To mark Holocaust memorial day (internationally the 27th of January but in Ireland celebrated the closest Sunday to this) DCTV has an evening of programmes including the documentary made for the channel ‘Little Jerusalem’. The documentary will be followed by a film about last years commemoration in Dublin and an interview by Belfast Community TV station NVTV, “Surviving The Holocaust Hajo G Meyer”.

Click Here To read more about Little Jerusalem

DCTV is recruiting for volunteers who are interested in working on the second series of Theatron. Were recruiting for four shows, and we will provide some training, support and lots of fun. Were looking for :

Sound Technicians, Writers, Camera Operators, Editors, Vision Mixers, Animators/Graphic Designers, D.O.P’s, Promo

Were holding a volunteer meeting in The Guinness Enterprise Centre on Thursday 19^th at 2pm or 6pm. So if you think you could bring something to the table,and are interested in working on our Theatre show, come and see us at one of the meetings.

Please confirm attendance at theatron@dctv.ie

Tonight at 9.30pm is the second edition of The Splitscreen Show, DCTVs new computer games series. Produced by the fine folks Unit 25 productions who are also involved with the great www.GMRFM.com site the series covers both new and old games along with interviews from games developers around ireland. Episode 1 is online for you to watch (click play above) and wwe’ll have a new episode every Thursday night on DCTV – UPC ch. 802

Tomorrow DCTV holds its fifth annual general meeting where the members of the co-op will review the year and meet to discuss the plans for their station. The meeting will be preceded by a new member induction session – reflective of the growth in membership this year and will be followed by a discussion on what the channel is currently broadcasting. Here’s a review of this weeks top 5 programmes to mark the occasion.

This weeks top programme – Community of Independents week 1

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The new Temple Bar studio has seen a lot of activity over the last few months. But, based in Dublins Cultural quarter it seemed an obvious base for a show on the citys thriving theatre community – which is exactly what this new show is. Produced by Aoifa Kenny with a great team of volunteers this is the pilot of what will be a weekly show with performances, interviews, news and vox pops from aorund the city.

If you want to get involved in the show, have something you would like covered or just want to tell everybody how great this is email theatron@dctv.ie

DCTV has been partnering with the St John Bosco centre in Drimnagh for a couple of years now and this partnership has seen some fantastic televsion produced. The latest initiative is this studio based talk show featuring music, politics, comedy all starring and produced by the young people from the Bosco. There are four episodes planned in this season – here’s episode 2 which will be on the telly tonight at 7pm.

With the agreement of the General Assembly of Occupy Dame Street DCTV has started broadcasting an hour a day of videos from the camp from 2pm to 3pm every day on channel 802.
This week we have programmes from long time DCTV member and producer Dave Donnellan whose fantastic photography gives a sense of what is happening in Dame Street framed by the looming Central Bank. As well as reportage and vox pops the material includes films of general assemblies and of some of the amazing music that has been performed at the Central Bank Plaza since the occupation began. Above is Michael Franti, ex- Disposable Heroes of HipHoprisy here playing with Spearhead chasing away the post flood blues.

Great result for DCTV and The Storyteller team last night at the Metro Eireann Media and Multicultural awards in Liberty Hall. The Storyteller was awarded the prize in the visual media category, beating off two RTE projects who were also shortlisted. Well done to John Breslin and everybody else involved in the project.

Here at DCTV we are regularly looking for volunteers for our many different and upcoming projects.

The first of these opportunities is for our new ‘Theatre’ based show which is currently in development. We are looking for people to join our team and collaborate with us in creating this program. Were looking for people from all back rounds be it technical, research, script writing, directing etc.

We will be holding a meeting on Monday the 17th of October in our offices in the Guinness Enterprise Centre. If you would like to come along please get in touch via email to confirm your attendance, or if you would be interested in volunteering on any of our other projects.
dublintv@gmail.com

For the last few months DCTV has been working with a group of 6 comedians and aspiring comedians from loads of different backgrounds as part of our Journey of a Joke series. The climax of the series was filmed with the group performing in the first of DCTV’s new stand up comedy series – Comedy on the Corner.

Above is a sneak preview of one of the performances – Sacha, one of our comedians from the Journey of a Joke series. Next tuesday, 3rd October we have the filming of the second episode in our studio in Temple Bar with some of Dublins best stand up performers. If you want to be in the audience email laughing@dctv.ie.