BAY AREA ARTS EVENTS * Singing Cowboys, Anarcho-Punks, Film Scholarships & More!

Fri Jan 18 16:23:54 PST 2008

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  BAY AREA ARTS EVENTS * January 18-31 2008
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  A free service of Expo for the Artist & Musician
  http://artsandmedia.net/expo/
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  Edited and compiled by Melinda Adams * http://lilycat.com/
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* 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.

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 CONTENTS:
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    * 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

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NEWS
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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

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  FAVORITES
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* 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.  

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  CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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* 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.

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  DIY WORKSHOPS
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* 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.

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 EXHIBITS
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* 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".

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 SPOKEN WORD / PERFORMANCE
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* 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

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 MUSIC
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* 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

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