Category Archives: Events

Sonic Soiree in San Francisco May 18

May 7, 2010 MiaLobel Leave a comment

Hey all. We have a great event coming up in a couple weeks – led by an FC friend and mentor David King Dunaway. Check out the details below and give Rori a holler if you have any questions: 415-730-7380 or rori@freelancecafe.org.
Best,
Mia

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Inspired by similar events around the country, Freelance Café is hosting a "Sonic Soirée" on Tuesday, May 18 at Sandbox Suites (123 10th Street in San Francisco) from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. If you have a story to share, just bring a CD to play for the group, either a work-in-progress or a finished piece. Beginner or pro, you are encouraged to come and present your work in radio–audience members will provide feedback on your piece. If you just want to hear some great stories, you are welcome to come just to listen as well! Pizza and wine will be served–suggested donation is $5 but no one will be turned away.

Leading the workshop will be David Dunaway, author, national radio producer ("Across The Tracks: A Route 66 Story" and "Pete Seeger" on PRI). David is a new Professor of Radio at the Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts Program of San Francisco State University (www.davidkdunaway.com). He worked at KPFA as Unpaid Staff for more than a decade.

Events, Freelance Cafe West, TV/Film/Video

preview screening of “The Carbon Hunters”, 5/11, 6pm, UC Berkeley Jschool

May 3, 2010 MiaLobel Leave a comment

Looks interesting. Check it out.

+++++++++++++++++++++ Having trouble viewing this email? Click here http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render?v=001e4MTcRpscGo-KHgdKF55fhFiZ6yU3IO5pYHR3QJzpsOcxRzBqVFNMNz9H3-MHv10O8vKYGD9C_9Vl1To4rkDOGzhJXea29noXks9EB9b2Fs%3D [image: Special Carbon Watch Screening] [image: Please join us for a special screening] Please join us for a special preview screening of “The Carbon Hunters”, a joint project of PBS FRONTLINE/World and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

DATE: Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 TIME: 6:00 pm – Reception, Courtyard 7:00 – 8:00 pm – Screening and Q&A, Room 105

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

North Gate Hall, Hearst at Euclid Berkeley, CA 94720

In “The Carbon Hunters”, reporter Mark Schapiro and producer Andres Cediel follow the trail of an emerging multi-billion dollar market in carbon, and investigate how the economics of global warming are affecting forests and those who live in them.

The story will broadcast on local PBS station KQED at 10 pm (check local listings), but join us for this advance screening, meet the journalists, producers and editors behind the work, and help us toast the success of our partnership at the reception. Web producers will also highlight the multimedia features of our Carbon Watch portal.

Please R.S.V.P. to rsvp@flworld.org

We look forward to seeing you there!

~ FRONTLINE/World & The Center for Investigative Reporting

TOP PHOTO © NICOLAS VILLAUME

[image: carbon watch]

Events, Freelance Cafe West, Multimedia

Storytelling/hacking on the iPad, May 21-23, 2010

May 3, 2010 MiaLobel Leave a comment

Great collaborative event coming up in a couple weeks. Check it out! -mia

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Hacks/Hackers Unite Storytelling/hacking on the iPad, May 21-23, 2010 At KQED

http://unite.hackshackers.com/

This event will be both a coding development camp and a journalistic boot camp. Teams of hacks (content creators) and hackers (developers and designers) will cooperate to tell develop media applications for the iPad that help inform users and tell stories. Each team must have at least one hack and hacker each. If you don’t already have a team, we will have some activities to help you find one at the event. Also, find potential collaborators and propose, browse, and discuss ideas here.

