Programs

Leadership Track

At CTVN’s Media Arts Center, our most advanced youth staff are employed as executive producers in small, intensive programs. Hard Cover Interns manage and produce the 25 year-running cablecast and our online distribution platforms, while other small production units work in long production cycles on projects of immediate importance to their peers. In addition to their independent work, all interns serve as peer leaders to onsite apprentices and video students at earlier stages in the Hard Cover program.

Afterschool Apprenticeships

In partnership with After School Matters, CTVN employs 30 advanced and intermediate Hard Cover Apprentices in each of its two full afterschool programs in media literacy digital video production. These young videos professionals study all aspects of media art and produce high quality content for distribution through Hard Cover.

On-site at CTVN

2418 W. Bloomingdale Ave.
Schurz High School

3601 N. Milwaukee Ave.

Alternative School Video Classes

In partnership with Alternative Schools Network, CTVN’s instructors lead classes in the media arts as part of the innovative curricula of 11 alternative schools, where reengaged “drop-outs” and transfer students from Chicago’s Public School system persevere in attaining a secondary education. These youth producers’ original work is broadcast on Hard Cover regularly.

SOAR Elementary School Workshops

CTVN’s initiative to extend its education in video art to the youngest among us led to a partnership, now 3 years strong, with Illinois Dept. of Family and Children’s Services. CTVN instructors lead weekly workshops in the basics of video art and produce their first short pieces.