Here And Again, Inc.

Radio Station

Here And Again, Inc. (HAA) has grown to encompass a radio station.  WRWO - We Rock With Opportunity - 94.5 FM (The Station), is a low powered FM not for profit community radio station.  HAA received a FCC license for The Station on 10/14/14.  HAA expects The Station to be operational by the end of 2015.  The Station will provide training in most aspects of the radio profession especially broadcasting, disc jockey and a platform for local artists.  Eventually, The Station will have a project manager.  The Station will also have counselors and case managers who will be responsible for counseling, reporting and providing human resource opportunities for participants. The Station will also have several engineers, editors and producers.  Additional goals will be to provide education for the community at large and opportunities for area wide residents to host shows as well as provide internships to area community college and high school students. 

The Media Project

The Community Media Project (Media Project) is designed to redirect potential underserved persons of all ages.  The Media project is designed to get interested area residents involved in something positive while working and learning together, solving issues that arise in a positive and productive manner. The main focus of the Media Project is to give individuals training and experience in various media to provide them with opportunities in the arts industry. The Media Project, with a goal of involving 500 persons each year will produce videos, documentaries, radio programs, theatrical stage shows, television shows and programs as well as movies.  Participants will be organized into teams that will compose, write and/or act in each of the proposed productions.  None of the proposed productions can portray or glorify the negative aspects of drugs, gangs, violence, or sex.  Participants will be required to make a pledge to honor themselves, their family, and the community by staying drug, gang, and crime free.  Also, students must vow to stay in and complete school. 


The Media Project will have a project manager who although reporting directly to the President and Executive Director, will be directly responsible for the program.  Also, the project manager will work with schools and other educational institutions to ensure that learning and education is a part of each student’s participation in the Media Project.  The goal is to have five instructors who will be responsible for planning and the implementation of the project as well as five student assistants who will assist with the direct implementation of the project including care of the equipment, products, merchandise etc. The Media Project will have counselors and case managers as well.  Counselors, case managers, instructors, and student assistants will report to the project manager.  HAA hopes to acquire a large building or theater in the future to stage and showcase productions.

 

The Arts Education program

HAA envisions an additional arts education program.  The program will be called Community Arts Education (Arts Education).   The Arts Education program will have instructors that will teach various forms of photography, music lessons, film, art, drawing, architecture, costume design, set and stage design, choreography, singing and dancing as well as other creative arts.  Individuals who complete this program will be referred to the Station Project, the Media Project and/or the Employment Center.  The Art Education program will have a project manager that will report directly to HAA's President and Executive Director.  The instructors will report directly to the project manager.

 

No Kill Pet Sanctuary

HAA wants to have a sprawling comprehensive State of the Art Pet Sanctuary to help underserved community residents with pet health care, maintenance, life support procedures, medication, surgery, education, animal awareness, pet appreciation and adoption. The No Kill Sanctuary will take in stray, abused, abandoned, sick and or retired pets. The pet sanctuary will give the animal’s tender loving care until they are adopted. The facility will have a huge opportunity to be a leader in animal care, rescue, adoption and education. The pet sanctuary will be a collaborative effort between community leaders, residents, educational professional, industry executives and other community participants including environmental and arts groups.

The Artistic Green Project

HAA would like to have a community artistic green project. The Artistic Green Project will have a project manager who will report directly to HAA's President and Executive Director.  The coordinators, assistants, instructors, trainers, counselors and case managers will report directly to the project manager.  Initially, the Artistic Green Project will be designed to give shelter (at no or low cost) to struggling, out of work and aspiring artists who need to devote their time and energy to their creative crafts.  The Artistic Green Project is envisioned to work as a creative program turning blighted, vacant and abandoned buildings, homes and other property into living quarters for artists.  The transformation will be a collaborative effort between program participants, community leaders, residents, building tradesmen, educational professionals, industry executives, and other community participants. The aim is to reuse, recycle and repurpose as much of the old as possible with little need for new building materials.  The goal is to purchase only renewable and sustainable technologies like solar panels, wind mills, geo thermal and other energy efficient and water conservation mechanisms (where repurposing and recycling are not possible) that are needed to reduce energy cost as well as carbon foot prints.  The Artistic Green Project will be later expanded and used as a model throughout the city, county, state, and beyond for the entire community as a way to reduce energy costs, and carbon foot prints.  The designs of these units will be artistic, creative, functional as well as practical.  The Artistic Green Project will also have roof top vegetable gardens.  Ornamental lawns will be converted into edible gardens with fruits, nut trees, vegetables, berries, melons, and herbs.  The Artistic Green Project will also include restoration and preservation of historic buildings, homes, sites and property.  The goal of HAA is to create a sustainable energy source using renewable technologies which will reduce costs for entertainment centers making them more viable financially. Also, the targeted area and location has an enormous potential for producing electrical power, with renewables such as wind, solar and water. The possibility exists for greatly improving employment, immeasurably boosting the local economy by creating the hardware, which if designed and built to human scale could create self sufficiency in every home in the County. Hence, in the future this could become a model for other communities, thus potentially becoming a prototype of sustainability for other types of business and industry within the community.  The end goal is to create sustainable employment with a living wage in the targeted area which can be a model used in other communities.