From brad at theatrebayarea.org Fri Jul 6 17:09:50 2007 From: brad at theatrebayarea.org (Brad Erickson) Date: Fri Jul 6 17:06:57 2007 Subject: Health Care for All Californians -- Act Now! Message-ID: <00e801c7c02b$235d9210$6601a8c0@fileserver.theatrebayarea.com> Dear Arts Forum Supporters: Arts Forum SF urges you to join with our friends at Health Access ( www.health-access.org) in a statewide campaign to ensure universal access to health care for all Californians. Artists are often uninsured or saddled with premiums they cannot afford. Join us in urging the Legislature and the Governor to make affordable, quality healthcare for all Californians. Right now, major changes to healthcare are being proposed by the Governor and legislative leaders. While there is a good deal of consensus around the major goal - increasing access to affordable health care - there are a host of details and potential devils. Get informed and make your views known. There are three things you can do: 1.) Take survey that will report vital data on current health coverage among artists. Go to www.artistsunitedforhealthcare.org 2.) While you're on the site, write your Assembly Member and Senator urging them to act now on universal access to health care: www.artistsunitedforhealthcare.org 3.) On July 11, go to Sacramento! Join health care activists from all walks of life for a rally and lobbying our legislators in Sacramento. Find more on the advocacy event, organized by the nonprofit organization, Health Access, below. A message from Heath Access: "This year is the best chance yet to reach agreement on a statewide plan for quality, affordable health coverage. Now is the time to tell your elected representatives what you support in the proposals and what you oppose. The insurance companies, the lobbyists, the special interests will all be heard in Sacramento so make sure you are heard as well. After all, who knows more about that's wrong with health coverage now and about the health coverage that is really needed? On Wednesday, July 11 the Senate Health Committee takes up healthcare reform legislation. The schedule: 10AM: Meet in the big tent at the South Steps (N Street side) of the Capitol for a brief welcome and lobby training. Look for the "It's OUR Healthcare" banner. 10:35AM: Lobby in Capitol 11:30AM: Lunch on the Capitol steps 12:30PM Line up at hearing chamber, Room 4203 (Potential for earlier line up) 1:30 - 5:30PM (Or whenever hearing is over) Attend Senate Health Committee hearing Plan to leave for Sacramento early in the morning, returning in the evening of the same day. This is an all day event. No previous experience is necessary. Training, a bad lunch, soda and bottled water will be provided." Please confirm your attendance on July 11 by emailing Jessica Rothhaar at Health Access. Please give your name, cell phone or home phone number, name of your State Senator, and the city where you live: Email to: jessicar@health-access.org If you have questions, call Jessica at 510-873-8787, x107. Brad Erickson Deborah Cullinan Executive Director Executive Director Theatre Bay Area Intersection for the Arts brad@theatrebayarea.org deborah@theintersection.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://gdc.groupd.com/pipermail/artsforum-sf/attachments/20070706/56d49a75/attachment-0001.html From deborah at theintersection.org Mon Jul 23 12:13:21 2007 From: deborah at theintersection.org (Deborah Cullinan) Date: Mon Jul 23 12:13:54 2007 Subject: Invitation from the Expo for the Artist & Musician! Message-ID: <46A4FDD1.1000501@theintersection.org> To the Arts Forum-SF community: We at the Expo for the Artist & Musician would like to invite you to join us for our eighth anniversary at SomArts on Sept. 15. To show our appreciation for your participation in Arts Forum SF, we are re-setting the exhibitor fees to our "early bird" discount levels for you through August 1. The Expo is a multidisciplinary connection fair for local arts and culture, provided as a public service by volunteers. Admission to the general public is by donation and no-one is turned away. Tables for exhibitors are exceptionally cheap and based on a sliding scale -- from small arts nonprofits and community groups we ask just $25. To register, check out the following URL, fill in the details, select the early-bird discount