Newz from Big Heavy World

Big Heavy World's IndieCon, a 3-day conference of music industry panels, documentary films, and live music showcases will be taking place from Thursday 11/8 until the 10th. The event is free, all ages, and open to the public and will be held at a bunch of downtown venues. The schedule is still being finalized: for a peek, see http://bigheavyworld.com/indiecon/. The photo above is from the documentary 'Towncraft' about the Little Rock, Arkansas scene, showing at Indiecon with an introduction by filmmaker Richard Matson.

Big Heavy World has partnered with RETN (Regional Educational 
Technology Network) and is about to launch an after school program for Burlington area high school students. The program will teach students how to record, produce, and eventually broadcast their original music-based segments on television. The program will give students a fluent working knowledge of videography that they can carry to a professional setting.

RETN is a Vermont nonprofit dedicated to providing educational media resources to the community. RETN will train the Big Heavy World crew and run workshops for the students involved; eventually programs that the students produce will be cablecast on RETN (Comcast Channel 16 from Essex to Vergennes and Burlington Telecom Channel 16). The video editing equipment is also available to Big Heavy World’s volunteer staff, which works to archive and promote Vermont-made music. The program begins in October. For more information or to get involved, contact Ryan Krushenick at ryan@bigheavyworld.net .