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 Traditionally, public television has produced content and sent it out to the community. Now we're looking for community groups to produce their own content on issues that concern them.
The Local Access Unit (LAU) is a portable digital production studio that WHYY loans to community groups, so that they can create their own content. With equipment on the "prosumer" level, the LAU is more user-friendly than professional production tools but higher-end than consumer home video cameras. Someone trained to use the LAU can create near-professional-quality productions.
If you're interested in learning more about the LAU or have an LAU project idea, contact us at learninglab@whyy.org.
 WHYY's 50th Anniversary
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See WHYY's 50th birthday celebration through the lens of students from the Learning Lab. These teens served as camera operators, editors, and roving reporters, interviewing WHYY staff and guests as they enjoyed the day's festivities.
 The Haddonfield Symphony: Classroom Symphony
The Haddonfield Symphony, led by Music Director Rossen Milanov, is a premier professional training orchestra. The Symphony prepares musicians and conductors from prestigious conservatories and universities on the cusp of world-class careers through concert performances, educational outreach and professional development programs.
The Learning Lab at WHYY, has partnered with the Haddonfield Symphony to capture Classroom Symphony, a component of The Symphony's award-winning Music Matters! educational program led by Assistant Conductor, Benjamin Loeb. The program introduces the four instrument families of the orchestra to students of all abilities in grades K-4. Incorporating both music and children's literature into the core curriculum standards through multi-disciplinary workshops based on a thematic selection of literature, these interactive workshops bring music to life. The Symphony provides a Study Guide to assist teachers in preparing their students for the workshop.
Strings for Schools: Music Residency
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Strings for Schools aims to inspire a lifelong involvement in music in students through live, interactive, and educational music enrichment programs. Strings for Schools' professional musicians offer over 40 different types of classical, jazz, popular, and multi-cultural music offerings, including cross-curricular residency programs that provide in-depth learning experiences for smaller groups of students. All residency programs culminate in performances where the workshop students perform with the Strings for Schools' ensemble.
With training and equipment provided by WHYY, Strings for Schools produced this 10-minute video, documenting the John Blake Jazz Quartet's "African American History Through Music" residency program at George Thomas Middle School in Philadelphia.
Blue Sky: First Person Festival of Memoir in the Arts
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Blue Sky is a Philadelphia-based arts organization that produces the annual First Person Festival of Memoir in the Arts. Appearing in locations throughout Philadelphia, 2003's First Person Festival featured writers, performers, and visual artists whose work reflected their own true stories.
Using the Local Access Unit, Blue Sky recorded various First Person Festival events and edited them into the promotional piece streamed here.
Bucks County PEG Channel(s) Access Corporation: Big Brothers Big Sisters
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Dismayed by the uninspired use of Bucks County's local access channels, Bucks County PEG Channel(s) Access Corporation (BCPEG), decided to enrich the airwaves with a Local Access Unit production. The group chose as their subject the local chapter of Big Brothers Big Sisters and enlisted two Bensalem High School juniors as cameramen/editors. BCPEG plans to expand the resulting seven-minute video into a half-hour program for local access cable.
Art Sanctuary: Cutumba!
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Based in North Philadelphia's historic Church of the Advocate, Art Sanctuary is an arts and letters organization that brings prominent cultural figures to inner-city audiences. In November 2002, Art Sanctuary hosted Cuba's Ballet Folklorico Cutumba, an internationally renowned music ensemble and dance troupe, for a weeklong series of performances. Cutumba performed a spectacular array of traditional and religious dances from Cuba's Oriente region, whose culture is flavored with the elements from West Africa, Haiti, Spain, and France.
With training from WHYY, Art Sanctuary used the Local Access Unit to record a performance at the Church of the Advocate, a portion of which is streamed here.
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