From expo_info at artsandmedia.net Tue Apr 3 14:58:06 2007 From: expo_info at artsandmedia.net (Expo for the Artist & Musician) Date: Tue Apr 3 15:01:37 2007 Subject: Bay Area Arts Events * Comix 4 Comix; DIY workshops; more Message-ID: ====================================================================== BAY AREA ARTS EVENTS * April 3-9, 2007 ...................................................................... A free service of Expo for the Artist & Musician http://artsandmedia.net/expo/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * View this calendar online: http://artsandmedia.net/calendar/events - All events, workshops, activities and services listed are produced by Bay Area organizations and community members that participate in the Expo each year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FEATURED EXPO WORKSHOP ...................................................................... * "I have a book in my head and I need to get it out!" Independent publishing and distribution - a how-to workshop Thursday May 3rd Modern Times Bookstore 888 Valencia Street San Francisco 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.-ish FREE Panelists: Suzanne Shaffer (AK Press) Charlie Anders (Other Magazine) Matt Holdaway (longtime zinester) Kaya Oakes (Senior Editor, Kitchen Sink Magazine) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Featured Events, beginning of April 2007 ...................................................................... * Comics 4 Comix Benefit - 04/05/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=332 Comics and comix collide as the funnies meet the funny in the third annual fundraiser and silent art auction for San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum. Join the Bay Area's funniest folk for a night of food, drink, and entertainment, and bid on original art by some of today's brightest stars in comics. This year Comics 4 Comix takes place on Thursday, April 5 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the Cartoon Art Museum. CALL FOR TICKET INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------- D.I.Y. Workshops ...................................................................... * Boot Camp for Artists with Jessica Robinson -04/09/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=299 Session III -- The Show (Production) April 2 & 9 - How to find a venue, read a contract, and get a good deal. - Building a dream production team and a realistic budget. - How to talk to technicians and understand basic lighting design. - How to plan ahead and anticipate problems. - How to invite presenters and other "important people" to your show. - Options for effectively handling tickets, reservations and house staff. You'll finish this session with a working understanding of a theater and sample contracts, timelines, light plots, and more. * Introduction to Fundraising Planning - 04/04/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=341 Introduction to Fundraising Planning will show you how to analyze your organization's situation and develop a fundraising plan that will include a variety of revenue sources. * Soap Box Lecture-Bernal Bubbles - 04/07/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=380 Ray Beldner: 'It's Who You Know: A Personal Genealogy of the Artists of Bernal Heights' * Garden Photography - 04/07/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=334 Two-part workshop. Learn to photograph gardens and flowers with Marion Brenner, a professional garden photographer whose work is featured in numerous books and magazines, including Martha Stewart Living, House & Garden, Garden Design, and San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. In this two day workshop, Marion will show her work and share techniques for optimal garden photography. Students will be given an assignment, and their work will be critiqued in the second class. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Exhibits ...................................................................... * SEEING BEYOND SIGHT - 04/05/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=349 Author Tony Deifell for a book signing and conversation. * Theatre Bay Area's EXPO 07 - 04/09/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=269 TBA celebrates the Bay Area theatre community by bringing all aspects of the theatre community together in a trade show setting to trade information. Schools, photographers, performing arts companies, unions, agents and more are all invited to share their wares. This year's event will begin with a plenary session of experts speaking about building a career as a Bay Area theatre artist. Then the tradeshow opens for individual discussion and networking galore. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Social ...................................................................... * Art Beat Salon - 04/05/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=317 Where the Arts and Business Meet. Art, music, performance and creative expression are the backdrop for this professional networking salon. First Thursdays will never be the same. * FREE Freelancer Salon: The Anti 9-to-5 Guide - 04/03/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=346 Join Media Alliance in welcoming Seattle writer, editor, and blogger Michelle Goodman to celebrate the release of her new book, 'The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube'. Goodman will share hard-won lessons from her fifteen years in the freelance trenches and facilitate a discussion based on your comments and questions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Film & Video ...................................................................... * Intro to Film Arts Foundation - 04/05/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=335 Check out this informational overview of the services and benefits of being a member of Film Arts Foundation. Finish the evening with a tour of the post-production suites and ask basic questions about how Film Arts can help your filmmaking endeavors. * Truly CA: Let all the Stories be Told - 04/08/2007 & 04/09/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=336 On November 18, 1978, more than 900 members of the People's Temple died in Jonestown, Guyana, apparent victims of a mass murder/suicide led by their charismatic leader, the Reverend Jim Jones. Twenty-five years later, a group of theater artists embarked on a journey back in time, attempting to make sense of the deaths at Jonestown through newly discovered records at the California Historical Society and the first-hand stories of survivors. Let All the Stories Be Told follows the theater project from its genesis to opening night at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, as the team struggles to create a work of art from of this dark chapter in American history. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Show your talent ...................................................................... * Climate Theater Improv Jam - Mondays http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=354 Anyone is welcome to join in on the comedy. * Climate Theater Improv jam - Tuesdays http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=354 Night of 1000 Games. Bring a Game. Pick one from the Beer Cup of Death! ====================================================================== Editor: Melinda Adams | Thank you for reading -- go out and create! ...................................................................... Your address is secure. We do not share our email lists. Email listserv provided courtesy of Group D Communications: http://www.groupd.com/ ---=--- Expo for the Artist & Musicians is a service of Independent Arts & Media: http://artsandmedia.net/ ---=--- SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE http://lists.artsandmedia.net/mailman/listinfo/expo/ ====================================================================== From expo_info at artsandmedia.net Wed Apr 11 09:29:44 2007 From: expo_info at artsandmedia.net (Expo for the Artist & Musician) Date: Wed Apr 11 09:31:10 2007 Subject: Bay Area Arts Events * Classes, film, calls for art & more Message-ID: ====================================================================== BAY AREA ARTS EVENTS * April 11 - 23, 2007 ...................................................................... A free service of Expo for the Artist & Musician http://artsandmedia.net/expo/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * View this calendar online: http://artsandmedia.net/calendar/events - All events, workshops, activities and services listed are produced by Bay Area organizations and community members that participate in the Expo each year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Expo DIY Workshop ...................................................................... * "I have a book in my head and I need to get it out!" Independent publishing and distribution - a how-to workshop Thursday May 3rd Modern Times Bookstore 888 Valencia Street San Francisco 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.-ish FREE Panelists: Suzanne Shaffer (AK Press) Charlie Anders (Other Magazine) Matt Holdaway (longtime zinester) Kaya Oakes (Senior Editor, Kitchen Sink Magazine) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Featured Events, April 2007 ...................................................................... * SF Women's Film Festival April 11-15, 2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=383 "Showcasing the Best in Women's Cinema" * "Get Out Of Jail Free" -RECEPTION - 04/12/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=447 Please join us Thursday evening for a glass of wine and meet some of the 150 artists whose work is included in this provocative exhibition. Get Out of Jail Free examines the compelling theme of imprisonment as a metaphor for illness and other complex issues of struggle, injustice and inequities in power relationships in political, social, environmental and personal arenas. * Call for Submissions: The 2007 CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=450 The 2007 CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival is seeking submissions for this year's festival, which is scheduled to take place from October 19-21 in San Francisco. The CounterCorp Festival seeks a variety of U.S. and foreign- made movies, feature-length and shorter works, and narrative (fictional) and documentary films (including animation) in both film and digital formats. Non-English films must have English subtitles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DIY Workshops ...................................................................... * Grantseeking Basics - 04/11/2007, 04/17/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=342 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=343 Are you a representative of a nonprofit organization? New to