Powwow Times Community Broadcast Training Program

Train your people. Tell your stories. Connect your community.

What if your First Nation had its own trained livestream team?

A team that could livestream graduation so grandparents and relatives living away from home can watch. A team that could broadcast Treaty celebrations, sports, powwows, conferences and community events. A team that could sit down with Elders, record their stories and language, and help preserve that knowledge for future generations.

Imagine being able to reach band members living on and off reserve, share important opportunities immediately, privately broadcast certain events to members, or share major community moments with people around the world.

Powwow Times can help your community build that team.

Our Community Broadcast Training Program is a practical livestream and digital media training program designed to give youth and community members the skills to produce professional multi-camera broadcasts themselves.

What Could Your Community Livestream?

Once your community develops its own broadcast capacity, livestreaming can become a tool you use throughout the year—not just for one event.

• Graduations and celebrations for relatives who cannot attend in person.
• Powwows, Treaty celebrations and cultural events for members at home and away.
• Elder stories and oral histories to build a community archive for future generations.
• Language lessons and cultural teachings that can be shared live or preserved as recordings.
• Band and community meetings when appropriate, including private member-only broadcasts.
• Sports and tournaments featuring local youth, athletes and teams.
• Conferences and community programming.
• Jobs, training and community opportunities through regular live community shows.
• Announcements and important updates delivered directly to members.
• Public broadcasts that share your community’s events and stories with audiences around the world.

Connect Members On and Off Reserve

Not everyone can make it home. Community members may live hundreds or thousands of kilometres away. Elders may have mobility challenges. Parents may be working. Families may be travelling. A community broadcast team gives those people another way to remain connected.

Your Nation can decide how a moment is shared—with members privately, invited viewers, or publicly with the world.

Preserve Stories Before They Are Lost

Livestream technology is also archival technology. The same cameras, microphones, audio equipment and production skills used to broadcast a powwow can be used to sit with an Elder and record a story, language, community history and knowledge the community chooses to preserve.

Create Real Skills and Career Pathways for Youth

This isn’t only about learning how to push a button and go live. Skills can lead toward broadcasting, videography, camera operation, audio engineering, event production, digital marketing, social media management, content creation, communications, journalism, podcasting, AV technology and entrepreneurship.

Build the Capacity Once. Use It Again and Again.

Hiring an outside production team every time your community wants a professional livestream can become a recurring expense. Professional livestream production can cost thousands of dollars per event. The Community Broadcast Training Program takes a different approach: build the knowledge inside your community.

Once trained, your team can keep developing its skills while producing future graduations, sports broadcasts, meetings, interviews, community shows and events.

What You Will Learn: 7 Hands-On Training Modules

Module 1: Understand the Broadcast System

Participants learn what every part of the system does: computers and broadcast software, video switchers, CAT6, Power over Ethernet (PoE), PTZ cameras, NDI video, sound boards, audio cables, microphones, PTZ controllers, YoloBox, internet connectivity, network bonding, RTMP, social platforms and tripods.

Module 2: Connect Everything and Make It Communicate

Participants learn how CAT6 and NDI move video across a network, how to connect and control PTZ cameras, establish reliable internet, use network bonding and connect a broadcast to social and streaming destinations.

Module 3: Graphics, Canvas and Broadcast Branding

Learn graphics, canvases, logos, titles, overlays, SD-card media and YoloLiv/YoloCast production tools so the broadcast looks professional and belongs to the community.

Module 4: Going Live

Learn camera transitions, framing, lighting, camera settings, directing a multi-camera production, monitoring the stream and controlling live sound.

Module 5: Manage the Live Audience

Learn chat moderation, audience interaction, community management and ways content can potentially support revenue generation where appropriate, including deciding what should be public, private or not broadcast.

Module 6: Build the Right Equipment Package

We help participants understand what equipment to buy based on the community’s needs and budget, including cameras, networking, switching, audio, internet, controllers and accessories. We also discuss established retailers and lower-cost international/manufacturer sourcing where appropriate.

Module 7: Livestream a Real Community Event

This is where learning becomes experience. Add the hands-on practicum and Powwow Times comes alongside your newly trained team during an actual event. Participants connect the system, operate cameras, manage sound, switch the production, monitor the broadcast and troubleshoot with our team coaching them.

Don’t just watch someone livestream. Actually run one.

Choose the Training Option That Fits Your Community

Digital Community Training — $5,000

Access the Community Broadcast Training Program digitally and develop your team’s skills at your own pace.

In-Person Community Broadcast Workshop — $15,000

Powwow Times comes to your community for hands-on training. Participants learn directly with the equipment, build the system, ask questions and work through the broadcast process together.

Optional Live Event Practicum — Add $7,000

Powwow Times helps your trained team livestream a real event so participants can ask questions while actually producing the broadcast.

Who Is This Program For?

First Nations, Tribal Councils, Indigenous organizations, youth departments, communications departments, education departments, cultural programs, recreation departments and communities looking to develop local media capacity.

You do not need to already understand NDI, RTMP, PTZ cameras, network bonding or professional broadcast technology. That’s what we’re here to teach.

Bring Community Broadcast Training to Your Nation

Want to build a livestream team in your community?

Message Patrick Mitsuing / Powwow Times directly through social media or email info@powwowtimes.ca.

Tell us your community or organization’s name, where you are located, who you would like to train and what kinds of events or stories you would eventually like to livestream. We’ll help you take the next step.

Powwow Times Community Broadcast Training Program
Train your people. Tell your stories. Connect your community.