Category Archives: Freelance Cafe West

NEH Media Funding Workshop, Oct 10, SF

Learn more about grant opportunities from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Details below on their upcoming workshop.
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WORKSHOP ON FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEDIA PRODUCERS AT NEH

Co-sponsored by the California Council for the Humanities and the San Francisco Foundation

 

Michael Shirley of the Division of Public Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities will present a free workshop on funding opportunities for media producers at the NEH. The presentation and discussion will introduce attendees to categories of funding for digital media projects, documentary films and television programs, and radio programs. Michael will present examples of successful projects funded by NEH, offer a walkthrough of the grant writing and review processes, and be available to discuss projects one-on-one.

 

As Senior Program Officer and Acting Assistant Deputy Director in the Division of Public Programs at NEH, Michael advises media producers on the grant-making process and the creation of humanities-based documentary films, television programs and series, and digital media projects. He has served as an adviser and presenter at the House of Docs at the Sundance Film Festival and as a presenter to the World Congress of History Producers (now History Makers), SXSW, Silverdocs, Miami International Film Festival, Museums and the Web, American Association of Museums, and the Games for Change Festival.

 

Monday, October 10, 4:00-6:00 pm

San Francisco Foundation

225 Bush Street, Suite 500

San Francisco, CA 94104

 

Space is limited. To attend, please register here:

http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=xyeaj8dab&oeidk=a07e4xzsugze53acf9d

 

 

Cultural Equity Grants from the SF Arts Commission

There are a bunch of grants available for San Francisco projects through the SF Arts Commission. See below for upcoming application workshops. More details at http://sfartscommission.org/ceg/grants/index.html#iac. Good luck!

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Individual Artist Commissions (IAC)

Deadline: December 1, 2011
Deadline for Narrative Drafts (optional): November 1, 2011
Email draft narratives to corinne.matesich@sfgov.org

Grants of up to $10,000 to individual artists living and working in San Francisco, to stimulate the creation and presentation of high-quality works of art throughout the city’s neighborhoods. The program considers proposals for projects in alternating disciplines each year. We will consider proposals in fiscal year 2011-12, for performing arts: dance, music, and theater. Support for multi-disciplinary projects (within the disciplines being offered) are available each year.

Grant Period:
July 1, 2012 – December 31, 2013

Application Workshops:
October 13, 2011 from 6:00-8:00pm; Galeria de la Raza, 2857 24th Street @ Bryant
October 17, 2011 from 12:00-2:00pm; 25 Van Ness, Suite 70

October 17, 2011 from 6:30-8:30pm; Bindlestiff Studio, 185 6th Street @ Howard
November 15, 2011 from 12:00-2:00pm; 25 Van Ness, Suite 70

Please email your workshop rsvp to corinne.matesich@sfgov.org.

If you have any further IAC questions, please contact Program Associate Lucy K Lin, 415-252-3257, lucy.lin@sfgov.org.

Grant funding and applicant info sessions from the CA Council for the Humanities

A number of FC members have received funding for their projects through the CSF. Details below on their upcoming informational sessions.
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The California Council for the Humanities will be holding its first informational session for California Story Fund (CSF) grantseekers this Friday, with additional sessions to follow. For more information about CSF, see below. (You may need to enable graphic elements.) Please feel free to forward this email to friends and colleagues who might be interested.

Dates and times for upcoming informational sessions are as follows:

Informational Webinar

  • Friday, September 30, 2011—10:30 am to 12:00 pm Pacific Time

Informational Meetings

  • San Diego Region Session 

    Tuesday, October 4, 2011—4:00 to 5:30 pm Pacific Time

    Malcolm X Library

    5148 Market Street, San Diego, CA 92114

  • Inland Empire Region SessionWednesday, October 5, 2011—12:00 to 1:30 pm Pacific Time

    Highgrove Library

    530 W. Center Street, Highgrove, CA 92507

All sessions are free. For more information and to register for one of the sessions, click HERE.

