GigNews for Thursday, December 29, 2005
Issue: 17

Here is this weeks GigNews

Latest Gigdirectory Front Page News:

Google founders go Hollywood with new film
Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are each wearing a new
hat, that of executive producer: The pair has invested around $500,000
in a low-budget independent film, "Broken Arrows," directed by their
friend, Reid Gershbein.
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this New Years Eve in LA...
Join us on New Year's Eve 2006... as the arts community resurrects LA's
grand dame; The Los Angeles Theatre. For this one night, one of the
most elaborate and glamorous theatres from the golden era of vaudeville
and burlesque in Downtown LA will be filled with today's newest and
cutting edge vaudeville cirque, burlesque and musical performance...
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STRONG MEDICINE AD's Scam Artists
Labor Commision to The Rescue! Here's a quick story to tell you that
sometimes we actually can win when we're cheated by the big guys.
I worked on STRONG MEDICINE about six months ago. The AD's were horrible
and on two consecutive days cheated us out of meal penalties. When I
asked them about it they called Central and banned me from the show. I
wrote a letter to the production company and found out through the
grapevine that because of my complaint and many others they were fired.
That was great, but I still felt cheated.
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Arts Connection Grants
NEA International Arts Connection Grants
Deadline: January 11, 2006
International Arts Connection Residencies promote in-depth interaction
between artists from the Region of Central Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
and artists and audiences in the U.S. Through International Arts
Connection Residencies artists and arts managers from the Region
participate in five-week residencies with cultural organizations in the
United States.
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USA SONGWRITING COMPETITION BEGINS
11th ANNUAL USA SONGWRITING COMPETITION BEGINS
Celebrating our 11th consecutive year, 2006 USA Songwriting Competition
is now accepting entries! Winning songs will receive radio airplay in
United States and Canada along with great prizes such as a Top Prize of
over $50,000.
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Runaway Productions How US Film Orgs Fight Back
In regards to runaway production, here are some interesting articles
about how San Francisco and Seattle plan to keep movies being made in
their cities. And another interesting artilce on how the staff of the
Virginia Film Office was able to keep "The New World" in Virginia
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Latest Links:

Multi-Arts Production Fund
The Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, a program of Creative Capital
supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, provides funding to nonprofit
performing and presenting organizations that are undertaking the
commissioning, development, and/or production of new work in the live
performing arts. MAP was established to support new work in all
traditions and disciplines of the live performing arts throughout the
U.S. Most MAP grants have been awarded for the following general types
of projects: experimental arts projects; cross-cultural arts projects;
and community-arts projects.
http://www.gigdirectory.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req\
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NEA International Arts Connection Grants
NEA International Arts Connection Grants
International Arts Connection Residencies promote in-depth interaction
between artists from the Region of Central Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
and artists and audiences in the U.S. Through International Arts
Connection Residencies artists and arts managers from the Region
participate in five-week residencies with cultural organizations in the
United States. Artists or arts managers from the Region are selected
for the residency through an open competitive review process. The
artists' placements with U.S. arts organizations are based on shared
interests and benefit. Approximately 15 to 20 residencies are
available each year. This Program Solicitation requests proposals to
implement and administer the International Arts Connection Residencies
project. The successful recipient of the Cooperative Agreement must
have experience working with artists and arts managers in the Region.
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Dance Net
USA Dance Net = Forums and jobs in dance
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=visit&lid=185

New York City's Dance Message Board
USA New York New York City's Dance Message Board = Various
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=visit&lid=184

Twin Cities Theatre & Film Alliance
USA Minneapolis Twin Cities Theatre & Film Alliance = Resources and
jobs in film and theater
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=visit&lid=183

The McKnight Theater Artist Fellowships
The McKnight Theater Artist Fellowships at The Playwrights' Center
These grants recognize theater artists other than playwrights whose work
demonstrates exceptional artistic merit and potential, and whose primary
residence is in the state of Minnesota.
The grants are intended to significantly advance recipients¹ art and
careers. These grants are funded by the McKnight Foundation as part of
its Arts Program.
To learn more about the fellowships and download an application, visit:
http://www.pwcenter.org/fellowships_MTAF.asp
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Studio 10
USA San Francisco Studio 10 = Dance School with jobs for various dance
genres
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=visit&lid=181

Lines Ballet
USA San Francisco Lines Ballet = DanceCompany = Various jobs
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=visit&lid=180

Bay Dance
USA San Francisco Bay Dance = Resources and jobs in dance
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=visit&lid=179

Feld Entertainment
USA Major Touring Ringling Brothers Circus
= Many and Various jobs.
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Latest Reviews:

