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Friday,
January 19th , 2007
Film screening : THE QUALITY
OF LIFE
Homecoming screening for Santa Cruz Filmmakers
Ben Morgan and Brant Smith
"A powerful and emotionally satisfying film"
- San Francisco Chronicle
"Well-acted, sharply observed and authentically gritty"
- New York Magazine
Directed by self-taught filmmaker and Santa Cruz native, Benjamin
Morgan, and co-written with childhood friend, Santa Cruz High
grad, and lead actor of the film, Brian Burnam, Quality of Life
tells the story of two San Francisco graffiti writers grappling
between the passion for their craft and the consequences that
come with it.
Show time: 8:00 pm
Tickets: $8
www.qualityoflife-themovie.com
Quality of Life has played film festivals around the world (won
awards in Berlin, Oxnard, and Stockholm) and is coming off of
a very successful limited North American theatrical release. This
will be the film’s Santa Cruz premiere.
Director Benjamin Morgan, Producer Brant Smith, and co-star/co-screenwriter
Brian Burnam will be present for Q after the screening. Please
join the filmmakers for the after party at Cardiff Lounge (529
Seabright Avenue).
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Saturday,
January 27th , 2007
LUNAFEST:
Films
By, For and About Women
Co-Sponsored by UCSC Women’s Center
LUNAFEST, a fundraising film festival dedicated to promoting
awareness about women's issues, highlighting women filmmakers,
and bringing women together in their communities, is holding its
6th annual premiere event.
Illustrated through nine films by women filmmakers this unique
film festival will highlight women as leaders in society. The
films range from animated shorts to fictional drama, and cover
topics such as women’s health, body image, spirituality,
relationships, cultural diversity, and breaking barriers.
All proceeds from the LUNAFEST premiere will go to WomenCARE,
the UCSC Women’s Center and the Breast Cancer Fund. Thus
far, LUNAFEST, which is sponsored by LUNA, the Whole Nutrition
Bar for Women, has raised over $100,000 for Breast Cancer Fund
and over $250,000 for other women’s nonprofits.
Local Gold Circle Sponsors of the 2007 LUNAFEST include:
Seagate, New Leaf Community Markets, Visual INK, Buttery, Crepe
Place, UCSC Women’s Center
Show time: Doors
6:30, 7:00 - 9:00 – Showing of films
Tickets: $5.00 students / $10 general
Available at the UCSC Ticket Office at the Performing Arts
Phone: (831) 459-2159 Tuesday–Saturday 12-4pm
Or by calling the UCSC Women’s Center (831) 459-2072
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Saturday,
Feburary 3rd, 2007
AMERICA : FREEDOM TO FASCISM
Determined to find the law that requires Americans to pay income
tax, Aaron Russo (THE ROSE, TRADING PLACES) sets out on a journey.
Neither left- nor right-wing, this startling examination exposes
the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America. Through
interviews with US Congressmen, a former IRS Commissioner, former
IRS and FBI
agents, tax attorneys and authors, Russo connects the dots between
money creation, federal income tax, voter fraud, the national
identity card (becoming law in May 2008) and the implementation
of
radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to track citizens.
A striking case about the evolving police state in America.
Show time: 6:30pm
doors 7:00pm show
Tickets: $6 advance $7 door. Advance
tickets for purchase at Streetlight Records 831-421-9200.
Movie website: www.freedomtofascism.com
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Saturday,
Feburary 10th, 2007
"The Vagina Monologues"
ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY!
The
cast is women of Santa Cruz ..your friends, neighbors, relatives
andlovers.
Who: Santa Cruz Women's Health Center
V-Day Santa Cruz 2007, a benefit production of Eve Ensler's "The
Vagina Monologues"
Show time: 8:00 pm
Tickets: $25 general, $18 student/senior
with ID
Contact: Ticket Hot Line: 831-425-4480
for credit card purchases; also at Westside Stories, 847 Almar,
Santa Cruz, for credit card, check and cash sales, open every
day, 10:30 to 6:30.
Goal: To raise awareness to stop violence against women and girls
and funds for our beneficiary - Santa Cruz Women's Health Center
What is V-Day? V-Day is a global movement to stop violence
against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes
creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize
the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. Through
benefit performances of "The Vagina Monologues," unique
documentary film projects and innovative gatherings designed to
change social attitudes toward violence, V-Day generates broader
attention for the fight to stop worldwide violence against women
and girls including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation
(FGM), and sexual slavery. In its first six years, the V-Day movement
has raised over $20 million. The V' in V-Day stands for
Victory, Valentine and Vagina. For more information, please
visit www.vday.org
Proceeds Benefit The SANTA CRUZ WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER, a feminist,
non-profit, primary healthcare center, serving the Santa Cruz
community for over 32 years. With a strong commitment to
prevention, education, affordability, and cultural sensitivity,
The Santa Cruz Women's Health Center provides quality health care
for women and girls of all ages, and boys through age 18.
