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| Venue/Location: Old Dowtown Windsor Art & Wine Walk |
| Address: All Shops in the Old Downtown |
| Map Location: NE Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Visual |
| Ticket Cost or Free: Free |
| Description: Sept 13th 12 to 5
Art could be hung on Friday and left up as long as the shop and artist agree. Wine tasting will also be available. We would like the artist to be available from 3:00 to 5:00 on Sunday evening. |
| Contact Phone: 707-481-5177 |
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| Contact: Cathy Cole |
| Contact Phone: 707-481-5177 |
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| Description: http://greatthuaisu.com |
| Contact Phone: 123456 |
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| Contact Phone: 123456 |
| Web Site: http://greatthuaisu.com |
| email: doummadaunk@gmail.com |
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| Description: http://www.kaboodle.com/bertas - miley cyrus miley cyrus http://www.smosh.com/forums/index.php?showuser=585621 - MILEY CYRUS MILEY CYRUS |
| Contact Phone: 123456 |
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| Contact Phone: 123456 |
| Web Site: http://www.kaboodle.com/bertas |
| email: espeyhaz@gmail.com |
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| Contact Phone: 6524229 |
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| Contact Phone: 6524229 |
| Web Site: http://ufelefveyqkt.com/ |
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| Address: xvfver@gmail.com |
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| Address: rquhit@gmail.com |
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| Address: orcmzb@gmail.com |
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| Description: Hi webmaster! rus |
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44 This is a Sacred Place (TIASP) - An Eco-Arts Social Network |
| Venue/Location: County Wide |
| Address: Headquarters - 421 2nd St, Petaluma @ The Paintd Door Gallery |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Mixed Disciplines |
| Ticket Cost or Free: FREE |
| Description: Aug 28 thru Oct 4 - EVERYONE, young and old are invited to mark “sacred places” in nature with some kind of appropriate offering; flowers, a shrine, a ribbon (special TIASP stickers are available for this purpose).
UPLOAD photos of these places to the TIASP Facebook page. Join the discussion forum. Spread the word. Make new friends.
SACRED PLACES may range from a secret backyard sanctuary to the public beach to ancient sacred sites protected by the traditional owners of the land to the small miracle of grass sprouting up through urban concrete.
PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL of private property.
TIASP HEADQUARTERS will be set up Aug 28 to Oct 4 (at The Painted Door 421 2nd St. Petaluma) where photos and mementos of these sacred places will be exhibited.
SPECIAL EVENTS will be anounced so check the TIASP facebook page frequently.
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| Contact Phone: 707-762-3296 |
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| Contact: Virginia May |
| Contact Phone: 707-762-3296 |
| Web Site: WWW.TIASP.ORG |
| email: info@the-painted.door.com |
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40 Zone Music & Recording |
| Venue/Location: At Zone Music in Cotati |
| Address: 7884 Old Redwood Highway, Cotati, Ca. 94931 |
| Map Location: Central Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Music-Modern |
| Ticket Cost or Free: FREE |
| Description: Zone Music is providing a musical "petting zoo" of instruments, all playable in the privacy of headphones, so that people can have the experience of playing and hearing modern drums, electric guitars, basses and keyboards, with the full tonal range of modern music technology available. This is a hands-onn fully interactive experience -- yes, YOU can make music! |
| Contact Phone: 707-664-0872 |
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| Contact: Frank Hayhurst |
| Contact Phone: 707-664-0872 |
| Web Site: zonemusic.com |
| email: frank@zonemusic.com |
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39 Russian River Chamber Music: "Bach, Beer, and Burgers" |
| Venue/Location: Bear Republic Brewing Co., Healdsburg |
| Address: 345 Healdsburg Avenue |
| Map Location: NE Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Music-Classic |
| Ticket Cost or Free: FREE - No host pub |
| Description: September 20, 2009 7:00 p.m.
Selections from the music of J.S.Bach, including the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, performed by Sonoma
County musicians. Full menu available. Discounted or Free beer for donations to RRCM. Lots of Fun! |
| Contact Phone: 431-7622 |
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| Contact: Gary McLaughlin |
| Contact Phone: 431-7622 |
| Web Site: russianrivermusic.org |
| email: rivermusic@comcast.net |
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38 Patrick Scott |
| Venue/Location: A variety of 4 to 6 prominent locations throughout the county that highlight the diversity of Sonoma. |
| Address: n/a |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Visual |
| Ticket Cost or Free: free |
| Description: Starting August 29, 2009, a group of three industrial food barrels, 6 feet high by 2 foot diameter, white plastic, freestanding , appear in a vineyard. Their presence and purpose are a mystery. No explanation or signage.
Hidden on top of each is a small solar panel to charge a battery hidden in the base.
After dark, the barrels become illuminated from within an procede to morph through a series of colors.
The illumination brings to life a geometric pattern built into the inner surface of the barrels. Each barrel has a differnt design hidden within.
After 5 to 7 days, the barrels disappear and pop up in a distant location for another stay. As of October 4, they will go into hiding. The locations should each be distinct and draw attention to the variety of natural and manmade activities occuring throughout the county. The goal is to elicit curiosity and in so doing, cause the observer to look more closely at the location where the barrels have appeared.
There is also a theme of recycling and low impact art in this piece. The barrels are recycled food containers used by a local beverage producer. The electricity will be generated on site using photovotaic (solar) panels. The lighting will be low voltage LED.
Each barrel tower will be a self-contained unit.
Ideally, there would be a group of 5 barrels. The materials for producing each barrel is about $1000.
I am working on making an initial group of 3 barrels and will recycle lighting and electronics from a prior project.
With a Arts Sonoma grant of $500., I will be able to purchase the barrels and materials to make the bases, and purchase the electronic parts.
I am currently soliciting donations from solar companies for the remaning solar panels and batteries. I already have a potential donor lined up.
A general idea of the concept may be seen in a work by Paul Tzanetopoulos at LAX airport. http://www.publicartinla.com/sculptures/lax_gateway.html
My previous version of the light barrels may be seen at a blog I wrote for the Maker Faire: http://betherenowlightportal.blogspot.com/ |
| Contact Phone: (707) 538-5438 |
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| Contact: Patrick Scott |
| Contact Phone: (707) 538-5438 |
| Web Site: www.patrickscottart.com |
| email: patrickscottart@aol.com |
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37 Human Chess Performance, Tournament One |
| Venue/Location: Courthouse Square Santa Rosa |
| Address: On Mendocino between 3rd & 4th Sts. |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Theater |
| Ticket Cost or Free: FREE |
| Description: Watch the amazing kid savants at Chess for Kids, a local non-profit, play a tournament with Human Chess pieces! Actors will be portraying each chess piece as a fully developed character...but since it's a game, it's a different show every time! It'll be an age-old contest and battle of wits between the magical creatures and characters in full costume! |
| Contact Phone: 707-494-2894 |
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| Contact: Melissa Gordon |
| Contact Phone: 707-494-2894 |
| Web Site: Coming soon! |
| email: melissasuegordon@gmail.com |
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36 Pegaus Theater Company |
| Venue/Location: lower Russian River Resorts and Restaurants |
| Address: various; one sure hot spot is the Village Inn in Monte Rio |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Mixed Disciplines |
| Ticket Cost or Free: FREE |
| Description: The events we envision, which are intended to pursue integration of live performance into unique Russian River resort venues, will be twofold. First is to dining room performances of 10-minute plays that are set in restaurants, specifically "Isn't It Fabulous?" by Santa Rosa playwright David Beckman. This play was performed this year on a conventional stage as part of Pegasus Theater's Tapas short play festival. We also may do another original 10-minute play set in a restaurant that also was submitted to the festival. In addition, and in some cases as part of these same performances we are developing toy theater performances that also would be suitable for resort venues. To assist with transportation expenses and creation of the toy theater sites, we are requesting a grant of $500. |
| Contact Phone: 707-869-0136 |
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| Contact: Scott Kersnar |
| Contact Phone: 707-869-0136 |
| Web Site: www.PegasusTheater.com |
| email: wskersnar@gmail.com |
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34 5 Minute Play Festival |
| Venue/Location: Streets and Alleyways of Petaluma and Aqus Cafe |
| Address: Various street locations in Petaluma:see description of event |
| Map Location: SE Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Theater |
| Ticket Cost or Free: Free |
| Description: The 5 Minute Play Festival will be part of the annual Petaluma Poetry Walk. We have a schedule of venues that people walk to every hour on the hour starting at 10:00am to 7:00pm for the poetry.
