Expo for the Artist, CELLspace, July 2000
Or, watch a high-quality video of Expo for the Artist 2000
Expo for the Artist & Musician @ SomArts, September 2007
This is an extended documentary short about the Expo, running 6:41, and featuring extensive interviews and profiles of exhibiting organizations. Video produced and provided by George Aguilar.
Expo for Independent Arts, Golden Gate Park Music Concourse, September 2009
Expo 2010: Skills * Resources * Community
Join us for the Expo for Independent Arts STONE SOUP and BARN RAISING!
July 20, 6pm, Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market St. @ 6th St.
INFO: 415-738-4975
RSVP: http://expo-stone-soup.eventbrite.com/
If you don’t happen to be Amish, or from Pennsylvania farm country, you might not know that a “barn raising” is a stone-soup event, where folks show up with materials, ideas and energy to contribute to a singular act of creation.
Such as building a barn. Making an awesome kettle of soup. Or creating the 11th Annual Expo for Independent Arts, which returns to CELLspace this fall.
On Tuesday, July 20, at 6:00 p.m. at the Luggage Story Gallery, we’re having a stone-soup party and a barn-raising to help create this year’s Expo. You’re invited to help define the Expo’s annual focus on ARTS SKILLS, RESOURCES and COMMUNITY.
What can you bring to the table?
The Expo is a community-service event for the arts in San Francisco. We thank you for your participation and support! Please RSVP for our Stone Soup/Barn Raising, and see you next Tuesday at the Luggage Store.
RSVP: http://expo-stone-soup.eventbrite.com/
Here’s to making it all happen,
Clare, Jessica, Josh
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* Expo for Independent Arts STONE SOUP and BARN RAISING!
July 20, 6pm, Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market St. @ 6th St.
INFO: 415-738-4975
RSVP: http://expo-stone-soup.eventbrite.com/
With the economy in recession, but new creative opportunities, communities and participatory cultural movements emerging, the role of the Expo for Independent Arts has never been more important.
The Expo provides a central, physical place to meet, mingle, and access the SKILLS, RESOURCES and COMMUNITY you need to create the kind of art — and the kind of world — you want to live in.
Come to the Luggage Store on Tuesday, July 20, to help create this year’s edition of the Expo — and help us define the next ten years of this unique community gathering, as well.
* JOIN US * YOU’RE INVITED * HELP MAKE THE EXPO AND LOCAL ARTS COME ALIVE *
10am-5pm, at CELLSpace
2050 Bryant St. (x 18th St.), SF
$5 Donation • No One Turned Away!
The Expo is the Bay Area’s only grassroots connection fair for independent arts, music & culture, and your place to access Skills, Resources and Connections!
• Press release (PDF), schedule of workshops and exhibitor list
• Reserve a table for your arts project/service starting at $35
At the Expo: RSVP for SF Arts Commission workshop
“Face Time with the SF Arts Commission” Panel, 1-2pm, one-on-one talks 2-4pm: Space is limited! Want feedback on your portfolio? Interested in painting a mural in your community? Heard about SFAC’s Art in Storefronts program and want to participate? SFAC staff will meet one-on-one with YOU at the Expo, for 15 minutes to talk about any thing you like. To register for a Face Time slot, email robynn.takayama@sfgov.org … Half the slots are advanced registration. The other half are first-come-first-serve at the Expo.
JUST ADDED: By popular demand, a half hour visual artists group discussion with SFAC Gallery Manager Aimee Le Duc and SOMArts Gallery Director Justin Hoover will be held at 4:30 for artists who do not make it into one of their Face Time slots.
Monday, September 20, 6-8PM
Independent Publishing: Where’s It At?
Viracocha SF, 998 Valencia St. @ 21st. St., SF
What will rule publishing? Print vs. Internet? … or are people even reading? How do you start and run your own small press? What literary events are happening? What spaces are available? How do you promote your lit’ry endeavor? Who’s writing, who’s reading, what’s happening around the Bay Area?
Tuesday, September 21
Promoting Your Underground Art
Mission Comics & Art, 3520 20th St. x Mission St., 6-8PM
How to promote your event on a limited budget, and on the edge of propriety.
Saturday, Sept. 25, at the Expo, Panel: 1-2 p.m. and 4:30-5pm; Face Time: 2-4 p.m. RSVP REQ’D.
