B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over the unchecked spread of AIDS. The genre has grown to include an entire generation of queer artists, filmmakers, and activists. As a critic, curator, journalist, and scholar, Rich has been inextricably linked to the New Queer Cinema from its inception. This volume presents her new thoughts on the topic, as well as bringing together the best of her writing on the NQC. She follows this cinematic movement from its origins in the mid-1980s all the way to the present in essays and articles directed at a range of audiences, from readers of academic journals to popular glossies and weekly newspapers. She presents her insights into such NQC pioneers as Derek Jarman and Isaac Julien and investigates such celebrated films as Go Fish, Brokeback Mountain, Itty Bitty Titty Committee, and Milk. In addition to exploring less-known films and international cinemas (including Latin American and French films and videos), she documents the more recent incarnations of the NQC on screen, on the web, and in art galleries.

You already know it's past time for your organization to be mobile-friendly, but…where to start? Wendy will discuss some basics for how to improve your fundraising, marketing and advocacy on mobile. She'll describe strategies for mobile optimization of your nonprofit's website, email messages, and landing pages. She will share some examples of successful mobile makeovers, text-to-give campaigns, and social media strategies. And she'll tell you how to explain to your board that you don't need an app. This session will be most appropriate for attendees whose organizations are not yet using mobile; and for those who are primarily interested in fundraising. Presented by: Wendy Marinaccio is a Senior Account Executive with Donordigital, a nonprofit consulting firm based in Berkeley specializing in online fundraising, marketing, and advocacy.

The Fruitvale Día de los Muertos festival is one of the biggest and oldest festivals in the bay area- each year bringing more than 60,000- 80,000 people to enjoy vendors, music, dance and folkloric art, and to celebrate this great Latin American tradition. Are you interested in submitting a design?

So you write. And you read a lot. Would you like to explore a body, mind and spirit approach to your experience of writing? If you aspire to write stories to deeply move your readers, would you dare to take part in the creation of a new publication? Modern Scribes––by and about women who are creating change in our world––story by story.

Leonard Retel Helmrich (The Netherlands/Indonesia, 2001). Archival print! Leonard Retel Helmrich and Daniel L. Miller in Conversation. The fall of longtime ruler Suharto left Indonesia in turmoil; this remarkable documentary follows the changes through the eyes of an “ordinary” Jakarta family. Visionary, complex camera techniques add to this riveting film. (94 mins)

The San Francisco Northern California Regional Student Television Awards for excellence, which promotes best practices to high school students, is intended to be an incentive for the pursuit of excellence in television journalism and focus public attention on outstanding achievements in television produced by high school students. Faculty involvement can only be advisory.

The film portrays the ordinary citizens who did extraordinary things to save what are now the Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area from development, creating an 80 mile-long park that supports open space, recreation, agriculture and wildlife.

April 22nd 2013 is the last day for public comment for Keystone XL Pipeline’s Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), written in part by a TransCanada consultant.

An Understanding Collaboration overview, presented by Scott Ullman, Regional Training Coordinator, The Foundation Center-San Francisco. This overview will walk you through the basics of collaboration and provide you with: an understanding of why nonprofits are choosing collaboration knowledge on the range of collaboration options available a framework for the basic process steps in forging successful collaborative relationships action steps for further exploration This overview includes an introduction to the Nonprofit Collaboration Database, featuring resources that can put your organization on the path to successful collaborative partnerships. Part 2, 4:20-5:20: Patrick Soricone, Vice-President for Community Impact, United Way Silicon Valley will present successful examples of partnerships that have formed in the past few years. Local examples of collaboration will include: joint programming, mergers and administrative consolidations.

Gendered bodies are shaped and reshaped by contemporary information and biomedical technologies. While contemporary cultural debates center on whether technologies are moving us closer toward utopian or dystopian lives, the lived experiences of individuals point to complex and contradictory processes. In this talk, Eva Shapiro, explores whether and how new technologies are reshaping what it means to be a gendered person in contemporary society, and examine the complex intersections between gender ideologies, social scripts, information technologies, and embodied identities.

Join ACUDIR on April 23rd to tell the Alameda Board of Supervisors that S-Comm is anti-immigrant and does not reflect the values of Alameda County. Over 6,000 Alameda county residents have been detained and nearly 2,000 deported as a result of the county’s collaboration with S-comm. Join us to put an end to the police/ICE partnership. Demand that the county no longer participates in ICE’s harmful program!

Join leading community organizations and advocates in Sacramento and help ensure state policies and investments promote effective public transit, great walking and bicycling, and affordable homes. Together we will learn about the hottest issues from leaders like the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing Brian Kelly and leading advocates like James Corless of Transportation for America. We will hone our skills and messages in breakout sessions, and there is time for networking with advocates from your area, and from across the state.

The Maldives, a modern-day Atlantis, is sinking due to Climate Change. Join then-President, Mohamed Nasheed, on his epic and compelling journey to save his island nation from the rising sea. President Nasheed, who was forced from office in a coup d'état shortly after the film's release, risks everything to demand the world's attention. If nothing is done, the Maldives will sink within 20 years. Can he prevent this looming disaster? And how many nations face this fate?