Venue - 111 Minna San Francisco
Gigslist.org gave it a score of 10 out of 10
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howcontent&id=6Venue
- 111 Minna San Francisco

THE ARTS JOB BIBLE
Deborah gave it a score of 10 out of 10
http://www.gigdirectory.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=s\
howcontent&id=4THE
ARTS JOB BIBLE

Indie Rock Band - Sorrow Town Choir
Gigslist.org gave it a score of 10 out of 10
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howcontent&id=2Indie
Rock Band - Sorrow Town Choir

GigGuide:

Event Date: Dec 29, 2005 - Jan 04, 2006
Exhibitions - Photographic Retrospective San Francisco Subjects:
Photographic Retrospective San Francisco Subjects
“Shooting from the Hip” by MAURICE EDELSTEIN
Find out more. :
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3&viewtype=details&eid=60&print=

Event Date: Dec 29, 2005 - Dec 31, 2005
Screenings - "Five Decades" Maysles Retrospective:
12/1-31: MoMA's "Five Decades" Maysles Retrospective-A look at five
decades of films by documentarians Albert Maysles and David Maysles.
Find out more. :
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3&viewtype=details&eid=54&print=

Event Date: Dec 29, 2005 - Jan 01, 2006
Screenings - The Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges:
The Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges Too Much Monkey Business: The
Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges -- Screenings include "A Night at
the Opera," "At the Circus" and "The Three Stooges Meet Hercules."
Presented by American Cinematheque.
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3&viewtype=details&eid=64&print=