We plan to have a play scheduled at the following times and locations:
Proposed Schedule:
11:00AM: Jungle Vibes on the River
Noon: Alleyway next to Apple Box on the River
2:00pm: In the Courtyard next to Bella Luma on Petaluma Boulevard
3:00pm: Street Corner next to Copperfield's Bookstore
4:00pm: Street Corner in front of Phoenix Theatre (hopefully a Rap Song Play to attract younger people to the wonders of theatre)
5:00pm: Many plays at Aqus Cafe outside and inside the cafe
Estimated # of plays: 10-12
All of these locations are on the direct path of the Poetry Walk. It not only gives exposure to the 5 Minute Play Festival, but also to the Petaluma Poetry Walk.
I will put out a CALL FOR PLAYS in June. Select 10-12 plays and assign actors in roles. They will be simple stage readings and I will direct run-throughs for actors when needed. We did the 5 Minute Play Festival in March 2009 at the Petaluma Art Center and it was a huge success drawing a 80-person audience; many writers and actors from Sonoma and Marin counties. Historically, the Petaluma Poetry Walk has attracted over 200 people attending the readings. Therefore, I am confident this will be even a greater draw for audience participation and wide-range exposure for theatre, words and poetry to the general public.
Another goal that Geri and I work on continually is to include young people (teenagers), local writers and actors hungry to have a place to do their work and at the same time create a sense of community. Theatre and Poetry brings people out of their isolation and creates an opportunity for exchange of ideas, education, inspiration, entertainment and community support. Creating theatre on the streets in Petaluma is an unique idea and has never been done before in this fashion.
References:
Geri DiGiorno (Founder of the Poetry Walk)
adageri@aol.com
707-763-4271
John Crowley (Owner of Aqus Cafe)
707-778-6060
Jonna Ramey (Program Associate) with volunteer Tracey that helped with the 5 Minute Play Festival in March 2009 at the Petaluma Art Center.
Petaluma Arts Council
707-762-5600 x110
jramey@petalumaartscouncil.org
Thank you for your time and patience. If you have any further questions, feel free to contact me by e-mail or 707-338-2489.
Sincerely, Nancy Long |
| Contact Phone: 707-338-2489 |
| Money Requested: $1000.00 |
| Use of Money: $25.00 awarded to 12 writers for 12 plays= $300.
$30.00 awarded to 10 actors= $300.
$200.00 paid to Nancy Long,
Director and Coordinator of event= $200.
$200.00 for advertising= $200.
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| Contact: Nancy Long |
| Contact Phone: 707-338-2489 |
| Web Site: none |
| email: nsasha@earthlink.net |
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35 Poetry in the Streets |
| Venue/Location: Sebastopol Square, Streets and alleyway of Petaluma |
| Address: Sebastopol Square, Mail Depot/Street, Jungle Vibes/Street on River, alleyway next to Aram's |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Literary |
| Ticket Cost or Free: Free |
| Description: Poetry in the Streets
My goal is to bring poetry to the people in a new and unique way: in the streets and alleyways of Sonoma County.
Proposed schedule:
In the month of August: Hang Haiku Poems in the Trees in Sebastopol
(I have already done this project in Sebastopol and the response was tremendous. Participants came and the City asked me to leave the poems hanging in the trees)
Activity: Volunteers will help me assist people in writing poems, attaching paper to beaded strings and hang in trees in Sebastopol Square.
In the month of September: Chalk Writing on the Sidewalks of Petaluma
Locations include Mail Depot area and outside Jungle Vibes on the River.
Owners of stores have already committed to the project.
I will also get permission from City Council for other locations.
Activity: Volunteers will help me encourage chalk writing involving all ages: children, teens and adults. Stickers: GOT POETRY? will be handed out.
In the month of October: Mural Writing in an Alleyway with Open Mike Poetry
With permission from the City, I hope to hang a long mural paper strip along the wall in the alleyway next to Aram’s.
Activity: I will offer markers and pens for passerbys to write poetry underneath an array of inspirational collage images such as: clipped-out printed poems, sentences, words, photos of people, things, places. I hope to hand out stickers to those participating so that they can advertise the project. A sticker saying: GOT POETRY? may arouse interest and curiosity throughout the town. People can come by and socialize and read their poetry on the street corner and hand out their poems on paper to people.
References:
Amber Balshan (owner of Preferred Caterers)
Promoter of Chalk Writing/Haiku Hanging
769-7208
Linda Gelardi (Sebastopol Art Center) Haiku Hanging
829-4797
Lynn Max (Sebastopol Art Center) Haiku Hanging
542-8205
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| Contact Phone: 707-763-4271 |
| Money Requested: $750.00 |
| Use of Money: Materials: poster board, mural paper,
markers, beads, string, scissors, markers,
chalk, glue, signs, stickers, camera to
document events, paper= $300.00
Advertising= $200.00
Hours worked and organizing
to be paid to creator, Geri DiGiorno= $250.00
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| Contact: Geri DiGiorno |
| Contact Phone: 707-763-4271 |
| Web Site: |
| email: adageri@aol.com |
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33 Redwood Writers (Caifornia Writers Club Redwood Branch) |
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| Address: Mendocino at 4th SR/Kentucky St Petaluma /Main @116 Sebastopol, etc. |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Literary |
| Ticket Cost or Free: Free |
| Description: Redwood Writers proposes to organize a writing project open to our membership and the community at large: “Ordinary People/Extraordinary Moments,” where ordinary people document in 100 word narratives those moments in their lives where the ordinary transformed into the extraordinary. The club will solicit, collect, edit and prepare the stories to be handed out and posted as handbills throughout the county during the “fringe” project time period on bulletin boards in shops, laundries, and other places appropriate for posting. Additionally, once weekly, members will publicly position themselves and yell out stories from their “soap boxes” in different locations around the county as they dispense the printed handbills. At these locations sandwich boards will be set up identifying Redwood Writers, our mission, the project and the Sonoma County Arts Council sponsorship.
We regard our project as a participatory “literary installation” where both our members and the community at large have an opportunity to share writing and reading in a positive and celebratory manner reminiscent of Hyde Park Soapbox readings.
Our regular offerings:
General Meeting: September 13th at Copperfields Books Montgomery Village 3-5 pm
Speaker: Seth Harwood, mystery writer and podcast expert. Door Prizes medmbers $3/non-members $5
4th annual Vintage Voices: Anthology Launch Party September 26th North Light Books 2-4 pm (confirmation pending) Free
General Meeting: October 4th 3-5 pm (venue not confirmed)
Speaker: Stefanie Freele, literary magazine author and editor. Door prizes
$3/non-members $5
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| Contact Phone: 415-827-1468 |
| Money Requested: none |
| Use of Money: |
| Contact: Ana Manwaring |
| Contact Phone: 415-827-1468 |
| Web Site: www.redwoodwriters.org |
| email: anamanwaring@gmail.com |
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32 Redwood Writers |
| Venue/Location: Various Locations |
| Address: Sonoma County |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Literary |
| Ticket Cost or Free: FREE |
| Description: In addition to our regular public offerings during the time period of ArtsSonoma, Redwood Writers proposes to organize a writing project open to our membership and the community at large: “Ordinary People/Extraordinary Moments,” where ordinary people document in 100 word narratives those moments in their lives where the ordinary transformed into the extraordinary. The club will solicit, collect, edit and prepare the stories to be handed out and posted as handbills throughout the county during the “fringe” project time period on bulletin boards in shops, laundries, and other places appropriate for posting. Additionally, once weekly, members will publicly position themselves and yell out stories from their “soap boxes” in different locations around the county as they dispense the printed handbills. At these locations sandwich boards will be set up identifying Redwood Writers, our mission, the project and the Sonoma County Arts Council sponsorship. |
| Contact Phone: 707.793.7901 |
| Money Requested: Unknown |
| Use of Money: Could help with promotional activities and purchase of Raw Materials |
| Contact: Anna Manwaring |
| Contact Phone: 707.793.7901 |
| Web Site: www.redwoodwriters.com |
| email: anamanwaring@gmail.com |
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28 6th Street Improv |
| Venue/Location: Six Street Theater Black Box Studio |
| Address: 52 West 6th Street |
| Map Location: Central Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Theater |
| Ticket Cost or Free: 12.00 |
| Description: A rousing entertainment of improvisational theater with music, based entirely on audience suggestion.