fundraising? Want to know more about Foundation Center resources and the funding research process? * Art of the Deal: Negotiating for Women Filmmakers - 04/12/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=351 * Auditions Casting: Choices and Challenges - 04/14/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=352 Casting better actors makes a better movie. From casting announcements to callbacks, directors and producers need to know how to run a professional audition, screen resumes, and evaluate actors. Learn about scheduling, character descriptions, audition breakdowns, open calls, cold readings, and how to improve your audition procedures. * Writing and Publishing Your Memoir - 04/18/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=406 'Writing and Publishing Your Memoir', hosted by 826 Valencia, to benefit the 826 Valencia tutoring center. * How to Approach a Foundation: - 04/19/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=344 Intended for fundraisers with some experience under their belts, though not necessarily with foundations. * Music Publishing - 04/19/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=331 Learn about typical agreements between songwriters and music publishers as well as types of royalties and self publishing opportunities. * Psychological Prosthetics training session - 04/21/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=374 Over the last few years, a new group of artists have emerged that package themselves as corporate entities. They develop a company name, a branding scheme, and utilize the language of advertising and marketing. These individual artists and collectives create art objects, marketing materials, and performative event-based pieces that can exist in a gallery setting as well as in the public sphere. * Aesthetics of Editing - 04/22/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=328 The editing process is where the essence, method, and theories of filmmaking truly come together, where connections are made, comparisons are drawn, and film becomes art. In this class we will leave software and hardware behind and focus on the art and craft of cutting. The class will explore a wide range of concepts in editing such as juxtaposition, pacing, montage, the use of sound, and more. Examples will be drawn from narrative and documentary films as well as music videos, commercials and experimental films. This is primarily a lecture class, with an inspiring range of clips, and time for discussion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Exhibits ...................................................................... * 'Spirit in the Arts ' Emerging Artist Exhibition - 04/20/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=391 The Emerging Artist Exhibition affords the opportunity for several artists from the Bay Area community to display their work, as well as receive financial support for exhibit materials. * Alternative Press Expo - 04/21/2007 & 04/22/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=251 More funky flea market than traditional exhibit hall, APE fills this great space with some of the best and most cutting-edge comics, art, books, 'zines, and more. * Shaping San Francisco - Second and fourth Wednesdays http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=160 A bi-monthly series, a political and environmental forum taking place second and fourth Wednesdays. Free. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Social / Party ...................................................................... * Industrial Chic Fashion Show - 04/13/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=371 Join us on April 13th at The Crucible for our first ever Industrial Chic Fashion Show. Experience the hottest of haute couture in a fashion show of wearable art made from repurposed materials. * 2nd Annual Flip Your Lid! - 04/19/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=329 A Black Rock Arts Foundation event. * ROOT DIVISION PRESENTS "TASTE 2007" - 04/19/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=407 TASTE 2007 will feature more than 8 acclaimed local chefs and 15 visual artists for a night of inspired food, drink, and art. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Film & Video ...................................................................... * FREE Science Fiction Movie Night! - 04/12/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=446 Please join us for a double feature that reminds you to trust no one, and proves that remakes don't have to suck! We will be showing Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Directed by Philip Kaufman) at 7PM, and The Thing (Directed by John Carpenter) at 9PM. * Alice's Three Minute Film Festival - 04/13/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=340 Alice @ 97.3 radio in San Francisco announces Call for Entries for the fifth Alice 3-Minute Independent Film Festival which will be held April 13, 2007 at the historic Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco. * Why I Ride: From Low to Show - 04/19/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=390 Conscious Youth Media Crew proudly presents "Why I Ride: From Low to Show," our latest film documenting the unique car culture of the west coast from lowriders in the Mission District to the Oakland scrapers of today. * Frisbee image - 04/22-23/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=338 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=339 Lonnie Frisbee was a young hippie fully immersed in the 1960s counterculture when he experienced an encounter with God while on an acid trip. The event so transformed him that Lonnie became an itinerant Christian evangelist, something of a John the Baptist of Southern California, who compelled thousands towards Jesus Christ. Fascinatingly, his call into Christian ministry came while deeply involved in the Laguna Beach homosexual scene. Dying in 1993 as a result of AIDS, he has been marginalized from history by the very men whose evangelical ministries he helped establish. * Screening: SheWrite - 04/23/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=347 SheWrite weaves together the narratives and work of four Tamil women poets. Salma negotiates subversive expression within the tightly circumscribed space allotted to a woman in the small town of Thuvarankurichi. For Kuttirevathi, a Siddha doctor and researcher based in Chennai, solitude is a crucial creative space from where her work resonates. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Music ...................................................................... * Everything's Still a Dollar in this Box - 04/13/2007 & 04/14/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=321 Tom Waits songs on cheap instruments * Rock Show - 04/14/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=324 Internal Affairs (L.A.), Trash Talk (WA), Violation (L.A.), All Teeth * Rock Show - 04/15/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=325 Clorox Girls (OR), Red Dons (OR), Sex Tape Scandal * Drain The Sky (Record Release) - 04/20/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=326 California Love, Drain The Sky, Jesusfuckingchrist * PUNK PROM 2007 - 04/21/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=327 Rock And Roll Adventure Kids, Black Fag (L.A.), The Floating Corpses, Abi Yo Yo's, Tulsa ...................................................................... Show your talent ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Improv jam - Mondays http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=355 Anyone is welcome to join in on the comedy. * Improv Jam - Every Tuesdays http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=363 Night of 1000 Games. Bring a Game. Pick one from the Beer Cup of Death! * Campo Santo Acting Workshop with Margo Hall -- Every Tuesdays http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=375 This five-week workshop led by award-winning writer, actor and director Margo Hall, will focus on text, scene work, and basic acting techniques with an emphasis and goal of actors reaching full emotional potential and confidence in the audition and rehearsal process. The readings, discussions and exercises are designed to enable students to feel uninhibited in their acting. * FAMILY ART ACTIVITIES - Every Saturday, 1pm - 4pm http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=393 The Red Poppy now offers creative activities for children and families every Saturday on the sidewalk of the Art House. Every Saturday our volunteers pull out the supplies and suddenly the sidewalk is bursting with young painters and beautiful colors! ====================================================================== Editor: Melinda Adams | Thank you for reading -- go out and create! ...................................................................... Your address is secure. We do not share our email lists. Email listserv provided courtesy of Group D Communications: http://www.groupd.com/ ---=--- Expo for the Artist & Musicians is a service of Independent Arts & Media: http://artsandmedia.net/ ---=--- SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE http://lists.artsandmedia.net/mailman/listinfo/expo/ ====================================================================== From expo_info at artsandmedia.net Fri Apr 13 16:31:24 2007 From: expo_info at artsandmedia.net (Expo for the Artist & Musician) Date: Fri Apr 13 16:33:28 2007 Subject: Call for Art Message-ID: Expo for the Artist & Musician thought you'd want to know about the following call for art. --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Looking for Art and hand-made Crafts Are you an Artist looking for more exposure to the public and want to help the community? Art-raiser is looking for ART & Craft SUBMISSIONS for the "May Online Event" benefiting The Silicon Valley Children's Fund, in conjunction with Foster Care month. "Art-Raiser Online Events" uses art to help raise funds to support workshops, special events, scholarships, and more. The goal of Art-Raiser is to helps nonprofits, artists, and the community simultaneously. For one month, a nonprofit is featured in an online event where contributing artists donate a minimum of 20% of their proceeds in exchange for exposure of their work to the nonprofit community during the art-raising event. To see this month's event go to: www.artraiser.com If interested please send me a sample of the type of work that you would like to submit and I will send you the submission application. For more information: kimiko@workartworld.