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screenings & more!
Expo for the Artist & Musician
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BAY AREA ARTS EVENTS * May 9 - May 22, 2007
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A free service of Expo for the Artist & Musician
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- All events, workshops, activities and services listed
are produced by Bay Area organizations and community
members that participate in the Expo each year.
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EXPO ANNOUNCEMENTS
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* "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!
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BENEFITS
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* "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."
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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* 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.
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DIY WORKSHOPS
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* 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.
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EXHIBITS & PERFORMANCE
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* "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.
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SOCIAL
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* 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.'
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FILM & VIDEO
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* 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.
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MUSIC
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* 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
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SHOW YOUR TALENT
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* 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!
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