David Gelles Reporter The Financial Times San Francisco Bureau o. +1 415 445 5601 m. +1 510 292 9576 david.gelles@ft.com dgelles2@gmail.com

Events, Freelance Cafe West, Multimedia

SF Bay Area Multimedia gathering, May 5, 7-9pm

May 1, 2010 MiaLobel 1 Comment

Hey all. This is perfect for many west coast FC members, organized and run by a radio colleague. Check it out! -Mia

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Fotovision Multimedia Salon first Wednesday of each month, 7-9PM at Fotovision

5515 Doyle St, #11, Emeryville, CA 94608 Map: http://tinyurl.com/yc884fn

o Fotovision: That hip ever-growing photo-sound-video fanatic’s group o Multimedia: Mixing sound, stills, video, (smells? tastes?), to tell drop-dead stories, commonly for the web. o Salon: Usually a bunch of pretentious intellectuals in a gilded room getting all snooty about their work. But in this case we mean a group of motivated, experienced media folks sharing knowledge and work.

The group welcomes skilled still photographers, video photographers, journalists, radio and other sound people, editors and storytellers of various stripes working with multimedia.

Join us if you are: o Actively working with multimedia. o Just starting to work with multimedia as an addition to the work you already do. o A professional on fire about the story-telling potential of multimedia, and serious about sharing and expanding your skills with a group of peers.

We gather monthly to show works-in-progress for feedback, support, and discussion. We talk about everything from our work to our gear, from getting jobs to wailing about not getting jobs — and just about anything else that comes to mind. Mostly, we show our multimedia works and figure out ways to make them tighter, more informative and more interesting.

Think of it as a writers’ group for digital storytellers — a group of people with a wide range of skills and styles in the various aspects of multimedia who meet to exchange our hard-found expertise in this new field.

Cost: A sliding scale contribution of up to $15, depending on how well you’re doing in today’s media economy. The contribution goes to Fotovision ( http: www.fotovision.org ) for their expenses and support of the group.

Hope to see you there!

Lonny

Lonny Shavelson http://www.photowords.com

Berkeley, California Office/studio: 510 343 6939 Home: 510 849 9382 Cell: 510 847 5223 e-mail: lonny@photowords.com

Events

NAISA Radio Without Boundaries conference May 27

April 30, 2010 MiaLobel Leave a comment

Very cool (and affordable) audio conference out of Toronto. More details at http://www.naisa.ca/RWB/. Check it out! -Mia PS: BIG discounts if you apply today.

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April 30th is the last chance to get the early bird discount to the Radio Without Boundaries conference! NAISA is also offering a discount to AIR http://airmedia.org members – this is over and above both the early bird and community radio discounts!

So for AIR members, this could mean as much as $60 off the $150 conference pass. To register go to www.naisa.ca/eshops/RWB_registration.php

Here’s a snap shot of what’s included in the conference. We are very excited to include AIR’s Sue Schardt, Third Coast Festival’s Julie Shapiro, award-winning radio producer Scott Carrier and CBC radio’s DNTO host/producer Sook-Yin Lee amongst the many talented artists and radio producers included in this year’s conference. ___________

NEW ADVENTURES IN SOUND ART is pleased to launch the 8th edition of the RADIO WITHOUT BOUNDARIES CONFERENCE May 27 – 29, 2010 as part of NAISA’s annual month-long Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art in May. The Radio Without Boundaries conference explores the many potentials, boundaries and artist perspectives of radio.

Conference speakers/topics include:

– Two Tin Cans and a String by Sook-Yin Lee (Canada – CBC’s DNTO) about how communication, storytelling and first person expression connect with her DIY practice that was born through music, film and TV and which she continues to explore in radio – The Neighborhood by Scott Carrier (USA – This American Life, the Savvy Traveler, All things considered & Hearing Voices). Scott will discuss and play examples of radio stories he produced that are cultural histories of his home, Salt Lake City and composed of interviews with “average” citizens – The DEW Project and Electromagnetic Boundaries in the Arctic by Charles Stankievech (Canada), is about the history of the electromagnetic in the Arctic – Don’t Tell My Ears Where To Go by Frank Kaspar (Germany, co- presented by the Goethe Institute Toronto), about new Hörspiel and Documentary approaches in the spirit of Glenn Gould’s “Contrapuntal Radio” CBC documentaries – Radio Documentary-Feature as Poetry, Drama and Sound Art by Andrea Dancer (Canada) – Visual Radio with Anna Friz, Emmanuel Madan, Kathy Kennedy and Andreas Kahre – Neighbourhood Transmissions: Radio Jean-Talon (Kathy Kennedy) and The Neighbourhood Stories Project (Reena Katz and Emmy Pantin) – Radio Transformed: a Web of Possibilities with Julie Shapiro (Third Coast Festival), Sue Schardt (Association of Independents in Radio), Ian Pringle (Commonwealth of Learning) & Christof Migone (Audio Artist and Director of Blackwood Gallery).

