Archive for October, 2009

The 2009 Winter DIY Workshop Series continues with…Get Your Sh*t Together!

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Greetings Artlings,

After a smashing inaugural panel last night our Winter DIY Workshop Series is in full swing.

Register Now for our upcoming DIY Workshops!

A series of workshops and social gatherings targeted to the grassroots arts community – organizations and individuals alike – with the goal of strengthening community, building capacity, and letting off some steam! As always, No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds!


TIME & DATE:

November 10th, 6-8pm

LOCATION:

IndyArts’ New Office
222 Sutter Street, Suite 600
Sutter @ Kearny, San Francisco

DESCRIPTION:

Get Your $h*T Together! – A Hands on Action Accelerator for Artists

What are your NEXT STEPS?

This workshop aims to help you build a bridge between inspirational ideas and the world of your daily life, finances, and career. Audette will present some important tools and resources to help you harness all that messy fabulous potential and creativity into efficient vessels that will help those ideas find their way to action.

Topics Included in this Workshop:

* Clarifying & Prioritizing Goals
* Time & Project Management
* Creating Dynamic Action Plans.

Join us for hands-on instruction on how to build a Customized Action Blueprint that you can start to implement as soon as you get home!

Audette Sophia is a writer, multi-disciplinary performer and creative career consultant. She has a B.A. in Integrative Arts from Prescott College and is a certified coach from the Life Purpose Institute. She has over 11 years professional arts background including founding and directing two performance troupes, publishing an interactive poetry book, and teaching many expressive arts classes and workshops.

http://www.catalystarts.com/

SPACE IS LIMITED to 20 participantsRSVP TODAY to save your seat!
And share this on Facebook, you know you want to.

Festival Round-up Roundup

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Thanks to everyone who came out to last night’s Mixer and Panel event!

Christian Cunningham of The Bay Bridged, Therese Davis of Songbird Festival, and Francois Vigneault of SFZineFest (pinch-hitting for Scarlett of SF Women’s Film Festival who got stuck in the bridge collapse madness) provided us all with a fantastic conversation on the in’s and out’s of DIY Festivals.

Give a listen to the extended discussion to hear how these incredible San Francisco festivals tackle promotions, budgets, booking, city restrictions, and oh so much more!

IndyArts Presents “The Best of the Fests” DIY Panel, Oct 27th, Mission:Comics & Arts

And take a gander at some pics taken by Maven Jessica Brown while you’re at it.

Muchas gracias to Leef Smith of Mission: Comics & Arts for hosting last night’s event! Be sure to stop by the place (3520 20th Street @ Mission) to get your fill of cool comix, rad art, and the sweetest new spot in town.

Stay tuned for more to come! And watch out for the Doughnut Festival, coming soon to a neighborhood near you…

Oct 27th 6pm – Expo Round-Up Mixer & DIY Festivals Panel!

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Greetings Expo movers and shakers!

We at Independent Arts and Media invite you for a night of fun at Mission Comics & Art. From 6-8pm we will have a Post Expo Round Up including a casual Festival Panel comprised of three of our local Festival producers:

Scarlett Shepard, Founder and Director of the SF Women’s Film Festival
Christian Cunningham, Co-Founder of The Bay Bridged, co-presenter of Rock Make Music & Art Street Festival
Therese Davis, Founder and Producer of the Songbird Festival

Our esteemed and kick-ass panelists will share their expertise and experience producing some of the spring and summer’s best events – including the do’s and don’ts of large scale event planning, DIY promotions, marketing, venue selection, and booking, and overall suggestions on how to make the most of festivals for planners and participants.

This panel is part of our DIY Workshop series, we would like your input on other workshop ideas through the year!

Learn and mingle with other arts community trailblazers on what makes for successful arts festivals. Enjoy beverages and light snacks while decompressing from the work day.

Tuesday, October 27th 6:00pm-8:00pm

Mission: Comics & Art
3520 20th St. (@ Mission)

Space is limited!
Please RSVP by Friday through Eventbrite
http://expo-roundup.eventbrite.com/

Volume 2009 – Upcoming Music Business Seminar

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Howdy musicians! Check out this upcoming seminar from Expo exhibitors California Lawyers for the Arts:

What: An all-day educational event for the Bay Area music community featuring affordable, cutting-edge panels devoted to the legal and business aspects of the music industry. For musicians, attorneys, songwriters, producers, djs and other music industry related professionals.

When: October 24, 2009, 9:30 am to 5:30 pm

Where: Ex’pression College for Digital Arts
6601 Shellmound Street, Emeryville, 94608

More information here. Check it out!

Expo on YouTube

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Thanks to George Aguilar for these great videos…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q3k9F8DIGU

Search Expo for Independent Arts on YouTube for the extended versions!

A Second Chance to See Arlene Goldbard Speak

Monday, October 5th, 2009

IndyArts is pleased to announce another opportunity to hear Arlene Goldbard speak on the topic “Artists at Work: Public Service Employment for Artists from the New Deal to the Obama Administration”.

For those who missed our incredible keynote speaker at this year’s Symposium, or for those who would like to join the discussion again, you have another chance this Saturday, October 7th at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, where Arlene will be delivering the inaugural address in the OLLI@Berkeley Fall Lecture Series.

This event, sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Berkeley is from 12:00-1:30 pm, at the Goldman Theater, David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley. Free to UC students, staff, faculty and alumni, general admission is $10.

Reserve a place here:
http://olli.berkeley.edu/programs/Fall2009-lecture-series.html

Don’t Miss These Upcoming Social Media Workshops!

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Our fabulous friends at The Public Media Collaborative are putting on two great workshops later this month that you must not miss:

Social Media for Social Action

Friday, Oct 23, 9-5pm @ Tech Liminal in Oakland

Beast Bloggers Camp 2
Saturday, October 24th, 10-5pm also @ Tech Liminal in Oakland

Learn how to maximize your interwubs impact through everything from blogging, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media tools with advice from the best of the best. These are fantastic opportunities for high-quality, low-cost, hands-on workshops from professionals who share IndyArts’ ethos of providing great resources to the community regardless of budget constraints. No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds!

Find out more at the Public Media Collaborative website
or on their Facebook page.

Required Reading: “The Networked Nonprofit”

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

This marvelous article, published last spring in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, outlines the importance of building capacity within a network of likeminded nonprofits, to tackle social problems that otherwise would be out of reach even to the largest and most well-resourced NPOs.

In short, it is a distributed, Internet-era model for social service, which the article describes as more adaptable, packing more impact, and using resources more efficiently:

“The Networked Nonprofit” (PDF)
The Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2009