Archive for May, 2011

3-D Movie, No Glasses Required, To Be Screened at SF International Arts Festival

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Auto-stereoscopic Movie to Screen at San Francisco International Arts Festival

This month, the San Francisco International Arts Festival is going to feature a stereoscopic film that doesn’t feature 3D glasses. The film, created by Walter Funk of Hologlyphics and titled “Spaceforms: Homage to Homer”, will allow viewers to walk around the viewing area; when the viewers’ position changes, so will the perspective of the scene being viewed. The experience will combine animation, live footage, action, and sound to create the ultimate experience. To quote the press release:

Audience members will be able to walk around the viewing area, watching Spaceforms from multiple angles. As their viewing position changes, so will the perspective of the scene they are watching. Nebulas, Saturn, and planetary motion sequences take on new life, floating in front of the audience. No longer flat, without the glasses.

The film premiere will begin at 2:00 p.m. on May 29 at the Forth Mason’s South Side Theater.

Read more here…

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The 2011 San Francisco International Arts Festival is featuring a stereoscopic movie, viewed without 3D glasses, called Spaceforms: Homage to Homer. The screening will take place on May 29th at Fort Mason’s South Side Theater.

As part of the Arts, Humanities and Culture in Space Exploration Screening, Spaceforms: Homage to Homer, will be showing on special screens capable of 3D in free space. Bay Area artist Walter Funk of Hologlyphics created the stereoscopic movie.

The screening is produced by Zero Gravity Arts Consortium (ZGAC) in collaboration with affiliate partners including the Space Arts Development Fund of the National Space Society and The Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University. ZGAC is an international organization dedicated to fostering access for artists to space flight technology and zero gravity space through international partnerships with space agencies, space industry entrepreneurs, and leading universities.

Read more here…

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Learn more about the Hologlyphics project by clicking here.

Buy tickets to the SF International Arts Festival clicking here.

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6th Annual CounterCorp Festival Begins May 19th 2011

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

6th Annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival Begins Thursday, May 19th 2011

(San Francisco, May 16) The 6th Annual CounterCorp International Anti-Corporate Film Festival opens this Thursday, May 19, and runs through Saturday, May 21, at the Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th Street in San Francisco.

The goal of the CounterCorp Festival is to raise public and media awareness about how corporations actually operate, promote critical thought and analysis on the effect those operations have on the rest of society, and encourage informed discussion and debate about what corporations really add to — and subtract from — humanity’s “bottom line”.

This year’s program includes:

Barbershop Punk, a software engineer discovers that Comcast is filtering its customers’ Internet traffic
Blood in the Mobile, huge electronics companies are funding a brutal war in central Africa to boost their profits
The Bottom Line, the campaign to end apartheid in South Africa by divesting from international corporations doing business there
Dreamland, Iceland’s decision to jump on the globalization bandwagon and its subsequent financial collapse
The Naked Option, Nigerian women threatening to strip in order to protest the effects of oil drilling on their communities
White Water, Black Gold, the destruction of one of the last natural frontiers in the world, in the pursuit of oil from the tar sands of western Canada

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Q&A’s with directors and activists follow most of the films, which screen each night at 7:00pm and 9:00pm. Tickets are $10. A full-festival pass is $50.

For more information — including film descriptions and trailers — visit www.countercorp.org, e-mail filmfest2011@countercorp.org, or call (415) 568-5739.

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SF Public Press Spring Edition and Launch Party

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Issue No. 3 of the San Francisco Public Press Will Hit the Streets Wednesday, May 11, 2011

This edition features a special report on the rapidly evolving local media landscape and a mix of exciting stories from Public Press freelancers and more than a dozen nonprofit news partners.

We’re dropping the retail price to $1 a copy — still no ads! — and expanding distribution. Check next week for a complete list of locations where you can pick up a copy in your neighborhood.

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PARTY! Celebrate the Spring Print Launch!

Join us for drinks and appetizers, and pick up a complimentary copy of the newspaper!

Thursday, May 12, 5:30 – 9 p.m.
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
998 Market St. (Warfield Building)
San Francisco

RSVP: http://sfpublicpress2011spring.eventbrite.com/

Music by DJ Ario.

