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Arts in the 2010 Governor's Race - FundraiserWednesday, September 15, 2010 from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (PT)San Francisco, CA |
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GET the Arts in the Governor's Race!
TELL Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman the arts are vital to our communities!
SEE a powerful installation on art and social justice - closing soon!
JOIN artists from around Bay Area for an evening of drinks, music and art at SOMArts and
CONTRIBUTE to a statewide effort to mobilize support for the Arts in the California Governor's Race Campaign!
Wednesday, September 15 5:30-7:00pm
SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94103 http://www.somarts.org/about/directions/
$5, $10, $15, $25 and $50 and available at http://ccarts.eventbrite.com
Give what you are comfortable giving, all ticket levels will get you into the event. tickets will also be sold at the door. Proceeds go to the California Governor's Race Campaign, a non-partisan effort created to ensure that issues related to the arts and the creative economy are successfully inserted into the California governor's rave. Organized by a consortium of non-profit arts organizations, arts support groups, artists, and concerned individual supporters of the arts, the consortium participants believe strongly in the need for meaningful public support for the arts and arts education.
The Arts in the California Governor's Race project is building a statewide army of citizen activists who will help send the message to the gubernatorial candidates that the arts are important to California's future, and urge the candidates to support arts-friendly public policies such as:
- Increase public funding for nonprofit arts organizations in order to better serve their communities
- Ensure that every child has the opportunity for a comprehensive, high quality arts education in grades K-12
- Nurture an environment to allow individuals and families affordable access to all forms of the arts
While you enjoy a little bit of good food, wine and music; walk around the beautiful SOMArts exhibition space and see: "What Cannot be Taken Away: Families and Prisons Project." It will be your last chance to see this incredible exhibit before it closes on September 19th.
There are over seven million youth in this country with parents in the legal justice system. "What Cannot be Taken Away: Families and Prisons Project" is a new exhibition of collaborative paintings with Evan Bissell and Community Works that share the experiences of eight individuals who have experienced this rupture in their own families. Resulting from eight months of intergenerational, creative dialogue between Bay Area youth who have incarcerated parents, and fathers who are currently incarcerated in San Francisco jail, the exhibition centers around eight life-size collaboratively designed and created portraits. The exhibition also includes interactive wall drawings, installation pieces, audio, documentation of the process and a dynamic workshop series.
SOMArts Gallery Director Justin Hoover commented, "Evan Bissell's work is a unique approach to social responsibility where an individual acts as a hub for collaborative and creative social justice. in this way, "What Cannot be Taken Away" highlights some of the most vital social efforts in the local community to use the arts for healing, peace and justice.
When & Where
SOMArts
934 Brannan Street
San Francisco,
CA 94103
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (PT)
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California Arts Advocates: Arts in the California Governor's Race 2010
The Arts in the California Governor’s Race project does not endorse any candidate, nor does it support any specific legislation.
Rather, it seeks to educate and inform the candidates in the 2010 California governor’s race, their staffs and key supporters to the value of the arts, arts education, and the creative economy to the state of California. The project will work to convince the candidates for the office of governor in California to take public positions in favor of the principle of public support for the arts and arts education, and public support for the development of California’s creative economy.
The project will prepare and disseminate information as to the value of the creative sector to the state and hopes to interface with the campaigns of the candidates for governor to make the case for the contributions of the arts and the creative sector to California’s economy, job creation, the education of our children, to the civic life of communities across our great state and the quality of life of all its citizens. It is our intention to engage the candidates for the office of governor at town hall and other public meetings, and by way of written questions as to their position on the arts, culture and the creative economy, with the hope that they will take public pro-arts positions. We will seek to get news coverage and editorial commentaries calling for the next governor to address arts issues and we will work to form a broad coalition of individuals and organizations in support of the project’s mission statement.
As a result of this campaign, we hope that the millions of Californians who support the arts and creative sector will have the information required to submit an educated vote in the November election. In order to accomplish our goals, we need your help to engage the services of consultants and others to organize and manage this effort, and to mobilize the entire non-profit arts field and those in the private sector who support us. We need your help in spreading the word about this campaign and to help us to pay the costs of mounting such an effort.