On October 24, Portland Media Center held its annual meeting, marking 38 years as a media resource to the greater Portland community.  This meeting was preceded a week earlier by a special event for our donors to launch our Civic IQ initiative.  Both events...

  Cindy Czubryt Cynthia (Cindy) has been helping out on various shoots and events at PMC for more than 10 years before being recruited in 2024 as Programming Coordinator. She has run camera, graphics, and helped set up on shows such as Friday Night, Lighthouse...

  PMC has a new co-working space!  As soon as you enter our home at 516 Congress Street, you will see that our reception area was transformed by staff, Board and volunteers led by PMC’s Vice President Jean Haney.  Jean designed the space, picked out a new color...

Portland Media Center is excited to announce its November Art Show, “Raw Beauty” by artists who attend Spindleworks. Spindleworks is a Program of Independence Association, whose Mission is:  To assist individuals with disabilities in obtaining full and inclusive lives...

  In July of 2024, Airwaves reported that Opera Maine became a member of PMC, and that we taped their production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida.  In November, Opera Maine has agreed to let PMC share this spectacular production with the greater Portland community. ...

  It’s hard to be even a little involved with PMC these days and not see the changes taking place this year. With our Civic IQ initiative, we are expanding our curriculum and offering more resources. To accommodate the increased activity that will follow, we are...

Vote today and every day in October for PMC to receive grant from Town & Country Credit Union.  Grants go to eight of 20 nonprofits that get the most votes.  Please vote now.  Just follow this link https://www.tcfcu.com/better-neighbor-fund-voting/ or use QR code...

Join Mr. Antoni Bazia, Senghap Roeun, Eric Kalala, and others as they begin a new venture to assist and educate Westbrook citizens about the intricacies of finances and business ownership. Thanks to the National Financial Literacy Campaign and World System Builder,...

Portland Media Center is holding its 2024 Annual Meeting on October 24 at 5:30 PM in our TV studio at 516 Congress Street. The Annual Meeting is our chance to report to the community, especially our members, what we’ve been up to, accomplished and planned over the...

In collaboration with local nonprofit organizations, PMC is taping and airing two candidate forums in October for voters to be better prepared to vote in November. The Greater Portland Council of Governments (GPCOG) organized a forum of State Senate candidates on...

The Rundlett & Baldacci Report This month, The Rundlett & Baldacci Report are back from the summer hiatus for a new season! As is the tradition at this time of year, Derry and Rob are turning their attention to election season. The two are joined by David...

AIGA Maine is excited to announce our third annual poster exhibition, “Feast Your Eyes,” opening October 4th, 2024 at Portland Media Center.  With a thematic focus on the realms of food and drink, “Feast Your Eyes” aims to spotlight the influence of culinary...

PMC is one of 20 nonprofits nominated to receive either a $5,000 or $2,500 grant from Town & Country Credit Union.  They determine who gets the grants based on the general public voting on Town & Country’s website.  There will be 8 grant recipients --those...

Harold’s guest for the October show is Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize winning syndicated Boston Globe journalist . She has long been a voice for women and until recently had a podcast, “She Votes!”, concerning the women’s suffrage movement.  Ms. Goodman has been a part...

This summer Full Plates Full Potential became one of PMC’s newest nonprofit members.  Full Plates works to strengthen child nutrition programs as critical tools for ending childhood food insecurity in Maine.  They envision a future where all kids in Maine have the...

  One of PMC’s newest nonprofit members, Opera Maine, has asked us to tape their latest productions:  Rappahannock County and Aida.  Although their interest in having these recordings is for archival purposes, we are hopeful that we’ll be able to broadcast and...

Esduardo Mariscal has assembled a large group of artists from New England, Arizona, Mexico and Brazil, showcasing contemporary art in its different forms. The group Includes young college students and seasoned, well known artists.  Each month Esduardo adds different...

From May through September, Portland Media Center (PMC) will be hosting open mic, First Friday Window Concerts, each First Friday from 5:00pm-7:30pm, in the front window of the PMC conference room.  The venue is rather small so we’re looking specifically for small...

We are pleased to announce that well-known choreographer Esduardo Mariscal will be curating a changing series of art at Portland Media Center July through September.   There will be a variety of artists and possibly some performances.   Each month the artists will...

Join Marpheen Chann, author, speaker, and writer, for a new podcast called “SoftSpoken.”