Downtown at 250 Locust Street. Hablamos Espanol.
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Friday,
Feburary 16th, 2007
NEKO CASE
There is the basic, by now familiar biographical arc: Case’s
childhood in Washington State, art school in Vancouver, her early
baptism into the world of country and gospel music, and contemporary
gigs in distaff punk trios Maow and Cub, as well as a longer (and
ongoing) stint in powerhouse Canadian pop group the New Pornographers.
Since the late ‘90s, however, the bulk of Case’s energies
have been devoted to a thriving solo career. Following three critically
lauded studio albums, 1997’s The Virginian, 2000’s Furnace
Room Lullaby, and 2002’s masterful Blacklisted; a quietly
potent kitchen- recorded EP, Canadian Amp; and last year’s
brilliantly conceived concert collection The Tigers Have Spoken,
Case reemerges with her latest, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.
Eric Bachmann will open evening
Show time:8:00PM
Tickets: advance tickets $20 Streetlight
records 831-421-9200 and ONLINE
HERE
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Wednesday,
Feburary 21st, 2007
Hapa
"Hawaii's Supergroup"
—Elle Magazine
Contemporary Innovations of Traditional Hawaiian Music
Featuring Nathan Aweau, Barry Flanagan, Hawaiian Chanter Charles
Ka'upu and Hula by Merry Monarch winner Malia Kawailanamalie Petersen
and dancers from Hula School of Santa Cruz
The award-winning duo Hapa embraces the wider cultures of the pan-Polynesian South Pacific
in their always engaging live performance. Part traditional, part
contemporary, part musical genius, part stunning vocals, Hapa's
Barry Flanagan and Nathan Aweau create a soundtrack for twenty-first
century Hawaii – native art, history and music pulled together
by the powerful force of Mäui. Add their signature stylings
of American acoustic folk/rock, Celtic and world influences and
you have music that is "beautiful, fragile, spiritual, powerful"
(Los Angeles Times).
At the 2006 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards (Hawaii's Grammys), HAPA’s
CD release "Maui" won four awards including “Album
of the Year.” In addition, Nathan Aweau won two individual
awards including “Male Vocalist of the Year.”
Show
time: 7:30
pm
Tickets: $24 General , $32 Gold Circle
Reserved available online at ticketweb.com General admission tickets also available at Streetlight Records,
941 Pacific Ave, downtown Santa Cruz.
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Thursday,
Feburary 22nd, 2007
Universes:
Live from the Edge
Show
time: 8:00 pm
Tickets: Adult: $28/$24* Students
& Seniors with ID: $24
UCSC Students with ID: $14
Gold Circle: $40/$35*
*subscriber discount price
All Tickets subject to service charges.
Artist link HERE
“The
poetry of the city, minted in the urban furnace where the flint
of real life strikes the sparks of creation.”
–The New York Times
"These performers are fierce, funny and bitingly intelligent."
– The Los Angeles Times
Fusing poetry, theater, jazz, hip-hop, politics, down home blues,
and Spanish boleros, this ensemble company of multidisciplined
writers and performers creates moving, entertaining theatrical
works. Breaking the bounds of traditional theater, the group creates
their own brand, inviting old and new generations of theater crafters
and theatergoers to reshape the face of American Theater. The
group has performed in such diverse places as the Mark Taper Forum,
the Andy Warhol Museum, Joe's Pub, P.S. 122, and Sing Sing Prison.
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Friday,
Feburary 23rd - 25th, 2007
Banff Mountain Film Festival
World Tour
This year's tour features a collection of the most inspiring and
thought-provoking action, environmental, and adventure mountain
films. Traveling from remote landscapes and cultures to up close
and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports, the 2006/2007
World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the
mountain world.
The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is produced by Mountain
Culture at The Banff Centre, and features award-winning films
and audience favorites from approximately 300 films entered in
the annual festival in Banff.
Join UC Santa Cruz Recreation when the Banff Mountain Film Festival
World Tour brings the spirit of outdoor adventure Feb. 23 &
24 at 7 pm and Feb. 25 at 2 pm for a Family matinee.
Locally Sponsored by Seagate, Pacific Edge, Bugaboo and Good Times
and UCSC Recreation....