As business and technology evolve over the next 10 what will our lives at work look like? With the shift from a traditional 9-5 work week, the focus on personal sustainability and health, the growth of telecommuting and contract workers, some interesting things expected in this space. Join organizational design practitioners and novices for an interactive night designing the Future of Work. Please see the article World of Work Will Witness 10 Changes During the Next 10 Years for inspiration and bring your own personal experiences to share. The evening will be unconference style; individuals can bring their own topics and the group will decide what the small groups will focus on. Scenario planning and design thinking tools will be used to brainstorm and map out ideas. A final document will be shared after the event so participants can take those ideas back to their place of work or for use in the future.

Join us for a “why-to” and “how-to” workshop on effective use of social media, video and crowdfunding to tell your story, increase supporters and utilize online fundraising. You will leave this workshop with a social media plan and a 60-second video story about your organization.

Join the Data Center for a critical dialogue on community-based research within indigenous and people of color communities worldwide. Decolonizing Knowledge will be a site for cultural survival, revitalization and sustainability. The event will recognize two singular moments in the struggle towards indigenous and research justice: The anniversary of the publication of Linda Smith's seminal work "Decolonizing Methodologies" and the 35th Anniversary of the Data Center. With Linda Tuhawai Smith, Michelle Fine and Andrew Jolivette.

Mark Trahant says he didn't leave daily journalism, it left him. The former editorial page editor was laid off when the Seattle Post Intelligencer folded its print edition in favor of a scaled-down online version. With no traditional jobs in sight, Trahant forged ahead in a career that combined his passion for news, history and social media. He has succeeded in building a thriving, multi-layered enterprise and has reached income near parity with his old job. During this interactive webinar he lays out some guidelines for creating your path and gives the nuts and bolts about how to structure your work and find new sources of income.

A variety of speakers on immigration, civil liberties, imperialism and economic inequality.

The San Francisco Global Vietnamese Film Festival is a biennial film and video showcase centering Vietnamese filmmakers in Việt Nam and the diaspora—an international vision reflecting a transnational reality. This year’s festival inaugurates, with a party, its 2013 showcase of filmmakers of Vietnamese descent. The Opening Night Gala, held on April 26 at Artists Television Access, offers you the chance to mix and mingle with filmmakers, film-lovers, spoken word performers, poets, and visual artists who’ve dropped by to celebrate northern California’s only Vietnamese-focused festival of films. Music, open mic, and refreshments provided by the festival’s host organization, Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network. $10. Please help DVAN celebrate the film festival’s launch—everyone loves a good beginning.

Calling all residents! Are you a Promoter, Developer, Marketer, Collaborator, and/ or Observer? It doesn't matter what role you fill. Your skills, passion, and enthusiasm are what we need to make a difference for the residents of Alameda County. Join us on April 27th, form a team, join a team or come alone. The choice is yours. Use technology, open data, participate, and collaborate to create your ACApp. Create a concept, web and/or mobile app that: Will benefit Alameda County residents, businesses and/or visitors and...Uses at least one of the data sets from Alameda County Open Data or create data about Alameda County. Yes, you can improve your local government and your community. You can make a difference!

SFWAR’s 8th Annual Walk Against Rape will be held on April 27th this year and will once again raise awareness about the need to end sexual violence in our community. The walk will start at The Women’s Building and will make its way through various parts of the Mission District. This walk is also a chance for participants to raise funds for SFWAR.

The goal of this (free) meetup group is to discuss nonprofit communications and outreach challenges, and brainstorm solutions.

Ready to change the world with a story? So are we. At TechSoup, we’re dedicated to providing your nonprofit, library, or charity with the resources it needs to tell its story. Participate in our interactive trainings to learn valuable production techniques, then create your own story to enter the challenge by April 30. How to Enter Create a short video (90 seconds max) or a five-image slide show Upload video to YouTube or slide show to Flickr Submit by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on April 30

Learn about field lighting in this 3-hour workshop. Very useful for shoots on location!

Join Oakland Sin Fronteras, organizers and community members as we march for May Day and demand just policies and conditions for im/migrants and workers.

At a time of heated and divisive debate over federal immigration policy, producers Eduardo López and Wendy Thompson-Marquez felt it was important to offer a rare and powerful glimpse into the enormous sacrifices and rarely-noted triumphs of the millions of Latino immigrants who are transforming the cultural and economic landscape of the nation.

Artist Mildred Howard discusses her artistic practice in response to an audio recording made during her residency at Headlands Center for the Arts. A screening of Shadows of the Son by Bay Area film collective SILT (Jeff Warrin, Keith Evans and Christian Farrell) follows Howard's talk. After the screening of a rare video recording of her work Vinculum Symphony, singer, composer, songwriter, and clarinetist Beth Custer gives a musical performance. The event concludes with an audio art piece, Cinema for the Ear, by Ken Jacobs.

What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn't Learned About Serving the Common Good. Can the common good be reclaimed? Jim Wallis thinks so. What better time to undertake this urgent task than after the presidential election dust settles?

30 YEARS OF PRIVATE PRISONS. Private prison company Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is spending this year commemorating its 30th anniversary with celebrations around the country. But 30 years of CCA and the modern private prison industry is nothing to celebrate. STOP PRISON PROFITEERING. The Public Safety and Justice Campaign, a member of the Nation Inside network, is a national campaign to end profiteering from the incarceration of people. We’re gearing up to protest CCA at its biggest birthday celebration yet—the annual shareholders meeting in Nashville on May 16. HELP US BY JOINING A STORY WEBINAR ON MAY 2. In the lead-up to the Nashville protest and beyond, we’re gathering video stories, testimonials, and messages of support for the campaign. We want you to take part! Please join presenters from CPSJ and Nation Inside for a webinar on: The battle over private prisons—why it’s important The Public Safety and Justice Campaign—what we’re doing How to share and gather video stories and messages—using NationInside.org

This two-day event will provide nonprofit organizations with an opportunity to explore best practices in nonprofit tech, raise their questions and concerns, and learn how others are applying digital and mobile tools in support of their social change efforts.