Highlighting local talent and global cultural themes. |
| Contact Phone: 707 7632945 |
| Money Requested: 200.00 |
| Use of Money: advertising, administration and support for show production. An pay the musician. |
| Contact: Jeffrey Weissman |
| Contact Phone: 707 7632945 |
| Web Site: http://www.6thstreetplayhouse.com/guides/season-0809/6th-street-improv/ |
| email: jeffreyweissman@sbcglobal.net |
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29 Instant Gratification Theater |
| Venue/Location: Downtown Glasser Center Theater |
| Address: 547 Mendocino Ave. |
| Map Location: Central Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Theater |
| Ticket Cost or Free: 15.00 |
| Description: The Second "Best of Sonoma County Improv Jam"
Include Improv troups from Sonoma County that were not in the first show June 26th, and other great omprov guests from 2nd City, the Committee, Spaghetti Jam and solos. |
| Contact Phone: 707 7632945 |
| Money Requested: 250.00 |
| Use of Money: To cover advertising, administration, venue, musical accompanist, insurance. |
| Contact: Jeffrey Weissman |
| Contact Phone: 707 7632945 |
| Web Site: http://www.glasercenter.com/events.php |
| email: jeffreyweissman@sbcglobal.net |
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30 Slaughterhouse Space and Velocity Circus |
| Venue/Location: Healdsburg Squa Plaza to Healdsburg Avenue to Grove Street to Chiquita Road |
| Address: Sonoma County |
| Map Location: NE Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Mixed Disciplines |
| Ticket Cost or Free: FREE |
| Description: A colorful and playful menagerie of Duchamp inspired characters come to life and ascend upon the bustling Healdsburg town square. Spectators are encouraged to interact with each character, family photo opts and witness mini theatrical presentations.
The iconic whiskered Mona Lisa (L.H.O.O.Q.) will delight with comic antics, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein and Henri Matisse argue among themselves on their influence on the arts, a bizarre and delightful plethora of characters born from Duchampian concepts dance, tumble, frolic and contort among the growing crowd of onlookers. Imaginations are ignited, curiosity on the exhibit is aroused, and inspiration fills the square. The colorful performance will crescendo in parading the community from the town square to the Duchamp Winery and Slaughterhousespace exhibit hall.
On arrival to the exhibit, guests are further treated to living works of art which complement and help communicate the concepts of the extraordinary visual art.
Living statues, gender bending personas, chess players, special effects films and lighting animate and draw guests into the realm of infinite potential...
Accessible to all, guests are treated to a day of immersion in the arts as their own potential is unleashed through creative exploration.
We estimate more than 200 will attend the reception and hundreds will enjoy the free performance in the town’s square and the parade that follows from Plaza to the Slaughterhousespace at Chiquita Road.
This grant will support a special art and entertainment production to complement "The Seduction of Duchamp," an exhibition that features he many facets of Duchamp's life and work.
The funds requested will be used to create a performance art production that augments the exhibition and widens the audience reach. |
| Contact Phone: 415-566-7515 |
| Money Requested: $12,000 |
| Use of Money: Lighting $800
Costume Design & fabrication for 12 $4,800
2 technicians 2x300= $600
Artists performers (12 at $150 @ day) = $1,800
Rehearsal time $600
Artistic director producer $1,600
Stage Manager $600
Sub Total: $10,800
Marketing and publicity $1,200
TOTAL: $12,000 |
| Contact: Hanna Regev |
| Contact Phone: 415-566-7515 |
| Web Site: www.slaughterhousespace.com |
| email: rgv18@pacbell.net |
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31 toad in the hole |
| Venue/Location: fifth st in railroad square |
| Address: 116 5th street |
| Map Location: Central Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Theater |
| Ticket Cost or Free: eccentric |
| Description: To create a street theater company based out of the toad in the hole.We would like to solicit former directors and actors from the old vic theater company and produce a street faire based on those plays. |
| Contact Phone: (707)5486764 |
| Money Requested: permits etc. |
| Use of Money: I do not know how much you are willing to donate. |
| Contact: Paul Stokeld |
| Contact Phone: (707)5486764 |
| Web Site: Thetoadpub.com |
| email: thetoadinthehole@yahoo.com |
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26 Literary Arts Guild Inc., Sonoma County Book Festival |
| Venue/Location: Old Courthouse Square in Santa Rosa |
| Address: (4th & Mendocino) |
| Map Location: Central Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Literary |
| Ticket Cost or Free: FREE |
| Description: The Sonoma County Book Festival is a free public event brought to you by The Literary Arts Guild. Our event transforms downtown Santa Rosa into the literary capital of Northern California. Thousands of booklovers return every year for a full day of fun under our welcoming white tents. Our rich programs present nationally acclaimed and locally treasured authors, who inspire and entertain festival attendees of all ages.
This year the festival’s main-stage seeks to redefine Literary Performance, through the felt yet intangible impact of the spoken word as it travels from mind to mouth to minds. We are expanding what we call Literary to include stories and spoken thoughts of all forms from poetry, to innovative dramatic performance, and the reading of new plays (in the tradition of chamber theatre), to oral traditions like storytelling.
We would like to feature such performers as well known Latino poet Paul Flores, Celtic bard Patrick Ball, storyteller Georgia Churchill, the Boalian (audience-based) improv work of Playback Theatre, local emerging playwrights like Jesse Olson and David Templeton and friends (Word on Stage), as well as an hour of local poets. We are open to involvement from all local theatre companies wishing to peer inside the black box and pull out something fresh and word-based. We are particularly excited about involving The Imaginists and Eliot Fintushal on the main stage and as roving elements.
The Festival would like to have 6-7 spoken word performances on the main stage (between 10-4) as well as wandering performers and possible musical interludes between acts. We are seeking financial support of $5000, from the Cultural Arts Council, to allow us to provide stipends for these performers. As a thank you to the Cultural Arts Council for your sponsorship, we would be happy to provide you with a booth space on the courtyard at no charge. Because it is a lean year for publishers and word artists alike, we are especially appreciative of your financial consideration.
We hope to bring Eliot Fintushal, for an encore of his very successful performances of living books. Ideally, he and other performers wander through the various venue bringing books to life and imbibing a sense of unity and to the whole event. To this aim we would also like to employ the Hubbub marching band (a very fun, non traditional parade band with hula hoop twirling director), an actress who will be impersonating Laura Engles Wilder in the Kid’s Tent, and additional minstrels and poets.
Are We Fringe? Yes and no, because fringe is defined as being outsider art--art and performance that comes from outside the norm, from outside the center. The Literary Arts Guild and the Book Festival has existed for 10 years and we work with the City of Santa Rosa to utilize the space at the center of Santa Rosa, the courthouse square. While our works are not strictly guerilla performance, we claim the square for Literature. In the European tradition of street performance, we continue to bring people and performance outside the normal every day experience to public places. The festival and its stage, seize hold of the public square and the public imagination filling the space (usually reserved for commerce) with stories, with thoughts, with words.
In a digital world, how much more fringe can you be than insisting on the survival of print and aiding the livelihood and audience local authors, publishers, and book makers? It is our firm belief that by funding these spoken word performances, the Cultural Arts Center will be helping us bring words into the public sector in a unique way, which engages, challenges and broadens public’s intellect and soul. |
| Contact Phone: 7075275412 |
| Money Requested: $5,500.00 |
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Staff/Operating costs 500
Equipment Rental 500
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| Contact: Nadja Masura |
| Contact Phone: 7075275412 |
| Web Site: www.socobookfest.org |
| email: info@socobooksfest.org |
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27 Occidental Center For The Arts and The Virtual Performance Collective, Re-Membering Harmony |
| Venue/Location: Occidental Center for the Arts |
| Address: corner of Bohemian Highway and Hill Road, Occidental, CA (The former site of Harmony Union Elementary School now Harmony Village (and Occidental Center for the Arts) in Occidental, CA. The performance space consists of multiple outdoor and indoor |
| Map Location: SW Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Theater |
| Ticket Cost or Free: TBD |
| Description: The interactive event would include the live and mediated performance of the past within the halls and on the very walls of the location. Audience members will come to the old Harmony School site in Occidental, CA (possibly via school bus) where they will be put into the role of students with a hall pass, walked by a yard-duty from building to building through hallways experiencing imagery from the past and the place’s transition into a housing complex/Arts Center. They will encounter characters from the past (teachers, bullies, yard-duties) and participate in the creation of an experience of shared memory, contributing their own stories to the archives. As they move through the environment which is shifting between current and past elements, they will also encounter the voices of students from the past, community members sharing their stories, re-enactments of typical school scenes, and interact directly with media through interactive triggering mechanisms. The tour will conclude inside the Occidental Center for the Arts, with performances by the Occidental Community Choir and children from Salmon Creek School.
