“Arthur’s Harp” author David Cicerone’s solo visual art exhibit

 

David is leaving the country for an English teaching position in South Korea and would like to take this last opportunity for awhile to show his visual art within the United States. I encourage you to stop in to peruse the work of this young gentleman with a Beat-infused sensibility 😉  

From David Cicerone:

This exhibition is being put on by the local art collective Heart of Chaos and will feature about twenty or so of my works. If you would like to come out and view or possibly buy some works, please do.
 
The exhibit will run from May 4 to May 30th. The opening reception will be on the second Friday of the month, May 8th, from 6-8 PM.
 
Here is the address:
Gardner Community Center
520 W Virginia Street, San Jose, California 95125
Cost: FREE

Benefit opportunity May 14th for musicians of all shapes and styles in San Francisco

Thursday, May 14, 2009
Time:
2:00pm – 6:00pm
Location:
United Nations Plaza>> Fountain Side
Street:
1150 Market St
Email:

Musicians of all types sought to play a free community benefit concert…public San Francisco location, great chance for exposure.

Event hosted by San Francisco community groups, including Food not Bombs/Curry without Worry, which seek to promote sustainable solutions to hunger. Taking place alongside San Francisco State’s Human Rights Summit to support the goals of that event…and sponsored by organizer Krystal Blue (find her on Facebook or via the email above.)
The purpose of the Never Ending Peace And Love (NEPAL) community event is to gather those passing by, students, workers, city employees, and all people to bring out a sense of community to the UN Plaza.

I would like to have the event in conjunction with San Francisco State University’s 6th Annual Human Rights Summit, in order to raise awareness of justices, injustices, and most of all, the humanity we all share.

Human Rights include the right to food, education, health, and well being. It is my goal to include all aspects of true Human Rights within the day’s festivities.

On this day: music, street theatre, open mic- poetry slam, interactive art, the craft fair, Curry Without Worry, Food Not bombs will be the basis to invite our willingness to human rights and Never Ending Peace And Love.

Global Affairs – Spain-based international relations journal seeks article submissions for June issue

 

Global Affairs International Newsmagazine (a Spanish journal of international relations for academics and other interested people) seeks well-written, well-documented and researched articles on any topics having to do with world current affairs. I’ve reposted their call to submissions and the topics in which they are most interested this month in this post…please feel free to email with any questions and to check out www.globalaffairs.es (English translation available onsite.) They’re great people, very professional and friendly.

 

Dear members,

For next Issue of Global Affairs (Issue 15) we are particularly interested in the following topics:

– Moldavia: closer to the EU, far from Communism?
– North Korea and nuclear weapons
– Cuba and the USA: improving relations?
– Thailand protests and the government action
– Hamas and situation in Gaza
– Iran and its political future
– Afghanistan and the control of the area
– Elections in South Africa
– Pakistan, the border and nuclear weapons
– Elections in Lebanon
– USA-Iran relations

Please if you are interested in writing an article regarding the topics send an email to eva.diez@globalaffairs.es

If you are interested in proposing another topic please let me know to eva.diez@globalaffairs.es

Best Regards,

Eva Diez

UC Davis environmental festival seeks recycled material donations for kids…also Canvas Ghosts of San Jose open to submissions for juried art show!

Announcement from my alma mater, UC Davis, which hosts an annual art/music/cultural/social justice/environmental festival called the Whole Earth Festival every Mother’s Day weekend. They’re looking for recyclable donations for their children’s activity center, Kidspace…announcement below.
Party people!  What up!

This year Kids Space will be creating an ongoing paper mache project throughout the festival, radical!  But in order for it to actually happen I need all of you to be kind enough to donate some trash/recycle bin items for the cause.  Thanks for making WEF the iriest event around!
Please start saving your:
cereal boxes
toilet paper rolls
egg cartons
strawberry baskets
any other throw away/recycle things with a good surface for placing wet pieces of newspaper on

also, if you have an abundance of kid friendly paint or paint brushes that you would be willing to donate to Kids Space I will be majorly stoked!
Catch y’all, thanks again,
Dan
*If you are near Davis, CA you may feel free to bring items by the Kidspace tent on the Quad (UC Davis campus lawn area, central campus near the Memorial Union.) Ask anyone on campus – One Shields Avenue – and they can direct you to Kidspace or leave them in the main Whole Earth Festival tent.
Next announcement…juried art show, call for submissions!
Canvas Ghost Productions in San Jose, CA seeks artists to produce two dimensional visual pieces related to the theme of “Allusions/Illusions.” As far as I know there is no residency requirement or entrance fee for this show…the deadline for submission of email images/the submission form is September 1, 2009 and the art drop-off date is October 3rd.
The show will be held October 10th at 992 South 8th Street, San Jose, CA. The South Bay has a thriving art scene, although quirky at times…and I’d love to see it get more publicity!
More information is available on their website: http://www.canvasghost.com/October_2009_Show.html