UMAverse
October 8, 2021 | Special Edition
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You're invited to our Annual Celebration!
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Join UMA for our 2021 Annual Celebration & Meeting on Thursday, October 14th from 7:00 to 8:15PM! This event will be held virtually via Zoom- please register in advance.

Come celebrate the achievements of the UMA community and learn more about UMA!

Hope you can join us for connection and fun!
The Program
  • Opening slideshow and remarks from staff and Board members
  • Small group socializing (via Zoom breakout room!)
  • Premiere of “The UMAverse,” a 5-minute video with highlights from the past year featuring people from our UMA community
  • Special awards – with video clips, Academy Awards style!
  • Kevin Duffy, City of Malden’s Strategy and Business Development Officer will receive the Community Impact Award.
  • Wonderland Spectacle Co. production team will receive an award for Production of the Year.
  • Neighborhood View’s Saliha Bayrak will receive an award for Excellence in Citizen Journalism.
  • UMA’s All Star Interns: Sophie Carleton, Amanda De Rosa, Keren He, Sky Malerba, Avion Manong, Kamila Rodrigues, Allie Thompson
  • An update from the Board of Directors on the status of UMA’s finances and long range plans (a chance to meet all our Board members)
  • And finally, we’ll welcome a new Board member voted in by UMA’s Contributing Members
Vote for an UMA Board Member!
Meet our 3 candidates for the open Membership seat on
 our Board of Directors!

Voting is open until 12:00 noon on Thursday, October 14th. Only contributing members are eligible to vote at this time.

If you are unsure of your membership status, would like to renew membership, or become a member, please call us at 781-321-6400 or email Josephine at josephine@umaverse.org. You can also become a contributing member or renew your membership by visiting our Membership page.

The new board member will be announced at our Annual Celebration and Meeting on Thursday, October 14th!
Lori Ardai

"My name is Lori Ardai. I am a current member of Urban Media Arts and serve on the board for UMA. My term is ending and I would like to run for a second term. My connection with Urban Media Arts started when my youngest daughter, now a senior in high school, started taking youth programs in early elementary school. I loved how UMA made it possible to have fun while learning real media skills such as filming, editing, and producing. I loved watching my kids grow from learning to helping out at live events and helping with videos actually shown on UMA. I joined the Board as a way of saying thanks to UMA for what it has offered both to my family and our community..."
Nathalie Fanfan-Glyman

"I chose to apply for this board member seat because I want to be a part of the decision making process in the arts community in Malden, such as setting policies that foster a better community through the arts and helping raise and improve UMA’s budget and funding for community events. I would like to examine and identify ways to effectively target Malden high school age students through social media and traditional media. I also would love to see an outreach program that focuses on teenagers that may not see a clear path to secondary education and encourages entrepreneurship in the arts as an alternative for them. I have a clear vision of what Malden has to offer as a community and what it needs to enrich the new and existing residents..."
Brian Triber

"I would like to state my intent to run for Board for Urban Media Arts. Now that UMA has expanded its vision from that of MATV, to cover the arts in general, becoming a board member presents an exciting opportunity to help expand UMA’s vision further into the domain of the performing arts. My experience in the working theater (as producer, director, writer and designer), my former and current association and membership with MATV/UMA, and my lifelong ties to our community, serve as a foundation for what I envision to be a synergistic relationship, exploring new approaches to media as performance artform..."
UMA (Urban Media Arts) is an interconnected hub of creativity, dialog and evolving community, centering around media, arts and culture, and proudly based in Malden, MA.
This special issue of UMAverse was produced by Kamila Rodrigues.