Imagine motion triggered sound tracks of the voices of students running in the empty hallways, projected footage of trees cut and tractors plowing, layering images of past classrooms on present condos, kids games projected on the houses where the playfield used to be, live students attending class in a classroom that is no longer there, voices of kids reading student wills, video interviews and memories projected on walls, encountering characters from the collective past (teachers, yard duties, bullies), the opportunity for visitors to add their memories to the log and performance in real-time, and more.
This project serves to bring a new type of performance/ art-making to Sonoma County by an emerging local artist trained in the theory and practice creating of cutting-edge digital performance and community focused art along with Virtual Performance Collective members across the US and in the UK. The work is built around the location (or site) itself, using the memories of the community (formed by interest in or location near Harmony school), involving public participation, and allowing people to re-experience a familiar place in a new and unfamiliar way. Re-Membering Harmony will be an event combining the draw of the local with an eye to the global cutting-edge performance traditions of community-based theatre, site-specific performance, and digital performance or Digital Theatre.
Community Based Theatre: In the growing tradition of community-based theatre (also know as devised theatre--in my former instructor/mentor Dr. Susan Haedicke’s work on Community Performance in Performing Democracy she writes: “grassroots theatre grows out of a commitment to place…grounded in the local and the specific”), the theatrical performance evolves from local issues and is devised from the stories of community members about a specific topic; in this case shared memories of time at Harmony School (a rural K-8th grade elementary school in Western Sonoma County, CA). In addition to research on the site’s history and archival materials, much of the performance text comes directly from oral histories collected from former teachers, students, staff, and parents involved with the school in its heyday (circa approximately 1950-2000). Interviewees are asked questions about: the school’s place in the community; their memories about classmates and teachers; locations (such as the playground, cafeteria, principal’s office, etc.); and sense memories. They are also asked to comment on their experiences and share moments of childhood or becoming an adult. (In a sense the play explores specifics to achieve a sense of the universal.)
Site Specific Performance: Site-specific performance (much like environmental theatre with media, or a media installation with live performers) is a mode of performance which comes from and directly relates to the venue of performance. In a sense, the building itself is a character in the performance. Through layering memories communicated through visual and audio representations of the location’s past usage on top of the present state of the edifice, the place becomes complicated and multiplied—leaving it to the participant to form a response to the transition of the landmark.
The process of creating this original site-specific performance at the Harmony School/Village site follows the methods of the Talking Birds, the preeminent site-specific performance group in the United Kingdom. Through my doctoral work I have interviewed the Talking Birds and observed/documented their process in the creation of two works: Three Doctors (set in an abandoned hospital in Coventry) and The Whale. Nick Walker, Director of the Talking Birds, is mentoring me in the creation of this project via e-mail correspondence. (To learn more about the Talking Birds and their work with public places in transition and the layering of memory visit www.talkingbirds.co.uk or see attached Placeascommunity_OCAversion.doc.)
The process of creating Re-Membering Harmony is one of: research, collecting oral histories, mapping the performance areas for the site, involving the local school and community, documenting the site and its transformation, editing media, devising a script, involving community members in various aspects of performance, creating media playback and interactive triggers, and staging the event.
Digital Theatre and Performance: The work is a piece of Digital Theatre (see Dr. Masura’s dissertation, Digital Theatre: A “Live” and Mediated Art Form Expanding Perceptions of Body, Place, and Community or www.digthet.com), a type of digital performance. Examples range from the use of projected scenery and costumes to internet performance and site-specific art (see Steve Dixon’s Digital Performance Archive) which includes live performers and audience as well as digital media as part of the production. This type of production is relatively unknown in Sonoma County although it exists nationally and internationally.
As indicated, the work involves bringing audiences into an unusual performance space, but it also involves bringing digital media into an unusual locale. Instead of participants projecting our feelings on to a place (in terms of the individual flashes of memory which occur in interviewees) in our own minds, we will be projecting these private memories on to the surfaces of the very structures where they were created. In a sense, the whole campus becomes a projection surface and stage for the playback and reinterpretation of collective thoughts. At specified points on the tour, audience members will encounter characters from the past (actors and community members) sharing their stories, treating the participant/audience members as school children, giving them tasks, providing vignettes, or location specific actions. The piece intends to give voice to the invisible cultures of the playground and collect the individual stories as they overlap into mutually-shared themes, and to project those intense visual flash-backs, inviting, exorcizing, and purging them. It both values and complicates the creation of memory. It also intends to give a sense of change and transition of rural and small town ways of life (and institutions) in our digitally-shifting global times.
Dr. Masura, an expert in Digital Theatre, has many years of experience crafting scripts for online and media performances, including Elements, Outside/In, and the Interplay series with ArtGrid. She has extensive training with digital graphics, video, animation and motion sensing programs including Max/Jitter and Isadora, and has two Associate Degrees in multimedia. Dr. Masura has much in the way of required hardware and software for the project, including computers, projectors, cameras, and motion-triggers.
Audience Experience: The title of the event, Re-Membering Harmony, refers to the idea of acknowledging the locus of community experience/memory that was Harmony School, and present communities are strengthened and even built through the community and audience’s participation. As I told one Re-Membering Harmony interviewee, by participating in this community memory log, adding her memories as part of a collective memory, she was evidencing the community’s past and creating its continuation. The hope is to stage the performance as a bridge, honoring the past and enacting the site’s future as a place for the performing arts. We hope to create an upwelling of community involvement in the Center and ease the site’s necessary transformation.
As a piece of environmental theatre, the audience will be immersed in the performance environment and the community is encouraged to participate in many ways. The audience is invited to interact with media, share stories, and participate in the re-creation of the school, becoming members of the memory performance, and through the joyous celebration of the new center (in the finale concert) and its full rich past, ultimately transferring some of their social-investment in the school to the new arts center as a public institution.
It is a FUBU piece for students, teachers, staff of the now-defunct Occidental Campus, for Sonoma County residents who want to remember or reflect on going to school, and for the tech-savy arts community of the greater Bay-Area, and for people of all walks who have noticed a shift in the ways of the world and would like to come experience a unique opportunity to step back in time, and realize even the most seemingly stable and local institutions change with the shifting global winds.
The Bigger Picture: Place is a big part of who we are. Where we are from can determine how we see and behave in the wider world. The piece asks several questions: What does it mean when the school you went to is gone? What does it mean to be raised in a small town? Is there such a thing today? How is Sonoma County changing in the face of history and global trends; who are we becoming? To quote Lucy Lippard in her insightful book on place-based art, Lure of the Local, “The intersections of nature, culture, history, and ideology form the ground on which we stand—our land, our place, the local. The lure of the local is the pull of place that operates on each of us, exposing our politics and our spiritual legacies. It is the geographical component of the psychological need to belong somewhere, one antidote to prevailing alienation.” The local is at the heart of individual experience, even on a global basis.
All of us have potent memories of childhood and our school days helped form our perceptions of self in society. In addition to acting as a potential catharsis of memory, the performance seeks to serve as bridge between the public’s memory of the site as a public school to its transition into private housing and the shared public space of the Occidental Center for the Arts. (The purpose of this topic is to create a performance environment which evokes a sense of nostalgia and loss, but also a hopeful and active part in change and transition—a reclamation of shared history, and the larger issue of the changing face of Sonoma County, and local cultural adaptation to global forces). The point of the piece is to acknowledge changing times; honoring the local as we go global (addressing the past as we look forward to the future).
History of The Site: For years Harmony had stood as an emblem and site of community, central to the experience of being from Occidental and neighboring areas. Before it was built, the west county children in the area had been taught in one-room school houses. Harmony Union School District unified the local population in Occidental that otherwise would have been somewhat isolated in the nooks and crannies of the local landscape. From the 1950s through the early 2000s, Harmony school was a functioning rural public K-8 school, serving a wide area of West Sonoma County (from Bodega to the outskirts of Sebastopol). Over 3,200 students, teachers, and staff passed through its halls.