For tickets and information contact
UCSC Recreation at (831)459-2807 or visit our website at www.ucscrecreation.com
Ticket also available at Bugaboo, Pacific Edge & UCSC Ticket
office
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Saturday,
March 10th, 2007
QUEER QUEENS OF COMEDY
" The all lesbian stand-up comedy revue features four of
the hottest top reigning queens of comedy working the circuit
today."
Show time: 8:00 pm
Tickets: $20 in advance $25 at
the door
Advance tickets at Streetlight
Records 831-421-9200
More info : mtnrosie@comcast.net - or call 408-202-5564
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Saturday,
March 17th, 2007
Frans Lanting:
The Making of Life: A Journey Through Time
A benefit for the Friends of Long Marine Lab to establish the
Ken Norris Memorial Lecture Series at Long Marine Lab’s
Seymour Center.
Frans Lanting, acclaimed as one of the great nature photographers
of our time, will lead us on a personal journey through the
history of life on Earth. In this new presentation, Frans will
share images and stories about this groundbreaking project,
along with video footage by Christine Eckstrom, co-producer
of Life: A Journey Through Time. Frans’ show will also
include behind-the-scenes glimpses of the making of LIFE as
a multimedia orchestral performance, which premiered in July
2006 at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa
Cruz.
In 2000, Frans set off on a journey of photographic discovery
that parallels new scientific insights about the story of life
on Earth. His search has been wide-ranging and provocative,
leading him from microscopic worlds to primordial landscapes
that preserve time capsules of life’s history. From prehistoric
trilobites to giant tortoises, delicate jellies to spiny octopus
trees, this presentation is a testament to the enduring miracle
of our living planet.
Frans brings his support to the Seymour Center to celebrate
the naming of an annual fall lecture series in memory of his
friend, neighbor, and kindred spirit –– scientist/naturalist,
Ken Norris.
Show times: 2 PM & 7 PM
Tickets: advance tickets at Logos
Books & Records downtown, and at the Seymour Center (831)
459-3800. General admission: $20; Friends of Long Marine Lab
members: $15.
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March 23rd, 2007
CHORES, a horror film
Prescreening of brand new HORROR FILM to be released Nationally
Halloween 2007
Free passes available
Show time: 8:00 pm
call 831-684-9999 or 831-475-1080
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March 24th & 25th, 2007
Santa Cruz Documentary Premiere : CHINA
BLUE
CHINA BLUE is a powerful and poignant journey into the harsh
world of sweatshop workers in China. Shot clandestinely in Chinese
sweatshops, this is a deep-access account of what both China
and the international retailers don't want us to see: how the
clothes we buy are actually made.
CHINA BLUE takes us inside a blue-jeans factory, where the working
conditions teenage girlworkers must endure are harsh beyond
imagination. They are also unlawful by international standards,
and tensions in the factory are running high. So when the factory
owner strikes a deal
with a Western client and demands around-the-clock production
to meet the deadline, a confrontation becomes inevitable.
Show
times: 24th at 8:00PM, 25th at 5:00PM
Tickets $5 at the door
Often the girl workers in these sweatshops, many of them under
the age of 15, work through the day and the night with no overtime
pay and a base salary of $.06 per hour. They live 12 to a room
in cement dormitories with one squat toilet serving also as
a sink. Their meals and rent are deducted from their wages.
The jeans they produce are shipped to the U.S. and other Western
countries, and workers get a fraction of what they charge consumers.
CHINA BLUE has hit a nerve with audiences all over the world.
It has screened in 37 film festivals in 24 countries, has DVD
editions in six languages and theatrical release in four countries.
It has generated intense reactions: a woman in Scotland went
home and ripped all her Made in China clothes; a teacher in
Poland wanted to send the girls in China money so they can buy
a train ticket home; and in New Zealand parliament members have
organized public screenings; and in China...the film is banned.
During production, the filmmakers were arrested and their tapes
confiscated byChinese police.
CHINA BLUE brings a whole new perspective to shopping for clothes.
As producer Micha Peledsays: “People don’t want
to feel guilty when they buy clothing, but once they see the
film, shopping may never be the same.”
“Sixteen-year-old Jasmine is a thread-cutter at the Lifeng
Factory, one of dozens of denim manufacturers in Shaxi, South
China. As she puts it, she makes the ‘big and fat’
jeans we wear. Like her new friends at the factory – Liping,
a seamstress, and Orchid, a zipper installer – Jasmine
is one of hundreds of millions of people, mostly young women,
who make up the largest pool of cheap labor in the world.