Event Date: Dec 29, 2005 - Jun 23, 2006
Screenings - African Diaspora Cine Club:
African Diaspora Cine Club - Columbia, SC
Teachers College, discussions of films from Africa and the African
Diaspora. Refreshments will be served.
Every last Friday of the Month
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Event Date: Dec 29, 2005 - Dec 31, 2005
General Events - SEA OF DREAMS NEW YEAR'S EVE-O-LUTION:
ANON SALON & MADISON HOUSE
in association with PEAK EXPERIENCE PRODUCTIONS
present
The Sixth Annual
SEA OF DREAMS
NEW YEAR'S EVE-O-LUTION
Friday December 30 & Saturday December 31, 2005
@ SF Concourse Exhibition Center
635 8th Street (@ Brannan)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Ages 18 and over welcome
http://www.anonsalon.com/seaofdreams06
http://www.seaofdreamsnye.com
SUPERLIVE!
- THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT (30 & 31)
(Two SCI Sets Each Night!)
- DRESDEN DOLLS (30 & 31)
- YARD DOGS ROAD SHOW (30 & 31)
- GANGA GIRI (AUS) (30 & 31)
- APHRODESIA (Funk n' Soul) (30)
- LUNA GROOVE (31)
- MARCH FOURTH MARCHING BAND (30)
ELECTROSONICA
- LORIN (Bassnectar) (30 & 31)
- LAWGIVERZ (Trigger UK) (31)
- JENÖ (Wicked) (31)
- RANDOM RAB (El Circo) (31)
- BROTHER (13 Moontribe) (31)
- SOTEG (Bless Records) (31)
- LAIRD (Get Yr. Freak ON!) (31)
- KOSMIKNEIL (Trigger UK) (30)
- LIL JOHN (Raindance) (30)
- SHAWNA (El Circo) (31)
- DFUNKT (EZLuv) (30)
- CLAY (Yoga Tai Chi) (31)
- REBECCA WATKINS (Get Underground) (30)
- MANCUB VS. KAPT'N KIRK (Space Cowboys) (30)
MYSTIC MARVELS
- VAU DE VIRE SOCIETY (30 & 31)
- EL CIRCO (30 & 31)
- KID BEYOND (Beatbox Alchemy) (30)
- THE INDIGO BELLY DANCE (31)
- BLACK & BLUE BURLESQUE (30 & 31)
- APSARA (31)
- MYSTIC FAMILY CIRCUS (30 & 31)
- FUTURETRYBE (31)
& MUCH MORE TBA! STAY TUNED!
Plus Art Encampments, Novelty Zones,
Interactive Installations, Midnight Miracles & Everything
Costumes VERY Encouraged
Come Dressed as your Dream!
Friday Night: 7pm - 2am (Tickets: $45)
Saturday Night: 7:30 - 4am (Tickets: $70)
Two Night Pass: $110
http://tickets.anonsalon.com
http://www.anonsalon.com/seaofdreams06
http://www.seaofdreamsnye.com
Tickets on Sale in Person at the Following Outlets:
Street Light Records - <http://www.streetlightrecords.com>
* SAN FRANCISCO - 3979 24th Street (near Noe)/ 1.888.682.3550
* SAN JOSE - 980 South Bascom Avenue/ 1.888.330.7776
* SANTA CRUZ - 939 South Pacific Avenue/ 1.888.648.9201
Distractions -
* SAN FRANCISCO -1552 Haight St./ 415.252.8751
Famous For Our Look
* MILL VALLEY - 96 Throckmorton/ 415.388.2550
Skills DJ Workshop
* BERKELEY 2566A Telegraph/ 510.704.9876
(PLEASE, DON'T CALL OUTLETS REQUESTING INFO ON THE EVENT!)
Find out more. :
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Event Date: Dec 29, 2005
General Events - New Years Eve in LA...:
Join us on New Year's Eve 2006... as the arts community resurrects LA's
grand dame; The Los Angeles Theatre. For this one night, one of the
most elaborate and glamorous theatres from the golden era of vaudeville
and burlesque in Downtown LA will be filled with today's newest and
cutting edge vaudeville cirque, burlesque and musical performance...
From the creators of Sea of Dreams
Anon Salon presents
"Cirk-O-Six"
New Years Eve
Dec 31, 2005 9pm to 4am @ the historic
Los Angeles Theater
615 South Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Featuring.....
Live on the theatre stage:
The Buxoticas of
- Lucha Va Voom
featuring:
The Wau Wau Sisters from NYC
Roky Roulette (the Iggy Hop of burlesque)
Kitten Deville
Ursulina
Rocket Sapphire
Karis
with MC comedian
Blaine Capatch
and much more....
(The hilarious and sexy Lucha Va Voom shows sell out every time they hit
LA)
- LucEnt DosSieR
(Lucent's wild vaudeville and cirque antics have been recently seen at
Coachella, VeGoose, Xingolati and Six Degrees Art Festival)
- Cirque Berzerk
(producing their own 5 course dinner theatre events around LA as well as
their recent massive performances at Burning Man under their own 90ft
circus tent, featured with Cirque Berzerk cast are members of Cirque du
Soleil and a burlesque dance piece. Jen Berry of NYC Ballet
choreographs)
- Skin
(aerial performance combines multi-media projections to the
electronica/live compositions of Kevin Bourge from Mutaytor and Mark
Schultz of Public Image LMT)
- March Fourth
(Portland's biggest 20 piece party band, March Fourth morphs marching
band but with bass driven Afrobeat, Brazilian and Middle eastern dance
rhythms)
- Rosin Coven
(the theatre house band - Cabaret Chamber Orchestra, producers of the
Edwardian Ball, Rosin Coven is an umpteen-piece band full of
pale-faced, velvet-clad cool cats playing everything from cello and
contrabass to accordion, the group falls on a continuum between Rocky
Horror camp and medieval dance macabre)
- DC Juicy
(the sexiest, most outrageous, and raucous musically driven hip-hop
comedy show you'll EVER see)
In the Oval Ballroom
Alcyone
Producer / keyboardist Alex Newman (U.K.) of Medicine Drum fame and
vocalist / composer Suzanne Sterling (S.F.) have been causing a stir
with their dynamic live shows at well-known west coast events such as
Earthdance, Harmony Festival, Burning Man's "Sol System", Solfest, Anon
Salon's "Sea of Dreams" and more.
DMT
Record producers Stefan Broadly (Dr. Funk Monsta) and Dr. Dougj11 create
multi media along with their infectious dance tunes.
Helios Jive
Heliocentric Jazz, electronica meets cool boppin' jazz, Helios is a
favorite at The DoLab and Create Fixate
Blue Girl
actress, vocalist, composer, oral historian and playwright, Eliza Jane
Schneider resurrects the blue violin diva
DJ Rooms
with
David Starfire (LABA, Space Island)
Producer/Composer/Multi Instrumentalist/DJ - from dance to rock to hip
hop to bhangra and everything in between
Ooah (LABA, Boom Box)
