We invite everyone to have a look at our 2011 By-Laws. Stay tuned to our website in the future for more information and updates from CIDI 99.1FM
Thank you!
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Canadian Club of the Yamaska Valley meets on Mon. March 7 with Jody Robinson, archivist at Eastern Townships Research Centre, Bishops University at 2 pm at Auberge West Brome. Topic Keeping it in the Family, tracing your family’s roots and preserving your family papers. Non members $10. Information 450 243 6524 (Meredith MacKeen)
Radio Communautaire Missisquoi’s Radio Drama Writing Awards 2010
Announcement of Competition Winners
Radio Communautaire Missisquoi (RCM) is pleased to announce the winners of its Radio Drama Writing Awards 2010. The distinguished panel of judges for the competition – Alex Paterson, Frances Gallagher and Jefferson Lewis – have completed their review of the entries. They met recently to select the winners and reached a unanimous decision that the prizes should be awarded as follows:
Alex Paterson, Chair of the Panel, said that the judges had been impressed by the quality of the entries and commented that “the entries proved once again that our community is blessed with a variety of talented writers whose style and imagination can produce interesting material. Hopefully by contributing to the 2010 competition, our contestants will encourage more entries in 2011.”
Patron Louise Penny thanked all the entrants for deciding to enter this new Competition and for the commitment and effort that they had dedicated to writing a new play. She went on to congratulate the winners and commented “It’s thrilling to have radio plays about the Townships being written and produced. And such a high calibre! As someone who also writes about the Townships, I know what a rich canvas it is. And now we’re discovering, thanks to CIDI, ever more artists, ever more writers, ever more voices – and more stories to tell about a place we cherish.”
Radio Communautaire Missisquoi plans to launch Radio Drama Writing Awards 2011 next summer at WordFest in Knowlton. Its goal is to promote new radio plays about some aspect of life in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, past or present, and to increase awareness of the possibilities and scope of radio in the field of drama. The RCM Radio Drama Writing Awards have been established with the aim of encouraging writers of drama who live in the Townships, or who have some close connection with it.
RCM acknowledges with deep appreciation the encouragement and generous support of the Competition’s Patron Louise Penny, internationally acclaimed Townships writer, and her husband Michael Whitehead. It also thanks The Townshippers’ Cultural & Research Foundation for its grant to help organize this Competition.
RCM is grateful to The Chawkers Foundation for providing the enabling grant to launch the new program “Townships Radio Theatre”. This will make it possible to invite Sunshine Theatre Productions to mount a professional production of one or more of the winning radio plays from the Competition.
The entry deadline for the drama Writing Awards 2010 is fast approaching. You have until December 17 to enter this prestigious competition sponsored by Radio Communautaire Missisquoi. RCM is very pleased to announce its distinguished panel of judges for the competition:
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SHERBROOKE, Nov. 7
Former Brome County News editor creates It Gets Better video
It gets better. That’s not a cliche — it’s the truth, according to Eleanor Brown, a former editor of both the Brome County News and the daily Sherbrooke Record who has written, recorded and posted a video for the It Gets Better campaign. The project aims to reassure bullied gay and lesbian young people that they can survive high school, especially teens living in the Eastern Townships.
“Young people need to know that there are adults and other teens, gay and straight, who will be there for them,” said Brown. “Look around, ask for help. Keep asking for help — because you will find someone who will help you.”
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sutton, October 17, 2010
On Saturday October 23, Mike Burns will present The Water of the life, the tale of the Townships Trail, at Alec et Gérard Pelletier Hall in Sutton at 8 pm. The tale redraws the origins of the Eastern Townships. ” Once and once and once, and very good times, …. men gathered around a fire, whisky near to hand. And the place and time led the talk to turn to other places and other older times from which were spun the threads that brought them together.”
Here, Mike Burns, intrigued by the history of the Eastern Townships, has spun a colourful tale of the beginnings of the Townships. Initially told in concert and recorded, the story was then transcribed in its French and English versions. This book will be offered to the first fifty people to make a reservation.
Mike Burns was born in Ireland. He has been a storyteller for over 40 years and he tells, in Gaelic, English and French, the tales and legends of his homeland. He is frequently invited to storytelling festivals throughout Europe and North America. He has, for the last 15 years, been featured regularily in the Eastern Townships festival, “ Les Jours Sont Contés en Estrie”. The Water of Life will be presented in French on October 22 and in English on October 23.
Tickets ($15) are available in Sutton at Livre d’or Book store and Au Naturel Food store. In Cowansville you can buy tickets at Verveine & cie. You can also make a reservation by phoning at 450 538 0486. For more information on Salle Alec et Gérard Pelletier Hall, visit www.salleagpelletier.com
source
Michèle Normandin
450 538 0486
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Date : 2010/09/09 – Source : TVCW
La Télévision communautaire de Waterloo vient d’apprendre avec étonnement que le diffuseur du canal communautaire VOX vient de décider de couper toute diffusion régionale et locale à partir de Granby entre le 13 septembre et le 28 novembre 2010, ce qui affecte grandement la possibilité de la TVCW de rejoindre son auditoire. Cette annonce est soudaine et elle met à mal la bonne collaboration du diffuseur avec la télé waterloise.
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AWARDS
Patron
Louise Penny
Maison des Jeunes Lac Brome
Maison des Jeunes Lac Brome is hosting an open house / yard sale on saturday october 3rd from 9am to 3pm.
Come support your local youth. Music, snacks and a raffle will also be available.
270 victoria (behind the community center) (450)242-2020 ext:320
We are proud to announce our Live Streaming feature.
Look for this picture on the right sidebar
select “Apple: iTune player” if you are using a Mac
select “Windows: WMPlayer” if you are using Windows
Enjoy!
In The Press
if you are a writer and have your works published in the local press, you might be intereseted in increasing the life span of your articles by having them posted here, “In The Press”.
Check it out, click the In The Press category, if you like the idea simply register (it is free) and send me a note.
Yours truly,
Eric Wabant
Membership
CIDI 99.1 FM is your community radio station. Our mission is “Being Who We Are”.
If you listen to it and enjoy our programs, tell us who you are and become an RCM member. Send us $10 along with your name, email & postal addresses and phone number, so that we can let you know about key events and keep you informed. We need your interest and support to keep growing. Help us get our tower and transmitter up on Patch Hill.
Get in touch with us at Radio Communautaire Missisquoi, 305B Knowlton Road, Knowlton QC, J0E 1V0. Email: (through our contact form); Telephone: 450 242-9873.
(web site free registration is not associated to the membership status, it just grants users’access to the web site’s tools)
Gifts (donations)
The CRTC has licensed Radio Communautaire Missisquoi to provide community radio services to all of Brome-Missisquoi
We have to raise $150,000 to put our tower and transmitter on Patch Hill so that we can expand our broadcast signal to include the entire Brome-Missiquoi region.
A receipt will be issued for all gifts of $25 or more made through RCM’s partner Townshippers’ Research & Cultural Foundation, which has charitable status for tax purposes.
- Please make your cheque payable to “Townshippers’ Foundation”;
- Designate “RCM Patch Hill Project” on the memo line;
- Print and complete the form below, then mail it with your cheque to Radio Communautaire Missisquoi, 305B Knowlton Road, Knowlton QC, J0E 1V0.
- Do not include a membership fee as part of your gift.
RCM will process the form and forward it with your cheque to Townshippers’ Foundation. The Foundation will issue your receipt, send it to you direct and credit your gift to RCM.
Townshippers’ Foundation : www.townshipsfoundation.ca