“Contrary to the notion that these girls offer a pliant,
obedient work force, the film reveals glimpses of an emerging
activism: a bold willingness, as Jasmine asserts, ‘to
pull the Tiger’s whiskers. ’Coming into a sense
of self-worth, Jasmine sends a gentle message to the West in
the pocket of a pair of jeans. Tempering the giddy, greedy imperatives
of the market, CHINA BLUE offersremarkable access into the other
new China.”–Sean Farnel, TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM
FESTIVAL
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Saturday,
March 31st, 2007
ANOUSHKA
SHANKAR
Anoushka Shankar has shown herself to be a unique artist with
tremendous talent and understanding of the great musical tradition
of India. Anoushka is the only artist in the world to be trained
completely by her father and legendary sitar virtuoso and composer,
Ravi Shankar. She has been playing and studying the sitar with
him since she was nine, and at age thirteen she made her performing
debut in New Delhi, India. That same year, Anoushka entered
the recording studio for the first time to play on her father’s
recording, In Celebration. Two years later she helped as conductor
with her father and dear friend, George Harrison, on the 1997
Angel release, Chants of India. Shortly thereafter she signed
an exclusive contract with Angel/EMI Classics. In the Fall of
1998 her first solo recording, Anoushka, was released to tremendous
critical acclaim. Two albums followed, Anourag in 2000 and Live
at Carnegie Hall in 2001. The latter was nominated for a Grammy
Award in the Best World Music Album category, making her the
youngest ever nominee in that category. She also played sitar
on her father’s Grammy Award-winning album Full Circle:
Carnegie Hall 2000, and has appeared as a sitarist on several
other CD’s, including Sting’s Sacred Love.
Show time: 8:00 pm
Advance tickets $25 @ Streetlight
Records 831-421-9200 and at www.ticketweb.com
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Thursday,
April 5th, 2007
WHITEY
advanceTouring his new album : The Light At The End of The
Tunnel WHITEY is a sort-of solo project by N.J. Whitey. He
is a misanthrope who spends most of his time skulking in dark
corners. When he plays live, he is accompanied by the followin
friends and associates - Wildcat (drums/sequencers), Scott
X. Fairbrother (guitar/bass) and Shah (guitar/keys).
Over the past two years Whitey and his live sidekicks have
played over 200 shows alongside (amongst others) Undertones,
Buzzcocks, LCD Soundsystem, New Order and Iggy Pop. There
have been sessions for XFM and BBC Radio 1. Previously released
in the UK via 1234 Recordings, Whitey's debut album, The Light
At The End Of The Tunnel Is a Train has already made waves
in Europe and is now set to turn more ears on in the states.
Show time: 8:00 pm
Tickets $7 advance at Streetlight
records and ONLINE
HERE
www.dimmak.com/whitey
Opening support band is : WOVEN
"gothy electronics and trip-hop squiggle...sounding like
Marilyn Manson moonlighting as a moody software engineer."
- Spin
"verges on heady Kid-A territory without stepping
foot in traditional rock waters." - Mean Streets
"Woven sound like Massive Attack and Squarepusher
writing pop songs." - Lollipop.com
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Friday,
April 6th, 2007
DR.
MARSHALL ROSENBERG
International peacemaker and Conflict Resolution expert Dr.
Rosenberg is the author and founder of Nonviolent Communication.
NVC has been described as a language of compassion, a tool
for positive social change, and a way to promote peace in
the world. His talk is entitled “Speaking Peace: The
Basics of Nonviolent Communication.”
Show
time: 7:00
PM
Tickets are $12 or $10 students
and seniors and are available at Capitola Book Café,
and Gateways Books and Gifts.
Dr. Rosenberg will also be presenting four all day workshops
on April 6-7 at First Congregational Church and April 9-10
at Inner Light Ministries. These workshops are designed for
parents, teachers, therapists, helping professionals, and
anyone wishing to improve their communication skills. To learn
more about the daylong workshops, go to www.nvcsantacruz.org
For further information, call 831.459.6919
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Sunday,
April 8th, 2007
FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH
Easter Celebration 10:30am to Noon
Free and open to all!
We invite you to bring the whole family celebrate the resurrection
of Jesus Christ through music and a fresh look at the ancient
scriptures. Come share this special Easter holiday with your
community.
There will be additional programs for preschool and elementary
aged children.