An exploration of issues of sexuality and the body through the experimental cinema of Cauleen Smith, Gunvor Nelson, Kathy Acker and Alan Sondheim. Steve Polta, Artistic Director of San Francisco Cinematheque, provides an introduction of San Francisco Cinematheque's history and experimental film in the Bay Area.

Celebrating CounterPULSE’s 8th anniversary, May Day showcases a diverse array of local artists and raises funds for a nonprofit known as an experimental space for art and social action. Support CounterPULSE as a hub for risk-taking community-based performance. Featuring an all-star lineup including and a silent auction every night!

Celebrate this international working-class holiday at an event honoring the life and ideas of “Clara Fraser: The Original Socialist Feminist” in San Francisco on Friday, May 3 at 7:00pm. Fraser founded the first revolutionary socialist feminist party in the world and taught a generation of young radicals and feminists how to stand together to fight discrimination and exploitation. Luma Nichol, anti-Nazi organizer and former housemate of Fraser, and Norma Gallegos, queer Chicana feminist and public education defender, will speak.

Guild Freelancers throws its annual Spring Training for Journalists — an upbeat, daylong event that provides independent media workers with a rich palette of ideas and skills.

Here is your chance to contribute your cloud app-building skills! Nonprofits are using Salesforce Platform across their organizations to better manage fundraising drives, programs, volunteers, and services for their communities and need your help. Salesforce is joining forces with non-profits Alliance for Climate Education, Net Impact and Health Leads to deliver their first hackathon event on Saturday, May 4. Take part for a day to hack Salesforce Platform apps for nonprofits. The Salesforce nonprofit developer hackathon takes place at NextSpace. Pick your hack Alliance for Climate Education Hack Help ACE share data between two climate education organizations as their supporters transition from one to the other. Net Impact Hack Make it easier for Net Impact to add the products and services it sells to opportunities. Health Leads Hack Assist Health Leads in activating and deactivating the hundreds of volunteer users who power their services.

In 1997, New York Medical College cell biologist Stuart Newman applied for a patent on a “humanzee” -- part human, part chimp -- to call attention to the ethical hazards of biotech patenting. Last year, researchers in the UK and US sought approval for creating and implanting genetically modified (GM) human embryos. What is the state of human genetic modification? What is at stake for the species?

Films and performance recordings by theater collective Campo Santo, filmmaker Kathy Acker and Filipino performance group Mail Order Brides (MOB), along with a recorded interivew of Lost Church founder David Ireland. Sean San José, Performance Program Director at Intersection for the Arts and co-founder of Campo Santo, discusses his involvement with the theater collective founded in 1996, while Dodie Bellamy provides a reflection on the life and work of her colleague and close friend Kathy Acker.

The San Francisco Living Wage Coalition invites you to our Spring Art and Literature Gala “Reclaiming Cinco de Mayo” Celebration of Cross-border Unity Come to see independent art and enjoy live music and poetry, while promoting a more just economy! Features a live and silent art auction. Artists include Carina Lomeli, Art Hazelwood, Doug Minkler, Ronnie Goodman, Marlene Aron, Charles Blackwell, Calixto Robles, Romeo Osorio, Eugene White, David Duckworth, John Lemmo, Rodger Scott, Roger Wade, Jane Rades, Ricardo Levins Morales, John Wehrle, Patrick Piazza, Debra Walker, Nanci Reese, Richard Bermack, Sara Thustra and others. Literary works and poetry include Alice Rogoff, Cesar Love and Francesca Rosa. Music by Mario Esteva; Duo Pizzicato – Martha Hawthorne and Bill Foss; the Peaceniks - Tommi Avicolli Mecca and Diana Hartman. Poems and readings by Po’ Poets, Yolanda Catzalco, Mahnaz Badouin, Jack Hirschman, Karen Melarder Magoon, Dotty Payne, Miguel Robles, Alfonso Texidor, Alice Rogoff, Cesar Love and Francesca Rosa.

ROCUnited and HUB Oakland invite you to join us for a provocative discussion on restaurant workers rights, minimun wage policymaking and, ethical eating + book signing w/ Saru Jayaraman!

The descendants of Genghis Khan adopted a market economy in the 1990s, and since then they have faced rapid social and cultural change. The Mongolian Dream gives an intimate view into how these changes impact the lives of five individuals – a nomadic herder, a school teacher who has to hustle dinosaur eggs on the side to make ends meet, a Buddhist healer, an ambitious student eager to embrace new ways, and an aspiring pop star with a specialty in traditional Mongolian instruments. Starting in 1999 and spanning over a decade, this is a story about the personal experience of cultural identity – the losses as well as the gains – when an ancient culture moves into modernity.

