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THE SILVER SERVER
Thursday, July 20th. / Starts at 9pm
at the LAB (2948 16th st./CAPP)
DJ Pod(s) and Sai285 will spin to visuals presented by
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At 9pm we will screen three previews for new and upcoming video activist works:
We will start the night with brief introductions and Three Short Videos:
1.) a trailer for Whispered Media's upcoming video on Gentrification and the economic ironies of our times . . . very short
2.) a 6-minute trailer for the new piece on Julia Butterfly and forest issues called "Tree Sit" by H.A.V.C. and . . . .
3.) a 9-minute trailer from "Golf War" a story of land, golf and revolution in the Phillipines - by Jen Schradie and Anthill Productions.
After that, DJ Pod(s), Sai285, Zmrzlina, and PROJECTIONS by Craig Baldwin will start the video-DJ/VJ-dance party.
WHEN: Thursday, July 20th, starting at 9pm
WHERE: The Lab, 2948 16th Street at Capp (near 16th and Mission BART)
CONTACT: Whispered Media, 415-789-8484; info@whisperedmedia.org
$10 benefits the VAN internet server.
About the Video Activist Network and our Benefit
The VAN is an informal association of activists and artists using video and digital media to support social, economic and environmental justice campaigns. Since 1997, VAN members have produced videos and screenings about local issues such as the San Francisco housing and homelessness crisis, the struggle to save the Headwaters Redwood forest, and the political pie-tossings of the Biotic Baking Brigade. VAN members have also played a central role in disseminating information about the historic WTO protests in Seattle and the more recent IMF/World Bank protests in Washington D.C. The VAN is a broad coalition of videographers that includes youth activists, bicycle advocates, copwatchers, environmentalists, media critics, labor video producers and cable access broadcastors (such as Collision Course Video Productions.)
The VAN offers free workshops in activist-specific camera techniques and maintains this website, videoactivism.org, which features streaming activist video, event listings, and how-to manuals related to producing and distributing activist video. This event will benefit the VAN in its effort to build an independent internet server, which will allow us to offer much more activist content, including streaming video, MP3s, pictures and text.
Earlier that same evening . . . .
INTERNET 2010: A Panel and Party with Danny Shechter
Media Alliance will be hosting a discussion on the future openess of the Internet. Videoagraphers and activists who value the organizing aspects and the potential of this growing medium should visit their website and consider getting involved and helping to keep the internet open to all of us.
WHEN: July 20th (from 6pm till 8:30ish)
WHERE: El Rio (Mission Street near Cesar Chavez)
Contact: Andrea Buffa of Media Alliance
415-546-6334
email: ma@igc.org
www.media-alliance.org
And two days later . . .
Webzine 2000
Independent Web Publishers Unite in San Francisco
Allies of independent publishing on the internet will gather in San Francisco for an exhibition, forum, and party to celebrate those who create and want to create for the new medium.
Speakers at past Webzine events included Burning Man founder Larry Harvey ("Radical Expression on New Frontiers"), REsearch Publications founder V. Vale ("If the Web Were Punk"), Factsheet Five Publisher Seth Friedman, Andi Zeisler from Bitch Magazine, Amy Francescini of Future Farmers, Mark Pauline from Survival Research Laboratories, Srini Kumar of Unamerican Activities, and 45 other independent media creators.
Webzine 2000 stands out as the foremost global event for independent publishing on the internet. The event will be held on July 22nd from 4pm until 2am at 2050 Bryant Street in San Francisco, California. The audience is expected to exceed 700 people throughout the course of the day.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
contact: Ryan Junell / ryan@webzine2000.com /
www.webzine2000.com
Other Upcoming Film and Video Events listed: