Sept. 27, 2008: The Expo Comes to Dolores Park!
18th St. @ Dolores, 11 a.m.-6:00 p.m. * * FREE * *



The Expo is the Bay Area's only grassroots connection fair for independent arts, music and culture.

We support independents! Any project run by volunteers gets the $25 community rate. Commercial projects with only one paid employee pay the discounted "Solo Producer" rate.

Join Us ... !
... at our first ever outdoor Expo in Dolores Park! This is an open invitation to arts and music organizations, businesses, schools, solo producers, artisans, unsigned bands, local labels and publishers to reserve a table at the Expo and meet each other and the community. As always, tables for small nonprofits and community groups cost just $25.

RESERVE A SPACE @ Expo 2008
Table reservation is now open for arts, music and cultural groups, nonprofits, service providers, community venues, galleries, labels, publishers, artisans and more.

SPONSOR Expo 2008
Show your support for the Bay Area arts community.

VOLUNTEER at Expo 2008
Volunteering is a great way to meet the community, and help make the Expo happen.

Miss the 2007 Expo? Check out this great video courtesy of SomArts Media.

About our name change
Over the past eight years, the Expo for the Artist & Musician has come to serve an extremely wide variety of community-based art and expression. THE EXPO FOR INDEPENDENT ARTS represents this greater diversity, and all the cultural opportunity that makes this such a unique event.




2008 EXHIBITORS -- CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES
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To showcase your project, service or work to the community, please register for a table or call 415/677-9877. All arts- and culture-related organizations are welcome, including small community projects, nonprofits, businesses and institutions.

Arts Services
California Lawyers for the Arts/ArtHouse
Center for Cultural Innovation
Creativity Support
Foundation Center
Full Calendar
Independent Arts & Media
The Present Group
Public Glass
SCRAP -- Scroungers' Center for Reusable Art Parts

Crafts/Artisans/Fashion
Aiko Designs *
Aud Art *
angelcake accessories *
The Girl and Rhino *
the change-id *
Danielle Kardum *
Jewelry Design *
Marie Kelzer Designs *
Priscilla's Parasols *
Ruchi *
Siya Clothing *
stay stylish *

Culture/Community
Manilatown Heritage Foundation, Manilatown Center *
Planet Drum Foundation
qUirkFACTORY *
San Francisco Vegetarian Society

Education
Brush Fire Painting Workshops
Fashion Arts & Youth Enterprises Inc
Interplay/Body Wisdom *
Official Business Lunch.com *
San Francisco Children's Art Center
ShovelfaceArt.com/Vernon the Gardner *
Women's Audio Mission

Film + Video
African/African Diaspora Film Society *
ITVS Community Cinema, Bay Area *
Middle Path Media *
Oddball Film + Video
San Francisco Media Archive

Music
924 Gilman Street Project
Classical Revolution *
Community Music Center
Gamelan Sekar Jaya *
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra *
San Francisco Symphony *

Performance (Dance, Theater)
Axis Dance Company
CounterPULSE
Dancer's Group
The LAB
Theatre Bay Area (and TAO: Teaching Artists Organized)
Z Soace Studio *

Publishing & Media
Cary Tennis Books *
Eth6 *
The Fabulist *
Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged
Joey Sayers Comics *
Re/Search Publications
Tea Party Magazine *
Thrillist *
White Fungus Magazine (New Zealand!) *

Galleries
For venues, see "Performance" and "Music"
San Francisco Women Artists
McCaig Welles and Rosenthal Gallery *


* Indicates a first-time Expo exhibitor

 
Pre-Expo Workshops Sept. 10-26, 2008
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"Art as Intervention"
Location: CounterPulse, 1310 Mission St., SF
Date: September 10, 2008
The panel will investigate ideas about guerrilla art, and in particular art as intervention -- creative works that disrupt the mundane expectations of daily life for critical or educational purposes. With: Milton Rand Kalman (Chief Scientist, Billboard Liberation Front), Xago Jaurez and Rosa Gonzales (headRush/hip-hop theater), more TBA. Part of Shaping SF's Fall Talks 2008.

Artist Success: Talk to Coach
With Debra Russell Certified Coach
Location: TBA
Date: Thursday, September 25th, 2008
http://www.Artists-Edge.com

Do-It-Yourself Promotions on a Budget
Location: CELLspace, 2050 Bryant St., SF
Date: Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Johnny Hayes (FuncheapSF.com)

Silkscreening Demo (Print your own shirt)
Location: CELLspace
Date: Wednesday September 24th, 2008

Tango!
Location: CELLspace
Date: Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Breakdancing Workshop
Location: CELLspace
Date: Monday September 22nd, 2008

Bookbinding Demonstration:
How to make a soft-cover book
Location: CELLspace
Date: Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

LPFM/Community Radio
Location: Pirate Cat Radio
Date: Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Art as Therapy
Location: AccessSF, 1720 Market St., SF
Date: Monday, September 8th, 2008

Film Screening
Gentrification & Using Historical Film Archives in your Work
Location: Manilatown Heritage Foundation, 953 Mission St., Ste. 30, SF
Date: TBA

Integrative Dance
Location: TBA
Date: TBA

Glass Blowing
Date/Time: Sept 24
Public Glass, 170 Armstrong Ave, SF, (415) 671-4916

Polaroid Transfer
Location: TBA
Date: TBA
Prudy Kohler/Art For Lunch

 
Fourth Annual Community Arts Showcase, Dolores Park!
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Preliminary Lineup -- work in progress

2 p.m.: San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
Brass Quintet!

3 p.m.:Axis Dance Company
Duet Dance Performance

Time TBA: Circus Bella
One-ring circus

Time TBA: Chelle and Friends

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The Expo is made possible in part by the generous support of the folliowing sponsors: 924 Gilman Street
KUSF-FM
FunCheapSF
The SF Bay Guardian
The Walter & Elise Haas Foundation
The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
The San Francisco Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The Zellerbach Family Foundation.

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Expo History

Expo 2007
-Attendees, workshops & performances

Expo 2006
-Press Kit

Expo 2005
-2005 Attendees, Performances & Workshops
-Public Art, Public Conversation
(updated Sep. 9 '05)

Expo 2004
-Event Wrap-Up
-2004 Attending Groups A-Z

Expo 2003
-2003 Event Wrap-Up
-2003 Attending Groups A-Z
-2003 Photo Gallery

Expo 2002
-2002 Press Coverage
-2002 Attending Groups A-L
-2002 Attending Groups M-Z

Expo 2001
-2001 Participating Groups A-Z

Expo 2000
-2000 Video Clip
-2000 Photo Gallery
-2000 Participating Arts Groups A-Z


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