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://gdc.groupd.com/pipermail/expo/attachments/20070413/f91152a7/attachment.html From expo_info at artsandmedia.net Thu Apr 19 11:36:25 2007 From: expo_info at artsandmedia.net (Expo for the Artist & Musician) Date: Thu Apr 19 11:38:22 2007 Subject: Late Notice: Panhandle Bandshell Hearing April 19, 2pm Message-ID: Here's a note from the Black Rock Arts Foundation that may be of interest to the Expo community, regarding a permit hearing for a proposed temporary bandshell in Golden Gate Park. -- Expo listadmin --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- MESSAGE FORWARDED FROM BRAF: I am working with group of local artists is working on an incredible piece of community-based art in San Francisco, and we're running up against the usual contrarians who are doing their best to stir up trouble for us with the Recreation and Parks Commission. For us to get our permit, it's imperative that we get people to voice their support for the project, or it WILL NOT GO FORWARD, and that would be a sad moment for the arts in San Francisco. Please act on this right now (even if it's just a quick email of support), and send out to your lists and friends who can also offer their support. What is most valuable to us is PEOPLE to show up at the hearing itself on Thursday April 19th, but short of that ... an email or letter is great. Thank you for your kind attention. I hope to see you soon ... this project is keeping me busy! With hope, Rachel Ann Weidinger * * * SF Art & Environment Supporters: We need your help at City Hall this week! We seek your neighborly support for the Panhandle Bandshell Project, an amazing temporary public art project designed to build community and support the environment. The Panhandle Bandshell (http://www.panhandlebandshell.com/) is a beautifully-crafted, full-scale, traditional bandshell constructed from reclaimed materials - including car hoods, circuit boards and plastic bottles. The Bandshell will provide a stage for acoustic (non-amplified) performances in the Panhandle Park (near the Clayton Street crossing) throughout this summer **IF** the project is approved this Thursday, April 19th, at the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Commission. The Panhandle Bandshell is a creative collaboration of the Finch Mob, Rebar Group, CMG Landscape Architecture and the North of the Panhandle Neighborhood Association (NOPNA). It is a Black Rock Arts Foundation project and has direct backing from the SF Department of the Environment, the Neighborhood Parks Council and Mayor Gavin Newsom's office. For more information about the project and to learn how you can get involved: http://www.panhandlebandshell.com/faq.html HOW CAN YOU HELP?? 1) SPEAK AT THE PUBLIC MEETING - Use your civic voice! Particularly if you live in Upper Haight, Lower Haight, Cole Valley, NOPA, USF, Hayes Valley, Masonic, or the Divisadero corridor, your active, in-person support speaks volumes: Recreation and Park Commission Meeting Thursday, April 19, 2007, 2:00 P.M. San Francisco City Hall, Room 416 Please RSVP to Rachel Weidinger (mailto:rachelann@blackrockarts.org) - she'll let you know when the project is expected to be up on the agenda. 2) BY THIS WEDNESDAY (APRIL 18th) WRITE A LETTER in support of the project: Via email: Use "I support the Panhandle Bandshell" as the subject line and email to both: mailto:rachelann@blackrockarts.org mailto:recpark.commission@sfgov.org Via FAX: Please fax to the Black Rock Arts Foundation office 415-865-3820 AND the Recreation & Park Commission 415-221-8034. A sample letter of support is available at: http://www.blackrockarts.org/projects/Bandshell_Support_Letter.pdf>http://www.blackrockarts.org/projects/Bandshell_Support_Letter.pdf Thanks to all! Looking forward to picnicking with you this summer at the Bandshell. Rachel Weidinger Project Director Black Rock Arts Foundation www.blackrockarts.org 415-793-2939 Mobile 415-626-1248 General office 415- 865-3820 Fax (cover sheet, please) 1900 3rd Street, 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA, 94158 rachelann@blackrockarts.org AIM & Yahoo!IM: rachelweidinger From expo_info at artsandmedia.net Mon Apr 23 13:52:27 2007 From: expo_info at artsandmedia.net (Expo for the Artist & Musician) Date: Mon Apr 23 13:54:00 2007 Subject: [Expo] SF Int'l Film Festival screening, speaker, tickets Message-ID: Expo for the Artist & Musician wants you to know about three unusual events coming up at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival: * "ARROWS OF TIME" -- April 27 A live multimedia performance and mashup of particle physics, philosophy and poetry. * "MURCH" -- April 29 A documentary on film editor Walter Murch ("Apocalypse Now" and many others). Murch himself will be in attendance! * "NOTES TO A TOON UNDERGROUND: Animation & Live Music" Featuring members of Jet Black Crayon, Xiu Xiu, Good for Cows and other local-music savants. WIN TICKETS to one of these screenings at the end of this email. Thanks for your support of independent culture and community! -- Expo for the Artist & Musician --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- The 50th San Francisco International Film Festival April 26-May 10 Tickets and details: http://fest07.sffs.org/ * "ARROWS OF TIME" -- World Premiere Directed and performed by Ken McMullen Friday, April 27, SFMOMA, 6:30 pm (also 4/29 at McBean Theater) Imagine a film featuring French philosopher Jacques Derrida, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center physicists, German artist Joseph Beuys, a crime spree flashing forward from 1971 to 2006, and reconstructions of poems by John Milton, Jorge Luis Borges and Fernando Passoa as performed by leading actors such as "Henry and June"'s Maria de Medeiros. Now