Face Time with SF Arts Commission
CELLspace, 2050 Bryant St. x 18th St., SF
Want feedback on your portfolio? Interested in painting a mural in your community? Heard about our Art in Storefronts program and want to participate? In this service to the cultural community, SFAC staff will meet one-on-one for 15 minutes to talk about any thing you like.
Sept. 25, at the Expo, 10:30am-11:30 am
Writing For Marketing, Pr, Grant Proposals, Storytelling And More
CELLspace, 2050 Bryant St. x 18th St., SF
Sept. 25, at the Expo, 11:45am-12:45pm
Social Networking
CELLspace, 2050 Bryant St. x 18th St., SF
Powerful new tools for online community building and promotions have emerged in the last ten years. Now social networking is changing how we talk to each other and work together. How can you harness social networking for your art?
Sept. 25, Sports Basement, 1590 Bryant St. x 15th St., 2:30-3:30 pm
Community collaboration and project documentation
Sept. 25, Sports Basement, 1590 Bryant St. x 15th St., SF, 3:45-4:45pm
Online Fundraising
EXPO 2010 EXHIBITORS, Saturday, Sept. 25, CELLspace
—-> ARTS SERVICES & COMMUNITY –>
Crafter’s Local 415 — “Crafters Local 415 is a new San Francisco-based creative collective. All artists and makers welcome to join in. We will host in-person meet ups to create together, share online inspiration, promote periodic workshops, and even exchange some show and tell.”
The Foundation Center — “The nation’s leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust.”
Full Calendar Event Promotion Service — Provides local event-related services in many U.S. cities, and is continually expanding. FullCalendar is based on the learning that event publicity is the single most important factor in event attendance and an organization’s vitality.
Independent Arts & Media — “Celebrating 10 years of support for people, projects and organizations that use media and the arts to build community. Services include Fiscal Sponsorship, Workshops and Connection Fairs.”
Lightbox SF — “Lightbox SF is a support system for artists. We offer business advice, marketing, publicity, and even just a reassuring word that, ‘Yes you can do this.’ One day we would like to have a brick and mortar space that will house studio spaces, a gallery, and serve as a gathering place.”
Intergeneration: Building Queer Community Across The Ages Through The Arts — “An interdisciplinary arts project that builds Queer community between Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people of all ages through the creation of theatrical performances, paintings, new media works, photography, video narratives, storytelling, and poetry.
Women’s Audio Mission — “In a field where women are chronically under-represented (less than 5%), we provide training, experience, career counseling and job placement to women and girls.”
Writing for Community Success — “Writing for Community Success specializes in helping you advance your mission and boost your community impact through great writing. Great writing is crucial to the success of socially responsible organizations (nonprofits, foundations, green businesses, and the like) and the people who work for them. But few of us know how to share our work with the world in the most effective and efficient way. That’s where I can help!”
—-> VISUAL ARTS –>
Aftershock Magazine — an online journal on Bay Area visual arts.
Aorta Magazine — Formerly ArtXX Magazine, Aorta is a collective publication for women, queer and trans artists, and welcomes new members.
Last Gasp Books — One of the world’s leading publishers of art, comics and culture, and a San Francisco original.
Mission Artists United — “There are more artists in the Mission that any other neighborhood in San Francisco.” Working to make the Mission the city’s destination for art lovers!
Moholy Ground Project — supporting artist careers, currently via a photo journal “publishing compelling, authentic images about people and places of San Francisco.”
San Pancho Art Collective — SPAC is a Fine Arts Collective based out of San Francisco. Members show work in galleries, public spaces, cafes, bars and salons. SPAC also paints murals, such as “Old Soil, New Roots” in Lilac Alley for Mission Pie, and our latest project at Tip Top Market on 90 Turk St. @ Taylor.
Scrounger’s Center for Reusable Art Parts — THE destination for affordable arts-making materials of all sorts … and the place to take the home and art-stuff you want to give to the world.
WE Artspace — “Our mission is to help navigate primarily 2-D culture by emerging artists residing in the Bay Area … initiating dialog within our culture, in creating a community.”
—-> LITERARY ARTS –>
Invisible City Audio Tours — “We’re in the business of surreal tourism. Our mission: to create surreal geographies in cities worldwide by producing literary- and art-based walking audio tours.”
