From deborah at theintersection.org Fri Oct 5 14:16:10 2007 From: deborah at theintersection.org (Deborah Cullinan) Date: Fri Oct 5 14:15:39 2007 Subject: Congratulations Ruth Asawa! Message-ID: <4706A99A.3040205@theintersection.org> Greetings Arts Forum Community! We want to extend a heartfelt congratulations to Ruth Asawa - the recipient of the first annual Mayor's Art Award for her lifetime of artistic achievement and enduring commitment to the role of the arts in public life. We encourage you all to send a note to Mayor Gavin Newsom, the Arts Commission, Supervisor Tom Ammiano, Assemblymember Mark Leno, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi for honoring Ruth Asawa and celebrating San Francisco's vibrant arts community. Following are email addresses (remember to include your full name and zip code): Mayor Gavin Newsom, gavin.newsom@sfgov.org Nancy Gonchar, Interim Director of Cultural Affairs, nancy.gonchar@sfgov.org Assemblymember Mark Leno, assemblymember.leno@assembly.ca.gov Speaker Nancy Pelosi, sf.nancy@mail.house.gov You send a thank you to the Arts Commissioners via the Commission Secretary, Sharon Paige Ritchie at sharon.page_ritchie@sfgov.org We also encourage you to email your Supervisor to thank them for the part they play in celebrating the artists and arts organizations of San Francisco. Brad Erickson, Executive Director, Theatre Bay Area Deborah Cullinan, Executive Director, Intersection for the Arts -- 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 Tue Oct 9 14:42:36 2007 From: brad at theatrebayarea.org (Brad Erickson) Date: Tue Oct 9 14:41:58 2007 Subject: CAC Confernce & Arts Advocacy Day -- Save the Dates! Message-ID: <01e901c80abd$50d6a4c0$9e01a8c0@fileserver.theatrebayarea.com> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 64219 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://gdc.groupd.com/pipermail/artsforum-sf/attachments/20071009/97c2987b/attachment-0001.jpe From brad at theatrebayarea.org Fri Oct 12 16:58:32 2007 From: brad at theatrebayarea.org (Brad Erickson) Date: Fri Oct 12 16:58:04 2007 Subject: Three Dates to Save! Message-ID: <011701c80d2b$cd305230$9e01a8c0@fileserver.theatrebayarea.com> Dear Arts Forum SF The next few weeks hold three important dates to save. Mark your calendars! 1.) Vigil for Health Care: Wednesday, Oct 12, 2-4PM, Governor's Office at Civic Center Plaza, Polk & McAllister More on the Vigil and how you can get involved below! 2.) Health Care and the Arts Community: Arts Forum, Monday, Oct 29, 4-6PM, The San Francisco Foundation, 255 Bush Street, Floor 5 Legislation on health care reform is brewing in Sacramento. Here in San Francisco, a landmark initiative meant to extend healthcare to tens of thousands-including many in the arts community-is about to roll out. Get informed on the legislation, make your voice heard in the debate, and learn how to access new programs. And. a sneak preview by John Killacky of The San Francisco Foundation and Kary Schulman of Grants for the Arts on exciting new partnerships and opportunities with The Wallace Foundation. 3.) Economic Impact of the Arts - Here in San Francisco: Arts Forum and SF Arts Commission, Thursday afternoon, Nov 8, time and venue TBD Americans for the Arts has just released important new findings outlining the huge impact of the arts in communities around the country. The local study, coordinated by the SF Arts Commission, holds important messages about the impact of the arts on our larger community. Bring a business person, bring a policy maker, bring a local voter, and hear fresh data on how our community contributes to the overall prosperity of our city. A link to the study: http://www.artsusa.org/information_resources/research_information/services/e conomic_impact/default.asp More on the Healthcare Vigil ARTISTS! JOIN THE VIGIL FOR HEALTHCARE! Wednesday Oct. 17, 2pm - 4pm Outside the Governor's SF Office Civic Center Plaza at the corner of Polk & McAllister Part of the It's OUR Healthcare 48-hour statewide vigil for healthcare The Governor wants to require all Californians to buy health insurance. Let's make sure the coverage is real and affordable. The Governor needs to hear from us. Because everyone has a right to quality health care. Join Artists United for Healthcare , Artsfest SF , Arts Forum SF and other arts organizations in calling for real, affordable healthcare. Join