From expo at lists.artsandmedia.net Mon Mar 3 13:34:39 2008 From: expo at lists.artsandmedia.net (expo@lists.artsandmedia.net) Date: Mon Mar 3 13:39:53 2008 Subject: Bay Area Arts Events * "A New Virtual You," "Pick Your Poison" and more ... Message-ID: Dear friends ... just a quick reminder that TONIGHT is the kickoff of our 2008 DIY Workshop series at Access SF. "A New Virtual You" How to advance your work, your art, yourself via the Internet Monday, March 3, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. AccessSF Studio -- 1720 Market at Valencia, San Francisco SEATING IS LIMITED: Call Indy Arts to RSVP, 415/677-9877 ======================================================================== BAY AREA ARTS EVENTS * March 3-17, 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: ........................................................................ * INDY ARTS EVENTS - A New Virtual You" * Performances - Game Over: escaping the dropout factory * D.I.Y. Workshops/ lectures - Free Film and Media Literacy Workshops - the 6th Annual Big Sur Writing Workshop for Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, and Narrative Nonfiction - Relax with Tax 2008 * Exhibits - New Exhibit-'Beyond Words' - Small Press Spotlight - featuring Joey Sayers - Juried Annual 2008 at Pro Arts - New Exhibit-'The Language of Lines' - The Sky is Falling: A group exhibition on the theme of disaster - All Mixed Up * Benefit/ Special Events - Second Saturday Cartoonist - Elemental Interactions * Film - 'Pick Your Poison: Medicine and Madness' Screens - Tiburon Film Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INDY ARTS & MEDIA EVENTS ........................................................................ * The 2008 DIY Workshop series debuts with ... "A New Virtual You" How to advance your work, your art, yourself via the internet Presented by Independent Arts & Media, Lilycat.com and AccessSF.org TIME & DATE: Monday, March 3 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. with reception afterward LOCATION: AccessSF Studio -- 1720 Market at Valencia, San Francisco SEATING IS LIMITED: Call Indy Arts to RSVP: 415/677-9877 DESCRIPTION: Between blogging, Internet radio, Myspace, Facebook, Wikipedia, and Web sites galore, the internet is part of our daily lives. If you can't Google it -- it may not exist. Learn how to use the internet to it's best abilities to improve your knowledge and expand your exposure. FEATURING: -- BLOG IT WITH BLOGHER starring beautiful Liz Henry of BlogHer, http://liz-henry.blogspot.com -- WEBCASTING with John Miller - the grandfather of webcasting -- WORKING WIKIPEDIA with music writer and event planner extraordinaire DJ Pusspuss -- LIST IT with Larry Bob Roberts of "Queer Things to Do in San Francisco," also called the homo Craigslist -- Moderated by podcaster/life coach Michael Vav ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PERFORMANCES ........................................................................ * Game Over: escaping the dropout factory - 03/07/08 -03/16/08 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=5593 dance/theater/martial arts show with a message straight from the HEART ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DIY WORKSHOPS/ LECTURES ........................................................................ * 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. * the 6th Annual Big Sur Writing Workshop for Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, and Narrative Nonfiction - 03/07/2008 - 03/09/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1851 If you have a manuscript in progress our workshop will provide you with the tools you need to prepare your work for publication. Add the magic and inspiration of the Big Sur setting, gourmet meals, a professional and positive faculty and we promise you will have an unforgettable, insightful, fun and creative weekend. * Relax with Tax 2008- - 03/08/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=6050 A half-day seminar on the essentials of income tax for individual artists of all disciplines and small arts businesses. Topics include record keeping, form 1040, Schedule C and self-employment schedule, deductions, hobby losses, home offices and more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EXHIBITS ........................................................................ * 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. * Juried Annual 2008 at Pro Arts - 01/30/08 -03/08/08 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=4929 Once a year, Pro Arts hosts Juried Annual, a juried exhibition of work by its member artist constituency. The exhibition showcases work by artists of all ages who live and work in the Bay Area. Hundreds of artists submit work digitally in a variety of media (including painting, photography, sculpture, textile, glass, installation, digital, installation and performance art) for consideration, and over 1,000 pieces are reviewed for exhibition inclusion by an esteemed member of the Bay Area art world. * New Exhibit-'The Language of Lines' - 02/02/2008 - 08/10/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=4302 This exhibit explores the "visual shorthand" of comic art and how speed lines and other graphics are used to convey emotions and ideas. Exhibit runs till August 11, 2008. Museum closed on Tuesdays in winter. * The Sky is Falling: A group exhibition on the theme of disaster- 02/29/2008 - 03/29/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=5858 How do we coexist with the ever-present possibility of disaster? How do we react to a social climate that reminds us to be perpetually suspicious and very much afraid? The artists in The Sky is Falling, a multi-media art exhibition, suggest we are responding by arming ourselves (both literally and figuratively), using beauty to express outrage, and at times fiddling while Rome burns. * All Mixed Up - 03/14/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=5791 Come celebrate with some of the Bay Area's finest mixed media artists. * 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BENEFIT/ SPECIAL EVENTS ........................................................................ * Second Saturday Cartoonist - 03/08/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=6023 Meet, watch and talk to local cartoonist Brian Narelle. * Elemental Interactions - 03/13/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=5756 New Member Event Series: Elemental Interactions. To thank you for supporting Black Rock Arts Foundation, we invite you to join us for the first evening of our new lecture series, Elemental Interactions: FIRE. These new events are designed as conversational evenings about an exciting topic. Enjoy demos, talks and performances at the eclectic Burning Man headquarters! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FILM ....................................................................... * 'Pick Your Poison: Medicine and Madness' Screens - 03/08/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=5976 "Pick Your Poison: Medicine and Madness," a truly bizarre program of medical, psychoactive and mental hygiene films screens at Oddball Films * Tiburon Film Festival - 03/13/2008 -03/20/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=5384 ======================================================================= 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 at lists.artsandmedia.net Mon Mar 24 14:32:11 2008 From: expo at lists.artsandmedia.net (expo@lists.artsandmedia.net) Date: Mon Mar 24 15:28:11 2008 Subject: Bay Area Arts Events * Fair Use, Sex & Sensibility, Keith Knight's Arse Message-ID: ======================================================================= BAY AREA ARTS EVENTS * March 24-April 2, 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: ....................................................................... * INDY ARTS EVENTS - "Sampling & Fair Use: Copyright Issues for Indie Producers" * D.I.Y. Workshops/ lectures - Free Film and Media Literacy Workshops - Digital Dilemma - Initiate Your Mission: Non-Profit Corporate Formation * Exhibits - Small Press Spotlight - featuring Joey Sayers - New Exhibit-'The Language of Lines' - The Sky is Falling: A group exhibition about disaster * Literary Events - Sex and Sensibility: Reception and Book Release Party - Danny Plotnick's Warts & All release Party - I Left My Arse in San Francisco Book Release Party featuring Keith Knight ----------------------------------------------------------------------- INDY ARTS & MEDIA EVENTS ....................................................................... * The 2008 DIY Workshop series continues with ... "Sampling & Fair Use": Copyright issues for indie producers Presented by Independent Arts & Media, Lilycat.com and AccessSF.org TIME & DATE: Monday, April 7 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. with reception afterward LOCATION: AccessSF Studio -- 1720 Market at Valencia, San Francisco SEATING IS LIMITED: Call Indy Arts to RSVP: 415/677-9877 DESCRIPTION: You want to sample something in a video or song, borrow an image for an art collage, or use a vintage film clip in your act -- and you wonder if the estate of Groucho Marx can sue you. Come find our what's "fair game" and what's off-limits. When can you use work produced by other people and other organizations? How do you stay out of trouble? What are the limits and possibilities? FEATURING: -- George Rush (George M. Rush Law Offices; adviser, Film Arts Foundation): Entertainment lawyer, film and video specialist -- Jennifer Yip (Creative Commons): Creating and accessing open licensing in the Internet era -- Moderated by podcaster/life coach Michael Vav ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DIY WORKSHOPS/ LECTURES ....................................................................... * Free Film and Media Literacy Workshops for Youth - 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. * Digital Dilemma- - 03/26/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=6146 A review of key issues for artists and companies to consider when entering the digital space. An overview of digital distribution of content, ownership/work for hire issues, licensing models and recent cases will be discussed. * Initiate Your Mission: Non-Profit Corporate Formation - 03/27/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=6119 Learn what it will take to incorporate your vision for the benefit of the community. Attorney David Morales will take you through the steps of setting up a non-profit corporation. You will learn about the various filings and fees associated with incorporation and gain a greater understanding of the roles and relationships between the Secretary of State, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Attorney General. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- EXHIBITS ....................................................................... * 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. * New Exhibit-'The Language of Lines' - 02/02/2008 - 08/10/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=4302 This exhibit explores the "visual shorthand" of comic art and how speed lines and other graphics are used to convey emotions and ideas. Exhibit runs till August 11, 2008. Museum closed on Tuesdays in winter. * The Sky is Falling: A group exhibition on the theme of disaster-'- 02/29/2008 - 03/29/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=5858 How do we coexist with the ever-present possibility of disaster? How do we react to a social climate that reminds us to be perpetually suspicious and very much afraid? The artists in The Sky is Falling, a multi-media art exhibition, suggest we are responding by arming ourselves (both literally and figuratively), using beauty to express outrage, and at times fiddling while Rome burns. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LITERARY EVENTS ........................................................................ * Sex and Sensibility: Reception and Book Release Party - 03/27/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=6169 The Cartoon Art Museum presents an evening with New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly in celebration of the release of Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Love in 200 Cartoons. * Danny Plotnick's Warts All release Party at Red Hill Books - 03/29/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=6166 A selection of new and old films will be screened from San Francisco underground filmmaker, along with live tunes from guitar slinger Chuck Prophet! Bring your kids along! * I Left My Arse in San Francisco featuring Keith Knight - 03/29/2008 http://www.artsandmedia.net/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=6157 I Left My Arse in San Francisco is the fifth collection of Knight's self-syndicated weekly comic, The K Chronicles. It chronicles getting old (40!!), medical issues, marriage, sheep, and leaving the City he loves. ======================================================================= 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/ =======================================================================