Contact: For more information
go to: www.santacruzfaith.org or call (831)429-9000”
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Saturday,
April 14th, 2007
COWBOY
JUNKIES
Show
time: 8:00 pm
Advance tickets $30 at Streetlight records 831-421-9200 and www.ticketweb.com
www.cowboyjunkies.com
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Thursday,
April 19th, 2007
OMAR
FARUK TEKBILEK
World
Famous Sufi Musician
Omar Faruk Tekbilek & his Ensemble Perform ‘Tree
of Patience’ CD Release Concert
traditional Sufi, folk and contemporary music from the Middle
East.
Omar Faruk Tekbilek has since established himself as one of
the world's foremost exponents of Middle Eastern music. A
multi-instrumentalist par excellence, he has collaborated
with a number of leading musicians of international repute
such as jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, keyboard player Karl Berger,
ex-Cream rock drummer Ginger Baker, Ofra Haza, Simon Shaheen,
Hossam Ramzy, Glen Velez, Bill Laswell, Mike Mainieri, Peter
Erskine, Trilok Gurtu, Jai Uttal and Steve Shehan among others.
He has contributed to numerous film and TV scores and to many
recordings including world sacred music albums, and has been
touring extensively throughout the Middle East, Europe, Australia,
North and South America.
Omar Faruk’s music is rooted in tradition, but has been
influenced by contemporary sounds. He views his approach as
“cosmic” and his commitment to music runs deep.
The four corners of his creativity emanates mysticism, folklore,
romance, and imagination. Like Omar Faruk himself, his music
symbolizes diversity-in-unity.
Show time: 8:00 pm
Advance tickets $15 at Streetlight
Records 831-421-9200 and www.ticketleap.com
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Friday,
April 20th, 2007
Making
Tracks
The UCSC Recreation Department is pleased to present a very
special evening with adventure-naturalists and photographers
Kennan and Karen Ward who will be premiering their new documentary
film "Making Tracks", a true story of grizzly bear
cubs growing up in the wild. This event is their third
annual celebration of Earth Day in collaboration with the
UCSC Recreation Department. In 2005 Kennan and Karen gave
a slide show and lecture that focused on their journey to
Antarctica and the effects of global warming. In 2006 we were
given an extraordinary view into the world of wolves through
a multi-media presentation of slides and video. This year,
Kennan and Karen are bringing us their first feature-length
documentary film. "Making Tracks" takes us into
the domain of the grizzly bear and explores the balance between
survival, beauty and gentility that is their lives. You can
see a video teaser of the film at ucscrecreation.com or kennanward.com.
The soundtrack features music by singer and acoustic guitarist
David Grimes, and he will be there in person to play music
before the show.
Show time: 7:30 pm
Tickets: $16.00 day of show
Sponsored by KUSP 88.9 Central Coast Radio, Metro Santa Cruz,
Jeff Traugott Guitars, Laserlight and Harbor Press, this event
will benefit the Conservation Alliance and the UCSC Recreation
Department.
Advance tickets are $11.00 for
students and seniors (65+), and $14.00 for general public.
Advance tickets will be sold through the UCSC Box Office 459-2159,
Palace Arts in Downtown Santa Cruz 427-1550 and on 41st Ave.
in Capitola, 464-2700, Laser Light in Aptos 685-1366, online
at www.kennanward.com and in the UCSC Recreation Office 459-2806.
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Saturday,
April 21st, 2007
Lura
Show
time: 8:00 pm
Tickets: Adult: $28/$24* Students
& Seniors with ID: $24
UCSC Students with ID: $14
Gold Circle: $40/$35*
*subscriber discount price
All Tickets subject to service charges.
“Powerhouse vocals.”
– Rolling Stone
Born in Lisbon, this rising young star of Cape Verdean music
speaks in Portuguese but sings mostly in Kriolu, the language
of her father’s birthplace, Santiago, the most African
of the Cape Verde islands. Lura burst onto the scene in 1996
performing with Brazilian superstar Caetano Veloso and has
also performed with her former mentor Cesaria Evora. Sensual
and stirring, her music is rooted in the accordion-driven
funana and the rhythmic batuku styles of Santiago. “Lura's
vivid, infectious 2004 album, Di Korpu Ku Alma (Of Body and
Soul), is quickened by the rolling beats of Congolese and
Senegalese pop.” – The Seattle Times
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Friday,
April 27th & Saturday, April 28th, 2007
THE SANTA CRUZ FILM
FESTIVAL VI
• 6:30
PM
High and Dry Michael Toubassi 1:40 USA
• 8:30 PM
Illymanya: A Story of Guinea
Music Nicholas Incorvaia and Joshua Batchelder
1:00 Guinea
CALIFORNIA PREMIERE co-presented by www.drumskull.com
Live performance to follow after screening by LIKE WATER DRUM
AND DANCE
Like Water Drum & Dance, a Washtenaw County, Michigan
based percussion and dance troupe, showcasing traditional
West African drumming and dancing and original compositions.