Based on in-depth interviews, focus groups, and surveys with Californian high schools students, the presentation addresses the multifaceted linkages between new media and social reproduction. The talk considers the feedback loops between forms of new media usage and offline social circumstances in a number of life realms relevant to young adults. Special attention is paid to the influence of ICT use on academic performance, college and career planning, and social relationships. Jeremy Schulz is the Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study. He held an NSF-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University’s Center for Economy and Society from 2010 to 2012. He earned his PhD thesis in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines the influence of societal environments and cultural contexts on the ways in which Norwegians, the French, and Americans experience and organize family, work, and private life. His article, Zoning the Evening, received the 2010 Shils–Coleman Award from the American Sociological Association’s theory section. His current research examines the ways in which differently situated individuals handle different kinds of debt. He is particularly interested in stances toward debt tied up with ‘productive’ goods and services such as education and medical care and how these stances intersect with gender and social stratification. Previous publications contribute to theory, qualitative methods, sociology of ideology, and sociology of consumerism. His website is www.jeremyschulz.org. Email: jmschulz@berkeley.edu.

an Francisco's Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) presents a showcase of digital media produced by local youth. Come support our students and find out more about the neighborhood programs which help create these wonderful projects. Through SF BTOP, youth are able to realize their artistic vision by learning digital filmmaking, photography, music production, web design, and more. The Showcase will feature a youth technology display followed by a film screening. This event is part of a citywide initiative to expand broadband access and community-based digital media throughout San Francisco.

When Molly Melching arrived in Senegal in 1974, she was a 24-year old graduate student looking forward to a six month study abroad program. Those months, however, quickly turned to years as she launched a humanitarian campaign dedicated to bringing an innovative educational program to communities in West and East Africa -- transforming the lives of hundreds of thousands of African women and girls in the process.

World-renowned political theorist, philosopher, historian, author, activist, & MIT Professor Emeritus NOAM CHOMSKY speaking on "Palestinian Hopes, Regional Turmoil" with Special Guest HOLLY NEAR & The Peace Becomes You Band!

Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico. With many pieces translated from Spanish for the first time, the anthology features contributions by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators, and photographers from Tijuana and greater Mexico. They explore urban planning in light of Tijuana's unique infrastructural, demographic, and environmental challenges. They delve into its musical countercultures, architectural ruins, cinema, and emergence as a hot spot on the international art scene. One contributor examines fictional representations of Tijuana's past as a Prohibition-era "city of sin" for U.S. pleasure seekers. Another reflects on the city's recent struggles with kidnappings and drug violence. In an interview, Néstor García Canclini revisits ideas that he advanced in Culturas híbridas (1990), his watershed book about Latin America and cultural hybridity. Taken together, the selections present a kaleidoscopic portrait of a major border city in the age of globalization.

After confronting Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf at the annual shareholders meeting in Salt Lake City, join San Francisco ACCE for an evening of jazz music and celebration at the Savanna Jazz Club on Thursday, May 9th. Stop by anytime between 7:00-10:00pm for music, food, and an opportunity to connect with fellow ACCE members and supporters. We’ll be taking a $20 cover charge at the door, which is going to support our upcoming office move.

The Eisner Prize is the highest award for creativity given on the UC Berkeley campus. This program presents work by the 2013 winners in film and video, Erin Colleen Johnson and Oliver Li, along with a diverse sampling of videos from the competition—narratives, documentaries, experimental videos, and animations. We will distribute a handout with written descriptions by the artists at the screening.

In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside America’s new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate daily across the globe and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture, or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies of America.

Join More than Me for the 2013-2014 school year in Liberia. Help us open our Academy in September and get more girls off the streets and into school!

Scholarships available for Foundation Fundraising Fundamentals starting May 17th for nonprofits with budgets smaller than $1,000,000.00.

Mat Callahan will report on the progress of the project to republish Songs of Freedom, a songbook edited by Irish revolutionary James Connolly and published in 1907 in New York. A year ago, Mat first announced plans to record a selection of the songs for a CD and to reproduce the original Songs of Freedom along with two other long forgotten song books containing Connolly's stirring lyrics. Now, the project is nearing completion. Tonight's event is being held to announce plans for publication and tours in Ireland in October 2013 and the US in 2014. Our publisher, PM Press, will be taking advance orders and we will be raising funds for the transportation of musicians to the various events being planned to launch this historic publication. Mat and Yvonne Moore will perform songs chosen from this repertoire.

Oil companies have quietly begun fracking California for oil — in the Bay Delta, the hills above Ventura, Kern County and the heart of Los Angeles — with plans for massive expansion at the expense of our air and water. The intensive process of fracking releases and extracts oil or gas by blasting water, chemicals, and sand at high pressure into deep underground rock formations, and is polluting local water and air, and accelerating climate change.

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to visit one of - if not the - most successful video companies in the Bay Area. You will be able to learn first-hand about the high-tech business world from the experts during a tour of Beyond Pix's state -of-the-art studios. After pizza and networking, then cheer on your school's winners as you share with other contest winners from around Northern California.

An explosive critique of the psychiatric profession’s Bible, the DSM, arrives from Gary Greenberg, a noted author and critic of American psychiatry. Like *Too Big to Fail*’s look at Wall Street, *The Book of Woe*is an inside view of an institution on the brink of disaster—the American Psychiatric Association, which recently completed the fifth edition of the DSM, a book that guides the allocation of billions of taxpayer dollars for research and treatment and from which the APA expects to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. Professional war broke out over the revision, and Greenberg, who is also a psychotherapist, spent two years embedded with both sides. The resulting account reveals the corruption and incompetence that infects the process by which the APA determines who is mentally ill, what diseases they have, and how they will be treated by doctors, educators, jurors and employers.

