Midpen Media Lab: Ribbon Cutting & Open Mic

900 San Antonio Road,Palo Alto CA 94303

07 July, 2022

Description

Palo Alto's premier television station and community media center, Midpen Media, is hosting a grand opening of the newest facility feature for total media access: The Midpen Media Lab! We're celebrating with a ribbon cutting, open house, and televised open mic event. Media Makers of every kind – vloggers, podcasters, local bands, soundcloud artists, webcomic designers, and digital activists – are invited to come learn how the Media Lab can be a resource to your craft. Come for a tour and learn more about your local non-profit community media center. Stay for a bubble tea and enjoy live open mic performances in a professional television studio. Regardless of your craft or level of expertise, this is the summer event where you will find your community. This open mic celebration will be broadcast live on local television! Midpen Media will have a keyboard available onstage, and can mic extra instruments as needed. Sign up to perform using this Google Form. What is the Media Lab? The Media Lab is a publicly accessible media production co-lab that will adapt to unique and varied needs of each individual media maker. Whether you're recording a podcast, designing a webcomic, editing a TikTok, or writing a short film -- our Media Lab is here as a creative resource to you. The Media Lab is located on the second floor of the Midpen Media Center. The space features public-use computers equipped with professional media editing programs such as Adobe Creative Cloud, two private recording studios, comfortable space for media-making collaboration, and access to high-quality media production tools including microphones, cameras, iPads, and LED lights. Best of all: there is no membership required to use the Media Lab! Why did we create the Media Lab? Midpen Media has been providing media-making access to the artists and activists of our community for more than thirty years. Embracing the evolution of technology is embedded in the history of our organization. The Media Lab is simply an expansion of our mission to empower and provide accessible resources to our local media-makers. This family friendly event will have both indoor and outdoor activities. Questions can be directed to [email protected]. About Midpen Media The Midpen Media Center is a community media center dedicated to the creative and activist communities of the Bay Area’s Midpeninsula Region. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that inspires creative expression and reflects our community’s local cultural experiences. As a local television station, we provide high-quality media resources and training to members of our community. Our services range everywhere from accessible media education to media production volunteering opportunities to video production equipment and accessible studio rental. In addition, we collect local media and document local events to be broadcast on local channels 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 75. Since 1990, our organization has provided crucial access to video production and television broadcast opportunities for the local Silicon Valley communities of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, East Palo Alto, Stanford, and other areas of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Midpen Media is a 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation. Learn more at MidpenMedia.org.