us in making signs. Join us in silence and reflection. Join us in song and dance. * Join the Artists Vigil for health care on Wednesday, Oct. 17 from 2-4pm * OR. participate in the 48-Hour Vigil for Healthcare at another time: WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17 * 12:00-2:00 pm (Kick-Off Rally) * 2:00-4:00 pm (Artists for Health Care, Sign Making) * 4:00 - 6:00 pm (Interfaith Circle, Women for Health Care, Teachers for Health Care, Unitarians for Health Care) * 6:00-8:00 pm (Health Care Film Festival) * 8:00-10:00 p.m. (Health Care Film Festival) * 10:00pm-8 am (Pajama Party for Health Care) THURSDAY OCTOBER 18 * 6:00am - 8:00am * 8:00am-10:00am * 10:00am-12:00noon (Asian Pacific Islanders for Health Care) * 12:00-2:00 pm * 2:00pm-4:00pm * 4:00pm-6:00pm (Interfaith Circle) * 6:00pm-8:00pm * 8:00pm-10pm (Health Care Film Festival) * 10:00pm-8 am (Pajama Party for Health Care) FRIDAY OCTOBER 19 * 6:00am - 8am * 8:00am-10:00am * 10:00am-12:00noon 12:00-1:00pm (Closing Ceremony Brad Erickson Executive Director Theatre Bay Area 870 Market Street, Suite 375 San Francisco, CA 94102 415-430-1140 x11 brad@theatrebayarea.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://gdc.groupd.com/pipermail/artsforum-sf/attachments/20071012/9c0f78c7/attachment-0001.html From deborah at theintersection.org Tue Oct 23 16:39:05 2007 From: deborah at theintersection.org (Deborah Cullinan) Date: Tue Oct 23 16:39:04 2007 Subject: Reminder Health Care Forum Oct 29 Message-ID: <471E8619.304@theintersection.org> Greetings Arts Forum Community! Please join us on Monday *October 29 from 4 to 6 PM* at the San Francisco Foundation (225 Bush Street, Fifth Floor) for an intimate discussion regarding *Health Care and the Arts Community*. Learn about the progress of Health Care Reform in Sacramento and local initiatives including the San Francisco's Healthy Neighborhoods program. Get informed about how these issues and initiatives impact your life and our arts community! We will be joined by Jessica Rothhaar from Health Access Foundation, Don Beckler who is the Chair of the California Universal Health Care Organizing Project (focusing on universal health care with single payer financing since 1993), and a representative from the City who will provide information about the Healthy San Francisco program. We will also hear a sneak preview by John Killacky of The San Francisco Foundation and Kary Schulman of Grants for the Arts on exciting new partnerships and opportunities with The Wallace Foundation. Don't miss it! Deborah Cullinan, Intersection for the Arts Brad Erickson, Theater Bay Area --------------------------------------------------------------------- Arts Forum SF is an inclusive and collaborative community forum for sharing ideas and resources, grappling with issues, and imagining and implementing solutions that will result in sustainable and forward-thinking arts programming, partnerships and policies. In an effort to avoid inundation, this email list does not accept postings. If you are interested in posting to Arts Forum or sharing ideas for future Arts Forum events, please contact: Deborah@theintersection.org Brad@theatrebayarea.org. Arts Forum is coordinated by a host of organizations and arts activists including Theater Bay Area and Intersection for the Arts. Listserv provided by Independent Arts and Media (http://www.artsandmedia.net). -- 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/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://gdc.groupd.com/pipermail/artsforum-sf/attachments/20071023/5cb6aeeb/attachment.html From Brad at theatrebayarea.org Thu Oct 25 14:47:15 2007 From: Brad at theatrebayarea.org (Brad Erickson) Date: Thu Oct 25 14:46:30 2007 Subject: Health Care -- Critical Hearing in Sacto Next Wed Message-ID: <8CDB7716FBA6AD4E9280E62395954588121A75@tba-sbs.fileserver.theatrebayarea.com> Dear Arts Forum Supporters Next Wednesday, the legislature will hold a critical hearing on the Governor's health care reform proposal. An excellent article with background on the legislation which could affect every Californian can be found by following this link: http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071025/A_NEWS/7102 50340 Join us on Monday at The San Francisco Foundation - 225 Bush Street, Floor 5 - from 4:00 to 6:00 PM - to hear more about statewide health care reform and about new programs offered to the uninsured here in San Francisco. 