The Division of Ratepayer Advocates (DRA) will host a thought provoking presentation and dialogue with Roosevelt Institute Fellow, Cardozo Law School Professor, and former Presidential Transition Team member Susan Crawford, who will speak on the state of broadband communications in the United States. Professor Crawford will present ideas from her recent book, Captive Audience -- The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, and will address questions that go to our communications ecology in an Information Age: Should broadband be a public utility service? Is there sufficient competition in the wired communications sector? What about cell phones? Is broadband more expensive (and slower) in the United States than elsewhere in the world and, if so, why is it so expensive and slow? Should cities be allowed to step in and build municipal fiber broadband networks?

Special screening of the Academy Award nominated short documentary "Open Heart," hosted by the Institute of Italian Culture in San Francisco and EMERGENCY USA on Tuesday, May 14th at 7 pm, 814 Montgomery Street San Francisco, California 94133. The work of EMERGENCY is depicted in the award winning film "Open Heart", which tells the story of eight Rwandan children who leave their families to embark on a life-or-death journey for cardiac surgery at the Salam Center, in Sudan, the only hospital of its kind in all of Africa. The minimum suggested donation is $10 at the door. Proceeds will benefit EMERGENCY USA - Life Support for Civilian Victims of War and Poverty, the San Francisco based operations of the international humanitarian aid organization EMERGENCY which was founded in Milan, Italy in 1994 and has treated over 5.2 million people with high-standard free-of-charge medical and surgical care in war-zones.

Opening night of the 2013 SF Himalayan Film Festival. Food, drink and a community program.

What does Latino/a life in the Bay look like? Send us your amazing images of what it means to you–whether it be our delicious food, our art, our families, our celebrations and traditions, our protests and struggles, our people, our self-identity, or our politics. We’re looking for photographs that capture moments that are controversial and turbulent, carefree and joyful, all that makes the quilt of what Latino/a life in the Bay Area represents. We hope to capture the excitement, vibrancy and color of our Latino/a community.

International Development Exchange (IDEX) is excited to announce its latest project: the Food Justice Learning Salon. The Learning Salon will meet every two months to discuss a series of readings, podcasts, and other media assigned for each session. Our goal is to provide a comfortable place to learn about issues surrounding food justice, food sovereignty, and agroecology. Interested in expanding your knowledge of food justice issues and hearing fresh viewpoints? Wondering what agroecology even means? The Food Justice Learning Salon will allow people with all levels of knowledge to come together to read, watch, listen, and learn about food justice topics and to think critically and share their thoughts and ideas on the role of agroecology in promoting food justice for communities around the world.

A template for pranksters, artists, adventurers and anyone interested in rampant creativity, Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society is the history of the most influential underground cabal you've never heard of.Rising from the ashes of the mysterious and legendary Suicide Club, the Cacophony Society, at its zenith, hosted chapters in over a dozen major cities, and influenced much of what was once called the underground.The Cacophony Society's epic exploits radically changed the way people live and play in the world. The group inspired Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and Burning Man and helped start pop culture trends including flash mobs, urban exploration, and culture jamming.

Join The Night Writer Society on MAY 17, from 7:30 to 9:00 PM for a workshop all about writing for young adults. In this evening for writers and would-be writers of YA, we'll look at the extraordinary breadth of young adult fiction and what goes into writing an exceptional novel for teens, including startling beginnings and satisfying endings, big ideas and small ones, and why Looking for Alaska has nothing to do with geography.

AAJA is proud to announce the 2013 Council for International Cooperation/Anna Chennault Scholarship and encourages rising college sophomores to apply. The winner will receive a $3,900 scholarship and an opportunity to be a Voices student news project participant at the 2013 AAJA convention in New York with all travel, lodging and registration costs covered. Applications must be received by May 17, 2013.

Currently Seeking Short Films to Screen in the Illustrious, Amazing and Awesome BCM studios! This Local Event is for Creative People Just Like YOU! First Come, First Screened All Subjects, No Pornography 18 and over only 10 minute maximum length per film Submit 1 paragraph synopsis Submit media on DVD only $10.00 submission fee per film

Julia Flynn Siler, award-winning author and journalist (The House of Mondavi, Wall St. Jrnl., Business Week): "Land Grab in Paradise"-- about The Lost Kingdom: Hawaiii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure

How immigration 'reform' plans by Congress and the President benefit big business while penalizing immigrants is the featured report at the monthly meeting of Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party. Sunday, May 19, 1:00pm. Home-cooked brunch served for an $8 donation at 12:15pm.

Support local community radio at this monthly mixer con mojitos.

he fellowship will support ethnic media and community media journalists based in Northern California to research and write at least one in-depth, reported story on energy or energy policy issues (e.g. the state's resource challenge; the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy; the water and energy nexus; the household economics of energy use). The story, or series, will be published or broadcast in the fellows' respective media outlets, and selected stories will be published on NAM's and SoundVision Productions' websites. Fellows will receive a $2000 stipend at the completion of the fellowship program. In addition, Fellows will participate in a mandatory two-day tour of renewable energy sites in California from June 13-14, 2013, where they will get rare access to large-scale solar, wind and hydroelectric facilities to see how they operate and how they fit into California's energy landscape.

