From expo_info at artsandmedia.net Wed May 2 11:01:49 2007 From: expo_info at artsandmedia.net (Expo for the Artist & Musician) Date: Wed May 2 11:03:05 2007 Subject: Free publishing & distro panel THURSDAY, May 3, Modern Times Bookstore Message-ID: Expo for the Artist & Musician presents ... "I have a book in my head and I need to get it out!" An independent publisher's workshop Thursday, May 3, 2007 7:30 p.m.- 9-ish p.m. Modern Times Bookstore (888 Valencia St. x 20th St., SF) Cost: FREE Info: 415/861-5302 Details: 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 'n' 'zines * Distribution: By any means necessary * The death of the Independent Press Association and Publisher's Group West, and other tales of publishing terror 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. -- 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. -- Matt Holdaway (self-publisher extraordinaire) on DIY publishing and distribution. -- Kaya Oakes (Kitchen Sink Magazine) on her experiences with the late, great Kitchen Sink. -- Coming Saturday, September 15, 2007 .... The Eighth Annual Expo for the Artist & Musician SomArts Cultural Center, 934 Branna Street Be a part of Expo 2007! http://artsandmedia.net/expo/participate/ From expo_info at artsandmedia.net Mon May 7 14:29:05 2007 From: expo_info at artsandmedia.net (Expo for the Artist & Musician) Date: Mon May 7 14:31:14 2007 Subject: Local arts volunteering + ticket discounts Message-ID: Expo for the Artist & Musician wants you know about the following opportunities to support the arts in our communities, make new connections, and get discounted tickets to some top-shelf local arts and performance. Read on to learn about: -- Volunteering @ Mission Creek Music Festival -- Volunteering @ SF International Arts Festival -- 20% SFIAFF discounts for Expo subscribers! .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... * VOLUNTEER at the 11th Annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Fest Mission Creek is one of the best indy-culture showcases on the planet! They need volunteers for sponsorship, event production, publicity, sustainability and more: http://www.mcmf.org/volunteer.php * VOLUNTEER at the SF International Arts Festival! SFIAF offers free tickets to volunteers helping in every aspect of the event's production. This year's theme is "Conversations Across the African Diaspora." http://www.sfiaf.org/postcards/2007/0425/email.html * DISCOUNT TICKETS for SFIAF! May 16-27 Exclusive to Expo subscribers, the SF International Arts Fest is offering a remarkable savings for their 2007 program on the African diaspora. See below for details, and tell them the Expo sent you! "The 2007 San Francisco International Arts Festival will run from May 16-27 and will include the US debut of the globe-trotting Guinean acrobatic company, Circus Baobab. "Participants in the Expo for the Artist & Musician can get a 20% discount off the cost of tickets to the Circus and all of the Festival's performance programs if they purchase their tickets in advance. "To take advantage of this offer call the box office at 415-439-2456 and let them know you're part of the Expo for the Artist & Musician and Independent Arts & Media community, and you will qualify for the discount. "For the full schedule go to: http://sfiaf.org " -- Coming Saturday, September 15, 2007 .... The Eighth Annual Expo for the Artist & Musician SomArts Cultural Center, 934 Branna Street Be a part of Expo 2007! http://artsandmedia.net/expo/participate/ From expo_info at artsandmedia.net Wed May 9 10:39:32 2007 From: expo_info at artsandmedia.net (Expo for the Artist & Musician) Date: Wed May 9 10:40:28 2007 Subject: Bay Area Arts Events * Calls for art, workshops, benefits, screenings & more! Message-ID: ============================================================================= BAY AREA ARTS EVENTS * May 9 - May 22, 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 ANNOUNCEMENTS ............................................................................. * "I'll Be on Tour Then" Getting your band into festivals and booking tours -- A DIY workshop June 21, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Edinburgh Castle, 950 Geary, SF SAVE THE DATE! * The Eighth Annual Expo for the Artist & Musician The Bay Area's only grassroots connection fair for independent art, music and culture September 15, 2007, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. SomArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan, SF Participate in the Expo! http://artsandmedia.net/expo/participate/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BENEFITS ............................................................................. * "MAXED OUT" - documentary - 05/15-16/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=604 From small-town America to the White House, MAXED OUT reveals how the modern financial industry really works: how so-called 'sub-prime' borrowers - a euphemism for the broke and bankrupt -- are now the banks' of their 'preferred customers', why banks (despite what they say) actually want you to make late payments, and why Americans are now going broke at a faster rate than during the Great Depression. These "Maxed Out" screenings benefit the CounterCorp Film Festival * Benefit for Visual Aid - 05/22/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=481 "The festivities will begin at 6 p.m. with specialty cocktails, wine from the O'Brien Cellars, a celebrated boutique Napa Valley winery, hors d'oeuvres before giving way to the main event: the live auction of more than 50+ works of art donated by well-known artists, galleries, and luxury/travel businesses. Of special interest, a beautiful new baby grand piano, airline tickets to destinations around the globe, holiday accommodations, rare jewelry, and extraordinary paintings, sculpture, photographs and more will tempt the eye and pocketbook." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ............................................................................. * Dance & Music Videos: Open Call -Deadline- 05/10/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=466 Seeking San Francisco - Bay Area artists making short music and dance videos * ArtSF: Love and Hate -Call for art- Deadline- 05/26/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=583 An artistic conglomeration of two polar spectrums. * The 48 Hour Film Project - SF registration - Deadline- 05/31/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=560 "The 48 Hour Film Project's mission is to advance filmmaking and promote filmmakers. Through its festival/competition, the Project encourages filmmakers and would-be filmmakers to get out there and make movies. The tight deadline of 48 hours puts the focus squarely on the filmmakers--emphasizing creativity and teamwork skills. While the time limit places an unusual restriction on the filmmakers, it is also liberating by putting an emphasis on 'doing' instead of 'talking.'" * The 2007 CounterCorp Film Fest - 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. * The Lab -- Call for Submissions- Deadline- 07/13/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=463 The situation of the artist in America is not one in which the public is hostile to contemporary art, so much as it is unengaged with it. The emerging artist is thrown back on her own devices -- "Why do I do this? For my peers, for those who care about art, or for myself?" What can we ascertain about why artists make work for themselves? One answer might be that artists have a yearning to see what it would look like, referring to odd visual juxtapositions, social engagements, cultural interrogations, new ways of seeing familiar things, political intrusions, or formal innovations. The curators invite artists to submit works that use anticipation -- their own and the viewers' -- as a means to see the world anew every day. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIY WORKSHOPS ............................................................................. * 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! * Registering and Defending Your Trademark - 5/9/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=505 Get savvy about brands and trademarks. This workshop will address when a trademark is desirable, what it protects and how to search and register your trademark. * Intro to Alameda County Bioregional Ecology - 5/12-13 & 5/19-20 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=573 See: - Signs of Hayward Earthquake Fault - Some of the region's 200 bird species - A unique urban/wild interface Learn: - A holistic Bioregional perspective - Life-place mapping - Ecological restoration techniques * Individuals seeking grants - 05/16/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=485 Are you a representative of a nonprofit organization? Want to know more about Foundation Center resources and the funding research process? * Introduction to Fundraising Planning - 05/21/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=486 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. * Scholarships For Finance Risk Management Conference - 5/22/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=348 Nonprofits' Insurance Alliance of California (NIAC) and the Nonprofit Risk Management Center are making a limited number of half-off scholarships available to the Craigslist Foundation community. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXHIBITS & PERFORMANCE ............................................................................. * "Earth, Sky, and Between" 05/07/2007 - 05/27/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=521 Nature and 'the wonder of it all', our place in the world, earth, planets, globe, humankind, humanity, family of man, stars, moons, infinity, religion, spiritual connection, eternity, geology, physics, natural history, forever, consciousness, birth, death, timeless, macro/micro, senses, mind blowing. * "Flora & Fauna" - 05/07/2007 - 06/07/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=414 The SF Women Artists 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 SF Bay Area. * "Take Me Out" - 05/11/2007 - 07/01/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=607 Winner of the 2003 Tony Awards for Best Play, Take Me Out is a complex meditation on several themes suffused with a genuine passion for baseball. Darren Lemming, the star center fielder of the world champion New York Empires is young, rich, famous, talented, handsome, and so convinced of his popularity that when he casually announces that he is gay, he assumes that the news will be readily accepted by everybody. It isn't. * Maven Craft Fair - Indie Women Artists Designers - 05/12/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=320 The Maven Craft Fair brings together local and regional talent for a stunning artisans' marketplace featuring over 30 designers. * The Cartoon Art Museum hosts cartoonist Ryan Claytor - 05/13/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=472 Claytor is best known for his autobiographical comic book 'And Then One Day,' a self-published comic book diary of his life with personal anecdotes. The series evolved throughout the years, following its creator and changing formats to the latest issue, which is an experimental hybrid between autobiography and documentary in comic book form. * Fine Art in the Park - 05/19/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=177 One of the oldest open-air festivals in the Bay Area, 'Fine Art in the Park' features original, juried art from some 200 artists, including paintings, sculpture, and jewelry. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOCIAL ............................................................................. * The Next Chapter for the Future - 05/13/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=603 Please join the San Francisco House Music Community in its fourth benefit event for children affected by AIDS in Africa. FOR THE FUTURE is bringing together an incredible group of 18+ dj,s and over 6 media & promotional sponsors in a 14-hour event, to share the music, spread the word, and raise funds for NextAid's environmental children,s residence and community center project in a poverty and AIDS stricken town in South Africa. * CounterCorp Kicks Korporate Ass - 05/15/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=373 'We are heartened by a kindred project here in the 'hood, the (hopefully) annual weekend presentation of films and panels that take corporations to task: the CounterCorp Film Festival! Come on down for a drink and a snack in this screening-room reception that serves to launch this ambitious undertaking.' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILM & VIDEO ............................................................................. * San Francisco International Film Festival - 05/07/2007 - 05/10/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=501 The San Francisco International Film Festival will mark its place in history as the first film festival in the Americas to turn 50. The Film Arts Foundation is excited to be co-presenting REVOLUTION SUMMER by Miles Montalbano. * Knocking - 05/08/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=577 They are moral conservatives who stay out of politics, but they won a record number of court cases expanding freedom for everyone. They refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds, but they embrace the science behind bloodless surgery. In Nazi Germany, they could fight for Hitler or go to the concentration camps. They chose the camps. Following two families who stand firm for their controversial and misunderstood Christian faith, KNOCKING reveals how Jehovah's Witnesses have helped shape history beyond the doorstep * Truly CA: Prison Town USA, with short No Angels - 05/12/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=487 In March 2005 a federal prison opened its doors just outside Susanville, California. The town already had two massive penitentiaries and far more inmates than free people. Like hundreds of other rural 'prison towns' across the U.S., Susanville hitched its hopes to the colossal American prison boom of the '80s and '90s, desperately trying to shore up its struggling economy. But to many natives the town has become almost unrecognizable: the new Susanville is a world of 'cops and cons' where nearly everyone lucky enough to have a job works for the prison; local businesses have shut down by the dozen; cliques at school are not jocks and preps but guard kids vs. inmate kids; and the talk of the town is who got stabbed at the prison riot this week. "Prison Town USA" is an up close and personal portrait of Susanville's residents, living both inside and outside the prison walls. * CounterPULSE presents the 2nd annual:STREAM/fest - 5/17-19/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=514 Artists respond to climate change, advances in technology and media saturation with a sophisticated melange of live performance and interactive media. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUSIC ............................................................................. * Punk From 2007 - 05/19/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=480 Rock And Roll Adventure Kids, Black Fag (L.A.), Abi Yo Yo's, Floating Corpses, Tulsa ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHOW YOUR TALENT ............................................................................. * Americian Fido - the worst talent contest - 05/22/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=153 Come and show us your worst talent * Improv jam - Monday http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=357 Anyone is welcome to join in on the comedy. * Improv Jam - Tuesday http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=365 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 Thu May 24 07:43:37 2007 From: expo_info at artsandmedia.net (Expo for the Artist & Musician) Date: Thu May 24 07:48:47 2007 Subject: [Expo] Bay Area Arts Events * Self-love, calls for art, SF Int'l Arts Fest and more Message-ID: ============================================================================= BAY AREA ARTS EVENTS * May 23 - June 6, 2007 ............................................................................. A service of Expo for the Artist & Musician * http://artsandmedia.net/expo/ ............................................................................. Edited and compiled by Melinda Adams * http://lilycat.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * 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. - Event listings provided by producing agencies. Details are not verified, edited or spell-checked by Expo volunteers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXPO ANNOUNCEMENTS ............................................................................. * "I'll Be on Tour Then" Getting your band into festivals and booking tours -- A DIY workshop June 21, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Edinburgh Castle, 950 Geary, SF SAVE THE DATE! * The Eighth Annual Expo for the Artist & Musician The Bay Area's only grassroots connection fair for independent art, music and culture September 15, 2007, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. SomArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan, SF Participate in the Expo! http://artsandmedia.net/expo/participate/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- FAVORITE ............................................................................. * SF International Arts Festival -- through 05/27/07 http://sfiaf.org/2007/calendar.html This incredible array of local and international artists examines issues and experiences related to the African diaspora. From Circus Baobab to the Underground Jazz Cabaret, from Thomas Simpson's AfroSolo to the SF Chamber Orchestra, from academic exporations at the SF Public Library to film, video, literature and visual art -- SFIAF is a feast for every creative appetite and every hungry mind and heart. * Perverts Put Out: The Wank Edition - 05/25/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=719 In conjunction with National Masturbation Month, San Francisco's premier erotic reading series presents a special evening dedicated to the pleasures of self-abuse, with hosts Carol Queen and Simon Sheppard, and performers i ncluding Meliza Banales, m. i. blue, and horehound stillpoint. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BENEFITS ............................................................................. * 21 Grand's 7th Annual Benefit Art Sale - 06/01/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=323 Come help this great art space by buying some cool art. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ............................................................................. ** CALL FOR ENTERTAINMENT *- 05/22-25/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=698 Access SF - 1st Annual Nonprofit Telethon Friday, June 29th, 2007 - Saturday, June 30th, 2007 LIVE -- 12 hours per day on Cable Channel 29 (Repeated throughout the first week of July on Channel 76) Proceeds from the telethon will be shared as follows: - 60% benefit Access SF's new development campaign, the 20th Anniversary Fund for the Future of Public Access. - 40% benefit Access SF's current slate of (34) nonprofit members. This total amount will divided equally and re- granted back to each of the nonprofit members as our way of giving something back to the local nonprofit community. * The 48 Hour Film Project - SF registration - 05/22-31/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=558 The 48 Hour Film Project's mission is to advance filmmaking and promote filmmakers. Through its festival/competition, the Project encourages filmmakers and would-be filmmakers to get out there and make movies. The tight deadline of 48 hours puts the focus squarely on the filmmakers' emphasizing creativity and teamwork skills. While the time limit places an unusual restriction on the filmmakers, it is also liberating by putting an emphasis on 'doing' instead of 'talking.' * UNAFF Call For Entries- 05/22/2007 - 06/01/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=660 10th UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION FILM FESTIVAL (UNAFF) October 24-28, 2007 Stanford University - celebrates the power of international documentary films and videos dealing with human rights issues, environmental survival, protection of refugees, famine, homelessness, racism, disease control, women's issues, children, universal education, war and peace. The theme for UNAFF 2007 is: "CAMERA AS WITNESS" Formats: 16mm and 35mm film; 1/2', Beta SP, DVD, PAL/NTSC. Preview on 1/2' VHS (PAL/NTSC), DVD (NTSC region 0 or 1). * Call for Entries: CounterCorp Film Fest - 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. * The Lab -- Call for Submissions- Deadline- 07/13/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=463 The situation of the artist in America is not one in which the public is hostile to contemporary art, so much as it is unengaged with it. The emerging artist is thrown back on her own devices -- "Why do I do this? For my peers, for those who care about art, or for myself?" What can we ascertain about why artists make work for themselves? One answer might be that artists have a yearning to see what it would look like, referring to odd visual juxtapositions, social engagements, cultural interrogations, new ways of seeing familiar things, political intrusions, or formal innovations. The curators invite artists to submit works that use anticipation -- their own and the viewers' -- as a means to see the world anew every day. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIY WORKSHOPS ............................................................................. * 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! * Getting Your Book Published - 05/23/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=506 Understand the book publishing business from A to Z. Learn the keys to contract negotiations with agents, book publishers, co-authors and others in the publishing cycle. * Summer Radio Camps - From 0 to 40 watts in 4 days-- 05/25-28/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=721 A four day workshop session sponsored by Free Radio Berkeley to teach you how to build a 40 watt FM broadcast transmitter (and other related items such as antennas) and set up a low power community radio station capable of covering a broadcast radius up to 10 miles depending on terrain and antenna height. With an emphasis on direct, hands-on learning, you will learn how to solder, identify electronic components, assemble a 40 watt transmitter from a kit of parts, build and tune an antenna, properly setup and test broadcast equipment and much more. Further, you will be given an overview of basic electronics and broadcast engineering. * Butterflies in the City - 05/30/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=718 Despite the revolutionary ecological changes on the San Francisco peninsula over the last 240 years, the city abounds with spectacular native biodiversity, including a couple dozen species of butterflies. Like many insects, butterfly have co-evolved with specific plants in an ecological co-evolutionary dance over millions of years. The Franciscan bioregion is home to several locally endemic species, such as the mission blue, which only lives on coastal bedrock ridgetops. A subset of our native butterflies have adapted to some non- native plants, including some weeds. Join us for an exhilarating and beautiful ride through this fascinating subject. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXHIBITS & PERFORMANCE ............................................................................. * "Earth, Sky, and Between" 05/07/2007 - 05/27/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=521 Nature and 'the wonder of it all', our place in the world, earth, planets, globe, humankind, humanity, family of man, stars, moons, infinity, religion, spiritual connection, eternity, geology, physics, natural history, forever, consciousness, birth, death, timeless, macro/micro, senses, mind blowing. * "Flora & Fauna" - 05/07/2007 - 06/07/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=414 The SF Women Artists 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 SF Bay Area. * "Take Me Out" - 05/11/2007 - 07/01/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=607 Winner of the 2003 Tony Awards for Best Play, Take Me Out is a complex meditation on several themes suffused with a genuine passion for baseball. Darren Lemming, the star center fielder of the world champion New York Empires is young, rich, famous, talented, handsome, and so convinced of his popularity that when he casually announces that he is gay, he assumes that the news will be readily accepted by everybody. It isn't. * Love/Hate -- Art/Mu-sick Conglomeration of 2 Polar Spectrums - 05/26/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=717 Over 30 visual artists will be showing their work. Music will feature 1-Man Banjo, the Dedications, Ivy and Laverne, DJ Zeljko, and DJ Cuba. For more info go to ArtSF.org !!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOCIAL ............................................................................. * really really free flea Market - 05/26/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=713 no money -- no barter -- no trade -- everything is free. really. your participation strongly encourad -- bring gifts, entertainment and friends -- leave your wallet at home -- the last saturday of every month, dolores park. participation can take many forms. some people look over their things and bring what they dont need anymore. someone else will most likely need exactly what you give. some people bring or make food on the spot. some people teach skills like juggling or bike repair. some people play music. there are infinite ways to involve yourself - be creative! * New ED Breakfast Club: - 06/01/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=706 What can you do to prevent burn-out, and to avoid sacrificing your own well-being for the job, as too many executive directors before you have done? Join Life Coach Rich Snowdon, a former executive director who now works exclusively with other executive directors to help them thrive, in a frank discussion of avoiding the martyrdom trap. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILM & VIDEO ............................................................................. * BAD MOVIE NITE - Sundays http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=673 For cheap you get a crappy flick, free popcorn and the chance to bond with other disgruntled movie goers and yell ironic comments at the screen along with our guest hosts!! * A Grin Without a Cat - 05/24/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=714 First released in 1977, this is Chris Marker's "grand immersion" (J. Hoberman), an epic examination of the course of the global Left in the 20th Century. Marker focusses particularly on the period post-WWII until the Chilean coup. He added a short coda in 1993 following the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the film was never released in the US until 2002. (It has not been shown in SF since then.) * Lost Film Fest with VJ Scott Beibin - 05/26/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=715 If you like pranks on corporations and you really hate George W Bush, you'll love the Lost Film Fest cinema laboratory. The program is VJ'd and hosted by Scott Beibin (Evil Twin Booking Agency guy and mastermind of the Jerry Springer episode with JP of The Locust.) It's a performance that incorporates charged and humorous short films by folks like The Yes Men, TV Sheriff, Guerrilla News Network, as well as news that doesn't make the news, namely riot footage from around the world that you won't see anywhere else. * THE WAR TAPES - 05/31/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=489 Straight from the front lines in Iraq, THE WAR TAPES is the first war movie filmed by soldiers themselves. THE WAR TAPES is Operation Iraqi Freedom as filmed by Sergeant Steve Pink, Sergeant Zack Bazzi and Specialist Mike Moriarty. These and other soldiers captured over 800 hours of footage, providing a glimpse of their lives in the midst of war. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUSIC ............................................................................. * Music by the Eyeful - 05/24/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=703 Super-8 and live performance by EPIC[abridged] (Ben Furstenburg, C harles Kremenak, Christian Bruno and Steve Dye et alia) The second of three (fourth Thursday) concerts featuring inventions in visual audio , exploring the moving boundaries between music, film, optics, graphics, loops and reels, guest curated by Suki O'Kane, musician and curator of The Illuminated Corridor. * Symphony and Sculpture at the SF Dump - 05/25/2007 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=645 Local composer Nathaniel Stookey's last piece was for the San Francisco Symphony; his next piece is for the San Francisco Dump. Since February Stookey has been finding discarded objects at SF Recycling & Disposal for an unconventional "junkestra" of pipes, pots, oil drums, and more. The next step will be to create a musical score and to bring in musicians for a professional recording and a premiere performance in May. ============================================================================= 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/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------