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Sept. 27, 2008: The Expo Comes to Dolores Park! 18th St. @ Dolores, 11 a.m.-6:00 p.m. * * FREE * *
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 -- UPDATED SEPT. 17 back to the top 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 Arts Providers' Alliance of San Francisco * Artist's EDGE California Lawyers for the Arts/ArtHouse Center for Cultural Innovation Creativity Support Foundation Center Full Calendar Independent Arts & Media Intersection for the Arts Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives * The Present Group Public Glass SCRAP -- Scroungers' Center for Reusable Art Parts Theatre Bay Area (and TAO: Teaching Artists Organized) Crafts/Artisans/Fashion Aud Art * angelcake accessories * Bahama Kangaroo * Becca Vershbow: Bamboo, Bugs, and Bodies * Blackbird Photography * Common Coin of Communication * the change-id * DA BOMBa Presidential T-Shirt * Danielle Kardum * The Girl and Rhino * Hershman Glass Studios * Jewelry Design * Joso Vidal shell jewelry * Lee Harvey Roswell * Lindy Gill artisan jewelry * LLM Creations * Marie Kelzer Designs * Never Never Designs * Priscilla's Parasols * qUirkFACTORY * Shawn Rowland, Rachel Michaelsen (photography, dollmaking) * Ruchi * Richard Bolingbroke, artist * Saaz Designs * Siya Clothing * Stanimation Productions * Stavroula Kolitsopoulos * stay stylish * Stephen Bray Photography * Unspokn (Art Drives Dialogue) * Wen and Jamie Creations * Culture/Community Cataclysmic Megashear Ranch Studios LeftSide: Skate Culture + Advocacy * Manilatown Heritage Foundation, Manilatown Center * ME'D1.ATE NETWORK NIMBY * Paths of Native Africa * Planet Drum Foundation Rock Paper Scissors Collective San Francisco Vegetarian Society Education Brush Fire Painting Workshops Calornia Institute of Integral Studies * The DJ Project Fashion Arts & Youth Enterprises Inc Interplay/Body Wisdom * Official Business Lunch.com * San Francisco Children's Art Center San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Families Program * ShovelfaceArt.com/Vernon the Gardner * Trash Mash-up Women's Audio Mission World Savvy: Global Youth Media & Arts Film + Video African/African Diaspora Film Society * CounterCorp Film Festival Exiled in America: Iraqi Refugees in California * Haiku Films * ITVS Community Cinema, Bay Area * Middle Path Media Oddball Film + Video SF IndieFest * San Francisco Media Archive San Francisco Women's Film Festival Tents: A Darfur Documentary * Music 924 Gilman Street Project Alternative Tentacles Records Byron Au Yong (Composer) * Classical Revolution * Community Music Center Esaul: Ambient & Experimental Music * Flag of Freedom Productions Gamelan Sekar Jaya * KFJC 89.7 FM KALX 90.7 FM Friends of KUSF 90.3 FM * Mission Creek Music Festival Mount Vicious * San Francisco Civic Symphony * San Francisco Chamber Orchestra * San Francisco Conservatory of Music * San Francisco Symphony * The Bay Bridged * Performance (Dance, Theater) Axis Dance Company Casting Connection * CounterPULSE Dancer's Group The LAB Z Space Studio * Publishing & Media Art XX Magazine * Cary Tennis Books * Eth6 * The Fabulist * Funcheap.com * Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged Instant City / Dublit * Joey Sayers Comics * Manic D Press Re/Search Publications Tea Party Magazine * Thrillist * White Fungus Magazine (New Zealand!) * Visual Art: Galleries For venues, see "Performance" and "Music" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Families Program * San Francisco Women Artists McCaig Welles and Rosenthal Gallery * * Indicates a first-time Expo exhibitor Pre-Expo Workshops Sept. 10-26, 2008 back to the top Art as Therapy Location: AccessSF, 1720 Market St., SF Date: Monday, September 8th, 2008 Take a look at two innovative programs that utilize art and performance to feed the soul and ease the mind. Discover what art can really do for you and how you can apply specific methods to your personal life. Featuring: Gerri Lawlor (The Laughing Stock) and Naomi Rifkin (Brush Fire Painting). "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: Dr. Milton Rand Kalman (Chief Scientist) and Ehrich Weiss (Chief Disinformation Architect), Billboard Liberation Front; and Xago Jaurez and Rosa Gonzales (headRUSH/hip-hop theater), plus audience show and tell! Part of Shaping SF's Fall Talks 2008. Do-It-Yourself Promotions on a Budget CELLspace, 2050 Bryant (x 18th/19th streets), SF Date: Thursday, September 18th, 2008, 7-8:30 p.m. This industry insider panel will explore basic marketing strategies, real-world examples and practical tips for artists, performers and musicians to promote their work to a much bigger audience, even while on a limited budget. Panel Discussion followed by Q&A. Panelists: Johnny Hayes (funcheap.com), Serene Moussa (Hamilton Ink Publicity and Media Relations), Sean Burke (Jay Siegan Presents, Red Devil Lounge), Crystal Jacquez (Energy 92.7) LPFM/Community Radio Location: Pirate Cat Radio Cafe, 2781 21st Street, San Francisco Date: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 12 p.m.-2 p.m. Come learn about community and LPFM radio and how to start your own station, and participate in a live broadcast. Hear from the people working at Pirate Cat, check out the equipment, ask questions and more. Featuring: Monkey (founder, Pirate Cat Radio), John Miller (fccfree.com, DJ at Pirate Cat). Breakdancing Workshop Location: CELLspace Date: Monday September 22nd, 2008 Come drop in and learn the basics of breakdancing at CELLspace. Top-rocks, freezes and foot-work. Bookbinding Demonstration: How to make a soft-cover book Location: CELLspace Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 5:30pm-7:00pm. Students will learn how to make simple, soft-cover books from scratch -- perfect for journals, recipe books, gifts and more. Materials provided but feel free to bring your own paper. Seating is limited -- please RSVP at 415.677.9877. Polaroid Transfer Location: CELLspace Date: September 22, 5:30pm-7pm Participants will enjoy this hands-on workshop by learning to transfer an image onto various papers using polaroid film. Seating is limited -- please RSVP 415.677.9877. Featuring: Prudy Kohler/Art For Lunch. Monotype Printmaking Workshop Location: Artists' Colony, Hunters Point Shipyard, Building 101, Studio 1508 Date: Tuesday, September 23rd 6:30-9:30pm PLEASE RSVP at 415-677-9877. Learn basic printamking techniques and make unique prints working on on plexi-glass plates. This class will be held in Richard Bolingbroke's bright 900 sq. ft. studio. Transit options include the new T Line. Featuring: Richard Bolingbroke. TWO CLASSES: DJing 101 for Youth Location: Horizons Unlimited, 440 Potrero Ave (@ 17th St) San Francisco Date: Tuesday, September 23rd 2-3pm; 3-4pm Learn to mix, match beats, run gear, pick records and more. Featuring: The DJ Project ... Email DJ Quest to RSVP. Silkscreening Demo (Print your own shirt) Location: CELLspace Date: Wednesday September 24th, 2008 Come learn how to customize a shirt, bag or other article of clothing. Participants will be able to pick from a variety of images and print images onto their clothes. Please RSVP at 415-677-9877. Featuring: Katie Hennessy, Independent Arts & Media. Tango! Location: CELLspace Date: Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Bring your dancing shoes and come enjoy a tango lesson and milonga at CELLspace. This class is held every Wednesday! Donation suggested. Featuring: Organic tango. Glass Blowing Date/Time: Sept 23 Public Glass, 170 Armstrong Ave, SF, (415) 671-4916 Participants can step inside San Francisco's Public Glass Studio and see first hand how glass is blown and shaped. After the demonstration, each participant will get a short amount of time to experiment with this process themselves. Seating is limited -- please RSVP 415.677.9877 Multiple Streams of Art Income Date: Thursday, September 25th, 2008, 6:30-8:00pm Location: Indy Arts Office Conference Room. RSVP 415/677-9877. Why don't most artists make a prosperous living from art? They're following the same limited approaches in the same limited market. This workshop will teach you eight steps to developing multiple streams of art income, harnessing technology to multiply your audience, and creating lifetime fans who will purchase from you over and over again. Featuring: Debra Russell, Artist'sEDGE Integrative Dance Location: TBA Date: TBA The Expo Co-Presents: Art Workshops at Rock Paper Scissors Collective 2278 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 510-238-9171 Mess With Bikes! Location: Rock Paper Scissors Art Collective Date: Monday, September 15th, 6pm-9pm Come on down and learn how to fix your bike. We've got tools, a bike stand, and some messing experience and we want to share with you! We'll work on all the bike problems you bring to class. Political Street Theater for Everybody Location: Rock Paper Scissors Art Collective Date: Tuesday, September 23rd 6pm-8pm Are you interested in performance art, but have little or no formal training or experience? Do you have an interest in making 'political art' but find yourself at-odds with the 