Workshops include: – Listening Sessions with Götz Naleppa (Germany – co-presented by the Goethe Institute Toronto) and Gregory Whitehead (USA) – Transmitter Workshop with Hector Centeno – Talking It Up (an interview workshop) with Victoria Fenner

Your conference registration fee also gets you into all Deep Wireless festival events and performances for free. ___________________________________________________________ Help NAISA celebrate Radio Art during May at the Artscape Wychwood Barns

NAISA Inquiries & general information:

Nadene Thériault-Copeland Managing Director New Adventures in Sound Art Address: Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252, Toronto, ON M6G 4C7 Tel 416 652 5115 www.naisa.ca

Events, Freelance Cafe West

Freelancer Tax Workshop 11:50 am Sat, May 1 @ USF

April 30, 2010 MiaLobel Leave a comment

Part of the Journalism Innovations III conference happening this weekend. Good stuff going on. -mia

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Sending along from SPJ NorCal. It’s part of the SPJ NorCal Regional Conference/Journalism Innovations III. It’s sliding scale but no one will be turned away. Workshop details below. Conference info below that.

*Tax and legal issues for freelance journalists UC 419 *

-*CPA and financial adviser Bob Jersin will lead a workshop on the tax pitfalls of going into business for yourself, whether you’re a freelancer, an independent contractor or small business owner. Jersin specializes in start-ups and is a small business consultant. Co-presenter and artist Don McCartney, a former long-time San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle designer, will share his experience in starting his own design company, Diablo Graphic Design. The 60-minute workshop will cover the top 10 tax mistakes of being your own boss, with supplemental materials, Excel presentation and a Q&A discussion after the workshop. *

– *BOB JERSIN (CPA)* – *DON MCCARTNEY (**Diablo Graphic Design, SF Chronicle)*

*11:50 am-1pm SATURDAY, MAY 1, USF, 2130 Fulton St., Room UC 419, Fromm Hall*.

*GOOGLE MAP DIRECTIONS:* http://sites.google.com/site/journalisminnovationsexpo/location-and-directions

*Just 1 more day until the conference! *

The sessions are ready, the schedule is set, speakers and presenters are flying in to get ready for Friday’s program. The doors open in 24 hours!

For full conference details go here: http://journalisminnovations.org

If you haven’t registered yet, now is the time: http://journalisminnovations.eventbrite.com/

Join hundreds of media makers, academics, advocates and community organizers as we help shape the future of media.

*Program highlights:*

– Plenary *Discussion on the Future of Journalism* featuring JOAN WALSH (Salon.com), DAVEY D (Hard Knock Radio/Southern Shift), TRACY VAN SLYKE (Director The Media Consortium, author “Beyond the Echo Chamber”) and IVAN ROMAN (Executive Director, National Association of Hispanic Journalists)

– A *FREE Career Speed Coaching* event. Register for your 15-20 minute long caching session with a professional career counselor.

– Trainings on *Social Media, Media Collaboration, Branding and Low Cost Technology* tools.

– Special sessions for *youth and student journalists*.

– A film preview of “*A FRAGILE TRUST: Jayson Blair and the New York Times*” with a panel on journalism ethics.

