baseball player. He is currently in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal where he finds pleasure in running in rain, shine or snow. He is also studying his second year of his MA in Media Studies at Concordia University. This event is open to all CUTV members. Concordia undergraduate students can become a CUTV member for free by following this link: https://www.cutvmontreal.org/membership/membership-student-members/ Once you have become a CUTV member, please register for the event by filling out the form below. You will receive the Zoom link on the day of the event by email. Image description: Diego is an Indigenous-Mexican and Cuban brown-skinned man in his early thirties. He is wearing a beige camera vest, holding a camera, and wearing a mask, sunglasses and a blue beanie while photographing a street blockade protesting tax reform in Cali, Colombia in 2021. Image of Diego taken by María Alejandra Vásquez. Instagram: @malejilla90 Do you want to produce critical and creative arts and culture coverage? Not sure where to start? In this workshop, writer Rosie Long Decter will discuss her writing process, the challenges she has faced, and will offer some tips and tricks for quality arts & culture writing. Rosie Long Decter is a writer and musician based in Montreal. She is a contributing editor at Reader’s Digest Canada and music writer for Maisonneuve and Herizons. Her work has appeared in Xtra, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Briarpatch, THIS, In the Mood, Cult MTL, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing an MA in Media Studies at Concordia University. Check out some of Rosie’s writing below: https://this.org/2021/03/08/making-space-for-pain/ This event is open to all CUTV members. Concordia undergraduate students can become a CUTV member for free by following this link: https://www.cutvmontreal.org/membership/membership-student-members/ Once you have become a CUTV member, please register for the event by filling out the form below. You will receive the Zoom link on the day of the event by email. It has been said that we would watch almost anything, but we won’t listen to bad sound. In a world where capturing high-quality video has become as easy as reaching for your phone, good audio still alludes many and has become a tell-tale sign of an amateur production. Thankfully, getting together your first audio recording set-up has never been cheaper, more portable and more user-friendly. Arya Afshar is a freelance audio engineer, musician and sound designer. He has dedicated his life to the art & science of audio recording, editing & production. In this workshop, he will walk you through the very basics of Audio, how it’s captured, edited and produced, and discuss the importance of good audio while sharing tips, hacks and workarounds to common audio issues. This event is open to all CUTV members. Concordia undergraduate student can become a CUTV member for free by following this link: https://www.cutvmontreal.org/membership/membership-student-members/ Once you have become a CUTV member, please register for the event by filling out the form below. You will receive the Zoom link on the day of the event by email. Applications are now closed. To pay your registration fee, please find the PayPal form below. As a member of CUTV, you are formally invited to our Annual General Assembly! Join us to learn about all the things CUTV has accomplished over the year and what we are planning for this coming year. Due to limited capacity, we are offering a hybrid in-person & online event. If you would like to attend in person, please RSVP via the in-person registration link ASAP to reserve your spot. If you would like to attend via Zoom, please RSVP via the online registration link. This is also the exciting time when we will elect new members to the Board of Directors! Registration: In-person advance registration- Online advance registration- After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. BoD: The board is looking for new members to join our board! We are looking for: Before running please consider the commitment of being an active board member below: This year, CUTV is looking for Board of Director candidates that have experience in the following areas: To apply: Send a brief email to: info@cutvmontreal.org In your email, include a description of who you are and why you want to get involved. All candidates will also be requested to present themselves at the upcoming Annual General Assembly. Please note that you may still run for a board seat in the AGM without undertaking this process, we have set this up as a means of providing guidance and support to those candidates who are considering joining the board. See you there! We will have food and (non-alcoholic) drinks, as well as drink tickets for Reggies post-AGM! Do you want to learn how to edit your video projects in Premiere Pro? This introductory course will go through editing a simple video in Premiere pro and outline all the basic tools and elements of the program. This workshop will be led by Ema Walters (she/they). Ema is a visual artist, filmmaker and lead video editor for The Breach. She is also the founder of Eachother, a studio aiming to harmonize the ‘we’ and the ‘I’ through creative process. Check Ema’s work out here: https://emawalters.com/eachother If you don’t have Premiere Pro and want to try it out before purchasing it, follow this link to get a 7 day free trial: https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/premiere/free-trial-download.html. Make sure to sign up for the free trial after October 11th to ensure you still have access for the workshop! CUTV x SEIZE x CSU present…Rap Battles for a Better Future! Welcome back to campus! As a kick-off to the Fall 2021 semester, please join us for a performance by Rap Battles for Social Justice, an epic rap group featuring a DJ, live instrumentalists, and rappers discussing topics such as environmental and economic justice. Check them out on Instagram– @RB4SJ This event will also feature speakers from different groups on campus, including the Solidarity Economy Incubation Zone (or SEIZE) who will discuss the solidarity economy and help you get involved with their activities on campus. CUTV will also be present, screening coverage and offering opportunities to get involved with videojournalism activities on campus. When: September 9th, 2021, 5-7 pm Please note the capacity for the terrace is limited. Social distancing must be maintained, and masks are recommended. Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 Presentations by: Specifically this event takes place within the context of the devastating human rights abuses and war crimes that were central to the Israeli military attack on Gaza in May 2021, and the corresponding wave of international solidarity actions with the Palestinian people around the world. This event will specifically highlight the efforts of human rights advocates around the world to speak out about the systemic injustice in occupied Palestine as part of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement that targets the Israeli government. Speaker bios : 
For this workshop, we recommend downloading the following software so you can follow along:
VB Cable (PC)
Soundflower (Mac)
If you are not a Concordia undergrad, you can become a CUTV member for $20 by following this link: https://www.cutvmontreal.org/membership/membership-community-members/
https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2020/11/23/whatever-it-is-youre-looking-for-smiley-face/
https://maisonneuve.org/article/2020/01/7/funny-girl/
https://xtramagazine.com/culture/two-gays-shoegaze-music-profile-177544
https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2020/07/06/almost-famous/
If you are not a Concordia undergrad, you can become a CUTV member for $20 by following this link: https://www.cutvmontreal.org/membership/membership-community-members/
If you are not a Concordia undergrad, you can become a CUTV member for $20 by following this link: https://www.cutvmontreal.org/membership/membership-community-members/
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https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEldOqtrDsjEtcE7FZAzTRqMBUTz_H1N8LT
Please use the registration form below to register for this event. We all then send you the Zoom link on the day of the workshop. Spots are limited and priority will be given to CUTV members. If you have not signed up as a CUTV member, please head to our membership page to do so. Concordia undergraduate students can become CUTV members for free, and there is a $20 membership fee for non-students.
Where: Reggies Terrace, 1455 Maisonneuve O
Cost: Free!
11h-12h30 EST
This event will take place in English with translation offered live on zoom. With support from Academics for Palestine at Concordia and Independent Jewish Voices in Canada. Access the event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89269165479
Michael Lynk, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Territories, Palestine.
Emmanuel Dror, BDS France working group on the cultural boycott campaign
Mostafa Henaway, Labour for Palestine + Academics for Palestine, Concordia University
Jessie Stein, Musicians for Palestine
A representative from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
Moderated by Stefan Christoff, host of Free City Radio, CKUT 90.3fm
This event takes place as part of a series of webinars hosted by Alternatives that focus on human rights around the world, the corresponding social movements which are struggling for justice and the ways that activist movements connect on local and global levels. This international conference will focus on highlighting many layers of political engagement with the growing global movement in solidarity with Palestinian human rights.
– Michael Lynk is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. He joined the Faculty in 1999, and has taught courses in labour, human rights, disability, constitutional and administrative law. He served as Associate Dean of the Faculty between 2008-11. Professor Lynk is the co-author, with Michael Mac Neil and Peter Engelmann, of Trade Union Law in Canada (Thompson Reuters). He is the co-editor, with John Craig, of Globalization and the Future of Labour Law (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and the co-editor, with Susan Akram, Michael Dumper and Iain Scobbie, of International Law and the Middle East Conflict (Routledge, 2011). He is a contributing author to Employment Law in Canada (4th ed.), with Peter Barnacle as a principal revising author. He has served as a labour arbitrator since 2000. Since 2007, he has been a vice-chair and arbitrator with the Ontario Grievance Settlement Board. In January 2015, Professor Lynk was named to the Mayor of London’s Honours List for his work on humanitarian issues. In March 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Professor Lynk as Special Rapporteur for the human rights situation in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967 for a six-year term. In his capacity, he delivers regular reports to the UN General Assembly and the Human Rights Council on human rights trends in the OPT.
– Emmanuel Dror is a biophysicist, member of the International commission of the Union syndicale Solidaires and of the Campagne BDS France where he works on campaigns related to unions, the academia and cultural issues. He is the author of the article « Seventy years of songs for Palestine » and of the blog « Entre les oreilles » where he combines his passions for music and politics
– Mostafa Henaway is a longtime community organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal. Mostafa has also been a long-time solidarity activist for Palestinian self-determination with Tadamon (Solidarity in Arabic) which organizes to build active support for the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign. He was a member of the International Solidarity Movement in 2004. He Has also been involved in Labour 4 Palestine and is active with Academics 4 Palestine at Concordia University
– Jessie Stein is a musician and geographer living and working in Montréal and New York. She is a member of The Luyas, a signatory of the Musicians for Palestine initiative, and a Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center.