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part time photog gig in Menlo Park, CA

Interesting photo gig in Menlo Park. Details below!
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Menlo Park, CA
www.slac.stanford.edu

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is one of the world's leading
research laboratories in particle physics research. SLAC is now a
multipurpose laboratory for astrophysics, photon science, accelerator
and particle physics research, and is operated by Stanford University
for the U.S. Department of Energy. Our Laboratory Multimedia
Communications department is seeking a part-time photographer to cover
a diverse range of visual subjects and events in a high-end scientific
research environment. All equipment will be provided.

RESPONSIBILITIES:  Spend one day a week at SLAC taking photos as
determined and scheduled by the Multimedia Communications Manager and
the Communications Department / Work closely with the Multimedia
Communications Manager to establish guidelines and routines for
generating photographic content for a variety of outlets for both
print and web / Photograph scientific equipments, construction
projects, working scientists, staff members, events, and editorial
subject matter / Must be available to work a full 8-hour shift the
same day each week (specific day is negotiable), and must be available
for 2-4 additional hours per week on an as-needed basis.

Qualifications:  Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Photo -Journalism,
Design or a combination of related education and experience  / Must
have a portfolio that demonstrates an ability to handle a variety of
photographic projects, including taking portraits, covering events,
and creating images for editorial and promotional use / Must be able
to set up and work quickly / Must be highly organized with an ability
to create and maintain a workflow to support the required creation,
keyword tagging and cataloging of all images in a networked
database /  Must have extensive knowledge of Adobe Photoshop / Ability
to work a full 8 hour shift the same day each week (specific day is
negotiable), and must be available for 2-4 additional hours per week
on an as-needed basis. Desired Skills:  Experience shooting with Canon
equipment / Experience shooting in a research or technical
environment / Knowledge of Adobe Bridge and Lightroom or similar image
database software.

To Apply:   Interested applicants can apply online at
https://tbe.taleo.net/NA12/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=SLAC&cws=1&rid=549

KALW seeks producers for City Visions Radio

Hi folks. Our friend at KALW's City Visions Radio are looking for volunteers to produce one show/month. This note from the team:

In nearly all cases, after producing with City Visions, the producers we brought on the show were able to further their careers and find new work opportunities.  We feel strongly that producing for us provides a great opportunity to demonstrate and fine tune skills and deepen resumes.  

Good opportunity to learn from some talented and dedicated folks. Details below.
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Radio Producer (Volunteer)

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Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Organization: City Visions Radio

Skill(s): Producing, Writing

Start date: Training would begin as soon as interview process was completed

Last day to apply: Open

Description

City Visions, a live call-in radio program, has aired weekly on KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco since 1991. (Monday, 7:00-8:00pm). We aim to educate, stimulate, and make positive contributions to discussions on Bay Area issues. Our production team – a talented group of multi-disciplined, public policy minded volunteers – brings a broad perspective to current issues. This is a fantastic opportunity for people interested in learning about radio production or who simply want to be part of a team of volunteers informing our community about important issues.

Summary

City Visions is looking for someone interested in producing one radio program per month. With support from the Senior Producer and others on the team, producers develop guest panels to discuss a variety of topics important to the San Francisco Bay Area. Production requires approximately 10-20 hours per show and consists of: researching a topic; developing a guest panel; providing background material, bios and potential questions for the host; writing copy; in-studio production on show nights from 6pm to 9pm one Monday per month. Attendance at weekend bi-monthly production meetings is also required. Show topics are flexible depending upon a producer’s interests and skills.

Please visit our website (cityvisionsradio.com) to check out previous shows and read the bios of current producers.

Qualifications

Qualified producers will be professionals looking to add radio production to their skill set. Excellent writing and communication skills are necessary though radio experience is not required. Applicants should be deadline-oriented, highly organized, willing to commit for at least one year and possess a strong interest in public policy and current affairs.