Eduardo Galeano is the world-renowned Uruguayan author of the Memory of Fire Trilogy, The Book of Embraces, and many other masterworks. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave his Open Veins of Latin America to President Obama when they first met, sending the book overnight to #2 on Amazon's bestseller list.

aron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time. For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways in which technology has transformed our culture. Who Owns the Future? is a visionary reckoning with the effects network technologies have had on our economy. Lanier asserts that the rise of digital networks led our economy into recession and decimated the middle class. Now, as technology flattens more and more industries—from media to medicine to manufacturing—we are facing even greater challenges to employment and personal wealth. But there is an alternative to allowing technology to own our future. In this ambitious and deeply humane book, Lanier charts the path toward a new information economy that will stabilize the middle class and allow it to grow. It is time for ordinary people to be rewarded for what they do and share on the web. Insightful, original, and provocative, Who Owns the Future? is necessary reading for everyone who lives a part of their lives online.

On Tuesday, May 21, 7–9pm, Feast of Words: A Literary Potluck features a reading and writing exercise led by Andrew Lam, who shares from a collection of newly published short stories. With San Francisco as a backdrop, “Birds of Paradise Lost” (Red Hen Press, 2013) deals with the struggles and triumphs of Vietnamese newcomers to California and with issues of trauma and recovery.

Amlan Ganguly empowers children to become activists and educators, with powerful results. Using street theater, puppetry, and dance as their weapons, the children in Calcutta's slums have cut their neighborhoods' malaria and diarrhea rates in half, and turned former garbage dumps into playing fields. Now, pushing at the limits of optimism, Amlan is attempting to take his work into the brickfields outside Calcutta, where spend their days making and carrying bricks using methods unchanged by centuries. THE REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISTS proposes a workable solution to intractable problems associated with poverty, including preventable diseases and ineffectual governance. Ganguly's story suggests that education and child empowerment are crucial keys to lifting entire societies out of hopelessness.

Join us for the NCRA Jobs in Recycling Workshop 9, this one on Environmental Education jobs. Our engaging and passionate panel for the evening will be Roberta Miller of StopWaste.Org, Jose-Luis Martinez of Earth Team, and Eric Havel of Chabot Space and Science Center. A light pizza/soda dinner will be served so please arrive a bit early. There is no need to print a ticket, a sign-in sheet will be present instead. If you are unable to afford this event and would still like to attend, please email Jordan at NCRAJobsinRecycling@gmail.com. No one shall be turned away for lack of funds.

Take a break from your week with Oasis For Girls. The Hotel Utah Saloon is hosting us for a special evening featuring a $6 drink menu, munchies and more.

Free drinks, inter-nerd networking opportunities and a chance to rub elbows with employers

Join Caroline Blair’s Motion Picture Directing class for a screening of the 2013 final film projects. The showcase features a variety of narrative scenes starring Bay Area actors. Directing Students: Elektra Johnson, Orlando Mendoza, Maya Annotti, Danil Auger, Samati Boonchitsitsak, Colton Coate, giovanni Garde, Ginger Godines, Alx King, James Niles, Angel Onchanthorn, Paul Tardo, Thayer Walker, Tomoya Yamashita.

Taking place in rural Honduras, For the Health of Our People tells the inspiring story of a Garifuna community who worked together to bring healthcare to their people by building the first free hospital in the country. Told from the heart of members of the community and accompanied by stunning visuals, the film discusses healthcare as a human right and gives recognition to a long forgotten and neglected people who are proud of their rich culture.

The Pen:” The Last War Crime Movie is about indicting Cheney for torture. And isn’t that something billions of people want to see? They say sometimes life can imitate art. But first we felt it was important that we retrace our country’s steps as to how torture was used to get the false intelligence to sell us on a war with Iraq. The real story of how this happened has been buried under an avalanche of pseudo history. They want people to forget the Downing Street minutes and the foreknowledge that the British had that Cheney and Bush were determined to invade Iraq, even if they had to “fix the facts around the policy” to do so. They want to obliterate the memory of the flimsy legal arguments in the torture memos. So we dig out all the true facts, and put them on the big screen, together with an entertaining narrative story about what it would have been like if justice had already prevailed.

If you live in California, you can help make history with the Center when we join in launching Californians Against Fracking, a statewide coalition working to ban fracking in California. Fracking poses a direct and immediate threat to California's drinking water, air, food, health, wildlife, climate and economy. While the state prides itself on being a leader in the fight against climate change, oil companies are gearing up to frack the estimated 15 billion barrels of oil in the Monterey Shale. This area is home to some of the state's most productive farmland, critical water sources, important wildlife habitat and communities from the Salinas Valley to the Los Angeles Basin. In both Los Angeles and San Francisco, more than 60 labor groups, farmers, public health professionals, environmental and environmental justice organizations and local residents will come together to call for a ban in California on the dirty and dangerous practice of fracking. Join hundreds of Californians as we take our message directly to Governor Brown and deliver tens of thousands of signatures on petitions to ban fracking at rallies in front of the his offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Musicians/DJs in the Boston/San Francisco area who want to explore technology and music through the use of our brand new lab facility and studio. This is one of the only cheap and affordable electronic/DJ music workshops in San Francisco. Beatshop is sponsored by Propellerheads Software which helps to keep the costs low. The class at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in the Mission District is open to all ages and experience levels (beginner and advanced workshops available). Come out to support this program, and make it happen for the youth to take it to the next level in music. Mix'd Ingrdnts Dance Company site: www.mixdi.com

