From iam at lists.artsandmedia.net Thu May 3 13:04:25 2007 From: iam at lists.artsandmedia.net (iam@lists.artsandmedia.net) Date: Thu May 3 13:06:17 2007 Subject: [Indy Arts] Free workshop & radio tonight; Expo returns; free tickets! Message-ID: Here's a slew of updates for you about Independent Arts & Media, a free speech and civil society nonprofit group with a mission to expand civic dialogue by increasing access to independent voices. Read on to learn about: -- A free indy publishing workshop tonight -- A new radio broadcast on "The Future of Education" -- The 2007 Expo for the Artist & Musician (Sept. 15 @ Somarts!) -- the NEW Newsdesk.org and News You Might Have Missed -- Volunteer @ Mission Creek Music Fest and SF Int'l Arts Fest -- 20% SFIAFF discounts for Indy Arts subscribers! .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... INDY ARTS IN ACTION * TONIGHT, Thursday, May 3: "Read Me!" An Indy Publishing Workshop At Modern Times Bookstore, SF, 7:30p.m., FREE With panelists from AK Press, Other Magazine, Kitchen Sink Magazine and others. Details here: http://artsandmedia.net/cgi-bin/dc/expo/2007/publishing_workshop.txt * TONIGHT, Thursday, May 3: "Shaping San Francisco Radio" 10:30 p.m., KUSF, 90.3 FM, San Francisco, online @ www.kusf.org/ This week we kick off a new four-part panel discussion and audience dialogue on "Reading, Writing and Teaching: the Future of Education." It's an amazing discourse that overs home schooling in the Bay Area, public school reform, and some deep and critical thinking about standardized testing, privatization and the purpose of public education in a civil society. * COMING SEPT. 15: The Eighth Annual Expo for the Artist & Musician! The Bay Area's only grassroots connection fair for independent art, music and culture returns to SomArts in September. Learn how you can get a table, volunteer, sponsor the Expo and more: http://artsandmedia.net/expo/participate/ * HAVE YOU SEEN the -new- Newsdesk.org? Newsdesk.org and News You Might Have Missed were relaunched this spring with a new format and new Web page. They are leading sources for important but overlooked news from around the world. Check 'em out, and tell your friends! http://newsdesk.org/ http://newsdesk.org/archives/003263.html .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... SUPPORT OUR PARTNERS & ALLIES * 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 Indy Arts 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 Indy Arts send 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. "Members of Independent Arts & Media 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 tell them you are a subscriber of Independent Arts & Media and you will qualify for the discount. "For the full schedule go to: http://sfiaf.org " -- "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." -- Groucho Marx From iam at lists.artsandmedia.net Mon May 7 14:21:27 2007 From: iam at lists.artsandmedia.net (iam@lists.artsandmedia.net) Date: Mon May 7 14:26:01 2007 Subject: [Indy Arts] "Maxed Out" benefit screening May 15 & 16 Message-ID: Indy Arts wants you to know about a special screening of "Maxed Out" on May 15 & 16 to benefit the CounterCorp Film Festival. We are proud to provide fiscal sponsorship to CounterCorp, as part of our mission to expand civic dialogue by increasing access to independent voices. Read on for details -- and thanks for your support of independent culture & community! --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- The 2007 CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival invites you to a pre-festival benefit screening of the new documentary MAXED OUT on May 15 & 16 at 7:15 and 9:30 at the worker-owned Red Vic Movie House, 1727 Haight Street (at Cole Street), in San Francisco. >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. The film also looks at the personal information business, in which 90 percent of all credit reports have errors in them, but the credit companies don't bother to correct them, because negative reports mean higher individual interest rates -- and industry profits. And they don't just prey on adults: In an echo of the current student loan scandal, MAXED OUT exposes how banks pay millions of dollars to access to students' personal information, then entice teenagers into life-long debt servitude and financial subsistence. The film will be followed by a Q & A session with credit experts/activists. Tickets to benefit the 2007 Anti-Corporate Film Festival, which runs Oct. 19-21 in San Francisco, are $10 and available online at http://virtuous.com/events/countercorp/. For more information about CounterCorp or the 2007 Festival, visit our website at http://www.countercorp.org/. -- ++ Independent Arts & Media ++ + http://artsandmedia.net/ + Indy Arts strengthens public dialogue by increasing access to independent voices. Newsdesk.org / News You Might Have Missed + http://newsdesk.org/ + The Expo for the Artist & Musician -- Eight Years in 2007 + http://artsandmedia.net/expo/ + Fiscal Sponsorship & Services + http://artsandmedia.net/cgi-bin/dc/iam/pages/fiscal_sponsorship + From iam at lists.artsandmedia.net Thu May 10 16:51:41 2007 From: iam at lists.artsandmedia.net (iam@lists.artsandmedia.net) Date: Thu May 10 16:53:51 2007 Subject: Shaping SF Radio TONIGHT: "The Future of Education" Message-ID: Tune into KUSF tonight, Thursday, May 10, at 10:30pm, for part two of Shaping San Francisco's inquiry into "Learning & Teaching: The Future of Education." Tonight's program features adult-student leadership advocate Will Grant, and Lowell High School teacher and Teacher's Union shop steward Ken Tray. Both provide fascinating insight on the nature and challenge of education. Grant's work with adult students who return to school after dropping out reveals both the shortcomings of hierarchical classroom structures -- and the great potential of working collaboratively with former students who've been let down by the education system. Tray's discourse on the "utopian moments" that make teaching so worthwhile is a powerful statement in support of our underfunded public school system. Listen in at 10:30 p.m. 90.3 FM in San Francisco, or streaming online at http://www.kusf.org. Recorded live at CounterPulse, Shaping San Francisco's Talks is produced by Shaping SF, City Lights Foundation, Nature in the City and Independent Arts & Media. Radio broadcast produced by Independent Arts & Media, http://artsandmedia.net. Shaping San Francisco on KUSF Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. 90.3 FM, KUSF San Francisco (www.kusf.org)