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Nov 11-13: IMC Grand Opening, Radio Free Urbana's First Broadcast, Workshops, Wireless at Urbana Free Library! |
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by UCIMC
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05 Nov 2005
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This weekend - Friday November 11 to Sunday November 13th - will be an historic moment for our community. We want you to be part of it.
--> The IMC will open its community space in the downtown Urbana Post Office building!
--> The IMC will co-host a Radio and Wireless Barnraising with the Prometheus Radio Project!
--> Radio Free Urbana (WRFU 104.5 FM) will broadcast its first show!
--> The Urbana Free Library will be installed with wireless internet access - both indoor and out! |
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The IMC will open its community space in the downtown Urbana Post Office building!
Last May, the IMC purchased the Post Office building - thanks to the generous help of our capital campaign contributors!
This historic building boasts a huge 5000 square foot space behind the post office lobby. The postal services will remain. The rest of the first floor, which has gone unused for many years, has been converted into a performance space, media production facilities, a library & reading room, and meeting space. We are starting discussions on adding a cafe, bookstore, food store, or restaurant - come envision with us!
This summer we undertook a major construction project - replacing much of the roof, separating and securing the post office space, adding a wheelchair accessible bathroom, and building a broadcasting studio for Radio Free Urbana.
Come take tour of the building Friday, Nov. 11th at 1 PM.
On Saturday, Nov. 13th come celebrate the new space with a 5-band show: 7pm until midnight. All ages, smoke-free, alcohol free. $5 donation.
The IMC will co-host a Radio and Wireless Barnraising with the Prometheus Radio Project!
Hundreds of visitors are converging for a weekend of hands-on workshops on low power radio, community wireless, and organization building. Participants will construct WRFU
in one weekend!
Sessions run from 10 am Friday to 7 pm Sunday. Opening remarks are Friday at 7pm. Bob McChesney is offering a booksigning as an IMC fundraiser Saturday at 6 pm. See the whole schedule and registration at: http://www.prometheusradio.org/urbana/. The weekend is $45-125 sliding scale - no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Radio Free Urbana (WRFU 104.5 FM) will broadcast its first show!
Community members first applied for a low-power FM license 6 years ago. At first it seemed we would be granted a license, and then in 2000, the political tides changed. Thanks to national advocacy groups like Prometheus Radio, media activists fought for and won the licensing of low power stations throughout the country. WRFU has raised over $10,000 to date and is fundraising the last 3,000 needed.
Come celebrate WRFU's first broadcast Sunday from 4 - 7 pm or tune into 104.5 FM around 5 pm.
The Urbana Free Library will be installed with wireless internet access - both indoor and out!
As part of the barnraising, the City of Urbana and volunteers from CUWireless Network (CUWiN) are demonstrating the installation a wireless node on the library roof top. This node will be linked to access points on the second floor and front porch of the library where users will be able to get online with their laptops!
Come to the node installation Friday at 3 pm at the library.
The IMC is also home to:
• Cherry Alley Artists - hosts workshops and figure drawing sessions & houses a dozen art studios. Come to Cherry Alley Art Party this Friday at 9 pm!
• OJC Technologies - worker-run software & website development company: www.ojctech.com
• CU Wireless Network - developing free, community wireless mesh network software used internationally: www.cuwireless.net
• Books to Prisoners - responding to prisoner requests for books: www.books2prisoners.org
• Public i - a monthly free newspaper of the IMC: www.publici.ucimc.org
• OutZone - a youth group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth.
• Life Strategies Institute - empowering youth in the criminal justice system
• A doula practice... and others.
Support from the community is what makes all this possible.
Consider joining our force of Sustaining Funders by pledging a monthly donation of $10 - 100. Join our Foundation Builders at $500 - 1000. Or give what you can. Every bit helps! Annual Membership is $25-50. Donations to the UC-IMC are tax deductible.
Please make checks payable to UC-IMC and mail to 202 S. Broadway #100, Urbana, IL 61801 or donate online at http://www.ucimc.org/mod/info/display/support/. Questions? Email:fundraising (at) ucimc.org. |
 IMC-invite-p1.pdf (1869 k) |
IMC-invite-p2.pdf (318 k) |
See also:
http://www.prometheusradio.org/urbana
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Related stories on this site:
WRFU -- It's U: Thanks, Reception Reports, and What's Next
WRFU signing on
Barnraising photos!
Photos from Urbana Free Library Wireless
Photos from the RFU Barnraising
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congrats to UC-IMC, illinois |
by imc-ie dunk
fuspey (nospam) yahoo.co.uk (unverified) |
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05 Nov 2005
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congrats and best of luck from some of imc-ireland
we hope to move into the new social centre in dublin and we will try to strengthen links; radio streams, live feeds, postcards........
have fun
dunk
congrats to UC-IMC, illinois
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68510&condense_comments=false#comment126841
seomra spraoi - a social centre for dublin city
http://www.seomraspraoi.blogspot.com/
last thursdays screenings from the centre
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72753&results_offset=30#attachment15554
building up the RADICAL radio network
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71892&condense_comments=false#comment126842 |
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Re: Nov 11-13: IMC Grand Opening, Radio Free Urbana's First Broadcast, Workshops, Wireless at Urbana Free Library! |
by Schtarker Yid
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29 Nov 2005
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Hi Gehrig;
I remain auto blocked over at Indybay because of my expressed opinions. Its rather easy to un block oneself for periods of time though. Isn't denying access anthema bot to indy publishing in general and Progressive thought in particular? In modern times, some times facists hide in other peoples rhetoric, quite un masking really.
Kol tuv;
Schtarker Yid |
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Re: Nov 11-13: IMC Grand Opening, Radio Free Urbana's First Broadcast, Workshops, Wireless at Urbana Free Library! |
by David Gehrig
zemblan (nospam) earthlink.net (verified) |
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29 Nov 2005
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The IMC isn't supposed to be about closed-mindedness, and being a progressive isn't supposed to be about closed-mindedness, but it seems that Indybay is starting to investigate about being about both. They don't understand that it's against the principles of open publishing which form the heart of the IMC. Rather than confront that, though, they're apparently doing everything they can to sweep it under the rug.
http://www.indybay.org/news/hidden.php?id=1786506
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