imagine all these elements as part of a live multimedia performance, edited in real-time into a mind-boggling mix-and- match of content and form. Director and artist Ken McMullen has amassed an impressive array of documentary footage of artists, philosophers and scientists to create an elaborate timeline of ideas, images and sounds that contrasts new discoveries in high-energy physics with other distinct yet overlapping cultural developments in fields such as philosophy, poetry, film and video. * "MURCH" Directed by David Ichioka, Edie Ichioka Sunday, April 29, Castro Theatre, 4:15 pm (also screening three other times) ** Walter Murch himself will attend the April 29 screening! There are film editors, and then there's Walter Murch, widely considered the world's greatest cutter for "Apocalypse Now" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" to name just two. "Murch" is an epic sit-down with the man as he discusses his theories on why we blink and what this has to do with cutting film; why he stands while he works (does a surgeon sit, or an orchestra conductor or a butcher?); "A Touch of Evil" (which Murch reedited in 1998 guided by Orson Welles's detailed 58- page memo written some 40 years earlier); what cooking and editing have in common (adding something bitter to bring out the inherent sweetness of the dish); and more. * "NOTES TO A TOON UNDERGROUND: Animation and Live Music" Saturday, May 5, Castro Theatre, 8:30 pm Featuring 15 animated films made between 1912 and 2005 by six different directors, and with 11 musicians providing live accompaniment, it's safe to file this program under "This Will Never Happen Again." The lineup includes Marc Capelle, Devin Hoff (of Good for Cows), Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy) Ches Smith (of Good for Cows, Xiu Xiu and Ceramic Dog), Jamie Stewart and Caralee McElroy (of Xiu Xiu), Carla Fabrizia (of Gamelan Sekar Jaya), Tommy Guerrero, Monte Vallier and Gadget (of Jet Black Crayon) and avant-garde legend William Winant. These musicians will unveil world premieres of newly composed scores to historic and contemporary animated shorts. *** WIN FREE SFIFF TICKETS *** SFIFF has made a pair of tickets for "MURCH" available to the Expo community. We'll give the tickets to the first person who emails us back and correctly names one other film Walter Murch edited, besides the three listed above. Simply "reply" to this email, or send your response to: expo_info@artsandmedia.net. From expo_info at artsandmedia.net Wed Apr 25 09:19:31 2007 From: expo_info at artsandmedia.net (Expo for the Artist & Musician) Date: Wed Apr 25 09:23:15 2007 Subject: May 3: "Read Me!" A Self-Publishing & Distro Workshop Message-ID: Expo for the Artist & Musician presents ... "Read Me!" -- An Indie Publishing & Distribution Workshop When: Thursday, May 3, 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.-ish Where: Modern Times Bookstore (888 Valencia St. x 20th St., SF) Cost: FREE Info: 415/861-5302 Online: http://artsandmedia.net/cgi-bin/dc/expo/2007/publishing_workshop.txt "I Have a Book in My Head and I Need to Get It Out!" Got an idea for the next great American novel in you head or all written down on paper? Wondering how to get it out to the people who need to read it? And maybe even make a few bucks in the process? The next Expo DIY Workshop will focus on: * Publishing basics for books and magazine * Distribution: By any means necessary * Surviving (or not) the fall of the Independent Press Association and Publisher's Group West As always, Expo DIY workshops offer plenty of Q&A and more than a little antic fun. Bring your own manuscripts and contact info to trade! All proceedings followed by fortifying beverages at a nearby bar. PANELISTS INCLUDE: -- Suzanne Shaffer (AK Press) on running an independent publishing company, pitching your books to one, and working with distribution companies. http://akpress.org/ -- Charlie Anders (Other Magazine) on how to publish a magazine, layout and design for press, and how a small group of people can?make a magazine happen. http://othermag.org/ -- Matt Holdaway (self-publisher extraordinaire) on DIY publishing and distribution. http://altgeek.net/voices/ -- Kaya Oakes (Kitchen Sink Magazine) on her experiences with the late, great Kitchen Sink. http://kitchensinkmag.com/ From expo_info at artsandmedia.net Thu Apr 26 13:45:26 2007 From: expo_info at artsandmedia.net (Expo for the Artist & Musician) Date: Thu Apr 26 13:48:24 2007 Subject: Bay Area Arts Events * Submit your art, volunteer, classes and more Message-ID: ============================================================================= BAY AREA ARTS EVENTS * April 26 - May 7, 2007 ............................................................................. A free service of Expo for the Artist & Musician http://artsandmedia.net/expo/ * View this calendar online: http://artsandmedia.net/calendar/ - All events, workshops, activities and services listed are produced by Bay Area organizations and community members that participate in the Expo each year. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcements ............................................................................. * "I have a book in my head and I need to get it out!" Independent publishing and distribution - a how-to workshop Thursday May 3rd Modern Times Bookstore 888 Valencia Street San Francisco 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.