'apolitical' artworld system? Come to this class and learn about street theater! Please bring comfortable clothes and shoes/sneakers, and any burning issues, stories, poems, news articles. Donations Accepted! Make a Tote-Bag...out of a Tee-Shirt Location: Rock Paper Scissors Art Collective Date: Wednesday, September 24th 6pm-8pm Come to this class and make a reusable, recycled bag! All You need to do is bring a tee shirt that's a little on the big side. If you can't find one of your own that suits your fancy, we'll have a few here to pick from. This class is free if you bring your own shirt, but there will be a (low) charge if you need one from us. Donations are accepted! Craft Night! Location: Rock Paper Scissors Art Collective Date: Thursday, September 25th 6pm-8pm Knit, make jewlery, create cards, alter clothes, draw, collage, make a frickin' friendship bracelet ... do what you will, but do it here! Rock Paper Scissors invites you to bring whatever project you are working on, and hang out with other crafters for inspiration, company, and fun! Fourth Annual Community Arts Showcase, Sept. 27, Dolores Park! back to the top Preliminary Lineup -- work in progress TREESIDE CHATS, by the Big Tree in Dolores Park : 1:15 - Underground Venues and How to Use Them, with Killian of the Gun & Doll Show and Melinda Lilycat 3:15 - Censorship: What we can and can't do, lead by John Hell, with John Miller 4:15 - New Technology - the best, worst, & what's next, with John Miller and more CHILDREN'S ART CORNER All day: The Art's On You: Live face Painting at The Expo near the Children's Art Corner at the Expo. 1:30-3pm: Children's Art Activities in CHILDREN'S ART CORNER San Francisco Children's Art Center and Paint Brush Fire will host. 1:20-4pm: Make a Musical Instrument: Sponsored by SCRAP, in the CHILDREN'S ART CORNER Children and their families are encouraged to come play with colorful materials to build their own musical instrument. MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE 1 p.m.: Circus Bella MAIN STAGE One-ring circus w/ a beatboxing strongman, aerialists, and SF horn legends Ralph Carney and Ara Anderson in the band. 1:35-2 p.m.: Z Space Studios Guitar Performance MAIN STAGE 2 p.m.: San Francisco Chamber Orchestra MAIN STAGE Brass Quintet! 2:30: Foxtails Brigade MAIN STAGE Twang-inclined folky bramble ... 3 p.m.:Axis Dance Company MAIN STAGE Duet Dance Performance 3:20 p.m.: Uni & Her Ukelele (with the Ding! String Trio) MAIN STAGE New take on a fine old vintage 4:10: The Aerosols MAIN STAGE Pop-psyche returns to San Francisco! Time TBA: Young Fashionista Show Fashion Arts & Youth Enterprises will debut the designs of their young designers in a 20 minute Fashion Show. Time TBA: SFC Double Dutch Crew SPONSORS & PARTNERS back to the top 924 Gilman Street/The Alternative Music Foundation The 924 Gilman Street Project, a.k.a. the 'Alternative Music Foundation,' is an all-ages, nonprofit, collectively organized music and performance venue located in North Berkeley. 924 strives to provide a violence, alcohol and drug-free environment, and will not book or support racist, misogynist, or homophobic bands or performances. Booking: 510.524.8180 Shows: 510.525.9926 CELLspace -- Collectively Explorative Learning Labs The birthplace of the Expo! CELL provides a safe and supportive public environment for the exploration of art, education, performance and community-building. Through cooperative relationships and multidisciplinary programs, CELLspace encourages the celebration of inter-generational, cross-cultural collaborations and the promotion of social justice. 415.648.7562 The San Francisco Bay Guardian The Expo's exclusive print sponsor! The San Francisco Bay Guardian: An independent, locally owned and edited newspaper. Funcheap.com San Francisco! "Our event listing and website have been featured on Orbitz, KFOG, and KGO radio. We also have active and ongoing promotional relationships with numerous concert venues, museums and promoters including Great American Music Hall, Lonely Planet, Live 105, Asian Art Museum, Conservatory of Flowers, Live Nation, Macworld Expo, along with tons of smaller local organizations like CounterPulse, Dark Room, the Parkway, the Marsh, Life Size Mousetrap, Make/Craft magazines and more." KUSF 90.3 FM San Francisco's true home for independent music and diverse cultural programming. New Music: Midnight-6pm weekdays; hip-hop, electronic, twang, opera, orchestral and ensemble music plus talk 6pm-midnight weekdays and all weekend. 415.386.KUSF. 
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