To Apply

Send a cover letter and resume, with subject line "Producer Resume," to: Lauren Meltzer, Host, at Laurenmeltzer@yahoo.com

Lauren Meltzer

City Visions Radio, Host

www.cityvisionsradio.com

KALW 91.7 San Francisco

Laurenmeltzer@yahoo.com

415-235-5798

KeywordSmart – new keywording tool for professional photographers

Hey folks. My good friend has launched a new software program for professional photogs and I'm trying to help him get the word out. So if you or anyone you know want to check this out, he's offering an extended free trial for friends of Freelance Cafe. Just tell him I sent you. Happy keywording!

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My company software has gone live!
It's a web-based image keywording tool for professional photographers.
If you're asking, what the hell is that, don't worry, you probably don't need to know.  But if you have friends who are serious photographers, please pass my info along.

Upcoming events at the UC Berkeley J-School

Hey folks. Some upcoming events at UC Berkeley's jschool. Details below!
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Opening Reception
Civil Rights Under Three Hats: Photographs by Matt Herron

When: Friday, September 16,  7:00 PM

Where: North Gate Hall Room 105

Photojournalist, Social Documentarian, Movement Propagandist: The Photography of Matt Herron.

When Matt Herron moved to Mississippi with his family in 1963, he thought of himself as wearing three hats. As a photojournalist, he was beginning to see his career take off and hoped to win assignments from editors he knew in New York by submitting picture story ideas from the heart of the Civil Rights struggle. Influenced by several formative meetings with the well-known documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, Herron also hoped to document the process of social change that was beginning to disrupt deeply ingrained patterns of life in both black and white communities of the Deep South. To this end, he organized a team of photographers in the Spring of 1964 to follow this process through one of the most tumultuous summers in Civil Rights history. Finally, as a pacifist and political radical, Herron was personally drawn to the cause of racial justice and eagerly committed his cameras to the organizing work of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi and other venues of the South.

How well did these three hats fit one head? That is the subject of a new photography exhibition at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

The exhibit will be available for viewing at North Gate Hall, Monday-Friday, from August 29- December 1, 2011


***RSVP REQUIRED***
Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda

A Conversation with Eric Schmitt

When: Monday, September 19,  6:00 PM

Where:
North Gate Hall Library

In their new book, Counterstrike, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of The New York Times tell the story of how a group of analysts within the military, spy agencies, and law enforcement has fashioned an innovative, effective new strategy to fight terrorism, unbeknownst to most Americans and in sharp contrast to the cowboy slogans that have characterized the U.S. government's public posture. Adapting themes from classic Cold War deterrence theory, these strategists have expanded the field of battle in order to disrupt jihadist networks in ever more creative ways.

Eric Schmitt is one of the most experienced reporters in the country covering the Pentagon, national security issues, and covert operations. No stranger to controversy and reporting on difficult stories, he was sent by The New York Times to evaluate the material offered up by WikiLeaks and negotiate with their leader, Julian Assange.

Schmitt is a terrorism correspondent for The New York Times and has embedded with troops in Iraq, Somalia, and Pakistan. Schmitt has twice been a member of Times reporting teams that were awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Thom Shanker, a Pentagon correspondent for the Times, routinely spends time embedded with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Shanker was formerly a foreign editor and correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, based in Moscow, Berlin, and Sarajevo.

Books will be available for purchase.

RSVP: juliehirano@berkeley.edu

Pamela Constable
Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself

When: Tuesday, September 20,  6:00 PM

Where:
North Gate Hall Library

A volatile nation at the heart of major cultural, political, and religious conflicts in the world today, Pakistan commands our attention. Yet more than six decades after the country’s founding as a Muslim democracy, it continues to struggle over its basic identity, alliances, and direction. In Playing with Fire, acclaimed journalist Pamela Constable peels back layers of contradiction and confusion to shed light on modern Pakistan.