-ish FREE Panelists: Suzanne Shaffer (AK Press) Charlie Anders (Other Magazine) Matt Holdaway (longtime zinester) Kaya Oakes (Senior Editor, Kitchen Sink Magazine) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Featured Events ............................................................................. * Hyphen Magazine release party - 04/27/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=510 Join Hyphen as we celebrate our latest release, the Faith issue. We'll be keeping the faith in indie publishing at Poleng as our DJs spin everything from soulful hip hop to dancefloor classics. Be sure to pick up a copy of the magazine to check out our stories on Asian Jews, Muslim feminists, Chinatown movie theaters, controversial spiritual gurus, clowns (yes, clowns) and more! * Benefit for Balazo Gallery - 05/04/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=478 With La Plebe, Peligro Social, Eskapo, The Abuse, and In The Trenches ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Submissions & Volunteering ............................................................................. * Volunteer @ Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival - Deadline 05/07/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=475 We currently have volunteer positions available in general administration, PR, programming & sponsorship. Please contact Roseanna Fulton at roseannafulton(AT)gmail.com for details regarding volunteer opportunities and privileges. Skills needed for these positions involve attention to detail, eagerness in making connections in the local community, organization, ability to complete work independently, ability to work efficiently under stress, a sense of humor and interest in the non-profit arts sector. * CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! 2007 CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival - Deadline - 07/02/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=454 The 2007 CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival is seeking submissions for this year's festival, which is scheduled to take place from October 19-21 in San Francisco. The CounterCorp Festival seeks a variety of U.S. and foreign- made movies, feature-length and shorter works, and narrative (fictional) and documentary films (including animation) in both film and digital formats. Non-English films must have English subtitles. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIY Workshops ............................................................................. * Proposal Budgeting Basics - 05/07/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=483 * "I have a book in my head and I need to get it out!" - 05/03/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=381 Got an idea for the next great American novel in you head or all written down on paper; and you are wandering how to get it out there so people can read it, and even make a few bucks in the process. Then come spend May 3rd night with us, and have a chance to get your questions answered in this Q&A intensive workshop. * Prospect Research Basics: Researching Individual Donors - 05/04/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=482 If you've been trying to find information on prospective individual donors you've probably discovered that the process can be more difficult than researching institutional grantmakers. This workshop answers questions such as: How can you compile a list of potential donors? What strategies should you use to research the individuals on your list? What kind of information is relevant? What free information sources are available on the Web? What ethical standards must be applied when finding out information about individuals? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exhibits ............................................................................. * Pandora's Trunk - 1 Year Anniversary! - 04/28/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=405 * Visual Vaudeville & Built Burlesque 'Vaudeville' is thought to come from the french 'voix de ville', voice of the city... come let us speak to you. We will tell you a tale of independent artists and designers, making satirical and sexy statements like the vaudevillians of old, out of anything they can lay their dirty little hands on. Our first anniversary is shaping up to be a blowout party! We have busted our old studio at the seams and are coming to you from an all new location where the Mission and SoMa meet. * "Flora & Fauna" - 05/02/2007-06/07/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=409 The SFWA gallery features sculpture, jewelry, paintings, photography and art cards by member artists. San Francisco Women Artists is a volunteer non-profit organization with the expressed purpose of fostering promoting and encouraging the production, cultivation and appreciation of visual fine art created by women artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social / Party ............................................................................. * BAVC Innovation Salon Series - 04/26/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=389 Join us for the launch of the BAVC Innovation Salon Series on Thursday, April 26th from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm co-sponsored by Apple at the over-the-top screening room of Dolby Laboratories, 100 Potrero (at Alameda Street) in San Francisco. What to expect? Food, drinks, riveting panelists, cool prizes, heart-stopping