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I've been in London the last few days and have been having a blast exploring and connecting with artist here, but I'm also doing a workshop with youth this Saturday !! It's being hosted by Refugee Youth, which is an org dedicated to breaking down isolation and combating alienation and despair amongst young refugees by supporting opportunities for development. The workshop is going to be during their fim festival, so if you're in London, come through !!
Please join us for an evening of performance, art and tributes to long time San Francisco Mission artists and residents Yolanda Lopez and Rene Yanez. both have both been issued Ellis Act Evictions and are facing serious health issues. This fundraiser will help raise funds to help cover some of the lawyer, medical and moving expenses to help them get through this and resettle themselves.
Yolanda and Rene have made huge contributions to the Chicano art world and the uniqueness and beauty that so many of us love about the Mission and San Francisco. Please come out to celebrate these two amazing humans and help them fight this eviction and raise some funds to help them.
If you would like to make an online donation, please make sure to make the designation "Yanez/Lopez Benefit." For more information on the event, please check the Brava Theater Center website.
This Saturday I'll be at UC Santa Cruz for the 11th annual Practical Activism Conference. The line up of guest speakers and workshops going on at the conference touch on everything from enviromentalism, gun violence, feminism and soo much more. My workshop for the conference, "Do your Part Through Art" starts at 1 pm. I'll be talking about how to use art to transform and empower our communities to be more socially and politically active. And of course we'll be making plenty of art and butterflies during the workshop as well.
This Sunday come get your passport stamped by me and 14 other amazing artist at "Passport 2013." This unique event allows the public a hands-on art collecting experience by bringing local artists to neighborhood venues where the buyers can “create” a limited-edition artist’s book by collecting original, artist-designed stamps in a customized Moleskine “passport” notebook.
Walking throughout the Divisadero corridor from noon to 4 p.m., hundreds of do-it-yourself art collectors will follow a designated route to collect stamps from local artists while discovering the small businesses that line the neighborhood.
Some of of the artist that'll be there include: Michael Arcega, John Bankston, Brian Barneclo, Claire Colette, Teraneh Hemami, Dana Hemenway,Sanaz Mazinani, Tahiti Pehrson, Ferris Plock, Sarah Smith, Josephine Taylor,Nate Van Dyke, Martin Venezky and William T. Wiley.
For more info, check out the San Fransisco Art Commission web site.