For complete listings of films, details and events go to www.santacruzfilmfestival.com
Sunday, April 28th
• 11 AM
Visionary Arts and Media
www.visartsmedia.org
local shorts: The Truth About
Habits: Addiction • Little Things Make a Big Difference
• Passionately Caring for the Earth: Time for Young
People to Take a Stand • Straight Edge • Teenage
Love & Pregnancy: Blindly Giving Life • What Does
Our Culture Mean To You?
• 1PM
The Unwilling Shawn Flanagan 1:40 USA www.almadenfilms.com
• 3PM
A Benefit for The Burmese Migrants
Education Project
Distorted Propaganda Jeff Lodas 67:00 mn USA/Tibet
www.distortedpropaganda.com
With
Evocation Jaeyoon Park 4:00 mn
Korea
An ode to the cycle of life and the growth of the soul beautifully
told through animation.
Special Burma Film—Untitled
Director Unknown 27:00 mn Burma
WORLD PREMIERE
• 5PM
Far Off Town - Dunedin to Nashville Bridget Sutherland 1:40 New Zealand/ USA
This documentary is about New Zealand underground rock legend
David Kilgour and his journey from the small NZ town of Dunedin
to Nashville to record with his friends in the alternative
country band Lambchop.
For No One Jeff
Mizushima 12:00 mn USA
A girl in her quarter-life crisis discovers new hobbies after
a breakup with her boyfriend.
• 7:30 pm
Closing Night
Ten Inch Hero David Mackay 98:00 minutes USA N. CALIFORNIA PREMIERE
The sign out front says it all: Normal People Need Not Apply.
Are we at The Saturn? DUH! Four friends deal with their love
lives and learn about themselves while working in a funky
sandwich shop in Santa Cruz.
Michigan Sky Aaron Smith 7:00
mn USA
Friends, & Love Austin Hartman
4:30 mn USA
Sponsored by KPIG
PERFORMANCE BY SUPERIOR OLIVE
www.superiorolive.com
Superior Olive blends pop rock with classical and world music
influences using a traditional guitar-bass-keyboards-drums
lineup.
For complete event listings and film descriptions please visit www.santacruzfilmfestival.com
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Monday,
April 30th, 2007
COCOROSIE
Busdriver opens
Busdriver
Indie psych-rock sisters Sierra and Bianca Casady are touring
their new album ,
" THE ADVENTURES OF GHOSTHORSE AND STILLBORN "
and will stop in Santa Cruz on their way from Coachella.
Birthed
through an intricate process of prank phone calls and clairvoyant
documentation, The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn
follows CocoRosie and their crew of miscreants through the
Mechanical Forest of Feelings.
“It was there we first confronted the Warlock, Laughing
Crow, and buried the Black Dove.”
This album is a departure from the obscured blur of stained
glass rêve to a more self-exploitive memoir. Parts are
dreamy and parts are savage, but, as with an opera where death
represents a secret heaven, the whole record feels like a
black diamond in the snow. From her humble beginnings in the
South of France, the saga sailed the Seven Seas all the way
to that icy crack in the Earth’s crust just outside
of Reykjavik. Upon her return to her Parisian homeland, she
shared a mystical rendezvous with beautiful sailors Pierre
et Gilles, the album cover being the consequence of that affair.
Show time: 8:00 pm
Advance tickets $13 +tax/service
fee at Streetlight records 421-9200 and
ONLINE
HERE
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Thursday,
May 3rd, 2007
“Absolute
Mexico”
Film screening“Absolute Mexico” was produced
and directed by Josh Pomer (The Kill Series, Wow, Destination
Point), alongside executive producer Tim Hoover and editor
David Parsa. The film features top surf athletes —
Toby Martin, Cory Lopez, Chris Ward, Bruce Irons, Bobby
Martinez, Joel Parkinson, the Hobgoods, Danny Wills, Kenny “Skindog”
Collins, Andy Irons, Kelly Slater, Kalle Carranza, Oscar
Moncada, “Coco” Nogales, Chuck Paterson and
Danielo Couto as they descend on a small coastal Mexican
community during a perfect swell.