demos! * May Day - CounterPULSE's 2nd Anniversary Show - 04/29/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=388 CounterPULSE celebrates its second birthday with dance, music, circus, food, drinks, and a silent auction -- all to benefit another year of support for risk-taking art by emerging artists. CounterPULSE provides support and low cost resources for emerging artists, serving as an incubator space to create socially relevant, diverse, community-based art in San Francisco. Join an all-star list of performers in celebrating CounterPULSE's second birthday and raising money to keep it thriving for another year. * Tour: Intro to Film Arts Foundation - 05/03/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=488 Check out this informational overview of the services and benefits of being a member of Film Arts Foundation. Finish the evening with a tour of the post-production suites and ask basic questions about how Film Arts can help your filmmaking endeavors. * "Meet The Crucible" - For Parents and Youth - 05/05/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=477 The Crucible, Oakland's school of industrial arts, is holding an orientation for parents and youth (ages 8 to 18) who are interested in classes, workshops, and summer camp at the Bay Area's only nonprofit sculpture studio, industrial arts educational facility, and art center. This introduction to The Crucible includes a tour of the facility from 1 to 2PM, followed an orientation with Youth Program Staff from 2 to 3PM. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Film & Video ............................................................................. * San Francisco International Film Festival -04/26/2007- 05/10/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=490 The Film Arts Foundation is excited to be co-presenting REVOLUTION SUMMER by Miles Montalbano. Local filmmaker Miles Matthew Montalbano's feature debut is the most open-hearted and open-minded political portrait to come down the pike in ages. Mackenzie Firgens gives a screen-melting, star-making performance as the aptly named Hope, a young woman with an undercurrent of vague idealism, an abundance of common sense and no real direction. Her best friend, Francine (a bold, brave turn by Lauren Fox), dismisses any discussion of philosophy and meaning in favor of a live- for-today frenzy of drugs, sex and more drugs. When Hope hooks up with Frankie, an earnest, likable fellow who's signed on to a subversive plot to attack an unknown target, the stakes are kicked up a few notches. * TV SHERIFF DVD LAUNCH + LAMBERT + PLU + - 04/28/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=372 Roaring out of the LA underground in 2001, the "video band" TV Sheriff and the Trailbuddies have pioneered a new mode of scratch video, both producing and performing wildly energized mash-ups of popular TV entertainment that take tour-de-force VJ'ing to a new level of media-crazed performance art. Headed by editorial sharpshooter Davy Force, they make mincemeat out of the mediocrity that is broadcast television, creating rhythmic collages from appropriated clips of the most absurd telecast tropes. Tonight OCD will demo their debut digital-video disc as the major component of this found-footage show. Co-billed is a set of shorts by master-of-irony Kent Lambert whose canny composites also take American pop culture to task, though in a more cerebral way * Whole Story: A Concordance of One's Life - 05/ 04/2007 -05/ 05/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=470 An interactive multi-media literary experience -based on a short story by Jim Nelson. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music ............................................................................. * Rock Show w/ Evil Wikked Warrior - 05/05/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=479 With Jason Webley (WA), Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band, Vermillion Lies, and New Thrill Parade -----------------------------------------------------------------------------Show your talent ............................................................................. * Campo Santo Acting Workshop with Margo Hall - 04/30/2007- 05/14/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=377 This five-week workshop led by award-winning writer, actor and director Margo Hall, will focus on text, scene work, and basic acting techniques with an emphasis and goal of actors reaching full emotional potential and confidence in the audition and rehearsal process. The readings, discussions and exercises are designed to enable students to feel uninhibited in their acting. * FAMILY ART ACTIVITIES - Saturdays http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=395 The Red Poppy now offers creative activities for children and families every Saturday on the sidewalk of the Art House. Every Saturday our volunteers pull out the supplies and suddenly the sidewalk is bursting with young painters and beautiful colors! * Improv jam http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=357 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=365 ============================================================================= Editor: Melinda Adams | Thank you for reading -- go out and create! ............................................................................. Your address is secure. We do not share our email lists. 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