Come check out GAFFTA‘s new home and experience TRANSMUTATIONS: Sound, Data, and Mechanics — a site-specific interactive art installation by sonicSENSE.

(We’re fans of news and art that you can touch.)

Raffle gifts provided by Philz Coffee.

• General admission: $10 via eventbrite or $15 at the door.
• Public Press members (join today!) and contributors to the spring print edition get in free.

We will accept cash, checks and credit cards (via Square) at the door.

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Hyphen Magazine Wins Major APA Heritage Awards

Friday, May 6th, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO APA HERITAGE AWARDS HONOR HYPHEN FOR COMMUNITY IMPACT AND PUBLISHER LISA LEE FOR EMERGING LEADERSHIP

CONTACT:
Lisa Lee, lisa.lee@hyphenmagazine.com
Irene Kao, irene.kao@hyphenmagazine.com

San Francisco – May 5th, 2011 – Hyphen magazine and Hyphen Publisher Lisa Lee were honored May 2 with Asian Pacific American Heritage Awards from the city of San Francisco.

Hyphen won the Community Impact Award, and Lee was honored with the Emerging Leadership Award. The awards are part of San Francisco’s celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month each May.

Media was the theme of this year’s awards, which are chosen by the city’s Asian Pacific Heritage Celebration Steering Committee (www.apiaheritagesf.org). The awards promote Asian Pacific American culture and heritage, and provide a forum for the APA community to share information, discuss issues of concern and collaborate on projects of community interests.

“We consider it a true honor to be recognized for our role in giving a greater voice to the Asian American and Pacific Islander community,” said Hyphen Associate Publisher Irene Kao.  “The APA Heritage Award for Community Impact validates the tireless work of our volunteer staff and board.”

Hyphen was founded in 2003 and is a nonprofit news and culture magazine. It illuminates Asian America through hard-hitting investigative features on the cultural and political trends shaping the fastest-growing ethnic population in the country. Hyphen’s print magazine and website (www.hyphenmagazine.com) are produced by an all-volunteer staff.

Lee joined Hyphen in 2007 and was named publisher in 2008. Under her leadership, the magazine’s readership has doubled and its website and social media channels are some of the leading online sources for Asian American news and commentary.

“This award wouldn’t have been possible without my mentors and role models, who are constantly showing me what it means to be a leader. It’s important for us to set examples for the next generation, so they feel supported and empowered to make a difference in our community,” Lee said. “And of course, I thank the Hyphen staff for giving me the opportunity to lead, and for making me look good with all the amazing work that they’re doing!”

A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with degrees in mass communications and theater and performance studies, Lee is committed to using her communications and social media background to help Hyphen reach a broad constituency and to create a more complex representation of Asian America.

She is also the co-founder, along with the actress Lynn Chen, of Thick Dumpling Skin (www.thickdumplingskin.com), the first online forum dedicated to body image issues and eating disorders within the Asian American community.

Lee is a frequent speaker on media-related Asian American issues and has led workshops for college students, young professionals, nonprofit managers and corporations. When not volunteering at Hyphen, Lee is working toward her dream of opening a coffee shop that will one day serve the needs of the Asian American community. Until then, she works at Facebook as a user operations site integrity associate.

Lisa Lee, lisa.lee@hyphenmagazine.com, and Irene Kao, irene.kao@hyphenmagazine.com, are available for interviews.

ABOUT HYPHEN:

Founded in 2003, Hyphen is a nonprofit news and culture magazine and blog that illuminates Asian America through hard-hitting investigative features on the cultural and political trends shaping the fastest-growing ethnic population in the country. We offer in-depth profiles of change-makers in our community and a window into the world of artists and writers who are re-envisioning and rewriting what it means to be Asian American. Through balanced and incisive reporting and sometimes irreverent commentary, we relate the enormous richness, contradiction, and vitality that defines the Asian American experience to stimulate debate, raise awareness, and build bridges within and beyond our own community. Based in San Francisco, Hyphen is recognized nationwide as an authority on contemporary Asian American identity. Since its inception, Hyphen has been touted in print, online and on camera. Hyphen has been featured and quoted in media outlets such as Yahoo, ESPN, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle, Utne, Flavorpill, Gothamist and Racialicious.com. Hyphen is a fiscally sponsored project of Independent Arts & Media, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

The official press release can also be grabbed here
Lisa Lee | Hyphen | Publisher
17 Walter U. Lum Place | San Francisco, CA 94108
lisa.lee@hyphenmagazine.com | (c) 626.353.6971 (f) 509.352.6971

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Arts Market Returns to UN Plaza

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

More than a Market…

The San Francisco Arts Market looks forward to its 2011 kick-off on June 16th! Since the 2010 Grand Finale day on December 16th the Market has had time to reflect and build on last year’s first annual weekly outdoor Market for arts, crafts and performance in United Nations Plaza.

With this reflection time, we asked ourselves exactly what is SF Arts Market? An obvious impression would be that it’s an outdoor Market for independent vendors to sell and market their arts, crafts and services. However, with deeper introspection we’d like to explain how the Market in UN Plaza is so much more! What, you ask? This year, the Arts Market will exist in and for the community as a performance platform for live music, dance and other performance; a public space for DIY workshops and educational opportunities; a catalyst for positive engagement culturally and economically for the mid-Market region; and a community and city-wide collaboration and partnership.

A partnership project between the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce and Development and Independent Arts & Media, both groups are working within and outside the community to realize positive change for the mid-Market region and support local artists and craft makers. With this in mind, qualified vendors can participate at the Market free of charge!

In addition to the city and nonprofit Independent Arts & Media, it takes a village to make a good thing happen. As such, the Arts Market has opened its doors to partnership and collaborative relationship opportunities to help support its success. A few groups aligned to support the Market for 2011 are the San Francisco Public Library; San Francisco Department of Public Health’s SF FIRST program; Art Institute, SF; SF Great Streets; People in Plazas; Hospitality House Community Arts Program; 24 Days of Central Market Arts, SF Travel, Off the Grid Food, Blick Art and many more. If you’re interested in participating, sponsoring, collaborating or partnering with the San Francisco Arts Market don’t hesitate to contact us!

Until then, stay tuned for further details about the launch day, June 16th. See you then!

Potential vendors, click here to get started!

Performers, contact: susie.mck@artsandmedia.net

Sponsorship and partnership opportunities, contact: artsmarketsf@artsandmedia.net

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Circus Bella on Tour!

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Circus Bella Touring Las Vegas, NV and Utah

Circus Bella is bringing their one ring circus performance ensemble to Las Vegas and a number of stops in Utah. Follow their blog for photos and stories from their adventures:

“…Of course there were the expected unexpected glitches and switches.  Most unbeknown to the audience except one brilliant moment when Mark dropped* one of his clubs while up on the unicycle on the table.  The club fell from Mark’s hand to the table below then ricocheted off the unicycle’s tire directly into Abby’s open hands.“

You can also follow them on Facebook.

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Legacy Film Festival On Aging

Friday, April 29th, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO:  LEGACY FILM FESTIVAL ON AGING
Friday – Sunday, May 13 – 15, 2011

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Sheila Malkind, Director; (415) 861-2159

legacyfilmseries-at-yahoo.com or info-at-legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org

www.legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org

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Festival director Sheila Malkind announces the launch of the Legacy Film Festival on Aging in San Francisco, a three-day program, Friday – Sunday, May 13-15, at the sparkling new VIZ Cinema, located in Japantown’s New People building, 1746 Post St.

Please go to our website: www.legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org for the complete film schedule, and ticket information.

The festival’s mission is to present an annual film festival in the Bay Area with films that inspire, educate and entertain intergenerational audiences about the issues surrounding aging. In so doing, the subjects of the films challenge archaic preconceptions of aging

Why films on Aging? Presently, there are 95 million people in the U.S. over the age of fifty, with 40 million of them over the age of 65. The new realities of aging are creating fresh views of later life that will affect many aspects of our society, both policy-wise and personally.

We believe everyone, no matter one’s age, will be enriched and entertained by the films presented by the Legacy Film Festival on Aging.

Here’s a partial listing.

Friday, May 13, 6:30 pm, A special screening of “Ruth Asawa: Roots of an Artist,” directed by Bob Toy. The 37-minute film documents the life and work of San Francisco’s beloved 85-year-old icon of art and mentorship. Asawa’s fountains dot the San Francisco landscape, and her wire sculptures hang in museums worldwide.  She has been a leader in fostering art education in public schools.
The film will be followed by a Q&A with the director, as well as Ruth’s son, Paul Lanier, her daughter, Aiko Cuneo, and Ruth’s Table’s Lola Fraknoi.

Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15, the Festival will feature short and full-length documentary and feature films from the US and the changing world that celebrate the unique rewards and challenges of aging.

Included: The First Grader (100 min) based on a true-life remarkable story of an 84-year-old Kenyan villager and former Mau Mau who attends school for the first time so he can learn to read. Over 90 and Loving It (60 min) features people in their 90s and 100s who are living extraordinary and passionate lives. Another Harvest Moon (90 min), a sensitive drama starring 93-year-old Ernest Borgnine and other veteran all-stars as four elderly residents coping with life in a nursing home, and dealing with life and death decisions.

Director Sheila Malkind states: “We are also featuring a number of dance films about older people still utilizing their talents and strengths: Happy To Be So, in which former principal dancers Oleg Briansky and Mireille Briane, his wife of fifty years, narrate their own life story with humor. Ida’s Dance Club documents a ballroom dancing competition in an Israeli retirement home and portrays the personal challenges faced by the dancers (both, Sunday, 1 pm). And Seniors Rocking (Sat., 1 pm), a performance piece created by Marin resident and modern dancer Anna Halprin for senior citizens who truly rock and dance together in celebration.”

Sheila Malkind, MA, MPH is the director of the Legacy Film Festival on Aging, now in its first year. She was the curator of the First International Film Festival on Aging, held in San Francisco and Emeryville in 2009, now extant. She has taken over the mantle of a film festival on aging.
Malkind is the director of the Legacy Film Series (www.legacyfilmseries.com), distributing and presenting films on aging to libraries, universities, assisted faciities, etc. She sees a need for everyone to be prepared for this challenging stage of life.

Ticket prices: $11. May be ordered through Viz Cinema’s New People, www.newpeopleworld.com , or purchased at the New People Box Office.
At NEW PEOPLE,1746 Post St, San Francisco, CA 94115

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For More Information,

Contact: Sheila Malkind, Director; (415) 861-2159

legacyfilmseries-at-yahoo.com or info-at-legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org

www.legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org

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Noodle Fest 2011

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Noodle Fest 2011: Chinatown and North Beach, A Cultural and Culinary Celebration

We look forward to seeing you at the second annual Chinatown and North Beach Noodle Fest! You must bring your confirmation printout to receive your passport at the will call tables, which entitles you to three noodle samples from Chinatown, three pasta samples from North Beach and one beverage.

Chinatown Community Development Center and North Beach Merchants Association are putting on Noodle Fest 2011: Chinatown and North Beach, A Cultural and Culinary Celebration for you to come out and sample delicious noodle and pasta dishes from over thirty restaurants from Chinatown and North Beach! This year, we are adding drinks to our menu as well! So come ready to mingle, enjoy live entertainment, watch noodle making demonstrations by renowned chefs, and slurp the afternoon away!

Date and Time: Sunday, May 1, 2011 from 1pm to 5pm

Event Location: Grant Avenue (btw Pacific and Vallejo) & Vallejo Street (btw Columbus and Grant)

Event Organizers: Chinatown Community Development Center and North Beach Merchants Association

Host: Supervisor David Chiu

Sponsors: Central Subway Design Team (Parsons Brinckerhoff, Kwan Henmi Architects, Michael Willis Architects, Telamon Engineering Consultants), PG&E, Wells Fargo, SF Bay Guardian, Asian Chefs Association, Recology, United Airlines

How to Get There:

MUNI Lines 1, 8X, 10, 12, 30, 45, Cable Car

Chinatown Park & Ride ($3 all day parking with validation stamp at Welcome Tables)

Golden Gateway Garage at 250 Clay Street| Free Shuttle Service to Chinatown Every 15 Minutes

*This is a green event, which means all your bowls and utensils are compostable!

Art in the Alley – Located right next door on the same day:

“Art in the Alley, an eclectic art exhibition featuring local artists, celebrates it’s 10th Anniversary this year in Kerouac Alley. Take some time between noodle bites to peruse the wide range of creativity on display in this unique thoroughfare located adjacent to the Noodle Fest near Grant and Broadway.”

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