Project Art Bridge Blog

This Friday is our first main event. Here is a letter that went out to all the participants. Location is deleted so as to require signup as a participant to be invited to attend the event.

Hello Project Art Bridge Participants,                            

I will cover 4 things in this email:

1. -November 2nd’s meeting, 3 things to bring, the schedule of  the night, how to get here.
2. -Email failure - request for confirmation from you having received this email.
3. -List of participants attending Nov. 2nd.
4. -Mapquest link showing my address

 

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1- November 2nd.Friday, November 2nd at 6:30, we will be meeting on Potrero Hill in SanFrancisco. This is my home and studio. These are the 3 things to bring:                   

A- Bring one piece of art to hang, lean or place in my studio. My open studio just happened this last weekend and the space is all clean and beautiful. I have great lighting. We will have a  mini show for ourselves.

B - Bring a dish to share.

C - Bring a presentation of your art (or art of who you arerepresenting) in digital or slide format if it is visual. Because there will be roughly 15 artists showing work, let’s keep ourpresentations to 10 minutes or less. We will have a digital projectorwhich can be attached to a lap top. The laptop will be a Macintosh. We can also visit websites during the presentation. We will also havea slide projector set up. Please let me know what type of presentation you will be bringing. My husband Richard will be helping get the presentations set up so we can have a smooth viewing. At the bottom of this email (before the mapquest link) you will see the list of people coming and what they are showing or how they are participating. Not everyone is an artist but some will work on the project in ways that are inspiring to them.

D - The evening of November 2nd will go like this: 6:30 - People arrive and place or hang their one piece of art work in Nancy’s studio. This is on the first floor of her house. Someone will be there to help with this and take your dish of food to share, from you hands and put on the table upstairs. You can hand over your presentation and this will be put at the projection area. Name tags will be available. I would like people to put their name and how theyare participating, on the tag. This will help to start conversations. Upstairs we will have our potluck and chat. We can walk downstairs or stay upstairs with our plates of food and look at the works and chat and get to know each other.

7:30 - the chairs will be arranged upstairs to face theprojection screen. We will take turns showing-sharingourpresentations. 

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2- EMAIL FAILURE OR SUCCESS, PLEASE CONFIRM (Richard forget this part) I sent a group email on October 19th. Some of you did not receive this email. I fear that it may be going into your bulk or spam folders . The email was from this address, but because I had around 29 email addresses on this one email, that may be a flag for sending it to the bulk/spam folders. So I will try again on this address but send to individuals and not the list. Please let me know if you get this email and also if you got the one from Oct.19th. Look in your spam/bulk folders if you didn’t get the October 19th email. This will help me enormously to see if I need to get another system going. If I have time before the meeting on November 2nd I will set up a list serve with yahoo. Also Sarbjit, one of the participants, will be setting up a Myspace page which has some bells and whistles that will keep everyone informed. She has some great ideas for keeping us connected and spreading our news. 

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3 - LIST OF PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING NOV.2nd         

1. Sundus Abdul Hadi – painter, representing her art as well as her sister’s and mother’s art (Jordan), Montreal Canada
2. Halla Ayla - painted photographs from the Middle East, Mill Valley
3. Suzy Barnard - oil painter, San Francisco
4. Dina Aljuburi - representing her sister’s work Safa Aljuburi (Baghdad), Pleasanton
5. Margo Majewska - drawing and design, she is preparing a powerpoint of Iraqi artists who live out of the country and cannot attend, San Francisco
6. Mary Swanson - field sketch artist, secretary during event San Francisco
7. Sidnea D’amico - painter, San Francisco
8. Nahda Bala – Bay Area
9. Amal Almuddlall -painted fabric, Bay Area
10. Sarbjit Rai – painter-poet, San francisco
11. Zina Fattah - glass painter, Bay Area
12. Christine Nicklos – drawing, San Francisco
13. Nancy Rodger – painter, San Francisco
14. Dalia – Bay Area
15. Judith Sandoval – community organizer - photographer, San Francisco (bringing photo CD and statement)
16. Summer Shapiro – clown theater, San Francisco
17. Jennifer Clarke – oragnizational Leader – San Francisco
18. Vic Zikoor – AACC VP/Arab TV Director
19. Sherry Abrams –editor , San Francisco
20. Dima Almoamin – translator_teacher, Monterey
21. Richard Shapiro – tech, San Francisco
22. Susu Attar – San Francisco
23. Amber Hill –flow during event, San Francisco
24. Nancy Spangler –flow during event, San Francisco
25. Sarah McKnight – artist, San Francisco
26. Marjorie Hill

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Remember to reply to me to confirm the receipt of this email (and the Oct.19th email) and any questions or concerns that you have.

Nancy Rodger

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