Community TV Network

03/24/2025

CTVN Alums were interviewed and asked about how the organization shaped who they are and these were their responses! You can check the full interview on our YouTube channel with the link tree in our bio!

03/19/2025

Over the last couple of weeks the CTVN team interviewed two alums for a video project. Here's a little sneak peak and introduction of them!

03/11/2025

02/26/2025

BLACK HISTORY MONTH AT HARDCOVER!

02/21/2025

Given recent news with straws, we thought to share this video CTVN made a few years back! The video was made with the help of HIVE Chicago and The Chicago Community Trust. Want to watch the whole video? You can check it out on Shine On, Chicago’s Vimeo account or with this link: https://vimeo.com/263039619?share=copy

02/20/2025

A little late but HAPPY VALENTINES 💝
from CTVN. We want to share our love
for all our supporters!
Check out the videos featured in this post!
- THE TEEN TALK SHOW 001
- I Love Myself- flesyM evoL I
- Hard Cover Episode 686 | Teen Romance

02/20/2025

Next week (02/27) the founder of CTVN, Denise Zaccardi, will be speaking at an online screening. The screening will be of early CTVN projects that had been digitalized thanks to Media Burn.
The event is free and at 6PM CST.

You can register for the event with the linktree in our bio or here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-tv-network-a-hidden-history-of-chicago-with-denise-zaccardi-tickets-1251572349589?aff=oddtdtcreator

02/13/2025

February is Black History Month, and here at Community TV Network, we wanted to highlight projects that focus on Chicago’s black community. This project and many other video are on our YouTube Channel and check out Instagram for other snippets!

- Welcome to the Peace House (2017)

09/04/2024

We are proud that some of Community TV Network's videos are part of this Gallery 400 exhibit about art education and community building! The exhibit opens tomorrow, September 5.

Join us tomorrow, September 5, from 6 - 8pm as we highlight Chicago’s history of progressive art pedagogy from the mid-1960s to the 2010s through our new exhibition 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧: 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮



The culmination of 3 years of research and spanning almost sixty years, 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 utilizes unique objects such as contemporary art, ephemera, documentation of co-created public art and more to explore how educators helped foster creativity and imagination, autonomy, cultural heritage, and organizing across Chicago Public Schools, alternative school networks, and community organizations.



𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧: 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.



𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 is presented in companionship with UIC’s Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and its exhibition 𝙍𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙧𝙖𝙛𝙩: 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙩 𝙃𝙪𝙡𝙡-𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚, 1889-1935, which highlights craft’s centrality to the settlement house’s groundbreaking work in art education at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.



Learn more via the link in our bio

Image: Drawing at Gallery 37, 1990’s. Image courtesy Gallery 37.

08/27/2024

EXTRAS needed for a documentary reenactment scene and a teaching moment about labor history in Chicago with Mother Jones, who worked at getting children out of the mills and mines! Plus you’ll get a credit on a cool film! Hope you can join us! Please post widely!

08/26/2024

CTVN's Hard Cover journalists were at the DNC, too. Stay tuned for their reports.

Rising senior Arunima Chaudhary covered the Democratic National Convention for Whitney Young. She hopes her coverage will inspire her classmates.

07/12/2024

How are we HALFWAY though the year?!??

We cannot wait to show you all what else we have in store for the rest of this year 🤭🤭

07/06/2024

It’s our 700th episode!🎉🎉

In this episode of Hard Cover, we look back at Hard Cover’s run throughout the years!

Check it out at the link in bio 🎥

07/05/2024

Summer is in full swing and we’re already reminiscing on our incredible experience at Filmscape! 📸🌅✨

Bringing together filmmakers, artists, technicians, and students from across Chicago and the Midwest for two days of networking, education, and training.

We are so grateful to be part of such a vibrant film community!

06/17/2024

We have some behind the scenes shots of Franny and Ny’Jari as they create episodes for Hardcover here at CTVN!! 🎬🎥

03/22/2024

Some BTS from our last shoot! Follow our TikTok for even more fun BTS content!

This is my last post as HardCover‘s social media intern, just wanted to give a huge thank you to their amazing team and supporters! It’s been so much fun working with you. - Olivia Goss

03/05/2024

We have something special planned for our loyal supporters… We will be giving away TWO iconic CTVN shirts!!! Your support means everything to us and we want to give something back! 🫶🏼

Entry rules are super easy, just tag three friends that don’t follow us already in the comments OR repost this on your story! 🥳

We will be randomly choosing a winner in exactly a week, March 12th. Good luck! 🍀

This giveaway is not affiliated with Instagram