Mint Condition

MINT CONDITION 

IS THE PREMIER ART EXHIBIT 

FOR THE FINE ARTISTS OF THE MIDMA DISTRICT ON THE SLOT (AKA MARKET STREET)

AT THE 

OLD SAN FRANCISCO MINT

88 5TH STREET 

ON 

NOVEMBER 5TH AND 6TH 2011

11AM TO 4PM

MINT CONDITION 

IS AN EXHIBIT OF ART 

GARNISHED WITH NON-STOP 

WONDERFUL LIVE PERFORMANCES OF MUSIC, POETRY AND DANCE 

Ma’Velous Coffee and Wine Bar San Francisco Toasts Zendesk’s Arrival to Area

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 20, 2011

Zendesk is on the move. The rapidly growing cloud-based helpdesk software company has prepared to nearly double its San Francisco workforce this year by moving to a much larger office space at 989 Market Street. Ma’Velous, the fashionable San Francisco wine bar, is offering its employees a warm welcome with 20% off their tabs until the end of 2011.

Read the full article here 

Artist Open Call - Art Can Feed

Ramon's Tailor is one of the arts organizations that are contributing to the restoration efforts of mid-market. (which of-course is the subject of our film) This looks like a great opportunity for artists to represent and feed the hungry as well. 

Have your work showcased in the “Art Can Feed” installation at Ramon’s Tailor in November and help feed the 197,000 people in San Francisco who struggle each day to feed themselves and their families. After the show the art will be deconstructed and all of the food will be donated to the St. Anthony’s Foundation.

Things to know:

• Proposal must use at least one nonperishable food can or package which will be donated to St. Anthony’s after the show.
• Any can/package labels must be unaltered/legible in order for donated items to be placed on pantry shelves within the St. Anthony’s, Social Work Center Pantry.
• Email a PDF of your idea (including dimensions and media) to hello@ramonstailor.com.
• Top foods in need are canned meats like tuna, chicken, ham and spam; peanut butter; canned soups; canned fruits; and top ramen.
• Entry fee: None

Deadline for Proposals: Friday, October 21, 2011, 5:30pm.

Selected entrants will be announced on Tuesday, October 25th.
Proposal/Artwork selected for exhibition is to be dropped off Sunday, October 30 from 3-5pm (site-specific installations may be given special days and times)
Show opens Thursday, November 3rd and runs through Sunday, November 27.

Reference:
The St. Anthony’s Foundation is celebrating 60 years of feeding, healing, sheltering and clothing San Franciscans in need. Their supplemental pantry is unique in that it is set up like grocery store and eligible residents of the Tenderloin and South of Market can pick items directly from the shelves versus getting a pre-packed bag of food. Those eligible include families with at least 1 child under 18 living with them; individuals with a nutritionally related illness (diabetes, cancer, HIV, AIDS, etc.) pregnant women, and seniors 60+. If eligible, clients are able to shop 6 times a year. Learn more about the St. Anthony’s Foundation at:www.stanthonysf.org

Some ideas to get you going click here

ABOUT Ramon's Tailor  (from their site) 

Ramon’s Tailor is an art storefront dedicated to promoting visual art through salons, installations, artist-in-residence programs, and workshops. Our programs make the creative process approachable and fun and provide an environment that embraces nontraditional, multi-disciplinary work by up-and-coming artists. At Ramon’s Tailor we encourage the community to gather and see, critique and create, and learn and explore.

Ramon’s Tailor is a former tailor shop that was transformed in July 2011 into a small, volunteer-run artists’ clubhouse in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. The space exists where Union Square and a dense, low-rent district converge—a socially and economically diverse neighborhood, where for the next two years we will be another anchor in an emerging arts’ district.

Ramon’s Tailor creates an unintentional community of creative people. We are a resource to artists living within the 50-block Tenderloin neighborhood, but our offerings reach much farther into the Bay Area. Our salons and workshops bring together creatives from diverse backgrounds to collaborate, cross-pollinate, and learn. This space provides artists with a public venue to experiment and showcase their work without commercial restrictions. Our uniquely, intimate, subterranean studio is always open to interaction through a large vitrine window—stop by and see what we are up to.

At Ramon’s Tailor, we are inspired and motivated by underrepresented and nontraditional art forms. We aim to encourage those making art by providing criticism and inspiration along with a physical space to create work with atypical parameters.

Tuesday Noontime Dance Series starts October 25th at UN Plaza!

The San Francisco Arts Commission’s ARTery Project presents a lively series of interactive dance and musical performances created in partnership with Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts.

For three consecutive Tuesdays this fall, the public is encouraged to head down to U.N. Plaza where everyone can enjoy delicious bites courtesy of Off the Grid and shake a tail feather to Latin and Caribbean beats. Tuesday, October 25 features high-energy Brazilian dance and live percussion by Fogo na Roupa; onTuesday, November 1, former Carnaval SF Queen Elizabeth Soberanes will teach her popular Latin Dance Grooves class, featuring a variety of Latin rhythms; and on Tuesday, November 8, folks can enjoy live Haitian drumming and dance with the Afoutayi Dance Company. All performances will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. Audience participation is strongly encouraged

Reposted from:  Central Market Partnership 

Dance on Market

World Music Night with Julia Chigamba and the Chinyakare Ensemble

And Special Guest Performance…

Thursday, October 13th 5pm to 8pm

Free African dance class & live musical performances in UN Plaza, with special guest performance by Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program!

5pm: Pre-reception with free appetizers and refreshments from neighborhood restaurants! The Beach, UC-Hastings Law School, 200 McAllister St (at Hyde).

