[CounterCorp] NEXT Saturday, Sept. 26: Arts Expo and Benefit Screening of "Crude"

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Dear CounterCorp supporters,

	We're thrilled to announce our first 2009 events since the 4th Annual  
Anti-Corporate Film Festival last May. Coincidentally, both of them  
take place on Saturday, Sept. 26 -- the 10th Annual Expo for  
Independent Arts in Golden Gate Park during the day, and a benefit  
screening of the powerful new film "Crude: The Real Price of Oil"  
later that night. Read on for more details ...

1) THE TENTH ANNUAL EXPO FOR INDEPENDENT ARTS -- This is *the* blow- 
out, San Francisco grassroots arts event of the year, and takes place  
on the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park (last year it was in  
Dolores Park, but it's gotten too big) from 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. In  
addition to over 200 exhibitors (see a partial list at the bottom of  
this e-mail), the Expo also includes a performance showcase, a live  
art exhibition called the Four Corners Mural Project, and a sculpture  
garden. The list of performances includes:

11:00	Bawdy Storytelling			Readings
11:30	Raging Grannies			Music
12:00	Circus Bella				Juggling
  1:00		W. Coast Accordion Babes		Music
  1:30		Axis Dance				Dance
  2:00		Rad Dad & Pamtastic			Readings
  2:30		Temple of Poi				Poi spinning
  3:00		Irina Rivkin				Folk music
  3:30		Dancers Group				Performance
  4:00		Gay Jitterbug				Dance Lesson
  4:30		Jesse & The Man Cougars		Music
  5:00		Bunny Pistol				Burlesque

	The Golden Gate Park Music Concourse is between the DeYoung Museum  
and the Academy of Science, a short walk from the N-Judah Muni train  
and the 5 Fulton, 6 Parnassus, 43 Masonic, 44 O'Shaughnessy and 71  
Haight bus lines. Paid parking is also available. Stop by the  
CounterCorp booth to say hi and buy a t-shirt if you don't already  
have one!


2) BENEFIT SCREENING CO-PRESENTATION: "Crude: The Real Price of Oil"  
-- CounterCorp is honored to be co-presenting the San Francisco  
theatrical premiere of the new documentary film"Crude" on Saturday,  
Sept. 26 at 9:00+* at the Lumiere Theater, 1572 California Street (at  
Polk Street) in San Francisco. [* The exact time of the screening  
hasn't been announced yet, but will be on Monday afternoon.]

	Three years in the making, "Crude" is an epic story of one of the  
largest and most controversial legal dramas in history, which has the  
potential of forever changing the way international business is  
conducted, set against a backdrop of global politics, human rights  
advocacy, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing  
indigenous habitats and culture. While the environmental impact of the  
consumption of fossil fuels has been increasingly documented in recent  
years, the films focuses on the human cost of our addiction to oil and  
the increasingly difficult task of holding a major corporation  
accountable for its past deeds.

	The landmark case pits 30,000 indigenous and colonial inhabitants of  
the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador against U.S. oil mega-corp Chevron.  
The plaintiffs charge that Chevron (corporate successor to Texaco,  
which it bought in 2001) spent three decades systematically  
contaminating one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth, poisoning  
the water, air, and land. This has created a "death zone" in an area  
the size of the Rhode Island, resulting in increased rates of cancer,  
leukemia, birth defects, and a multitude of other health ailments.  
Chevron claims the case is a complete fabrication by "environmental  
con men" seeking to line their pockets with the company's billions.

	Shooting in dozens of locations on three continents and in multiple  
languages, acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger ("Brothers Keeper",  
"Metallica: Some Kind of Monster") and his crew gained extraordinary  
access to players on all sides of the fight and beyond, capturing the  
drama that unfolded as the case grew from a little-known legal case to  
an international cause celebre.

	The case -- and the film -- have special relevance for the Bay Area,  
because Chevron is headquartered in nearby San Ramon, the site of  
numerous demonstrations over the past year (and in the coming year) as  
environmental and anti-corporate activists ramp up the pressure on  
Chevron to clean up its act -- both literally and figuratively.  
Director Joe Berlinger will be at the screening and will do a Q&A  
afterward. We also hope to announce another screening scheduled for  
October at the "Crude" screening.

	The 9:00+ screening on Saturday, Sept. 26 is a benefit for the 5th  
Annual CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival, which takes place in  
May 2010, and includes seating in a reserved section of the theater.  
PLEASE NOTE: To guarantee a reserved seat and support CounterCorp, you  
must buy your tickets either online at <www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82794 
 > or at the theater *from a CounterCorp representative* -- tickets  
purchased at the box office do NOT benefit CounterCorp. For more  
information, e-mail events at countercorp.org or call (415) 568-5739. We  
look forward to seeing you there!

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	Thanks as always for your support and participation in CounterCorp  
events -- we couldn't do any of this without you!


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PARTIAL LIST OF ARTS EXPO EXHIBITORS (by category)

	Artist Services

Adventures in Advertising / Fresh Ideas

Art Network

California Lawyers for the Arts

Center for Cultural Innovation

Dancers' Group

FullCalendar

FunCheapSF

Funksville

Mission: Comics & Art

Swankety Swank


	Community Arts

57th Street Gallery

AMIES

CELLspace

coffee bike!

The Lab

patchwerk press & Rock Paper Scissors Collective

priscilla's parasols

Raging Grannies Action League

Trash Mash-Up


	Media (audio/video/etc)

2MinuteFinance

The Art Institute of CA -- SF

CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival

DreamSchemeProductions

Friends of KUSF

IndyBay: San Francisco Independent Bay Area Media

KALX 90.7 FM

Newsdesk.org

Oddball Film+Video / San Francisco Media Archive

Planetwize.com

The Public Press

San Francisco Cinematheque

SF IndieFest

VisibleVoice: Visual Media Arts Education For Bay Area Youth

Women's Audio Mission

Women's Film Institute


	Literary Arts

16th & Mission Comix

Alameda County Equality Team

Bawdy Storytelling

Bay Area Independent Publishers Association

The Fabulist (Illuminated Media/Pharos Publications)

Manic D Press

New Village Press

PM Press

rad dad zine

RE/Search Publications

San Francisco Zine Fest


	Performing Arts

The Bay Bridged

center for unauthorized repairs

Circus Bella

Indie Abundance

Intersection for the Arts

ME'D1.ATE

mission creek music & arts festival

Rose Street Harmony Tours

San Francisco Chamber Orchestra

Songbird Festival

Temple of Poi


	Visual Arts

art xx magazine

Blackbird Photography

Flash Publications

Global Hobo

last gasp books

Lisa Maxwell Portraits

missfoghorn design

Precita Eyes Muralists

Paper Organics Jewelry

The Present Group

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

www.webtales.us

San Pancho Art Collective

Scrounger's Center for Re-Usable Art Parts (SCRAP)


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