Winter DIY Workshop Series

October - December 2009

7:00pm-9:00pm Tuesday, November 17th at Mission: Comics & Arts (3520 20th Street @ Mission, San Francisco)

The IndyArts DIY Survival is a series of workshops and social gatherings targeted to the grassroots arts community – organizations and individuals alike – with the goal of strengthening community, building capacity, and letting off some steam!  As always, No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds!

November 17th

Small and Surviving Project Essentials - An Interactive Panel for Artists and Organizations

Build a culture for Bay Area Arts and keep your sanity at the same time!  Join us for a conversation on Vision, Message, Community Building, and Fund Development - the essential building blocks for art projects.

Our esteemed panel of presenters will share their experiences and offer practical tips on how to Survive and Thrive when you're doing it DIY.

Alan So is the director and founder of the San Francisco-based arts organization, ME’D1.ATE NETWORK, where he organizes and curates provocative exhibitions and events with a diverse array of local and international artists. He has been featured on PBS, SF Chronicle, SF Weekly, London’s Resonance FM, amongst others, for his work with ME’D1.ATE. Most recently, Alan produced, curated and led the PR effort for Soundwave. The innovative sound, art and music series became a sensation with sold out shows, cementing it as a premier festival in the vibrant Bay Area art scene, now in its 4th season.

Scarlett Shepard is a filmmaker and community educator who founded the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival on May 15th, 2004. While a student in San Francisco State University’s cinema program, Shepard noticed the lack of credit given to women filmmakers in the history of cinema.  After consulting with the SFSU cinema department and administration, Shepard embarked on a journey to create a platform that showcases, awards, and celebrates local, student and international women filmmakers. She teamed up with SFSU professors, the SFSU Women’s Center of Associated Students, local award-winning filmmakers and a host of local sponsors. San Francisco State University’s first Women’s Film Festival was born in April 2005.

Rene Yung is an internationally exhibiting artist, thinker, designer and writer. Her cross-disciplinary works articulate the hidden and the overlooked by connecting community, history, and place, to address social and cultural issues in relation to the built environment. Her large-scale public projects engage community on multiple levels to catalyze social change, while creating highly aesthetic works of art that enrich community experience. A native of Hong Kong, Rene has a deep understanding of cross-cultural dynamics and broad experience in working with diverse global communities. She has exhibited at venues including TransCulture, part of the 46th Venice Biennale; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. She has completed extensive public projects for organizations including the Seattle Office of Art and Cultural Affairs, the San Francisco Art Commission, and the Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle. A graduate of Stanford University, Rene is the recipient of grant awards from the Creative Work Fund, the Center for Cultural Innovation, Open Circle Foundation, and the California Council on the Humanities’ California Story Fund. She is on the faculty of City College of San Francisco.