Mission Creek Music Festival
Jtray7@directtvinternet.com; http://www.zmrzlina.com/mcmf/news.html
Mission Creek Music Festival is a local festival produced by the members of the local band Zmrzlina as well as other volunteers, featuring mostly local acts at venues around town. We are now organizing the 6th Annual MCMF for the last week of May.

Nadine Condon/ Nadine's Wild Weekend
PO Box 182; San Mateo, CA 94401 (650) 340-8159; www.nadineswildweekend.com; www.nadinecondon.com
Nadine's Wild Weekend: August 22-25, San Francisco; Nadine's Wild Nights: May 2, Sacramento; May 30, San Jose; June 6, Modesto. Bands -- submit your demos, it's a celebration, not a contest! Also, visit nadinecondon.com for info on mentoring and one-on-one, personalized music-business consulting with the "Godmother" of rock.

New Langton Arts
1246 Folsom St., SF, CA 94103 (415) 626-5416; www.newlangtonarts.org/
New Langton Arts cultivates experimental contemporary artworks in a variety of disciplines while encouraging broad public appreciation and access to the art of our times. We provide support to contemporary artists from diverse economic, social and cultural backgrounds through exhibitions, performances, readings, concerts, commissions, fellowships, awards and publications.

OUTSOUND
P.O. Box 2281, El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 527-0145; outsoundorg@yahoo.com; www.outsound.org/
Outsound is a volunteer collective of new sonic musicians who, among other things, are involved in running music performance venues, recording labels and other DIY endeavors in San Francisco. The mission of Outsound is to raise public awareness of music not otherwise made available by presenting public performance, co-op promotion and education.

Popular Noise Foundation
www.popularnoise.org/
The Popular Noise Foundation is a nonprofit supporting local music in the Bay Area. Recent programs include a scholarship for young musicians, a concert series showcasing local music, and grants for local musicians. We recognize the wide breadth of genres that define the local music community and are dedicated to supporting them all.

Planet Drum Foundation
P. O. Box 31251, SF, CA 94131, Shasta Bioregion (415) 285-6556; planetdrum@igc.org; www.planetdrum.org/
Planet Drum Foundation is a voice for bioregional sustainability, education and culture. Bioregionalism is the philosophy of organizing communities around regional natural resources. Planet Drum publishes and organizes extensively for bioregionalism all around the world, and works to support ecologically sustainable and regional culture in the Bay Area.

PlayGround
268 Bush Street, #2912, San Francisco, CA 94104 (415) 704-3177; playground@rcn.com
PlayGround is an eight-year-old theatre company dedicated to emerging playwrights. PlayGround produces the PlayLab series, a monthly staged reading of original short plays written exclusively for PlayGround in just five days, and the annual Emerging Playwrights Festival, a fully produced showcase of the best short plays from the PlayLabs.

POND: A place for art, activism and ideas
214 Valencia, SF, CA 94103 (415) 437-9151; www.mucketymuck.org/
POND is an educational nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a forum through which experimental artists may share ideas and foster a mutually beneficial relationship with the larger community. Our goal is to offer an accessible place for individual and community groups to develop and execute ideas in a non-competitive atmosphere.

RE/Search Publications
20 Romolo #b, SF, CA 94133
RE/Search Publications publishes interviews with artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, performance artists and other creative visionaries who aim to critique and change society. Most influential books include "Modern Primitives" (which helped launch the tattoo/body modification movement), "Incredibly Strange Music," "The Industrial Culture Handbook" and the classic Search & Destroy punk rock 'zine.

Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
275 Fifth St., SF, CA 94103 (415) 541-8580; www.rencenter.org/
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center provides classroom training, incubation, financing and ongoing support services to potential and existing small business owners. These services can be applied directly to artists ready to turn their passion into profit.

Renegade Productions
70 "R" Woodland Ave., San Rafael, CA 94901 (415) 459-5597; renegadeproductions@hotmail.com
We are a full-service event planning and staging operation, ready to meet any audio/visual need for presentations, promotions, conferences and live music. We are a licensed and bonded full-service production and booking agency serving public and private events, as well as booking for venues in the SF Bay Area.

Rocket Words Writing and Editing Services
1050 Stanyan Street #3, SF, CA 94117 (415) 731-6468; rocketjk@dnai.com; www.rocketwords.com/
Copywriting for artists, arts-related businesses and publications, including press kits, Web content and articles. My commercial copywriting experience is augmented by an understanding of the creative process gained through my own fiction writing and six years as a jazz radio producer. The result is compelling copy that remains true your creative vision.