Show time: 8:00 pm
For tickets, contact Arrow
Surfshop, M10, Haut, Pacific Wave Surfshop,
Santa Cruz Surfshop
more info www.thesurflab.com
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Saturday,
May 5th, 2007
"For the Kids
- Part ll"
Ride A Wave's second full length movie "For
the Kids - Part ll" is a surfer's eye view of a day
in the life of the RAW 2006 summer camp series. All
12 of our local and out of town camps will be reviewed in
this 2006 summer camp compilation. The focus for this
year's movie will be on our dauntless RAW volunteers. The
audience will feel so close to the action that beach towels
are required. Watching the movie without a wetsuit
may cause dampness. Sunscreen with a minimum SPF 30 is recommended.
Our surfers enjoyed their 100' Wednesday as they Stepped
into Liquid at central coast venues such as Cowell's
Beach in Santa Cruz, Leo Carillo in Malibu and Leadbetter
Beach in Santa Barbara. The Point Break provided an
Endless Summer of Blue Crush waves. Watch our kids while
they are Riding Giants at Leo Carillo. Experience
up close the Drive Thru effect as our 16' tandem board burns
up the surf.
Show time: 6:00 pm - Doors
at 5:30
Tickets: The movie
is FREE. Donations will be gladly accepted
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Friday,
May 11th, 2007
Angelique Kidjo
"Gutsy
and powerful.” – BBC Radio
"Kidjo has the vocal chops of a diva and the jauntiness
of a young child.” – Rolling StoneKidjo
cross-pollinates the West African music of Benin with American
R&B, funk, jazz, and European and Latin American influences.
Recipient of three Grammy nominations, she has collaborated
with diverse artists including Santana, Gilberto Gil, and
Dave Matthews. Kidjo’s latest album Oyaya! draws upon
musical traditions of the Caribbean Diaspora – salsa,
calypso,meringue, and ska. “Her varied cultural influences
come together in a beautiful ethnic tapestry.”
– New York Post
Show
time: 8:00 pm
Tickets:Adult: $35/$30* Students
& Seniors with ID: $30
UCSC Students with ID: $17
Gold Circle: $50/$40*
*subscriber discount price
All Tickets subject to service charges.
Tickets
available at UCSC Ticket Office: 1156 High St ,Santa Cruz
Email: tickets@ucsc.edu
Phone:831-459-2159
Office Hours Tues-Sat Noon-4pm
Artists Website HERE
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Saturday,
May 12th, 2007
WomenCARE
celebrates its 15th Birthday with comedienne
Paula Poundstone
Show time: 7:30PM
Tickets: $30 general, $50
Gold Circle (front rows), $150 Gold Circle + post-show private
home reception, $20
seniors & students - (with I.D.) at the door only, if
available.
Available NOW at Streetlight Records or at WomenCARE, 617-B
Water St., (MWF 9-12)
After April 1st at Bookshop Santa Cruz, Gateways Books,
Bookworks, Paradise Surf
Available at WomenCARE
www.womencaresantacruz.org
All tickets available online.
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Friday,
May 18th, 2007
"
VAYA CON GRINGOS "
film world premiere
Vaya con Gringos is a story about a traveler’s dream
to go top to bottom in the Americas, exploring the coast
of two continents for waves to surf and rocks to climb.
It’s a story about two friends and the highs and lows
of a 20,000 mile road trip, but most important of all, it’s
the stories of the people that they met along the way.
In 2003 after two years of preparation, Scott Cherry and
Zack Hill set out the make their dream a reality and flew
to the Aleutian Islands, making their way by plane, ferry
and automobile for 8 months to the final destination of
the Tierra del Fuego, in search of an America without borders
and a good adventure.
Vaya con Gringos is a narrative of the journey made up of
interviews, journal entries, and beautiful imagery from
Alaska to Argentina. You will meet artists, activists, environmentalists,
musicians, surfers, rock climbers, fisherman, travelers
and dreamers that live along the longest continual stretch
road in the world, and proudly call themselves Americans.
Filmed with miniDV, super 8mm and 35mm stills
Show
time: 8:00PM -Doors at 7:00pm
Tickets: $6 available night
of show
www.vayacongringos.com
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Saturday,
May 19th, 2007
Benefit Concert for THE SANTA CRUZ
WOMEN"S HEALTH CENTER featuring BLAME
SALLY
The Santa Cruz Women’s Health Center is a community
family health clinic providing quality and affordable health
care to women and children since 1974. The Santa Cruz Women’s
Health Center offers both western medicine and alternative
health care including acupuncture, chiropractic care, and
naturopathy.
The Santa Cruz Women’s Health Center provided almost
Four Hundred Thousand Dollars of subsidized medical care
in 2006. 20% of their operating budget comes from donations,
fundraising, and grants. This year they strive to increase
that amount as well as to provide medicine for no and low
cost to uninsured and underinsured patients.Blame Sally
plays an eclectic blend of pop-motivated folk - intelligent,
emotional, and alive with syncopation and melody.
