From expo at lists.artsandmedia.net Fri Jan 18 16:23:54 2008 From: expo at lists.artsandmedia.net (expo@lists.artsandmedia.net) Date: Fri Jan 18 16:29:33 2008 Subject: BAY AREA ARTS EVENTS * Singing Cowboys, Anarcho-Punks, Film Scholarships & More! Message-ID: <4791431A.4030605@artsandmedia.net> ======================================================================== BAY AREA ARTS EVENTS * January 18-31 2008 ........................................................................ A free service of Expo for the Artist & Musician http://artsandmedia.net/expo/ ........................................................................ Edited and compiled by Melinda Adams * http://lilycat.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Many more events 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS: ........................................................................ * Favorites - Global Youth MAP Performing Arts Showcase! - "Broadcast Cowboy" - Re/Search presents: CRASS - Hyphen Magazine #13 Release Party * Call for submissions - CAll for Art 'Alameda On Camera - 48-Hrs, 48 Artists, 48 Pcs of the Map' - Online Metaverse Virtual Art Workshop - Free Filmmaking Workshop for Young Women * D.I.Y. Workshops - Free Film and Media Literacy Workshops - How to Draw Peanuts * Exhibits/ Performances - New Exhibit-'Beyond Words' - Small Press Spotlight - featuring Joey Sayers - The ZGAC's Black History Month 2008 Original Art Exhibit * Spoken Word/ Performance - New Yipes! reading series * Music - Free Jazz Improv company night ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWS ........................................................................ Happy 2008 to you all. As the new year begins, Independent Arts and Media is settling into their wonderful new offices in North Beach; and we are beginning to work on a six month series of workshops staring in March. Plus, of course, in the fall the Expo for Artist & Musician returns, with many exciting ideas and changes already in the works. Stay tuned for more information on all if this. -- Melinda Lilycat & the Indy Arts volunteers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FAVORITES ........................................................................ * Global Youth MAP Performing Arts Showcase! - 01/18/2008 -01/19/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=4539 Featured performances by youth from partnering organizations like: Acro Sports and June Jordan High School - IGO with Opera Piccola - Independence High School- Larkin Street Youth Services -Out of Site * "Broadcast Cowboy" - 01/18/08 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=4760&year=2008&month=01 On Friday, January 18th at 8:30PM Oddball Films presents the San Francisco Premiere of David Washburn's documentary "Broadcast Cowboy". Also featured with be rare Western Swing Soundies from the archives of Bay Area musicologist and film archivist Steve Hathaway. Director David Washburn and archivist Steve Hathaway will appear live to introduce, discuss and answer questions about their work and the Bay Areas history of Western Swing. * Re/Search Presents: CRASS - 01/19/08 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=4764&year=2008&month=01 Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher, founding members of seminal early English punk band and anarcho-agitators Crass will be appearing at San Francisco's own Hypnodrome. Rimbaud will give a spoken word performance, followed by an interview with Rimbaud and Vaucher by legendary Bay Area punk-documentarian V. Vale. An audience Q&A session will follow. * Hyphen Magazine #13 Release party: "The Hybrid Issue" - 02/01/08 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=4757&year=2008&month=2 Come toast with a mixed drink at the Hyphen (hyphenmagazine.com) Hybrid issue release party. Throw down your krumpin' moves before your friend upstages you with her Bhangra skills as our DJs spin mashed up beats late into the night. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ........................................................................ * Free Filmmaking Program for Young Women -- DEADLINE, January 25 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=4762&year=2008&month=1 SFWFF, LEF Foundation, and Tilt Media are partnering this spring to offer a free film training program to young women ages 14 to 19 in the Bay area. Young women will have the opportunity to create public service announcements to inspire social change. * Call for Submissions: The Online Metaverse Art Workshop (OMAW) http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=4758&month=01&year=2008 A pilot program that trains arts leaders and curators to use the virtual world platform to better serve emerging and established artists in their communities and to learn non- traditional ways of selling, promoting and fundraising for the arts. * Call for Art 'Alameda On Camera - 48-Hrs, 48 Artists, 48 Pcs of the Map' - Deadline 02/03/08 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=3328 48 photo-based artists will explore and document Alameda neighborhoods, favorite places, and secret hideaways. Traditions and cherished nostalgia, families, friends, and town characters, will share the lens with candid shots of our skeletons and dirty laundry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DIY WORKSHOPS ........................................................................ * Free Film and Media Literacy Workshops - 01/15/08 -08/29/08 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2560 Take advantage of free Film and Media Literacy Workshops offered exclusively to youth groups (ages 13-24). The purpose of these workshops is to further media education and film appreciation through the non-profit Ninth Street Independent Film Center organizations. * How to Draw Peanuts - 01/19/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=3596 Learn to draw your favorite Peanuts character with cartoonist, Alexis Fajardo, a Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates artist and creator of the comic series Kid Beowulf. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EXHIBITS ........................................................................ * Exhibit:'In Love :Schulz originals from the community' - 01/15/08 - 03/16/08 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1497 The exhibit is comprised of examples of Sparky's humor and compassion in original drawings, letters and birthday and get well wishes that he presented to friends over the years. * New Exhibit-'Beyond Words' - 01/16/08 - 05/11/08 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=3479 "Beyond Words" examines those Peanuts strips in which Charles Schulz dipensed with dialogue and used only "pictures" to tell the story. * Small Press Spotlight - featuring Joey Sayers - 01/26/08 -05/04/08 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=3801 Joey Sayers is a cartoonist living in Oakland, California. She has been drawing comics since she was very young. Her first strip, P.O.W. (Play on Words), drawn at age 7 was considered hilarious by herself and her co-author/father. * The ZGAC's Black History Month 2008 Original Art Exhibit - 01/30/08 - 02/27/08 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=4493 Jazz legend Betty Carter captured in pencil, graphite, charcoal, and watercolor, by artist b jAXON, E.C.A.D., for tHE ART oF MUZICK(R). Just one of several originals to be featured by the artists it the Black History Month 2008 Original Artwork Exhibit "Herstory, History, A Movement". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPOKEN WORD / PERFORMANCE ........................................................................ * New Yipes! reading series - 01/20/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=4635 Carla Harryman and Lauren Gudath, with video by Kota Ezawa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MUSIC ........................................................................ * Free Jazz Improv company night - 01/30/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=4634 w/special guest, Peter Evans performing with Jon Raskin, Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith, Weasel Walter, William Winant ============================================================================ Thank you for reading -- go out and create! ............................................................................ 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(On the chance that you won't riding on Critical Mass due to rain (or any other reason) just hop on the 22 Fillmore and walk in about 2.5 blocks past 18th st., and there you are. ) THE EXPO VOLUNTEERS --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Happy Feet and CELLspace Present *RIDE!* a Critical Mass afterevent benefitting CELLspace January 25, 2008 after Critical Mass to 2am $5 or more (100% to CELLspace, no one turned away) 2050 Bryant St. b/t 18th and 19th Sts. CELLspace needs a bit of velo-lovin', so please pedal on over for a night of spectacular fun and two-wheeled doin's... *:::::: With ::::::::* Bring Your Laser (featuring members of Hamsa Lila, Aphrodesia and Gamelan X) Electroacoustic / Breakcore / Ambient Anderson Congress Indie / Country / Psychedelic the Rabbles Psychedelic / Rock *::::::: DJ sets by ::::::::::* Trip Trap David Satori *::::::: Also ::::::::::* Video Mixing by VJ Jimbot Bike videos from Chris Carlsson Bike graffiti slide show Pedal-powered, participatory displays DIY bike stations (art, repair, info... you bring it, we'll make space for it!) Other random surprises *:::::::: More Info :::::::* RIDE!: 5:30 at Justin Herman Plaza, b/t Embarcadero BART and the Ferry Building. http://cellspace.org/membership.html http://happyfeettravels.org/ http://therabbles.com/ http://www.myspace.com/andersoncongress Bring Your Laser: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=284463540 http://www.myspace.com/davidsatorimusic Trip Trap: http://www.myspace.com/heytheremike January 25, 2008 08:00 PM - 02:00 AM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://gdc.groupd.com/pipermail/expo/attachments/20080125/9c99649d/attachment.html