rate, and write the word "ARTSFORUM" after your mission statement: Exhibitor table registration http://artsandmedia.net/expo/register/ -- If you already registered for a table and want the early-bird rate, drop us a line at 415/861-5302 and we'll get it set up. -- We are currently about half-full, and workshops and presentations are almost all booked. If you have any questions about getting involved as an exhibitor, workshop presenter, volunteer or sponsor, drop us a line. -- Remember: LATE REGISTRATION FEES KICK IN AUGUST 1!!! Below is a preliminary listing of the Eighth Annual Expo for the Artist & Musician's exhibiting organizations, workshops and events. Check back for further updates, and thanks for your work on behalf of the arts in our communities! Best wishes, Melinda Adams Ellyn Parker Rachel Scott Josh Wilson The Expo Working Group http://artsandmedia.net/expo/ http://artsandmedia.net/expo/participate/ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Independent Arts & Media presents ... The Eighth Annual Expo for the Artist & Musician Sept. 15, 2007, SomArts, 934 Brannan Street, 11 a.m.-6:00 p.m. "The Bay Area's only grassroots connection fair for independent arts, music and culture." JOIN US! On Sept. 15 the Expo celebrates eight years as a unique "Free Culture Fair" where the emphasis is NOT on selling, but making connections, sharing resources and creating culture and community. Admission is donation-based and no one is turned away. WHAT IS IT? The Expo is an all-day extravaganza featuring more than 100 Bay Area arts organizations, free workshops, performances, and hundreds of local artists and musicians. Attendees can browse tables staffed by local galleries, nonprofits, collectives and small businesses; present their portfolios; and join in workshops on grant proposals, censorship, arts marketing, underground art history, making a demo tape and more. 2007 EXHIBITORS -- CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES This listing is a work in progress -- there's room for 125 exhibitors total. To showcase your good works to the community, please register for a table or call 415/861-5302. All arts- and culture-related organizations are welcome, including small community projects, nonprofits, businesses and institutions. ArtSF ArtSpan/SF Open Studios ArtWorkSF Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) California Lawyers for the Arts Community Access Ticket Service*** Community Music Center CELLspace Center For Cultural Innovation** CHELLE! and Friends** Chicken John -- SF mayoral candidate* CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival** Czechmate Entertainment** Destiny Arts Center*** Dodgy Rock'n'Roll Photography Flash Productions The Foundation Center Frank Bette Center for the Arts FullCalendar Event Promotions Service Graphic Arts Workshop Intersection for the Arts Katabatik Metacommunications Platform*** KFJC-FM KUSF-FM Manic D Press Media Alliance Mission Arts Foundation MYID Services** The Nocturnes Night Photography On The Outskirts Race & Disability / Poor Magazine** Planet Drum Foundation The Present Group** Re/Search Publications SCRAP SF Center for the Book*** SF Children's Art Center SF Indie Fest -- Independent Film Festival** SF Media Archive SF Recycling & Disposal Artist in Residence Program*** SF Women Artists SF Women's Film Festival Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools (TILT)*** Visual Aid Women's Audio Mission*** * Mayoral Candidates: As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, if one candidate exhibits at our event, we have to invite them all. This is a nonpartisan, equal opportunity program dedicated to free speech and civic discourse. If you are a candidate or represent a campaign, please contact us for more details at 415/861-5302. ** Indicates organizations new to the Expo *** Indicates organizations returning to the Expo after an absence of more than one year 2007 WORKSHOPS & EVENTS This listing is a work in progress. Final event listings will be posted late August. If you'd like to get involved as a presenter or venue partner, please drop us a line! Sept. 12 @ CounterPulse: "Money for Art/Arts Funding Issues" ... co-presented with Shaping San Francisco Sept. 13 @ CELLspace: "Expo 2007 Exhibitor Reception & Salon" ... produced by Pandora's Trunk, CELLspace