Pamela Constable, a frequent visitor to the Berkeley campus, is a foreign correspondent and former deputy foreign editor at The Washington Post. Since 1998, she has reported extensively from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India as well as Iraq. Before joining the Post in 1994, she was a foreign correspondent and foreign policy reporter for The Boston Globe, where she covered South and Central America for a decade, focusing on Chile and Haiti, as well as parts of Asia and the former Soviet Union. Constable is author of Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia and co-author of A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet.

Books will be available for purchase.


"Disengaged: Elite Media in a Vernacular Nation"
A Conversation with J-School Senior Lecturer Bob Calo

When:  Tuesday, September 27,  5:00 PM

Where: North Gate Hall Library

Join Senior Lecturer Bob Calo in a conversation about the demographic, cultural and political roots of audience disengagement. He'll be talking about his recent article as a Shorenstein Center Goldsmith Fellow, at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in the Spring 2011: "Disengaged: Elite Media in a Vernacular Nation".

Journalists tend to regard the "crisis in journalism" as something that happened to them, and not anything they did. It was the Internet that jumbled the informational sensitivities of their readers, corporate ownership that raised suspicions about our editorial motives, the audience itself that lacked the education or perspective to appreciate the work. Yet, 40 years of polling is clear about one thing: The decline in trust and the uneasiness of the audience with the profession and its product started well before technology began to shred the conventions of the media. If we fail to examine our part in the collapse of trust, no amount of digital re-imagining or niche marketing is going to restore our desired place in the public conversation.

Mission Arts Performance Project and KALW event, THIS Saturday, Aug 6, 6pm, SF

Some familiar names on the list of performers for this event – sounds like it will be a great show! Don't miss it. Details below.

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STORIES FROM THE BAY

Time:
Saturday, August 6th
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: 
The Secret Garden – El Jardin Secreto, on Harrison St. between 23rd and 24th
Join us at MAPP (Mission Arts Performance Project) for an evening of funny, moving, and surprising stories from around the Bay – curated by KALW 91.7FM Local Public Radio. This special evening will feature spoken word storytellers, radio producers, digital media artists, and musicians. Come and get the chance to share your story with KALW as well! We’ll be recording first-person stories, which we might just put on air…
Performers Include:
Martina Castro, KALW

Julie Caine, Independent Radio Producer
Ali Budner, KALW
Sophia Simon-Ortiz, Independent Radio Producer
Chris Colin, Writer and former Salon editor

And more…
With music by San Francisco musician Jeremy Rourke.

Looking for LA-based Indies for new public affairs program

For you LA-based radio folks – a great opportunity to work on a new project with radio legend Jim Russell. Exciting stuff!
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I am looking for talented LA-based Indies who might like to work on a pilot for Town Hall Los Angeles. We're reinventing a public affairs program, needing to give it life, surprise, energy and coverage of the incredible diversity that is Los Angeles. Town Hall LA thinks civic engagement is essential, but it doesn’t think public affairs have to be boring. Especially in a megalopolis like Los Angeles, where Hollywood, politics, money, 120 languages, cultures and palates all collide to create one of the most energetic and exciting places in the world. If you are an experienced radio producer who wants to show off your skill and creativity, email me at jim@programdoctor.com with your background and a link to an audio sample of your best work.


Jim Russell
The Program Doctor

2011 CA Documentary Project grants

This org has funded some brilliant projects in the past. Deadline is Oct 3 for the latest round of funding. Go for it!

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2011 CA Documentary Project

Grants for film, radio and new media

Deadline October 3, 2011

 

The California Documentary Project (CDP) is a competitive grant program of the California Council for the Humanities (CCH). CDP supports the research and development, production, and public engagement stages of film, radio, and new media projects that document the California experience and explore issues of significance to Californians. Projects must approach subject matter from a humanities perspective; enhance our understanding of California and its cultures, peoples and histories; and be suitable for California and national audiences.

 

Eligible projects may apply for research and development funding up to $7,000, film or radio production funding up to $50,000, or new media production funding up to $20,000.

 

Please see www.calhum.org for more information.