From countercorp-news at countercorp.org Wed Sep 24 19:07:50 2008 From: countercorp-news at countercorp.org (CounterCorp News and Events List) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:07:50 -0700 Subject: [CounterCorp] This Saturday: Visit CounterCorp @ 9th Expo for Independent Arts Message-ID: Dear CounterCorp supporter, CounterCorp would like to invite any of our supporters in the San Francisco Bay area to visit us our table at the 9th Annual Expo for Independent Arts, which takes place this Saturday at Dolores Park (18th and Dolores Streets) from 11:00am-6:00pm. CounterCorp will be among a HUGE number of fellow exhibitors, including: Arts Providers' Alliance of San Francisco Center for Cultural Innovation Creativity Support Intersection for the Arts Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives SCRAP -- Scroungers' Center for Reusable Art Parts Theatre Bay Area (and TAO: Teaching Artists Organized) Aiko Designs angelcake accessories Bahama Kangaroo Bamboo, Bugs, and Bodies The Girl and Rhino Hershman Glass Studios Jewelry Design Joso Vidal shell jewelry Never Never Designs Priscilla's Parasols qUirkFACTORY Shawn Rowland, Rachel Michaelsen (photography, dollmaking) Siya Clothing Stanimation Productions Stephen Bray Photography Unspokn (Art Drives Dialogue) Wen and Jamie Creations Cataclysmic Megashear Ranch Studios LeftSide: Skate Culture + Advocacy Manilatown Heritage Foundation, Manilatown Center ME'D1.ATE NETWORK NIMBY Paths of Native Africa Planet Drum Foundation Rock Paper Scissors Collective San Francisco Vegetarian Society Brush Fire Painting Workshops California Institute of Integral Studies The DJ Project Fashion Arts & Youth Enterprises Interplay/Body Wisdom McCaig Welles and Rosenthal Gallery San Francisco Children's Art Center San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Families Program San Francisco Women Artists ShovelfaceArt.com/Vernon the Gardner Trash Mash-up Women's Audio Mission World Savvy: Global Youth Media & Arts African/African Diaspora Film Society CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival Exiled in America: Iraqi Refugees in California Haiku Films ITVS Community Cinema, Bay Area Middle Path Media Oddball Film + Video SF IndieFest San Francisco Media Archive San Francisco Women's Film Festival Tents: A Darfur Documentary 924 Gilman Street Project Alternative Tentacles Records Byron Au Yon (Composer) Classical Revolution Community Music Center Esaul: Ambient & Experimental Music Gamelan Sekar Jaya KFJC 89.7 FM KALX 90.7 FM Mission Creek Music Festival Mount Vicious San Francisco Civic Symphony San Francisco Chamber Orchestra San Francisco Conservatory of Music San Francisco Symphony The Bay Bridged Axis Dance Company Casting Connection CounterPULSE Dancer's Group The LAB Z Space Studio Art XX Magazine Eth6 The Fabulist Funcheap.com Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged Instant City / Dublit Joey Sayers Comics Re/Search Publications Tea Party Magazine Thrillist White Fungus Magazine (from New Zealand!) And that's just a *partial* list that doesn't include the free performances, workshops, and food vendors! For a more complete listing and detailed information about this year's Expo for Independent Arts, visit the Expo webpage: http://artsandmedia.net/expo/. Please stop by and say hi if you're at the Expo, where we should have a complete listing of films at this year's Anti-Corporate Film Festival -- which we'll be announcing on this list before the Expo, so stay tuned -- as well as some information about upcoming CounterCorp programs and events. Look forward to seeing you at the park and hopefully at this year's Festival, John Wilner Director CounterCorp: Putting An End to Business as Usual 3rd Annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival, Oct. 15-17 Brava Theater Center, San Francisco www.countercorp.org Subscribe to CounterCorp's News and Events e-mail list at http://list.countercorp.org/mailman/listinfo/countercorp-news Get the latest CounterCorp event details on your computer/ iPod: webcal://icalx.com/public/CounterCorp/CounterCorp.ics Subscribe to CounterCorp's "Corporation Watch" e-mail list: For more information, visit http://www.corporationwatch.org Donate to CounterCorp by selecting us on the drop-down menu at https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?id=695 From countercorp-news at countercorp.org Fri Sep 26 20:58:16 2008 From: countercorp-news at countercorp.org (CounterCorp News and Events List) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:58:16 -0700 Subject: [CounterCorp] 2008 Anti-Corporate Film Festival program Message-ID: Dear CounterCorp supporter, Well, it's that time again: time for the annual CounterCorp International Anti-Corporate Film Festival! This year's Festival, our third consecutive year, takes place at a new venue, but picks up where last year?s Festival left off, with a program of films that explore the already unprecedented and still growing influence that corporations have on our daily lives, local communities, the global environment, and human culture and psychology. The 2008 CounterCorp Festival features three nights of documentary and "narrative" (fictional) features, short films, panel discussions, audience Q&As, and post-screening events. The Festival program is listed below, and on the CounterCorp website (www.countercorp.org ). We will be adding details such as the exact times of the films, the names and affiliations of our panel speakers, trailers for most of the films, and links to buy tickets online to the website in the coming week. To get all of the latest announcements and information on the Festival and other CounterCorp events and programs automatically updated on your computer or iPhone/iPod calendar, subscribe to our self-updating e-calendar: webcal://icalx.com/public/CounterCorp/CounterCorp.ics . Here's the film program for this year?s Anti-Corporate Film Festival. Please note that the first "block" each day begins at 7:00pm, and the second block begins at 9:00pm (the actual film times will be listed on the website): Wednesday, Oct. 15 -- Theme: Food "Growing Awareness" -- Critiques the corporate-controlled and government-subsidized global food system, and examines a more sustainable alternative: small, organic, local farms. Opening night film: "The World According to Monsanto" -- Documents the devastating cost of Monsanto?s efforts to genetically engineer and patent the world?s crops. Thursday, Oct. 16: Theme: Oil "The True Cost of Oil" -- A program of short films dealing with the costs in human lives, suffering, and systemic poverty from Western corporate oil exploitation in Africa and beyond. "Justicia Now!" (Justice Now) -- Documents ChevronTexaco?s toxic legacy in Ecuador?s Amazon rainforest, and the courageous group of people called Los Afectados ("The Affected Ones") who seek justice for the ensuing cancer, sickness, and death in the largest environmental class action lawsuit in history. Friday, Oct. 16: Theme: Corporate Culture "The Big Sellout" -- Reveals the reality of the worldwide privatization of basic public services such as water, electricity, transportation, and healthcare in South America, Asia, Africa, and also in Europe and the United States. Closing Night Film: "Visioneers" (pending confirmation) -- A black comedy about a man struggling to maintain his sanity amidst the absurd conformity and blissful comfort of the largest and most profitable corporation in the history of mankind: the Jeffers Corporation. There's only one drawback: Unhappy Jeffers employees seem to be spontaneously exploding ... Starring rising comic star Zach Galifianakis (Comedy Central, "Into the Wild", and many other TV shows and films). We hope you can make it to at least one of the films at this year's Festival, but even if you can't (or in the meantime) we need your help to get the word out and help promote the CounterCorp Festival and -- more importantly -- the issues and perspectives the Festival is all about. So please help us spread the word by telling your friends, family, colleagues, acquaintances, and people you don't know (but might like to) about, as well as posting information about it on e-mail lists, blogs, and social networking websites you visit. Without a huge outreach budget, CounterCorp depends on YOU to be our "vectors of change" ... Thanks as always for all your help and support -- we couldn't do ANY of this without you! See you at the Festival, John Wilner Director CounterCorp: Putting An End to Business as Usual 3rd Annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival, Oct. 15-17 Brava Theater Center, San Francisco www.countercorp.org Get the latest CounterCorp event details on your computer/ iPod: webcal://icalx.com/public/CounterCorp/CounterCorp.ics Subscribe to CounterCorp's "Corporation Watch" e-mail list: For more information, visit http://www.corporationwatch.org Donate to CounterCorp by selecting us on the drop-down menu at https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?id=695