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Join Health Access in Sacramento at 9AM tomorrow on the steps of the Capitol. Can't make it to Sacramento? Send a text message to the Governor that will be displayed on a giant screen on the Capitol lawn. See the message from Health Access below to find out how. Artists, arts workers and all Californians need real health care reform now. Brad Erickson Deborah Cullinan Executive Director Executieve Director Theatre Bay Area Intersection for the Arts _____ From: Jessica Rothhaar [mailto:jessicar@health-access.org] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:17 PM To: jessicar@health-access.org Subject: ALERT: Text Message the Gov on Healthcare ************************************ It's OUR Healthcare! THE CAMPAIGN FOR QUALITY, AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL CALIFORNIANS ************************************ Tell the Governor: Real Healthcare Reform Means AFFORDABLE Healthcare! Text "IOH" to 30644 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear health advocate, This Wednesday, the Legislature will be holding its first hearing on Governor Schwarzenegger's proposal to require everyone to buy insurance, whether or not they can afford it and regardless of whether it actually protects them. The eyes of everyone involved in the state's healthcare debate will be on Sacramento next Wednesday, so we'll have a giant screen outside the Capitol displaying messages from you and thousands of other healthcare advocates, ensuring that Governor Schwarzenegger and legislators clearly see what you have to say. After months of talking to the Governor about the need for meaningful healthcare reform this year and the need for healthcare to be affordable, the Governor has stuck with a plan that's just plain scary for regular people, who could be stuck with thousands of dollars in deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses. We can change that. Send the Governor a text message next Wednesday, telling him that real healthcare reform means affordable healthcare, and we'll broadcast it on our giant screen outside the Capitol. To add your message, take out your cell phone right now and send a text message with "IOH" (without the quotation marks) to 30644 to get started. Click below for examples and more detailed instructions. http://itsourhealthcare.org/events/gov-hearing.html Please join us in Sacramento this Wednesday, October 31, for the Assembly Health Committee hearing on the Governor's proposal. We'll gather at 9am on the L St. side of the Capitol for a briefing, and then go inside for the hearing which starts at 10am. Click below for details: http://itsourhealthcare.org/events/gov-hearing.html We'll also broadcast live streaming video over the internet so that you can see the text messages sent from thousands of Californians as they go up on our screen. http://itsourhealthcare.org/events/gov-hearing.html Wherever you are, you can send a text message to Sacramento and watch your message about healthcare reform displayed live. Just take out your cell phone right now and text "IOH" (minus the quotation marks) to the number 30644 to get started - and we'll tell you how to send your message to the Governor on Wednesday. We can still get meaningful healthcare reform this year if we can bring the Governor to the bargaining table. This issue is too important to give up on, but junk insurance, out of control costs and unaffordable healthcare are not the solutions to our problem. So on Wednesday, tell the Governor what you think. If you can come to our rally in Sacramento, please join us. If not, take a minute to text the Governor. Remind him that we need real healthcare reform this year, and that real reform must not force people to buy insurance they can't afford to buy or use. Text "IOH" (without the quotation marks) to 30644 right now. Making your voice heard has never been so easy. Sincerely, 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 .html _____ The California Partnership: http://www.california-partnership.org 2533 West Third St. Suite 101 Los Angeles, CA, California 90057 United States jessicar@health-access.org PHONE: 213-385-8010 FAX: 213-353-1344 You are subscribed to this list as jessicar@health-access.org. 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