In the 2000s the middle school was moved to a new site: Salmon Creek School in nearby Freestone. In the dot com boom and bust era, property prices had risen so high in the west county that the population shifted to be primarily retirement age. As younger families were squeezed out due to the high cost of living, the school age population dropped, additional grades were transitioned to the new facility, and Harmony Union School sat vacant. Eventually, at the request of the county, the site was purchased by developer Orin Thesin, who donated part of the former school—the cafeteria and one classroom—to the Occidental Center for The Arts.
It is interesting to note the trends that can be observed in this small rural school. One can trace the patterns of families and social structures in the names moving in and out of the school’s rosters. This part of the town acts like a window into our past, and like a modern-day Our Town, Re-Membering Harmony shows a picture of a simpler time, a singular place which could stand for any rural town reacting to the larger forces which shaped the region and the world. The land in question once belonged to the native Americans, then to the Italian families who settled the region in the days of the Wild West (stage-coaches and the Camp Meeker logging camp). In the 1950s, the one-room school houses were abandoned in favor of the single Harmony campus, and a house on land donated by the Calvis was torn down to make room for the school. Once the area seemed prosperous to handle two campus, but the Occidental Campus was shut down, and now the Calvi Brothers are the contractors employed to raise the ground for the construction of new private homes on the very playing field where generations of their family went to school. The new school purports to be a global standard of ecological building and education. The theme of change and transition runs through the story of these schools and the community tied to them.
With your support, Re-Membering Harmony will be a potent hybrid event which will allow audiences to walk through a changing, shifting place of memory and discover it anew. The old school site offers itself as a canvas to project our memories, and fictions of childhood. Projected images on the sides of buildings can create a doubling of space which is at once strangely familiar, both imagined and real. Some visitors may relive childhood memories, others reevaluate the imperfect nature of memory, while others will enjoy a sense of multiple dimensions.
In the construction and performance of the piece, multiple individual memories become as composite or communal memory. Through focusing on the specific we can to get to a sense of the universal: the process of growing up, going to school, of creating our own mythology. It is those flashes of memory, stemming from perceiving a sense of self at a specific place and time, which are the building blocks of who we are. Often great art compels us to examine who we are and where we are going. Re-Membering Harmony seeks to repopulate the school with memories, and give a compass reading to chart our course in the wider world. Re-Membering Harmony seeks to make visible the traces of the past for the benefit of a stronger sense of community in the future. |
| Contact Phone: 7075262314 |
| Money Requested: $4000.00 |
| Use of Money: Request (Ideal)
Itemized:
Directing, scripting
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Performer Stipends 1500
Digitizing media, Creating Interactive triggers 1000
Capturing and editing video 1000
PR (print and media) 1000
Equipment Rental and purchase 1000
Printing, Graphics, Web 500
Total Expense 7000
Alternate Funding
$4000.
Directing, scripting 1000
Interactivity, video editing
1000
Web and Graphics 1000
PR (print and media) 500
Equipment Rental and purchase 500
Total Expense 4000
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| Contact: Nadja Masura |
| Contact Phone: 7075262314 |
| Web Site: http://www.occidentalcenterforthearts.com/harmony_about.html |
| email: nadjam@comcast.net |
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25 Felix String Quartet |
| Venue/Location: Kaiser Hospital |
| Address: 401 Bicentennial Way, Santa Rosa |
| Map Location: Central Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Music-Classic |
| Ticket Cost or Free: FREE |
| Description: Three lunchtime performances of classic string quartets by Mozart, Beethoven and Debussy at Kaiser facilities in central Santa Rosa (Bicentennial Way), north Santa Rosa (Old Redwood Highway) and Rohnert Park. |
| Contact Phone: 707-540-5096 |
| Money Requested: $1000.00 |
| Use of Money: Publicity, programs and transportation for three concerts at Kaiser facilities, including postcard design, printing and mailing; program design and printing; and transportation to Santa Rosa and Rohnert Park. |
| Contact: Steve Osborn |
| Contact Phone: 707-540-5096 |
| Web Site: http://www.classicalsonoma.org/presenters/?groupid=62&genreid=1 |
| email: osborn53@sonic.net |
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24 Armando Garcia-Davila |
| Venue/Location: Businesses with large hispanic work forces |
| Address: La Tortilla Factory 3300 Westwind Blvd |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Literary |
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| Description: Bringing literary arts to the community. Two writers will visit a business with a large hispanic work force and read from their work. The writers will arrange for lunch to be provided for the workers and then present from their works. Personally I have many poems about Hispanic workers. It is difficult for most such workers to take time out from their lives (as many have families and second and even third jobs considering the low wages they are paid) to attend such an event, then the event will come to them.
It will be announced a week ahead of time to the workers and they will be encouraged to bring their own writings to share or a piece of writing that is dear to them. |
| Contact Phone: 707-975-2243 |
| Money Requested: depends on the size of the work force. Ten to fift |
| Use of Money: The money will be used to purchase lunch items such as a "Taco" truck or a caterer or perhaps we will prepare food to take depending on how many workers would be involved. Businesses in mind include La Tortilla Factory, Amy's Kitchen, large wineries, etc. |
| Contact: Armando Garcia-Davila |
| Contact Phone: 707-975-2243 |
| Web Site: www.armandogd.com |
| email: adavila@sonic.net |
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21 Cloverdale Performing |
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22 Cloverdale Performing lArts Center |
| Venue/Location: 201 Commeercial Street |
| Address: Cloverdale, CA 95425 |
| Map Location: NW Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Theater |
| Ticket Cost or Free: free |
| Description: The performances are free. One day for younsters and one day for adult programing. We are having "event" type entertainment. People can sing, dance, act, stand up, play musical instruments etc. during both days. As we discover who is coming and their needs--we'll respond to them. |
| Contact Phone: 291-2642 |
| Money Requested: $250.00 |
| Use of Money: $150.00 for staff person to set lights-sound etc for each of the performers. As we speak to participants and discover their needs--we'll respond. $100.00 for advertising the events. |
| Contact: Jim dePriest |
| Contact Phone: 291-2642 |
| Web Site: Cloverdaleperformingarts.org |
| email: jim@theatregreen.com |
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23 Cloverdale Performing lArts Center |
| Venue/Location: 201 Commeercial Street |
| Address: Cloverdale, CA 95425 |
| Map Location: NW Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Theater |
| Ticket Cost or Free: freec |
| Description: Our theatre will host two days of events. First day for youngsters, second for adults. Program will consist of poetry reading, singing, acting, music, dance, stand up comedy--whatever they want to do. We should have a list of participants soon. |
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| Money Requested: $250.00 |
| Use of Money: Money needed to pay technical director to run the two day program with lights, sound etc, $150.00. $100.00 for advertising the event. |
| Contact: Jim dePriest |
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| Web Site: Cloverdaleperformingarts.org |
| email: jim@theatregreen.com |
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19 Virgiia May - This is a Sacred Place: an Eco-Arts Social Networking Event |
| Venue/Location: County Wide |
| Address: TBD |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Mixed Disciplines |
| Ticket Cost or Free: FREE |
| Description: Vision
For the Arts Sonoma Festival I propose to engage participants in “tagging” sacred places in Sonoma County with biodegradable stickers that I provide. Participants will be asked to photograph these places and post them with attached descriptions and stories of why these places are sacred etc. on a social networking site such as FaceBook or MySpace for additional comments and discussion of the sacredness of the places where we live and work.
Additionally the images collected will be designed into a large montage suitable for outdoor display and be presented to the Arts Council at a special reception/ celebration. The celebration will include a “Sacred Place Ritual” designed by participants in collaboration with the local Native American community. The project intention is to highlight the links between aesthetics, place, community and the ecological imperative for humanity to reclaim the earth as our sacred home. Detailed information regarding the look and feel of this project can be found on the trial website www.tiasp.org. and additional photos and documents on request.
Project Concept
There are four integrated parts to this project.
•The first is an Internet Social Networking event which will engage Sonoma County residents in placing and photographing TIASP stickers (see sample attached) around the county. These photos will be posted on a website for additional comments and community blogging. This virtual participation will stimulate a collaborative artistic participation in building a growing awareness of the beauty and sacredness of the natural environment.
•The second is a public art display of the community response to the Internet event. Images collected will be transformed into a large landscape mosaic mural/banner approximately 20’ x 60’. The mural will be portable and be available to display at other events.