(Mention Dance on Market at entrance, show UC-Hastings student ID or RSVP below for entry. $5 donations will be accepted.)

6pm: FREE Traditional Zimbabwean Dance Class and Musical Performance with Julia Chigamba and the Chinyakare Ensemble.

*Special guest performance by Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program!

(Have your hand-stamped at UN Plaza during the show for a free drink at the post-reception!)

7pm: Post-reception and Central Market Mixer at Market Street Grill. 1231 Market Street (8th and Market).

2 Blocks of Art - Art Walk

Friday, October 14
4–8 p.m.
Sixth Street between Market and Howard

Urban Solutions’ 2 Blocks of Art takes place on Sixth Street between Market and Howard. The art walk showcases a neighborhood rich in culture and well known for its cutting edge arts community. The event draws a record number of people to the Sixth Street corridor; features, like musicians playing in a Laundromat and a fashion designer exhibiting in an optometry office, make this event truly unique!

2 Blocks of Art is bookended by well-known Luggage Store gallery at one end, and 1st Amendment gallery (1:AM) at the other. Over 50 artists exhibit in 25 locations – all within 2 blocks!

More info here

24 Days of Central Market Arts Continues!

Posted on Monday, October 10th, 2011 on SF ARTS MARKET

Thursday, October 13th (11am-4pm) – 24 Days of Central Market Arts, SF Arts Market and The Songbird Fall Music Series Present ~

Mid-Market Music Affair in the Plaza

SF Arts Market is excited to partner with The Songbird Festival, hosting another performance day as a satellite venue for the 24 Days of Central Market Arts Festival in United Nations Plaza (Market@7th) this week. The day will pack in live music performance from 11am-4pm with a superb line-up of local talent. This event is FREE to the public, so don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to enjoy live, local artists in the heart of the city! For details... click on the image 

Reclaiming Market Street

Here's a short video (shot on my Android phone) of one of the "art interventions" along Market Street on Oct. 8, 2011, part of the "Reclaim Market Street" project.

Donate

We will most likely hold a formal fundraising period and marketing event but since the Film Society was so kind to create a "donate" page and as our fiscal sponsor will administer the funds - feel free to jump in. Just click the logo to start

This looks like a very cool artist intervention. It's free. Go play!

Saturday, October 8, 2011
1:00 pm

Image credit: Colleen McHugh, SPUR

How can we redefine the social life of the sidewalk? Amid the hustle and bustle of commerce and business, how do we slow to the pace of conversation, interaction or reflection? Can we create places to sit, make or play? This free one-day event will explore these questions through a series of artists interventions along Market Street.

more details here: 

Reclaim Market Street! Sidewalk Intervention

Central Market Economic Strategy

Got some time on your hands?  Want to feel like your voice is being heard?

The Office of Economic & Workforce Development, in partnership with Supervisor Jane Kim, is currently conducting extensive research and community engagement that will result in the creation of an economic strategy for the Central Market district. OEWD’s goal is to identify which economic development programs and policies would be most effective for revitalizing the Central Market district while supporting the neighborhood’s current residents and communities. The strategy will help to guide economic development investments and efforts by the City as well as its nonprofit- and private-sector partners.

Here is a quick survey ...or not so quick if you answer all the questions - but they come in blocks six so while you're waiting for the MUNI bus that never comes....  Central Market Survey

Beginnings of a Transformation in Mid-Market

As arts organizations move in, a cultural flavor has begun to emanate from the neighborhood

By REYHAN HARMANCI on October 6, 2011 - 9:45 p.m. PDT

Source: The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/13rSf)

While Hal Fischer, interim director of S.F. Camerawork, pondered his organization’s move to the Mid-Market district, he conducted an experiment. About three months ago, he went to an 11 p.m. event at the nearby Luggage Store gallery and intentionally parked his car on Sixth and Market, a notoriously troubled block in the midst of one of the city’s most crime-ridden areas.

“It did not feel dangerous,” Fischer said. “It didn’t even feel unsavory. More than anything, it seemed eccentric. And I noticed a lot of tourists.”   

 Read the rest of the article here Beginnings of a Transformation in Mid-Market - The Bay CitizenSource: The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/13rSf)

Welcome to Urbanstreet Films!

Welcome to Urbanstreet Films!

Since we are now approved and accepted into the San Francisco Film Society's Project Development and Fiscal Sponsorship Program, we thought it would be the right time to start communicating what the project is about. First, let me say that we are overjoyed about being selected to participate in this very prestigious program.  It will allow us to receive some very valuable mentorship as well as remove the financial limitations as to how and where funders can contribute to the film. More information about the program is at this link: San Francisco Film Society 

Here is a brief overview and synopsis of the film.

Photo by Lydia Gonzales

"FIVE BLOCKS"

Five Blocks tells the story of a hoped-for revitalization of San Francisco’s central Market Street district, once the “Great White Way of the West” but for 50 years a blighted no-man’s land. This effort is what some are calling the last, best attempt for ideological and political enemies – residents, artists, business owners, landlords, politicians, city officials and non-profit organizations – to work together. Can they, after years of contentious debate and mistrust, transform a neighborhood through the confluence of art and technology while creating a national model for community revitalization?

The primary issue the film explores is how people come together – or don’t – around creating change in a neighborhood. With so many vested interests at play, implementing change can be a challenge. The issue of gentrification is paramount: how does a city preserve a neighborhood for the people who are already there (many of them poor, living in residential hotels) while making it inviting to others? Everyone involved in the revitalization project is intent on creating a new model, one that harnesses San Francisco’s well-known creative spirit to engender change while treating those most affected with respect and dignity. There is, however, absolutely no guarantee of success.