San Francisco Community Music Center
544 Capp St., SF, CA (415) 647-6015; pr@sfmusic.org; www.sfmusic.org/
The SF Community Music Center was founded in 1921 on the philosophy that age, ethnic background and income level must never be obstacles to participation in the life-enhancing qualities of a music education. The Music Center is a community resource dedicated to excellence, diversity and accessibility.

San Francisco Late Night Coalition (SFLNC)
268 Bush St. #2931, SF, CA 94104 (415) 820.3256; info@sflnc.com; www.sflnc.com/
The SFLNC is a group composed of promoters, activists, DJs, musicians, artists, community members and club owners working to protect, preserve and promote San Francisco's late-night culture. We work to encourage awareness of the regulations and issues of after-hours entertainment, and to speak for the rights and the passions of this diverse community.

The San Francisco Media Archive
275 Capp St., SF, CA 94110 (415) 558-8117; www.sfm.org/
The San Francisco Media Archive is dedicated to the preservation of film and media materials. Our archive is composed of thousands of films, video tapes, film strips and other materials, many accessible via our online database. We offer training in film history, digital archiving and media preservation as well as public screenings and seminars.

Sanitary Fill Company Artist-in-Residence Program
501 Tunnel Ave., SF, CA 94134 (415) 330-1415; debmunk@earthlink.net
The goal of Sanitary Fill Company's Artist-in-Residence program is to use art to inspire people to recycle and conserve resources, by giving artists the opportunity to make art from San Francisco's refuse. The company provides a studio, a monthly stipend and a solo exhibit, but artists seem most excited about having unlimited access to the materials.

SCRAP (Scroungers' Center for Reusable Art Parts)
801 Toland (entrance on Newcomb), SF, CA 94124 (415) 647-1746; scrapsf@mindspring.com
SCRAP is a creative reuse center accepting materials suitable for arts and educational purposes while diverting these materials from landfill. We make these materials available at low cost. Helping artists, schools and the general public creatively reuse 125 tons of trash per year. Make Art Not Landfill!

SoundSafe
870 Market St., Ste. 1260, SF, CA 94102 home@soundsafe.org; www.soundsafe.org/
The former tenants of Downtown Rehearsal Studio formed SoundSafe, a nonprofit organization established to develop a center for live music, dance, music rehearsal and art in San Francisco; and to continue its support; and to further music education and appreciation.

SoundWood c/o Fauna & Flora International
3490 California St., Ste 201; SF, CA 94118 (415) 346-7412; www.soundwood.org/
What do trees have to do with music? SoundWood is an international conservation program of Fauna & Flora International working to safeguard the future of trees used to make musical instruments. The program combines education, outreach and industry integration as well as species and habitat conservation to affect long-term change. Make Music --Conserve Trees.

Taking the Leap
1506 62nd St., Emeryville, CA 94608 (510) 653-1655; www.takingtheleap.com/
Taking the Leap offers a six-month practicum filled with insider information, hands-on experience and networking opportunities. Participants gain detailed information about the structure of the art world, learn skills necessary for surviving as an artist, and organize and install an exhibition of their work (last year 2,000 people attended).

TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools)
992 Valencia St, SF, CA 94110 (415) 401-8458; www.tiltmedia.org/
TILT is a media education organization that works within schools and community-based programs, teaching fundamentals of moviemaking while promoting intermedia literacy through hands-on experience with media making. TILT bridges the gaps between communities, the arts and academia in a manner that is intellectually rigorous, yet maintains its grassroots integrity.

Uncle Thrills Productions
PO Box 191556, SF, CA 94119 (800) 246-3030; www.unclethrills.com
Uncle Thrills is an SF-based independent record label. We specialize in helping new artists, by working with them to produce, record, package, press and release their first recordings, with local distribution, promotional materials and legal support. Rock and pop preferred. Current artists include Burke, Unsweetened and Creamsicle.

Women Environmental Artists Directory
http://wead.dreamfish-creative.com/
We promote national and international networking among eco-artists. Our directory of women environmental artists serves curators, administrators, other artists and writers and researchers. Our yearly Bioneers Conference (the largest multidisciplinary conference on ecology) promotes interaction of art and artists into eco/environmental projects on every level.

Ylem: Artists Using Science and Technology
P.O. Box 749, Orinda, CA 94563 (415) 647-8503; www.ylem.org/
Ylem is an international nonprofit providing a forum for new ideas by means of its Web site, forums at the Exploratorium, newsletters and informal get-togethers. Exhibits, performances and other special events happen about once a year. Ylem has been providing these services to artists using electronic media and/or science and math ideas for 20 years.