BENNY Award--awarded annually for new victories in corporate campaigning, where a victory is defined as the realization of a significant commitment or actual change in policy by a targeted corporation or industry. This may also include a significant legislative or policy change prompted by corporate campaigning that improves the social, environmental, financial or political practices of corporations. This award contains two sub-categories: community-based campaigns (where the campaign is staffed and run mainly by local activists) and other campaigns (where the campaign is staffed and run mainly by national or other larger groups). If there are fewer than five nominations in either sub-category, the nominations will be reviewed as one category. Path To Victory Award--awarded annually for new achievements in corporate campaigning, where an achievement is defined as the realization of a critical step on the path to a campaign victory, where that step could be any aspect of a corporate campaign, including but not limited to research, strategy, negotiation, outreach, grassroots activism, media and communications, implementation, etc., and especially where the achievement shows impressive innovation, creativity, scope and/or impact. Recognizing that victories are often achieved only after long struggles over many years, we created this award to celebrate significant progress and innovation in campaigning, because each successful day of action, each exposing report, and each new tactic used is a step toward success in corporate transformation.

Democracy Now!, a New York City-based independent daily news hour, is seeking applicants for three fellowships with monthly stipends beginning July 1. Applicants must have camera and editing skills, work well under deadline pressure and have some editorial experience. Duties include shooting news events, editing news packages, working on the live broadcast, research, booking guests and writing. The ability to work well in a team and maintain a professional demeanor in all situations is required. The fellowships require a minimum commitment of 20-hours per week for six months and authorization to work in the US. To apply, send a cover letter, resume and portfolio to fellowship (at) democracynow (dot) org with "Production Fellowship" as the subject by June 1, 2013. For each work referenced in your portfolio, please identify the role you played in the production. No phone calls.

Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America. A new full-length documentary by “Democracy Now!” co-host Juan González, this film examines connections between U.S. economic and military intervention in Latin America and the migration of people seeking work. Donations benefit the 2013 Freedom Socialist newspaper fund drive.

Democracy Now!, a New York City-based independent daily news hour, is seeking applicants for three fellowships with monthly stipends beginning July 1. Applicants must have camera and editing skills, work well under deadline pressure and have some editorial experience. Duties include shooting news events, editing news packages, working on the live broadcast, research, booking guests and writing. The ability to work well in a team and maintain a professional demeanor in all situations is required. The fellowships require a minimum commitment of 20-hours per week for six months and authorization to work in the US. To apply, send a cover letter, resume and portfolio to fellowship (at) democracynow (dot) org with "Production Fellowship" as the subject by June 1, 2013. For each work referenced in your portfolio, please identify the role you played in the production. No phone calls.

Adventurer Helge Hjelland decides to cross South Africa by canoe. Along the way he picks up Joseph, an illegal refugee from South Sudan without any identity papers. Joseph becomes Hjelland's assistant, and they become partners in a journey through a South Africa still struggling to get out of the shadow of apartheid. The Impossible River Journey is a film which portrays the best and worst of humanity, in a country whose murky past still shapes the daily life of its citizens.

AMP is a unique three-day training and networking event for community-based leaders, staff, and volunteers of groups organizing for justice in the West. Workshops run all day to provide an intensive experience in the subject you’ve chosen. Workshops are designed to be highly interactive and to provide hands on tools for your organization to use after you leave AMP. AMP participants represent a spectrum of experiences and backgrounds. They are diverse with respect to race, geography, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, and skill level. Trainers, drawn from around the region and beyond, are among the most knowledgeable in their areas.

As traditional sources of nonprofit funding crumble, innovative platforms for attracting donors are rising to replace them. Join us for the next re:think, where Bartlomiej Jan Skorupa of Groundwork Opportunities, Katherine Woo of Kiva and Pamela Hawley of UniversalGiving will discuss: Using the art of storytelling to build a movement Creating funding platforms that allow nonprofits to be self-reliant Turning the shopping cart into an instrument of change by integrating crowdfunding and e-commerce models

JOIN US FOR A FREE INFORMATIONAL WEBINAR on Thursday, June 6, 2013, 10:30 am - 12:00pm PDT. Meet with Cal Humanities staff, learn more about the application process, and get advice on how to improve your proposal. Space is limited. Click HERE to reserve your seat. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with important details about joining the webinar.

Opening night of DocFest 2013 features Spark, a Burning Man story.

This year we are proud to launch our new intensive 3-week multimedia journalism training program. The goal of the program is to engage youth in projects that foster leadership development, skills development, creativity and an exploration of cultural identity. Our workshop will help participants use multimedia platforms to explore social issues in San Francisco's Mission District. The program targets youth who have an interest in understanding what it takes to become a multimedia reporter. The training focuses on developing story ideas, conducting research, and interviewing key sources. Participants will learn photography, audio recording, videography and editing and produce news reporting projects using these mediums. Students will have access to news reporting equipment and software for the production of these stories. A stipend will be awarded once projects are published on Acción Latina's and El Tecolote's websites. Students will receive school credit for their participation in the program.

Each year, the Institute for Social Ecology hosts intensive seminars for students, activists, and community leaders to come together to explore sets of dynamic and urgent social and ecological issues. This year, the Institute for Social Ecology is thrilled to offer, for the first time, a seminar right in the heart of San Francisco. We will be partnering with the California Institute for Integral Studies based in the SOMA district and on major transit lines. Classes will include the politics and philosophy of Social Ecology, international social movements for direct democracy, alternatives to capitalism, climate justice with a focus and emphasis on urban housing and land struggles. We have designed this intensive to be a bit longer than previous programs so as to secure time for local field trips that will allow us to get to know the community and history in which we are studying.