The Fabulist — A new home for fables, yarns, tales, fantastical fiction, literary fantasy and SF, visual art, poetry, and comments on the fantastical in the arts.
Left Curve: Art, Critical Culture, Theory & Politics — “An artist-produced journal addressing the problem(s) of cultural forms emerging from the crises of modernity that strive to be independent from dominant institutions and free from the shackles of instrumental rationality.”
Manic D Press — Serving your eclectic printed-matter needs, a Bay Area home for short stories, poetry, spoken word, anthologies, essays, cultural history, graphic narrative and more.
PM Press — “We launched PM Press as a means to impact, amplify, and revitalize the discourse and actions of radical writers, filmmakers, and artists. We [publish] radical and stimulating fiction and non-fiction books, pamphlets, t-shirts, visual and audio materials.”
Pureplay Press — “Founded in 2001 to publish works about Cuba’s history and culture. At present we have 12 books in print, all with Cuban themes, and we are beginning to publish on other subjects. Our byword is freedom from the status quo … We are convinced that culture is infinite, and creativity general.”
Re/Search Publications – Legendary Bay Area imprint: “Every RE/Search book continues the Punk Rock Cultural Revolution, but strives to provide permanent inspiration to artists/cultural scientists of the future, providing careful editing, reference sections, photos, art and anthropological history.
—-> FILM/VIDEO/MEDIA –>
Artists’ Television Access — “A nonprofit, all-volunteer, artist-run, experimental media arts gallery in operation since 1984. ATA hosts a series of film and video screenings, exhibitions and performances by emerging and established artists and a weekly cable access television program.”
Legba Digital, Black Diamond Shining Crew, Endless Canvas — Oakland and Bay Area multimedia and multi-disciplinary artist community specializing in small-press publishing, cultural products, street art, T-shirts and more.
The Bay Area Native — Articles and YouTube channel “dedicated to supporting photographers, artists and musicians. If you are a photographer or musician, we’d love to hear from you! Although we focus on local artists, we love to interview bands and review music from around the globe.”
CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival — “We organize the annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival, a three-day series of film screenings, post-screening Q & A’s, and related events. The goal of the Anti-Corporate Festival is to raise public and media awareness, promote critical thought and analysis, and encourage informed discussion and debate about how corporations actually operate, and what they really add to — and subtract from — humanity’s ‘bottom line’.”
Friends of KUSF — Dedicated to supporting KUSF-FM. the Bay Area’s vital source for diverse, independent and underground music, talk and ideas.
Hologlyphics — “A performance based video synthesis system that displays moving, true-3D images, intertwined with music and spatial sound.”
Newsdesk.org — “An award-winning source for important but overlooked news, and an open publishing platform for independent journalists.”
Ohlone Profiles — “Documenting the ongoing lives of Ohlone leaders and organizations. Most people in San Francisco believe the Ohlone no longer exist. Very few realize that there are nine Ohlone organizations applying for tribal recognition, several with more than 500 members. The project began by sponsoring Ohlone community meetings, art exhibits, radio broadcasts, and film screenings, and by documenting these events.”
SF Media Archive / Oddball Film & Video — A Bay Area-based institution dedicated to acquisition and preservation of film and related media.
Planetwize.com — “A music and media company on a mission. Actiontrax, our music download service, turns music lovers into activists.”
The San Francisco Public Press — “A nonprofit news outlet that aims to do for print and Web news what public broadcasting has done for radio and TV.”
The Women’s Film Institute/ SF Women’s Film Festival — “Women and girls around the world access multiple media outlets, yet their voices are overwhelmingly absent. WFI increases the visibility of female filmmakers, media-makers and storytellers.”
What’s Live SF — An original performance show in San Francisco, broadcast on cable channel 29 every first and third Wednesday at 7:30 PM.
—-> PERFORMANCE –>
Circus Bella — “An open air, one-ring circus featuring contemporary, high-level acts set to an original score performed by live musicians … Our mission is to create a one-ring circus that uplifts diverse audiences, engages community, and challenges its artists. Our outdoor show, adaptable for the stage, comes complete with a 32’ ring tarp and ring curb, back drop, sound system and rigging. Our productions can be adapted to short 20 – 30 minute or full-length, 60-90 minute shows. Perfect for fairs, festivals, and fundraisers.”