Turn Tablist Extraodinaire
Patricio (LABA, Space Island)
Beaks to Hip Hop to House and back
Vordo (Abstrakt, SF)
Producer of Abstakt, the Beat from the Bay.
Les Shill (Church of Wow)
World Beat Funk
Dandelion (LABA)
Silky Downtempo and Ambient sounds.
Michele Bass (LABA)
Breaks 'n burlesque from SoulSonic Records and Mystik Alchemy founder
Jupiter
The DoLaB favorite
Gallerie d'Burlesque Art Gallery
Full gallery exhibit curated by Mike Russek (Six Degrees Art Festival,
Transport Gallery)
16 of LA's top painters exhibiting works from the cirque and burlesque
theme. Live painting from longtime downtown artist Emric Konrad and
linstallation from Tiffany.
Voyager Tarot Salon
Pick your 2006 year card from the deck of Captain Pick-a-Card, James
Wanless PhD,
author of "Way of the Great Oracle" and "Strategic Intuition for the
21st Century" and creator of the Voyager Tarot Deck.
- Five hours of continuous theatre performance
- Multiple party rooms
- Open air food court
Environment created by lighting and decor wizards
The Do LaB
ANON SALON ENCOURAGES YOUR PARTY-CIPATION
Vaudeville/Burlesque/Circus Attire Encouraged...
Saturday Dec 31 8:30 pm to 4am
Stage Shows start at 10pm sharp.
Advance Tickets: $60.00
Advance Tix and info @ www.sodla.com
and hardcopy tickets available at Benway Records,1600 Pacific
Ave.,Venice, CA 90291, Sea Level
Records, 1716 West Sunset Blvd.,Los Angeles, CA 90026, BRAT 1938 14th
Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404 310-452-2480
The Los Angeles Theatre
The baroque-style Louis XIV masterpiece was built in 1931 and premiered
Charlie Chaplin's City Lights among others. It has stood empty, a
mausoleum of the glory days waiting to be re-birthed. On New Year's eve
these golden halls will be filed with life, color and pizzazz befitting
its dazzling perfection.]Please see photos on it's site below to see
it's spectacular restored interiors.
Anon Salon
Over the course of its 15-year existence, ANON SALON has helped redefine
West Coast event production by producing hundreds of unique theme
parties, theater, festival and art shows and even street fairs for
Burning Man fans in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. Since its debut
on NYE 2000 in San Francisco, their annual New Years bacchanalia event
has become the new years eve event for "cultural creatives".
Hotel Info: The New Otani has rooms for $145 double if you mention "Sea
of Dreams" 120 S. Los Angeles St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 Tel:(213)
629-1200,
Find out more. :
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Event Date: Dec 29, 2005 - Jan 22, 2006
Music - World Music Blowout 'globalFEST':
Annual World Music Blowout 'globalFEST' Reveals Planet's Traditions
Transformed - The festival takes place Saturday, January 21 and Sunday,
January 22, 2006 (NYC)
Artist Roster:
Auktyon (Russia)
Daara J (Senegal)
Daby Touré (Mauritania)
DJ Dolores (Brazil)
Emil Zrihan (Israel/Morocco)
Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars (USA)
Juan Carmona (France)
Keren Ann (France/USA)
Las Ondas Marteles (France)
Lura (Cape Verde/Portugal)
Niyaz (Iran/India/USA)
Roxane Butterfly's Worldbeats presents 'Djellebah
Groove' (France/USA/Morocco)
Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys (USA/Louisiana)
Returning for a third year after two consecutive sold-out concerts,
globalFEST ˜ New York's world music extravaganza ˜ announces the
line-up for what has expanded to a two-night event. The festival takes
place Saturday, January 21 and Sunday, January 22, 2006 at The Public
Theater, with the same 13 acts performing each night.
As in years past, globalFEST 2006 challenges audiences to re-think the
parameters of world music. As the Village Voice's Carol Cooper
described the first year, "Few, if any, of these acts were obsessed
with the 'purity' of their music. Authenticity and purity are not the
same, and if festival participants chose to bend and blend genre
categories, it was only after serious study of those root musics they
hoped to update or alter. If anything, the participants in Manhattan's
first globalFEST proved it's possible to respect the past without being
forced to preserve it forever unchanged." Isaac Guzman wrote in The
Daily News, "Aside from the high quality of the artists, what's
striking about globalFEST is that it does away with typical notions of
what constitutes world music."
Since its 2004 launch, globalFEST has served as a beacon for
international musicians hoping to boost their presence in North
America. The festival seeks to showcase artists for fans and
impresarios alike. Scheduled to coincide with the annual Arts
Presenters conference˜a performing arts event where most North American
performing arts centers and festivals book their coming
seasons˜globalFEST identifies artists on the cusp of success here and
gives them a springboard for further accomplishment on the touring
circuit.
Url: www.globalfest-ny.com
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Latest Downloads:

Matt Fore Director of Photography Reel
Matt Fore Director of Photography Reel - September 2005
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Fore Director of Photography Reel
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Brethren
Trip hop with spoken word vocals.
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Fishing Game
Simple fishing game, beginner's level.
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Pink Slip Panic
Shoot office workers with pink slips. Not as easy as you think but a
good giggle.
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Slip Panic
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Bin Ladin Liquors
Cool shootem up game with Osama in a liquor store. Very Popular.
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