•Posters (24 x 36”) of the mosaic will be available for purchase for approx. $12.00 to $18 each. A free poster will be given to each participant. . (see samples) IMPORTANT TNOTE he posters will generate income to fund the project.
•Finally all participants and the community at large will be invited to celebrate our County. The celebration will include the presentation of the mosaic, with a ritual ceremony in dedication to the sacred ecology of this area. Additional components to the celebration may include a poetry slam, music, and/or an adjunct art exhibit / video production representing creative inspiration of our communitie TBD.
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| Contact Phone: 707-762-3296 |
| Money Requested: $17,695 |
| Use of Money: Item Cost Estimates
5000 Stickers $1000
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Website Design & Integration $1500
Mural / Banner Design $1500
Mural / Banner Printing $5000
Mural / Banner Installation $1000
2500 24 x 36” posters $7495
Celebration / Reception $2000
Art Direction / Coordinator $3200
Cost Total $17,695
1500 Poster Sales at
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| Contact: Virginia May |
| Contact Phone: 707-762-3296 |
| Web Site: www.virginiamay.org |
| email: vmay42@yahoo.com |
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20 Miguel Frasconi and John Duykers present the Restaurant Stimulus Package |
| Venue/Location: various restaurants TBA (total six appearances) |
| Address: various TBA - Sebastopol, Occidental, Santa Rosa, Healdsburg |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Mixed Disciplines |
| Ticket Cost or Free: FREE |
| Description: Duykers and Frasconi will present a spontaneous voice and instrument event at various restaurants, using some pre-composed music as well as spontaneous compositions - text will be based on restaurant related subjects and will be excerpts from their new work, Hand to Mouth. Performances will be 15-30 minutes max. |
| Contact Phone: 707-823-9269 |
| Money Requested: $643.40 |
| Use of Money: two roundtrip flights on JetBlue for Miguel Frasconi from NYC
Flight Sept 9-14 - $349.20
Flight Sept 23-28 - $294.20 |
| Contact: John Duykers |
| Contact Phone: 707-823-9269 |
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18 Catherine Richardson, Sasha Duer and Corey Hitchcock (individual artists) |
| Venue/Location: Fringe festival 2009 |
| Address: Sweveral 'spots" around Sonoma county TBD |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Mixed Disciplines |
| Ticket Cost or Free: free |
| Description: March 4th 2009
Proposal for Fringe09.
Event; September 09.
Submitted by Artist Cathy j.Richardson. www.cjrich.com
Mission: To outline an expansive view of visual arts and accentuate the lens on a sense of place for residents and visitors of Sonoma County. The project will strive to inspire stewardship of the (reconnection with) land though a collaborative project between three artists, each bringing their own perception, interaction and methods of working. The focus explores three main avenues of approach.
a) Land energies and pre-grid land mapping
b) Plant-life and Botanicals of Sonoma County
c) Natural waterways and their sources
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The project’s vision involves experiment and demonstration; exploring, documenting, and showcasing the collaborative project outside the gallery setting and into selected “field” locations in the county.
a) Artist Corey Hitchcock: www.hitchcock-presents.com Artist Corey Hitchcock’s visual and experiential investigations into the pre-grid, selective, regional and poetic geography identified by the ancient geographer, Ptolemy, as ‘Chorography’, are related not only to physical place, but also to the heart and soul of our relationship to the land.
Ms. Hitchcock will use her ‘chorographic method’ to ‘map’ her experiences of several (yet to be determined) localities on the landscape of Sonoma County. She identifies these points as locations of great empathic importance. Her maps will depart from typical one-dimensional cartography and may include written, visual, photographic and video records of her exchanges there.
These exchanges may include aspects of and interactions with: weather, animals and plants, living energy sources, ancient habitation and signs, water courses, physical beauty and unseen balance points, dreams and memory, people who live on the land (sometimes for generations) and man-made interruptions like power lines, roadways and dams.
The artist hopes to bring a renewed sense of expansive place to residents and members of the larger Sonoma County community; to restore memories of our deepest connections to the earth; to remember our sometimes inaccessible, forgotten or dulled responses to the land; rediscover the joyful nature of our obligation to engage on the highest level with our environment.
‘My investigations are a form of deep play..I ask and engage.. see what is coming forth from the land and examine my own feelings and sensations as response to a given locale. My motivation is not only to discover and engage pristine beauty, but to visit the places that have possibly been abused by thoughtless extraction in hopes of contributing to a restoration of wholeness there.’
The artist would like to introduce/share her chorographic methods of investigation with interested members of the community who would make site visits in small groups with her. These excursions will be very experiential and personal and follow the form of a dream-like treasure hunt.
On location at the festival: interested community members/educators at the festival will also be able to take away simple ‘kits’ for their own deeper investigations of place which will include a series of questions and a chorographers badge.
2. Artist Sasha Duerr (founder of Permacouture Institute) orchestrates the plants of the locale to produce color. By working directly with plants in Sonoma County that represent the landscape and culture, by looking closely at bi-products from local community sources, there is opportunity to delve into cultivating a sense of place.
Sasha's work will be demonstrated through site specific and community orientated collection of plant material and social practice. Highlighting “stacking functions” (for instance, olives fruit and leaves, grapes, common specific weeds and local bi-products of local to Sonoma)-can produce incredible color and cultural significance.
Sasha will overlap the importance of plants with the whole elemental importance of process-by also including the importance and sanctity of water used. By emphasizing the conjunction of ecological and cultural, there will be experimentation with the effects of rainwater vs. tap water and seep water for use in natural plant dyeing. The research of water, as site specific, and considered in process-will be expressed as ph litmus tests (and text) resulting in a visual documentation of radiant hues. With the help of video and photography the public will receive depth and insight into the process, and there will be provided a conceptual and archival story of color. The concept will explore regenerative design and encourage ecoliteracy in the process.
In support of community and education, a public natural dye slow textile cultural event (benefiting Permacouture Institute) in form of a workshop or event- will be held in conjunction with the Fringe 09 events.
Locally produced or re-claimed textiles-specific to the region and culture of Sonoma County- will be supported- strengthening color, cloth and community.
b) Artist Sasha Duer (founder of Permacouture) orchestrates the plants of the locale to produce natural dyes….etc/or
c) Artist Catherine J Richardson is tracking sources of water that feed Sonoma County. She aims to portray water as regarded through the pulse of the indigenous; where water emerges from the dark into the light and courses a love affair with the earth. She aims to promote an expanded view of the magic and beauty of water, stretching beyond an extractive view of water as commodity.
“My goal is to locate 5 important junctures between land
and water around the perimeters and central Sonoma
County”:
• marsh/wetlands
• river
• ocean
• geo-thermal
• Tributary origin.
With a quest to restore a poetic balance to our understanding of water’s properties, samples of water will be collected at each location and labeled for reference and use in tracing differences.
Research concerning the water source; dowsing for water depths and location; details and history such as a historical site of the location will be categorized.
This information will be utilized to construct ephemeral “markers” to honour each particular water source. This “marker”, based on ancient practices of erected stone “needles” on lay lines, aqua stats, geodetic avenues and sources of spring water, will also serve as a symbolic natural water purifier in honour of this element. Utilizing materials that when combined, provide a natural purifying filter such as certain soils, algae and plant matter (TBD) following further research.
The collections of water will be also used in conjunction with Permacouture’s plant-dyeing process. As we examine the dissolving property of water, Sasha will experiment with the effects of using rainwater vs. tap water and seep water for use in natural plant dyeing of fabric and paper.
(Possibly a site-specific event?)
The public will be invited to site-specific installations and performance work and informative/educational events through out the Fringe 09 window (Aug 29th- Oct 4th).
Literature such as maps, brochures will be distributed in support of bringing awareness to the interdependency between community, and eco-systems of place.
Documentation of work resulting from a collaborative between 3 artists aided by professional and other members of the Sonoma county community; i.e., landowners, dowsers, water agency professionals etc., will take the form of installation, video, photography and illustrative imagery.
The larger Vision; is to develop a creative model that can travel and work with communities to inspire a cohesive reconnect to natural systems and organizing principles of that locale and instigate a deeper sense of belonging to place. Why work with sensing Place? We humans evolve through experiential knowledge and by placing ourselves on the land with intention, open to a reciprocal relationship with the environment we live in, we start to “belong”. As we become aware of systems and elements that support our daily existence, we understand the interdependency of life and perceive that pattern echoed in our community and society. The hidden components of our lives spill into a visual symphony and form tools with which to build our own “place” within place.