The Convergence Festival — A multimedia festival bringing together fashion, art, music, film and video.
CounterPULSE — “A nonprofit theater, community center, and gallery in SoMA, with roots deep in the Bay Area’s provocative performance and dance scenes. CounterPULSE produces its own shows, helps support local artists and activists with its programs and can be rented for productions and rehearsals.”
SAMAVESHA — “An international multidisciplinary performing arts collective. We encourage both performers and audience to discover and express, with authenticity, that which is sacred in art.”
Studio Gracia — “Our mission is to provide a clean, beautiful, relaxing and inspiring space for a wide variety of dance classes. Classes offered: Salsa-Casino, Rueda , Belly Dance, Tango, Modern, Hip-Hop, Samba and more.”
—-> CULTURE MARKET –>
Ashley Eberlein’s An Eye For It Productions — Creative and commercial photography, portraiture, video production and more.
Flying in a Blue Dream — Acrylic art, stained glass and prints from Delhi-born Mallika.
Intwined Bows — for diverse fashion needs, from hair to bow ties.
Work Clothes — Books, pillows, dresses, tops, underwear, geometric, graphic, tees, typography, geometric.
On Friday, July 23rd, 2010, Indy Arts affiliate The Bay Bridged presents its second annual fundraiser party, Regional Bias 2010. The historic Verdi Club in Potrero Hill will open the doors for a night of celebration of Bay Area music and culture, with musical performances by four famous Bay Area artists, local DJs, a happy hour art show and a taste of the vibrant Bay Area food scene on top of it all!
Doors @ 7pm, General Admission $20-25, VIP tickets $50. Visit The Bay Bridged website for more information about the show!
Call For Entries is Now Open – San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival accepts films and videos of all lengths and genres: narrative, documentary, music video, experimental and animation. Films and videos must be directed or co-directed by women. Entry fee: $15. (Early Deadline: August 31, 2010).
The 7th Annual San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival, presented by the Women’s Film Institute, to be held April 5 through 11, 2011.
For more information, and to submit your film visit the SFWFF website!
Congratulations to Indy Arts affiliate Circus Bella who opened their new season “Gotcha” at Yuerba Buena park on July 3! Now in it’s tenth year, Circus Bella presents free outdoor programs in parks all over the Bay Area. The circus features new and returning artists performing areal acrobatics on a static trapeze, mad cap clowning, balancing feats on slack rope and rola bola, acrobatic antics, and much much more!
All performances are free with outdoor open seating. Audiences are encouraged to bring a blanket to sit on and a picnic lunch for before the show. Form more information visit Circus Bella online! Read more about Circus Bella.
| Saturday, July 10 2:00pm |
DeFremery Park’s 100th Anniversary Celebration Adeline and 18th St. |
Oakland | |
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Sunday, July 11 12:00pm |
San Francisco Sunday Streets Harrison and 21st St., John O’Connell High School Athletic Field |
San Francisco |
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Friday, July 16 6:00pm |
Studio One Art Center Open House 365 45th Street |
Oakland |
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Sunday, July 18 11:45am |
Dimond Neighborhood Picnic, Dimond Park Fruitvale and Lyman Rd. |
Oakland |
Info: 415-738-4975
At CounterPULSE 1310 Mission Street San Francisco
Time: 6pm-close
6/30: FIRST ANNUAL INDY ARTS SHOUT-OUT and FUNDRAISER! We’ve come a long way, baby! But we still need your continued support to keep this movement rolling. Join us for a night of performance, bands and shout-outs by YOU at one of our favorite community venues, CounterPULSE. Doors @ 6 PM
Come Shout Out about what’s happening this summer! Tell folks about your cant be missed event, distribute flyers, recruit volunteers and increase your mailing list.
Exhibiting tables start at just $25, and if you exhibit at the Shout Out your fee can be used towards an exhibiting table at this year’s Expo For Independent Arts.
Find out what’s goin’ on this summer at the Indy Arts Summer Event, Shout Out!
Join us for a night of entertainment and fun to SHOUT OUT about your event this summer.
Check back for June event date and location! And drop us a line at 415-738-4975 to learn more about:
Plus, those who buy a table at Shout Out automatically get a free table for the 11th Annual Expo for Independent Arts, coming up in September in San Francisco.
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