Client and Project List
Trafalgar Communications
Oakville, Ontario
Chief Podcast editor — Trafalgar Communications is an Oakville, Ontario based company specializing in using both traditional and new media to solve problems so that you can communicate better with your customers, prospects or employees with articles, brochures, Web copy, marketing materials, sales letters, audio or video scripts, podcasts and more. Victoria Fenner started working with Trafalgar after company president Donna Papacosta took one of her workshops on getting started in podcasting. As a result of what she learned at the workshop, Donna has added podcasting to her suite of services and is enjoying remarkable success in this growing field!
North-South Institute Ottawa, Ontario
Wrote and produced a series of Podcasts on Globalization
Wilfrid Laurier University School of Journalism
Brantford Ontario
Broadcast Technical Advisor – Wilfrid Laurier’s Journalism School is the newest J-School at a Canadian university. Sound Out Communications worked with them to choose appropriate technology; set up studios; developed policies for equipment use; and taught students how to use the new gear.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Senior Producer with many of ECP’s international development radio/podcast series, mostly recently the environmental series The Green Planet Monitor.
Cambridge Bay Communications Society
Cambridge Bay, Nunavut (2003,2005)
Read Barry and Victoria Head North, our travel journal
During September 2003, former partner Barry Rueger and I spent a week on-site in this town above Canada’s Arctic Circle. We worked closely with local staff and volunteers, and with community organisations and leaders, to help Nunavut’s newest community radio station to start their broadcasting with good programming and solid organisational management. In 2004 we provided a week of intensive training for CFBI’s first Station Manager.
Urban Appalachian Council
Cincinnati, Ohio (2001, 2004)
In 2001, we led a three day workshop teaching listening and interviewing skills to urban youth taking part in the GED program at Northside Community School. In June of 2004 we adapted that workshop, with the addition of soundwalking and drama, and presented a three day workshop with an emphasis on esteem building and communication skills to two groups of urban youth taking part in the inner city summer programs.
CFRC Radio, Queens University
Kingston, Ontario (2004)
“Painting with Sound” workshop with Victoria Fenner. This workshop explored the range of sound expression that artists are using to create these sound pictures, and what we can learn from them as radio artists. And how we can gather our own sounds and compose them in evocative ways.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Toronto, Ontario (2003)
Promotion and distribution assistance for SEIU Radio, a radio series produced by SEIU. The series was distributed to community broadcasters in Canada.
Great Lakes Radio Consortium
Ann Arbor, MI (2003, 2004)
Production of radio stories on environmental themes.
Developing Countries Farm Radio Network (2003, 2004) (now Farm Radio International)
Research and Script writing for use in rural developing nations. Developing Countries Farm Radio Network is a Canadian-based, not-for-profit organization working in partnership with approximately 500 radio broadcasters in over 70 countries to fight poverty and food insecurity.
Jim Metzner Productions (2003)
Interviews with International Paper Airplane experts for the syndicated radio series Voices of Innovation.
Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production (1997 to 2003)
Victoria Fenner was one of the founding sponsors of this organization, founded to support the development of creative radio and independent radio producers in Canada. She Victoria was the organization’s first Executive Director, providing organizational development, and managing all CSIRP projects during their first six years. Those projects include:
| Creative Radio Initiative (2001 to 2003) A three year workshop series in Ontario, Canada for community radio broadcasters. This series focuses on creative and artistic radio techniques. The Creative Radio Initiative included Transmissions sans Frontières, a 2003 conference for producers who push the boundaries. Funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Transmissions sans Frontières (2003) Radiant Dissonance Volumes One and Two (2000 and 2003) Full Moon Audio Art Camp (1999 to 2002) Bells And Whistles (1999) |
WORT Radio Madison, Wisconsin (2002)
“Telling The Story Behind the News” A workshop for volunteer programmers at WORT and WSUM radio that explored the role of community radio as a news organization, and techniques that can help to develop effective community based news gathering.
Urban Appalachian Council of Cincinnati (2001)
Three day workshop teaching listening and interviewing skills to urban youth taking part in the GED program at Northside Community School.
Radio Netherlands (2001)
Victoria was Course Instructor for “Building Community from Within” a Train the Trainer Course for Community Radio Station Managers in the Developing World – May 2001.
Radio Burst Sound Exhibition – Trent Radio (2000)
Victoria worked with Trent Radio to produce a day of audio art programming. Radio Burst was produced in conjunction with the Sound Escape Acoustic Ecology Conference held at Trent University, Peterborough from June 28 – July 2, 2000.
Sound Unbound (2000) Ottawa
A gathering of artists to dialogue with community radio people about Canadian audio art; to discuss audio art and audience development in concert, gallery and broadcast settings; and to perform audio art works for conference delegates and the general public.
Victoria received funding from the Region of Ottawa Carleton to produce a suite of audio compositions exploring the soundscape of Ottawa in the first year of this new millennium. The suite will consist of 5 soundwalks of sonically-significant locations in Ottawa and five artistic interpretations of these locations. The suite will be composed in the summer of 2000 for release on internet audio in the fall.
World Interaction Mondiale – “Global Youthspeak”
A media training program for young people focusing on global journalism and human rights media. Programmed by youth and for youth, Global Youthspeak will offer a fresh viewpoint on the world and how it works. During “Global Youthspeak” young people will produce radio stories which will be distributed to campus and community radio stations for national airplay. They will receive training in radio production, will learn about unique challenges facing developing nations, and will look at the way that media covers these issues.
CHCR Homegrown Community Radio - Killaloe, Ontario
Advice and consultation during CHCR’s developmental stages, including site visits, organizational and technical advice, and help in sourcing engineering services help and equipment acquisition. Since licensing we have provided ongoing advice as needed, and involved CHCR in the first two years of the Full Moon Audio Art Camp.
Canadian Labour Congress Radio
In May 1999 Victoria assisted the CLC with “Union Wave” a Temporary FM Radio station located in downtown Toronto, Ontario during theCLC’s annual congress.
Earth Chronicle Productions
Victoria works with Earth Chronicle Productions on several productions, past and present. These include “More Than Just a Dozen – Women in Global Development”, an audio series and accompanying educational booklets; “Children of the Earth” – a radio series about children and the effects of poverty, environmental degradation and war; “Global Youthspeak”, in which Canadian young people examine global issues. See our Radio Series page for more details.
National Campus and Community Radio Conference
NCRC ‘96 was the annual national conference of non-profit broadcasters in Canada. Over 200 delegates attended this six day conference. Further details are available at the conference site.
CFMU-FM McMaster University
Victoria Fenner was CFMU’s station manager from 1992-98.
Victoria’s experience in community radio uniquely positions her to help people learn how to work in the area of multimedia technology. That’s because people who work at community radio start with no skills — just like most people learning how to do multimedia for the internet.
Many people have appreciated Victoria’s knowledge. Even more important, she is able to share that knowledge in a way that helps people gain confidence in their own abilities. People frequently tell her that they are able to move quickly from being intimidated by the technology (a common first reaction) to being excited about it!
