Sights + Sounds: Bay Area Video Coalition's 50th anniversary

If you’ve made media art in the Bay Area sometime in the last fifty years… you probably know the Bay Area Video Coalition : BAVC. Around 2,500 students and media makers of various ages take classes at BAVC every year. And BAVC artists have received Oscar nominations, and won Emmys! One of their students was KALW’s Jeneé Darden, who is now the host of the Sights and Sounds show. To mark their 50th anniversary, she recently spoke to BAVC executive director, Paula Smith Arrigoni , and Caron Creighton , an instructor at BAVC. In this excerpt from their conversation they talk about how quickly the media landscape is changing, and what media training and education look like today, looking to the future.

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Sights + Sounds: Bay Area Video Coalition's 50th anniversary is an episode from Crosscurrents by KALW.

This episode is 10:40 long.

This episode was published on Jun 8, 2026.

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