Montgomery Community Media

Early evening on Thursday, April 8, 2021, a small group of Montgomery Community Media (MCM) members gathered virtually for a quarterly showcase series that first started in December 2020. Intended to showcase completed media projects or works-in-progress, the space attracted presenters and audience members with the promise of feedback, discussion and possible entertainment. While open […]

The Winter/Spring 2021 8-week session of the MCM Youth Media Academy ended this past Thursday, April , 2021. Over the course of the program, participants learned on Tuesdays how to edit on their mobile phones, how to develop and produce a web series, how to create audio and video files, and other technical skills as […]

In this episode of ArtsEnPower, Shahyan S. interviews award-winning poet LC Williams. Sharing her journey towards becoming a writer, LC Williams talks about her travels to Amsterdam and her views on how poetry should speak to the times.  ArtsEnPower is a youth-produced program series that focuses on the ways that creative people use their artistry […]

In this fourth episode of ArtsEnPower, youth host Shahyan S. interviews visual artist and curator Zsudayka Terrell. Terrell shares her journey of moving from Denver, Colorado to the Washington DC metropolitan area and how she manages her family’s fine art business as a visual artist and curator. ArtsEnPower is a youth-produced program series that focuses […]

In this third episode of ArtsEnPower, youth host Karina G interviews children’s book author and singer/songwriter Colie Aziza. ArtsEnPower is a youth-produced program series that focuses on the ways that creative people use their artistry to enhance their community. ArtsEnPower is a project through the MCM Youth Media Academy. The MCM Youth Media Academy is […]

In this inaugural episode of ArtsEnPower, youth host Karina G interviews education and theater professional Ayesis Clay. Ayesis Clay is a multi-disciplinary artist and playwright based in Prince George’s County, MD but serving the entire state of Maryland as a teaching artist. She talks to Karina about her journey as an artist and teacher and […]

Gaithersburg High School, Gaithersburg Maryland October 4th 2019 Homecoming night at Gaithersburg was spoiled by the Jaguars of Northwest High when they marched down the field with their first possession and scored within the first two minutes of the game.  There were 28 unanswered points before the Trojans tallied their first touchdown with one minute […]

Centennial Park Nashville, Tennessee Monday August 21st 2017 “The Great American Eclipse” My journey to Nashville for this years “Great American Eclipse” started several decades ago when as a sophomore in college I missed a chance to see my first total eclipse that crossed over Maryland on Assateague Island March 7th 1970.  I have regretted […]

The Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce (GGCC) invites you to its Big Data for Business seminar on April 4.  The event is sponsored by Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus and M & T Bank. Why should you attend? Why would you even care about data? Is this seminar even for me? It is. This seminar will help companies […]

Half of the high school football season has gone by and it has been my pleasure to travel around the county to photograph many games for Montgomery Community Media. In this first edition of Friday Night Star Lights, I will provide a brief introduction to those outstanding individual performances played under those Friday night lights. […]