All information we gather while tracking this project leading up to August 29th, will be presented as process work; documented in video format, illustrations, sound recordings and developed both as an on site work and future Installation piece.
When we commence this project and are out in the field especially as we cultivate relationships with people, place and elements, details of this outline are subject to extra “tributaries” flowing into the curriculum, possibly altering and/or adding to the “map”.
Sincerely, Cathy j Richardson
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| Contact Phone: 707 696-4486 |
| Money Requested: 3,615 |
| Use of Money: BUDGET for artists above mentioned.
Permits $150.00
Artist’s research /time in the field. $2700.00
Materials;
paper
1 Dowsing rods.
Buckets
Filters
DVDs & CDs
Fabric
total $150.00
Gas $300.00
USGS Maps/video cartridges etc. $200.00
Videographer $100.00
TOTAL $3615.00
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| Contact: catherine richardson |
| Contact Phone: 707 696-4486 |
| Web Site: www.cjrich.com |
| email: cjrich@sonic.net |
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17 David Madgalene/Audio Graffitti Under The Bridge |
| Venue/Location: 1 Downtown Santa Rosa and 2 Guerneville |
| Address: 1 Creek Walk and 2 Guerneville Bridge |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Literary |
| Ticket Cost or Free: |
| Description: Poets will read poems about bridges or around bridges themselves. |
| Contact Phone: 707-836-9586 |
| Money Requested: |
| Use of Money: $750.00. For expenses of host and to provide a small stipend for anticipated total of two dozen readers expected at noth events. |
| Contact: David Madgalene |
| Contact Phone: 707-836-9586 |
| Web Site: not applicable |
| email: madgalen@sonic.net |
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16 Group: Spirit Creek Stewardship/ Event Name: Spirit Creek Day featuring Eco-Music at the Creek Theater |
| Venue/Location: Spirit Creek at the Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa |
| Address: 2075 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 |
| Map Location: Central Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Mixed Disciplines |
| Ticket Cost or Free: Free |
| Description: Spirit Creek Day has something for everyone. Saturday, October 3, 1 to 5pm. The Creek Theater will come alive with eco-friendly music featuring Monty Monty performing on his Vintage Assemblage String Instruments, Sahar Pinkham conducting the Spirit Creek Recycled Junk-estra and the Spirit Creek Singers. Everyone is invited to make their own instruments out of recycled materials (provided). Sahar will guide the arrangement of woodwind, string, brass and percussion groups and conduct the improvised performance. The day also includes a variety of hands-on eco-centric activities for everyone including: making "creek prayer flags", native garden plantings, creek clean-up, a guided creek walk and interactive environmental education. Free food and drinks donated by local businesses. Collaborating Organizations: Environmental Discovery Center of Sonoma County Parks, Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation, Creek Stewardship Program of the City of Santa Rosa and Sonoma County Water Agency, Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa.
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| Contact Phone: 707-544-2673 |
| Money Requested: $2,288.00 |
| Use of Money: Equipment transport and set-up for Monty Monty and Sahar Pinkham: $100 ea= $200. 100 color flyers $100, printing of 4,000 color postcards= $842, mailing service (labelling and postal interface) $346, postage $800. Total= $2,288.00
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| Contact: Michelle Keip |
| Contact Phone: 707-544-2673 |
| Web Site: www.spiritcreekstewardship.org |
| email: creeks@wellspringai.com |
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15 Group: Wellspring Aikido Arts. Event Name: Envisioning A World Without War |
| Venue/Location: Wellspring Aikido Arts |
| Address: 3222 Airway Drive, #5, Santa Rosa, CA |
| Map Location: Central Nearest City: |
| Discipline:--Choose-- |
| Ticket Cost or Free: Free/ donation |
| Description: “Envisioning A World Without War” is both a multi-media performance and audience participatory event open to everyone. Held on Friday, September 18, 5 to 8pm at Wellspring Aikido Arts in Santa Rosa. Kazuaki “Kaz” Tanahashi, internationally acclaimed calligrapher, Zen scholar, writer and painter, will create calligraphy and talk about the vision and the proposed process of demilitarizing Central America and other parts of the world. Artwork commissioned on the spot and created by Kaz will be offered for donation to A World Without Armies, a project of the U.S. non-profit “Inochi”. Music performance by folksinger Betsy Rose and jazz group Rhythm Matrix. Movement by members of Wellspring Aikido Arts. Public is invited to come early to share poems and artwork that expresses hope for a world without war. Donated artwork will be posted in public locations in all 4 directions of Sonoma County to highlight and extend the event’s theme: “Envisioning A World Without War”. Note: Kaz is well known in the SF Bay area for his huge “Circle of all Nations” calligraphy which hung from the front of the SF War Memorial and Performing Arts Center to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. (to see it go to www.brushmind.net/circleofallnations.html)
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| Contact Phone: 707-544-2673 |
| Money Requested: $1,322.00 |
| Use of Money: Expenses: Transport and set-up of artwork by Kaz $100. Transport and set-up of artwork in 4 directions of Sonoma County $200. 100 color flyers 8 ½ X 11: $100. 1000 color postcards: $580. Mailing service (labels & postal handling) $142. Postage: $200. Total: $1,322. |
| Contact: Michelle Keip |
| Contact Phone: 707-544-2673 |
| Web Site: www.brushmind.net |
| email: michelle@wellspringai.com |
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13 Last Record Store |
| Venue/Location: |
| Address: 1899 Mendocino Ave #A |
| Map Location: SE Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Music-Modern |
| Ticket Cost or Free: FREE |
| Description: |
| Contact Phone: 707-525-1963 |
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| Contact: Doug Jayne |
| Contact Phone: 707-525-1963 |
| Web Site: http://www.thelastrecordstore.com/ |
| email: jayne@sonic.net |
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14 Off The Street Poetry,stories,profiles,art by homeless.formerly homeless and those that have worked with the homeless. Based on book "Off The Street" |
| Venue/Location: Restaurant/public locations/park/possibly city hall/TBD |
| Address: Petaluma locations |
| Map Location: SE Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Literary |
| Ticket Cost or Free: Free |
| Description: |
| Contact Phone: 707 326-3773 |
| Money Requested: $650.00 |
| Use of Money: $650.00 to be paid for the video. |
| Contact: MIchelle Baynes |
| Contact Phone: 707 326-3773 |
| Web Site: mchbaynes@aol.com |
| email: 45 Holly Heights Petaluma CA 94952 |
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12 Phoemix Theater Graffiti Kings |
| Venue/Location: Petaluma Arts Center |
| Address: Lakeview Dr |
| Map Location: SE Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Mixed Disciplines |
| Ticket Cost or Free: FREE |
| Description: Project Proposal – Festival on the Fringes
A Collaboration of the Phoenix Art Program, Sonoma Arts Council and the Petaluma Art Center
Summary – The Petaluma Phoenix Center Inc would like to propose a large-scale art event at the Petaluma Art Center in September of 2009 curated by Jack Haye and Amber Faur.
This event will include the following components: a gallery show of multi generational graffiti inspired art, an installation of “art pews” on the patio of the art center and in the gallery created by the Phoenix art collective and a large opening event which will include a live graffiti-off (think bake off only better), as well as an opportunity for the community to assist in decorating a pew and live music by the Phoenix School of Music.
Relevance to Fringe Art – Graffiti, as it is known to the community at large rarely gets the artistic credit that it deserves. Often mistaken for vandalism, graffiti is a truly urban art form which embodies the fundamentals of art, community, and public participation. What begins on a wall often turns into a lifelong artistic endeavor. The Phoenix has long been a place for these artists to explore their art, often receiving a negative reputation in return. Last year for Petaluma Day of the Dead, our artists had a very well received part in the Art Center Show. This new show will be an opportunity for our artists to build upon and transcend that initial introduction to the community of their work. We believe that this show will demonstrate the amazing range and versatility of graffiti as an art form and present our youth as “real artists” to the community.
Program Plan/Timeline –
May 2009 – Engage Phoenix alumni to mentor younger artists and adult graffiti artists to lead project. (Nate Burleson and Justin Robison to mentor Phoenix kids; Tion, John and King to work with “old school” artists, Jack and Amber to coordinate) Other artists possible – Daniel, Toby, Sam G, ?.....
Bring pews to the Phoenix and confirm teams to work on each. There are 7 pews, six will be decorated before the opening, one will be left for the community to decorate at the event.