We are living with the most extreme wealth disparity since the great depression. Systems of privilege and inequality cause the wealth gap to grow even more extreme, and come between us when we try to get together to make change. How do our own class backgrounds affect our work for social change? How can we build stronger alliances for justice? Join us for an opportunity to explore our own class journeys, their intersections with race and gender, and their implications for our activism

T Lab seeks 9 problem-solvers eager to engage in 6 months of designing, building and testing new solutions in the fight against poverty. Selected participants will work in teams of three and receive a $25,000 stipend.

Aspiring radio producers, journalists and storytellers without journalism degrees can apply for a US$20,000 fellowship. Chicago Public Media presents the Pritzker Fellowships, a ten-month program that offers rigorous training in public radio journalism and the opportunity to work alongside some of the nation’s most respected reporters, producers and editors. Fellows will receive training in basic story production, editing, ethics, audio and video production, writing for the radio and Web, on-air skills and Web production. Fellows will also a receive a mentor, a senior level journalist or producer who will provide rigorous coaching, critique, hands-on opportunities and special assignments. Minority candidates are encouraged to apply. The program is open to applicants worldwide, but international applicants must obtain their own visas.

In just one two week session, you will learn the basics of professional video production, from scriptwriting to editing, in the field or the TV studio, from the experts. Invite your friends and family to watch your video at a special premiere screening in August at a local movie theatre and on Classrooms Channel 28 on Comcast.

Voice of Witness is delighted to announce dates for 'Amplifying Unheard Voices,' our third annual oral history training for educators and community cultural workers. Join us from June 24th through June 27th in San Francisco for a four-day professional development workshop that highlights the power of personal narrative and provides participants with the tools to conduct oral history projects in their classrooms and communities. Workshop participants will engage in a hands-on process that introduces the skills, ethics, and social significance of oral history storytelling. This training is a fantastic opportunity for teachers, nonprofit professionals, community storytellers and activists to explore innovative approaches to storytelling for social change.

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and New America Media (NAM) are welcoming applications — from journalists who cover issues in aging and/or who work for ethnic media outlets serving U.S. communities — for the fourth year of a joint fellowship program underwritten by the MetLife Foundation. Stories resulting from the last three years are available on GSA's website. Once again, the John A. Hartford Foundation also is supporting one John A. Hartford/MetLife Foundation Journalism in Aging & Health Fellow, who will report on topics specifically related to the health and health care of older Americans. By 2030, people age 65 and over will make up a full one-fifth of America's population, with a growing percentage of them representing ethnic minorities. The health and social consequences permeate every aspect of life in this country. For example, the first members of the huge baby boomer generation have already begun receiving full Social Security benefits. While America’s mainstream media have largely ignored this emerging story, most communities are poorly informed about the significant challenges — and opportunities — of the longevity revolution.

Responsible for such landmark publications as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, Naked Lunch, Waiting for Godot,The Wretched of the Earth , and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Grove Press was the most innovative publisher of the postwar era. Counterculture Colophon tells the story of how the press and its house journal, The Evergreen Review, revolutionized the publishing industry and radicalized the reading habits of the "paperback generation." In the process, it offers a new window onto the 1960s, from 1951, when Barney Rosset purchased the fledgling press for $3,000, to 1970, when the multimedia corporation into which he had built the company was crippled by a strike and feminist takeover. Grove Press was not only responsible for ending censorship of the printed word in the United States but also for bringing avant-garde literature, especially drama, into the cultural mainstream as part of the quality paperback revolution. Much of this happened thanks to Rosset, whose charismatic leadership was crucial to Grove's success. With chapters covering world literature and the Latin American boom, including Grove's close association with UNESCO and the rise of cultural diplomacy; experimental drama such as the theater of the absurd, the Living Theater, and the political epics of Bertolt Brecht; pornography and obscenity, including the landmark publication of the complete work of the Marquis de Sade; revolutionary writing, featuring Rosset's daring pursuit of the Bolivian journals of Che Guevara; and underground film, including the innovative development of the pocket filmscript, Loren Glass covers the full spectrum of Grove's remarkable achievement as a communications center of the counterculture.

CPE’s Summer Institute is a week-long intensive training in economics for activists, educators, media makers, and anyone who wants a better understanding of how the economy works. Our trainings are highly participatory and build on the knowledge and experience of our participants. No background in economics is necessary.

The Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival (POWFest) is now accepting entries for its seventh annual festival scheduled to take place March 6 - 9, 2014. The regular deadline for entries is Friday, August 16, 2013. POWFest places a spotlight on women directors by showcasing their work and empowering the community of women in film. POWFest encourages women to find their voice and to share their stories through innovative and quality filmmaking. We feature the work of today’s top women directors, honoring the true pioneers while providing support and recognition for the next generation of leading women filmmakers. Past Guests of Honor include: Allison Anders, Kathryn Bigelow, Gillian Armstrong, Amy Heckerling, Barbara Kopple and Penelope Spheeris.

In 2011, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Radio Television Digital News Association partnered to host an annual conference that provides journalists with the industry’s best training and networking opportunities.