and Expo for the Artist & Musician. Sept. 14 @ ArtSF: The Big Exhibit ... a community art show and party produced by ArtSF and Expo for the Artist & Musician Sept. 15 @ SomArts: The Eighth Annual Expo for the Artist & Musician ... produced by Independent Arts & Media. Our main event for the year. Workshops @ the Expo and elsewhere: * Night Photography Basics with The Nocturnes Night Photography Group * Sea Chantey Sing: Performance & Workshop with the Balclutha Sea Chantey Crew * Black Blind Blues Krip-Hip-Hop Workshop with On The Outskirts (black disabled artists' history) * Circuit Bending, Musical Instrument Creation & Modification, and more with Filthmilk Huge Conglomerate Media Holdings * Film & Video Screening with SF Media Archive * Historical Dance Re-enactment & Lessons * Internet Radio & Podcasting Part II!! * Pinhole/Cyanotype Photography * Intellectual Property, Copyright & Licensing * Reading/Writing Workshop * Bookbinding/bookmaking * Cartooning * MORE TO COME! -- Deborah Cullinan Executive Director Intersection for the Arts 446 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94103 415.626.2787 x 105 voice 415.626.1636 fax http://www.theintersection.org/ From brad at theatrebayarea.org Mon Jul 23 13:08:51 2007 From: brad at theatrebayarea.org (Brad Erickson) Date: Mon Jul 23 13:11:30 2007 Subject: Health Care Action Alert Message-ID: <027a01c7cd65$4a8d8c90$7501a8c0@fileserver.theatrebayarea.com> Arts Forum Supporters! Our friends at Health Access are asking artists in our region to make a difference in the ongoing debate on health in Sacramento. We urge you to add your voices, as theatre artists, sending your personal stories to our legislative leaders in Sacramento. More below! An Urgent Message From Health Access! Bay Area artists have an unprecedented opportunity to be heard in California's health care debate, and join with others to win quality, affordable health care we can count on. This summer, the health care debate enters a critical phase, and the key question is: whose voices will our elected leaders listen to when they're making decisions about our healthcare? Bay Area legislators are playing a key role. We need them to SEE THE FACES & READ THE STORIES of Bay Area artists who want action THIS YEAR to make quality, affordable healthcare a reality. Share your story. Everyone has a story about a time when the high cost of health care has been a problem, for ourselves or for someone we know. Please weigh in by emailing a photogram to your State Senator to SHARE YOUR STORY and show your support for quality, affordable healthcare. Emailing a photogram is easy: 1. Identify your Senator. Click here to find out who your State Senator is. 2. Address your email. All Senators' email addresses follow the format senator.lastname@sen.ca.gov, e.g., senator.yee@sen.ca.gov or senator.perata@ca.gov. 3. Tell your story. Your email message should be short and sweet. Start by saying a few words about how the high cost of healthcare hurts you or someone you know, such as: * I can't afford to buy the medicines I need. * My insurance gets more expensive every year. * I work part-time and can't afford insurance. 4. Tell your Senator what you want: * Healthcare I can count on, that's affordable, that gets costs under control. 5. Attach your digital photo. 6. Finish with your name, address, city and email. This way, your Senator will know you're a constituent and have an obligation to respond. 7. Blind copy jessicar@health-access.org so we can count how many photograms our community is sending. 8. Forward this email to your friends. To get involved or for more information on our effort to win quality, affordable health care this year, visit www.itsourhealthcare.org or www.artistsunitedforhealthcare.org. Thank you!! Jessica Rothhaar Northern California Organizer Health Access Foundation 510-873-8787 ext. 107 cell: 415-517-0439 jessicar@health-access.org For up-to-the minute news you can trust on health care reform efforts in California, see the Health Access weblog at www.health-access.org/blogger. Brad Erickson Deborah Cullinan Executive Director Executive Director Theatre Bay Area Intersection for the Arts brad@theatrebayarea.org deborah@theintersection.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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