June 2009 – Acquire paint, canvas, panels, found objects for Nate and Justin to work with artists on. Begin Pews.
August 2009 – Begin public outreach, assist teams in completing pews, meet with graff artists to discuss the set up of the show. Work with music program for music for opening.
Last Week in August 2009 – Deliver Pews, set up show
First week in September – Festival on the Fringes event and Opening
Requirements –
Agreement from the Center to have the show in September
Financial support for materials
Coordination from staff and board of the Phoenix
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| Contact Phone: 707-364-4037 |
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| Contact: Amber Faur |
| Contact Phone: 707-364-4037 |
| Web Site: www.petalumaphoenix.org |
| email: amber@petalumaphoenix.org |
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10 contACT ARTS Organization |
| Venue/Location: gas stations |
| Address: Sonoma County |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Dance |
| Ticket Cost or Free: Free |
| Description: Every Sunday from August 29- October 4 at different gas stations in Sonoma County, Liliana Cattaneo will present her full length show, The Bigger Picture; a 1 hour, progressive dance performance about fossil fuels, and our unsustainable practices. |
| Contact Phone: 707-480-5700 |
| Money Requested: 1000.00 |
| Use of Money: purchasing and designing of props to use for performances. paying artist fees.
custom props $100.00
4 live musicians $25 each per performance
dance artist fee $50 per performance |
| Contact: Liliana Cattaneo |
| Contact Phone: 707-480-5700 |
| Web Site: www.contactarts.org |
| email: lily@contactarts.org |
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11 Hamlet Matteo and Hammerfriar Gallery |
| Venue/Location: Healdsburg Galllery |
| Address: Hammerfriar Gallery |
| Map Location: NE Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Mixed Disciplines |
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| Description: The title of this installation is "How to Teach Your Potato to Say Hello". The installation is to take place in a small gallery space. A room is arranged as an ethnographic museum, with two stands with acrylic display tops. Each display contains traditional ceramic masks and hats from Mongo. Every item is accompanied by a museum label.
One of the walls contains several antique portraits from Mongo made in red hues. The drawings have been mounted on black museum board, accompanied by labels.
On the floor before the drawings, several Mongo masks have been placed. The two performers are dressed in Mongo traditional costume. The performers conduct the Mongo Water Ceremony. They peel potatoes slowly. As the peels fall on the floor, they chant the Water Ceremony mantra: "Ida, Ida, Idaho". Every ten minutes or so, a gong sounds and the performers chant the "How to Teach Your Potato to Say Hello" sutra. The public is invited to come and go, to speak or observe silence.
The music for this performance is original. It may be played live or prerecorded according to the availability of musicians.
Background Information
The Mongo Isles are composed of two major land masses that move around each other in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The government of Mongo is headed by an hereditary chief in combination with a unicameral legislature. The Ceremony in question is enacted in the smaller of the islands, Bela, on the first Friday of October and November.
The origin of the Water Ceremony is a highly contested topic among anthropologists. Some believe that the first ceremony predates the Virtudes, a ceremony that came into vogue in the pre-Classical period in honor of a slave with the same name. However, most experts agree that the "How to Teach Your Potato to Say Hello" sutra is a modern addition to the Water Ceremony, although its author has not yet been identified.
The enactment of the Water Ceremony at Hammerfriar will be a collaborative effort between artist Hamlet Mateo, who has designed the installation and performance based on his experience and writing on the Mongo Isles, and a small team of performers, including but but not limited to Sonoma County artists Tracy Butcher, Guy Henry Mueller, and Nick Wolch.
Ceramicist and sculptor Penny Michel is supervising the reproduction of traditional Mongo masks in local materials; while the painter and mail-artist Harley is overseeing all matters pertaining to the philately of the Mongo Isles.
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| Use of Money: Clay and glazes: $500.00
Stand with acrylic tops: $800.00
Fabric and yarn: $200.00
Total: $1,500.00
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| Contact: Hamlet Matteo |
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| Web Site: www.hamletmateo.blogspot.com |
| email: hamletmateo@hotmail.com |
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9 She Flew Bombers |
| Venue/Location: Santa Rosa Veteran's building |
| Address: Central Sonoma County |
| Map Location: Central Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Literary |
| Ticket Cost or Free: Free |
| Description: I will read a passage from my Historical novel, She Flew Bombers From the Factories to the Bases During World War II. Five WWII Women pilots will join me and tell their own personal experience after each passage. |
| Contact Phone: 707-431-8276 |
| Money Requested: uncertain at this time |
| Use of Money: Transportation of the pilots, Vets Hall Rental, lunch, kitchen rental. |
| Contact: Jeane Slone |
| Contact Phone: 707-431-8276 |
| Web Site: wwwjeaneslone.com |
| email: info@jeaneslone.com |
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8 Terry Ehret, Beatriz Lagos, Penelope LaMontagne, Joaquin Lopez, Armando Garcia D'Avila (and possibly others) |
| Venue/Location: Sonoma Country Transit buses |
| Address: not applicable |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Literary |
| Ticket Cost or Free: free |
| Description: Poetry on the Bus --Live!
Poets will ride the County Transit buses in teams on one or more specific days in October. They will read or recite their own poems and favorite poems by well-known authors. Presentations will be in Spanish and English. Poets will distribute copies of the poems to passengers. |
| Contact Phone: 707-762-2689 |
| Money Requested: $700 |
| Use of Money: Each poet will receive a $100 honorarium. Additional funds will be needed to print copies of poems and to cover any administrative costs with the County Transit. |
| Contact: Terry Ehret |
| Contact Phone: 707-762-2689 |
| Web Site: www.literaryfolk.wordpress.com |
| email: tehret99@comcast.net |
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7 Allegra Davis Burke |
| Venue/Location: In conjunction with First Thursday/Friday art events |
| Address: multiple locations to be determined |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Visual |
| Ticket Cost or Free: Free |
| Description:
My idea is for an audience participation event to enhance awareness of where our clothing is manufactured. The public would be invited to cut off the labels on their clothing and attach them to the area of the world where the clothing was made. I propose to create a world map on mat board 8' X 4' wide, or possibly larger, depending on venue. I would supply common pins, a box of clothing labels, used clothing with labels still attached, scissors, and the huge hand painted map. If the public is not inclined to cut off the labels on their own clothing, there would be the option of selecting an article of clothing from the recycle bin, cutting off the label and attaching it to the world map or a third option would be to have pre-cut labels that the attendees can choose and pin to the relevant location on the world map. I have been working with clothing labels for several years and have created several art pieces from these labels, which I may include in the installation. My intent is education through awareness, by encouraging people to pause a moment and realize our direct and personal participation in the outsourcing of jobs, through the purchase of foreign goods versus American Made.
I would like this event to take place during the month of August and early to mid September. Sites could include local schools, the monthly art walks in Cloverdale, Sebastopol, Healdsburg, Santa Rosa and Sonoma, and focus on people from all walks of life, including seniors, children, and adults.
I feel this is a unique idea that has never been seen in Sonoma County, and my hope is to videotape the entire event, at each venue.
I am a self taught artist and have been making and showing art since 2003.
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| Contact Phone: 707-569-0114 |
| Money Requested: $275.00 |
| Use of Money: Video camera, film, gas, scissors, board, pins. |
| Contact: Allegra Burke |
| Contact Phone: 707-569-0114 |
| Web Site: http://www.fiberdimensions.com |
| email: Aburke459@comcast.net |
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6 Chairmanciao - The end is nigh - bringing art to the streets. |
| Venue/Location: Cloverdale, Healdsburg, Santa Rosa, Sonoma, Petaluma. |
| Address: Locations to be decided |
| Map Location: Several Nearest City: |
| Discipline:Visual |
| Ticket Cost or Free: Free |
| Description: By using a simple cost effective mobile unit of communication [ The Sandwich Board ] the intention is to bring paintings, photography, graphics to the streets of Sonoma County. These items would be produced by students, youth clubs etc. See written proposal for further details. |
| Contact Phone: 707 - 824 1437 |
| Money Requested: $14600.00 Estimated |
| Use of Money: 100 Sandwich Boards - $5000.00
Silk screen printing for 100 boards $1600.00
Concepts, organisation of various groups to produce artworks for boards, Administration and implementation of project - $8000.00
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| Contact: William O'Keeffe |
| Contact Phone: 707 - 824 1437 |
| Web Site: www.williamokeeffe.com |
| email: gokm@sonic.net |
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