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Crafty Style Gala Sat April 5 8-11:30
( events » arts ) Craft Con and Pandora's Trunk present
Saturday, April 5 8-11:30pm
Crafty Style Gala
Urban Art Farm SF
1345A 17th St @ Connecticut
MUNI 19/22/T
craftcon.org/gala
Live Music - Cake and Sake - Live Art
$4 formalwear or costume / ...
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event starts Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Craft Con April 4-6 SF - a business development conference for the craft community!
( events » other ) I am planning and hosting a conference here in San Francisco for April 4-6 called Craft Con. It is a business development conference for the craft community. I have been fielding phone calls from stranger and stranger places and I look forward t...
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event starts Friday, April 4, 2008 - 4:00 PM
Funk n Trunk March 19 5-8pm
( events » arts ) Vessel, the Grant Building Designers and Nicole Presents...
Funk n' Trunk
Wed, March 19, 2008
5pm - 8pm
The Funk n' Trunk show is back after a one year hiatus! We're still featuring the best in local designs for men and women. We've moved ...
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event starts Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 5:00 PM
This week is a crazy week, and it's only monday! We are only three weeks away and counting down from Craft Con, the business conference I am hosting here in SF this April 4-6. Meanwhile I've been keeping busy by planning for these two good times:
Vessel, the Grant Building Designers and Nicole Presents...
Funk n' Trunk
Wed, March 19, 2008
5pm - 8pm
The Funk n' Trunk show is back after a one year hiatus! We're still featuring the best in local designs for men and women. We've moved our event to happy hour at Vessel, a brand new luxury boutique lounge in the heart of Union Square! Every 3rd Wednesday of the month, join us for a drink, order some gourmet hors d'oeuvres and see the most hip, fresh and innovative clothing designs, accessories and jewelry in San Francisco! Support your local designers. Cash and checks accepted. Full bar, food and drink specials. 5pm - 8pm, but you can stay for Vessel's club night afterward.
Vessel
85 Campton Place
betw Grant and Stockton, Post and Sutter
and
Opel VI
Saturday March 22nd
10pm-4am @ Temple
540 Howard & 2nd
www.opelproductions.com/archiv...237.php
The party: Opel was born from a desire to fuse the values of the intentional parties of the underground, with the talent and production assets of the overground. It was also designed to be a party infused with consciousness, in which the gathering is a vehicle to build community, plant seeds of hope and social change, and nudge us to look inward to grow and challenge our own pain and fear that prevents us from fully living. So it shall be.
What: Bead, Button and Material Swap
Where: Pandora's Trunk, 544 Haight St (btw Fillmore and Steiner)
When: Sunday Feb 17th, 1pm to 4pm
Why: Because we love to share
come come come
xx
Pandora's Trunk
pandorastrunk.com
This weekend brings a special opportunity to celebrate
the opening of a sustainable local art & design space,
Pandora's Trunk. This shop turns retail on its head
with a visual and interactive experience you won't
want to miss!
PANDORA'S TRUNK
grand opening party
Saturday, December 8th
6 -10pm
544 haight btw steiner/fillmore
www.pandorastrunk.com
Meet the Artists:
Alfonso Kellenberger * Architect G * Dida Jewelry *
Fati Beloved * Medium Reality * Miranda Caroligne *
Missing Piece * Nome Edonna * Onerary * Rachel Jordana
Jewelry * Swirlspace
Live Music:
BYOInstruments for an interactive jam at 7pm!
***
Circus Clownery featuring members of the Hobo
Gobbelins
accordion, ukulele and juggling feats!
www.myspace.com/hobogobbelins***
Jesse Wilson on guitar
She is also our visiting artist this month, showing
paintings in the front window!
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moman
www.asiwouldsay.com
***
TOTTER
"TT of Heavyweight Dub Champion & Cochrane Mcmillan"
www.myspace.com/tottermusic
Free drinks and edibles:
BYOCup to reduce waste!
Catered by Sterling
Interactive activities & antics galore!
Had fun at one of our events in the past but can't make it out for this one? Please forward this listing on to anyone who you think might be interested - we'd love to meet your friends!
This morning i woke up slowly to a silent house. Today was different than what has become usual - the last week is a fog of hauling myself weary out of early bed, slinging my overalls heavy with tools across my shoulders, and heading off towards the hardware store with two notebooks under my arm, plans buzzing in my head and the cell phone already ringing. Today I let myself sleep in. When I woke up, i fed the dog and we walked out into the sunny and strangely quiet day so i could buy a packet of tobacco and an ice cream sandwich. What a great holiday. What a great life.
This simple joy led me back, even in my momentary vacation state, to thinking about the American disease of plenty and the way we are all trained to seek out excess as a way of life. Seeking to sell my work and entering a world of commerce so fully has only served to sever me from the idea of monetary value. This is of value, this peace, this time. Everything else is just a dance, being clever.
We are throwing a party on Buy Nothing Day, also known in the retail industry as Black Friday - it's the single biggest shopping day of the year. We'll be installing artwork and stocking indie fashion into our newly constructed store (made out of almost all salvaged materials and elbow grease) and would love to show you our work and talk about the store - but if you want to buy something you'll have to come back Saturday. It's Buy Nothing Day!
It's a strange way to enter the retail community but we are excited about the effort.
Pandora's Trunk
art/design retail cooperative
544 Haight St between Steiner and Fillmore
11am-8pm
closed tuesdays
Buy Nothing Day 12-8 Friday Nov 23
Opening Day 11-8 Saturday Nov 24
www.flickr.com/photos/rac...0024368658/In progress pictures of pandora's trunk construction, more to come.
It's amazing how fast the project has come together, and how many hands are now pitching in to heave forwards towards the opening. The list of things to be done never really ends but the list of loving acts of construction and kindness is growing to match.
Be well.
come by.
say hi.
Rachel
San Francisco's Eighth Annual Expo for the Artist and Musician
and
Pandora's Trunk Show, a bi-monthly eclectic arts showcase
bring you
an Arts and Media Discussion Salon and Reception
CELLspace (2050 Bryant)
Thursday Sept. 13 7:30-10:30pm
free admission - free drinks and snacks
This salon is conceived and structured to allow the Expo's participating artists and their greater community to interact in a discussion-oriented setting. We will be examining the relationship between non-profit and for-profit endeavors in the arts and media worlds and beyond. Panels will include Melissa Alexander, new Executive Director of Black Rock Arts Foundation, Miranda Caroligne, local fashion firecracker and neophyte author, and Marie Kare, marketing genius behind indie craft sweetbox The Sampler ( homeofthesampler.com).
In addition to the central discussion and panels there will be:
***"Hidden Histories" - An art exhibit that encourages the community to explore the various ways that space and place reveal themselves in San Francisco. The installation offers info on bicycle and self-guided tours and events in the city, to provide the public with a point of departure and the inspiration embark on an exploration of San Francisco's unique urban landscape.
***CELLspace information session - This valuable community resource is facing huge cutbacks and threats to its programming. In the midst of a discussion on how we can sustainably fund the arts, get breaking news straight from the underground on what's happening with this great, art, performance, and community workshop space.
***live music performance
***sewing workshop in the loft
for more information:
pandorastrunk.com
artsandmedia.net/expocellspace.org
about me
I am a professional artist - working to make a living making art and clothes working with sustainable and recycled materials. You can see my work at mediumreality.com. You can read about the arts/fashion parties i throw around San Francisco pandorastrunk.com. You can read the blog that I keep about running my own arts business at mediumreality.blogspot.com.
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