Everyone here is invited to Synchronized Chaos Magazine’s anniversary party and networking mixer for those interested in the arts, creative writing, journalism, nonprofit management/entrepreneurship. We’re getting together next Friday, August 28th, in Castro Valley at Knudsen’s Ice Creamery – drop-in anytime from 5 to 10 pm.

This is a reception for our artists, writers, musicians, and featured community and world leaders, as well as a networking and celebration event for all of us. Lots of eclectic flavors of ice cream (including dairy-free options) available, as well as hot sandwiches and cider.

We have a Facebook page for the event, or you may simply email cedeptula@sbcglobal.net to RSVP – or just show up! Please call me at 510-589-8252 for directions…the Creamery’s website is here: http://www.icecreamery.net/

The Center for the Arts Gallery, 314 Main Street, Grass Valley, CA 95945 is accepting entries through September 19th for their annual juried exhibit.

You may contact chairperson Karen Koklich at vkoklich@comcast.net or http://www.pioneerart.com and the juror will be Jerianne Van Dijk. Congratulations to David Mooney, whose painting High Altar, Winchester Cathedral won best of show last year.

Reception will be November 15th from 1 pm to 3 pm.

–Craigslist posting I came across today from someone seeking a creative and business partnership. This kind of networking is what Synchronized Chaos is designed to help facilitate, so please feel free to submit requests such as these for your own endeavours.

From Lisa of Looking/Listening Graphic Design, reachable at http://www.lookinglistening.com/contact/ or comm-8qvdx-1327450955@craigslist.org

Let me make clear that this is a call for web technology people who’d like to talk about partnering with me, a graphic artist, in bidding on websites. I am not hiring anyone, sorry, and I am probably needing work as badly as you are. That said, I am a designer, not a techie. I don’t know html, css or any of the backend skills. These days, people want the whole enchilada, front and back, from one vendor. If you are lacking in the design area and like my work (online portfolio: http://www.lookinglistening.com), have professional experience and excellent communication skills (qualities I bring to the table) let’s talk about what we could cook up. If we have the right mix we can go after bids together, or use each other’s skills when one of gets a project on their own.

Optimistically yours, Lisa

Announcement from Shenandoah Publications for anyone who has written a book with Christian-type themes:

Have you written a Christian book? Have you found out how expensive advertising can be? Shenandoah Publications will give you free advertisement on our web site. Go to: www lifesanswersstudygroups com and click on Book Submissions, (You will find it at about the middle of the page) to find out how you can receive free advertisement on our site.

Call for submissions, deadline September 28, 2009. Jack Kerouac Poetry Contest, held in conjunction with the Davis Jazz Artists Festival.

Winners of this contest will be given the opportunity to publish their work, which will be featured in the next issue of the Blue Moon Literary and Art Review. This contest is held in conjunction with the Davis Jazz Artists Festival, Beyond the Beat Generation, and sponsored by the John Natsoulas Center for the Arts.

For more information on the guidelines for submitting poetry and on the Jazz Artists/Beyond the Beat Generation events, please visit www.davisjazz.com or www.natsoulas.com – or call 530-756-3938.

The French term Trompe L’Oeil literally means ‘deception of the eye.’ It is a genre that requires incredible technical skill, along with knowledge of perspective, contrast and trickery. These illusions, whether serious or playful, allow the viewer to perceive art and nature through a different perspective. In the 1960’s, distinguished ceramic artists such as Marilyn Levine, Richard Shaw, and Victor Spinski began further experimenting with Trompe L’Oeil in ceramics by transforming clay into leather, metal, wood, plastic, glass or steel and creating found objects, banal if by themselves but gaining significance and intrigue when combined with other quotidian clay-created found objects.

We are looking for artists practicing in any medium to submit work before October 15, 2009 to be considered for the group catalog.

Email submissions Attention Trompe L’Oeil to art@natsoulas.com

The John Natsoulas Gallery

521 1st St.

Davis, California 95616

United States

http://www.natsoulas.com

530-756-3938