– A special Sunday partnership with RemakeCamp< http://sites.google.com/site/journalisminnovationsexpo/remakecamp for more tech and media workshops.

*Attendees and presenters include:*

The Center for Investigative Reporting, the Center for Public Integrity, IRE, Spot.Us, the Bay Citizen, University of San Francisco, San Francisco State, UC Berkeley, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Examiner,KALW, KPFA, KCET, Oaklandlocal.com, Missionlocal.org, 38thnotes.com, abetteroakland.com, and many more.

*There is something for everyone!*

*Click here< http://sites.google.com/site/journalisminnovationsexpo/conference-schedule-2 > for the full conference schedule.*

For more conference information see the Journalism Innovations/Conference website http://sites.google.com/site/journalisminnovationsexpo/home.

Thanks! Looking forward to seeing you all! Kwan Booth Conference Organizer

*Journalism Innovations and SPJ Region 11 Spring Conference*

Produced by: Independent Arts and Media, The Society of Professional Journalists, NorCal, University of San Francisco, G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism.

Events, Freelance Cafe West

The Census & Demographics panel at UCB, 5/3, 10am

April 29, 2010 MiaLobel Leave a comment

Hey all. Interesting event/panel this Monday at UC Berkeley. Plus free lunch! Details below.

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*The Census and Demographics: Telling California’s Story*

Speakers:

– *Chase Davis*, Investigative Reporter California Watch – *Mary Heim*, Chief, Demographic Research Unit State of California – *Richard Koci Hernandez* Ford Foundation Multimedia Fellow UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism – *Hans Johnson*, Senior Fellow Public Policy Institute of California

The 2010 Census is different from any in history. It is designed to provide valuable information about who we are—as a state and as a nation—at the beginning of the 21st century. But it’s based on the answers to just 10 questions. In California, the stakes are high: seats in Congress and millions of dollars for health care, transportation, schools, and social services.

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*Monday, May 3, 2010* 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

*UC Berkeley* Sutardja Dia Hall Banatao Auditorium University of California, Berkeley (map) (directions )

*RSVP TO* *Kelly Holt* (415) 291-4498 events@ppic.org

The challenge for journalists will be to find the stories in the data and provide a picture of the new California, in new ways and using new tools.

This forum brings together experts on demography and multimedia journalists to talk about what the 2010 Census will—and will not—tell us, what alternative data sources are available, and how demographic data can be used in everyday reporting.

This event will be held on *Monday, May 3, 2010, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.* in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall at the University of California, Berkeley.

Lunch will be provided.

Pre-registration is requested. There is no charge to attend.[image: RSVP TO] *To register, please contact Kelly Holt at events@ppic.org or (415) 291-4498.* [image: spacer]

FOLLOW PPIC: [image: icon_email] [image: icon_facebook] [image: icon_twitter] [image: icon_youtube] [image: RSS Icon] [image: Visit PPIC:] Public Policy Institute of California 500 Washington Street, Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94111 Phone: 415-291-4400, Fax: 415-291-4401 Website: www.ppic.org

PPIC Sacramento Center Senator Office Building 1121 L Street, Suite 801 Sacramento, California 95814 Phone: 916-440-1120

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Events

freelancer gatherings happening on both coasts TONIGHT, Thursday 4/29

April 29, 2010 Mia Lobel Leave a comment

Hello freelancers east and west. Just a reminder that gatherings are happening in both Oakland, CA and Tivoli, NY tonight. I’ll be hanging out at the Black Swan in Tivoli starting at 8pm, and Jen Ward and Rori Gallagher will be hosting the Bay Area folks at Zza’s Enoteca starting at 7pm. (I’ll be texting you CA folks to make sure you’re behaving.)

Hope you can make it out! Best, mia

OAKLAND ZZa’s Enoteca 550 Grand Ave 7pm – 10pm

TIVOLI The Black Swan 66 Broadway 8pm – 11pm

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