[IndyArts] Shaping SF -- Fall & Winter Talks 2007-2008

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Here are some update from our partners at Shaping San Francisco on 
their Fall & Winter Talks program.

  === CONTENTS ===

      1 | Fall & Winter Talks 2007-2008 Announced

      2 | Shaping SF Radio Concludes

      3 | Your Donations Make a Difference!


  == (1) ===  FALL & WINTER TALKS  2007-2008 Lineup Announced!

Shaping SF producer Chris Carlsson has announced the speakers and 
topics for the upcoming Fall & Winter Talks season, happening 
Wednesdays at CounterPulse at 7:3o p.m. The program this year has 
expanded to include a new "arts & politics" series, so do check it 
all out!

      Fall & Winter Talks 2007-2008
      http://counterpulse.org/fall-winter-talks.shtml

      Downloadable PDF Schedule
      http://counterpulse.org/images/fall%20talks%204.pdf


     Indy Arts is booking & co-presenting TWO special editions to the 
Fall/Winter Talks series:

      ** "$56 Million a Year & Where's the Art?" -- September 12 **

      From city arts entitlements to grantmaking by private foundations, big
      money is spent on the arts in San Francisco. Funders struggle to be fair,
      while local artists and arts organizations are torn between their creative
      mission and market forces. Co-sponsored by Independent Arts & Media
      as part of the annual Expo for the Artist and Musician.

      WITH San San Wong (SF Arts Commission), John Killacky (SF Foundation),
      Frances Phillips (Walter & Elise Haas Sr. Foundation), Jessica Robinson
      (CounterPULSE), Colleen Marlow (Art Head), Krissy Keefer (Dance Mission)


      ** "Save the News!" -- December 12 **

      Newsrooms are hamstrung by the business practices of Wall Street and Big
      Media, even as newspaper circulation declines and TV news continues the
      race to the bottom. Both the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury
      News recently laid off large portions of their newsroom staff. 
The Internet
      is vulnerable to the same marketplace compromises. Explore alternative
      business models to ensure journalism remains a lively piece of 
our civic life.
      Co-presented with Independent Arts & Media/Newsdesk.org.

      WITH Barry Parr (Coastsider.com, Mercury Center founder), Michael Stoll
      (Grade the News, SJSU, SF Public Press), Rose Aguilar, (KALW-FM, Your
      Call radio), Josh Wilson (Newsdesk.org/Indy Arts), Northern California
      Media Workers speaker TBA.


  == (2) === SHAPING SF RADIO CONCLUDES

Shaping SF Radio on KUSF-FM concludes this September, to begin 
recording the new Fall & Winter Talks series for production and radio 
broadcast in 2008. You can listen to the 2006-2007 Talks radio 
archives online:

      http://artsandmedia.net/cgi-bin/dc/iam/pages/shapingSF-radio.txt



  == (3) === YOUR DONATIONS MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Your donations will help us produce and air Shaping SF Radio on KUSF 
and beyond in 2008! Thank you for helping bring REAL civic discourse 
to the mass-media talk radio wasteland!

      https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?id=695

      ... or mail a check (no cash) payable to Independent Arts & Media to:

      Indy Arts -- Shaping SF Radio
      PMB 821, 601 Van Ness Ave., Ste. E
      SF CA  94102



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