Lush, inventive arrangements and compelling songs.
2006 brings a new album and a video that has reached #2
on Neil Young's Living With War site as of 9/11/06.
also playing, will be GREAT DAMES ... A DUO OF LONG TIME
FRIENDS PATTI MAXINE AND CAROLE MAYEDO. PATTI PLAYS LAP
STEEL AND GUITAR AND PERFORMS LOCALLY IN THE BANDS WORD
OF MOUTH, ISLAND BREEZE, AND UKENASIA. CAROLE PLAYS ELECTRIC
VIOLIN
Blame
Sally Website
Show time: 7:30PM
For information, or to charge
tickets on your credit card, phone 425-4480. Or, you can
go to Gelato Mania on Pacific Avenue to purchase tickets
with cash. Sliding scale of $20 to $30
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Saturday,
June 2nd, 2007
We Just Work Here
a film about the employees of Santa Cruz
Bicycles
By Brian Vernor
Local filmmaker Brian Vernor follows up Pure Sweet Hell, a cyclocross
film, with a documentation of the bike culture and riding scene
which exists in Santa Cruz. Shot entirely on Super 8, We Just
Work Here exudes love of the bicycle and of the people who ride
them. WJWH premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
in January, and screened this May in New York City at the Bicycle
Film Festival. WJWH includes dirt jumps, track sprints, off-road
biathalons, and an inside look at the artists and individualists
behind locally based Santa Cruz Bicycles.
Show time: 7:30
Tickets: $5.00
View the trailer: HERE
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Monday,
June 4th, 2007
LAURA VEIRS
touring her new album " Saltbreakers
"
On her third Nonesuch release, Saltbreakers, singer-songwriter
Laura Veirs remains tantalized by the mysteries and marvels
of the natural world, filling her work with images, both precise
and poetic, of the ocean and the stars. But she digs even
deeper this time into the vagaries of human nature, transforming the
turbulence of her own life, as well as her concerns about the
hair-trigger state of the world at large, into a collection
of songs distinguished as much by their emotional urgency as by
their often astonishing musical inventiveness.
"Lyrically I drew more from my personal life on this record
than with anything I've done in the past," says Veirs.
She aims to convey the feeling, if not the specific circumstances,
of an intense period in her per- sonal life: the end of a
long-term relationship, and the unexpected start of a new one,
coupled with a move from Seattle to Portland. She recalls
this recent time as "a real emotional pendulum. I was swing- ing
from joy to despair and back again. I was bouncing off the walls."
She channeled her restless energy into writing material that
mirrors those dramatically swinging moods; it shifts from brooding
to euphoric to the hauntingly contemplative. Veirs recorded
the album in Seattle, with band-mate Tucker Martine (The Decemberists,
Bill Frisell) once again producing and mixing. Though she
now calls her group Saltbreakers, it's actually comprised of her longtime
compatriots, formerly known as the Tortured Souls -- guitarist/bassist
Karl Blau, keyboardist Steve Moore and drummer Martine. The
name change was a practical decision: "I didn't want to talk about
that Tortured Souls thing anymore. It just got old," Veirs,
who also plays guitar, explains with a laugh, remembering
lots of bad jokes about the moniker.
Over the last three years, the band has traveled the world in
support of Veirs' previous Nonesuch albums, Carbon Glacier
(2004) and Year of Meteors (2005), assiduously cultivating an
international fan base. Veirs continues to praise the musicians'
strong interrelationship: "The band has gotten really close.
We've become like a real family. It's felt like that for a long
time, but it's even more so now. Before we made this record,
I demo-ed the tracks at home using Garageband. Then we went on
a short west coast tour and played the new material. One
of the big pay-offs of the way we work was then being able to
go into the studio and just play the songs."
Show time: 8:00
Advance tickets $11 Streetlight records
831-421-9200 and www.ticketleap.com
New
review on Harp Magazine
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June
9th, 2007
2007 Santa Cruz Bodybuilding
& Figure Championships
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Thursday,
June 14th, 2007
" PSYCHIATRY : an
Industry of Death "
documentary premiere
Using rare historical and contemporary footage and interviews
with more than 160 doctors, attorneys, educators, survivors and
experts on the mental health industry and its abuses, the film
tracks the history of psychiatry from it's macabre18th century
origins to today, where 100,000 patients die each year in psychiatric
institutions and 20 million children have been put on potentially
lethal, mind-altering drugs
Presented by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (408-605-1570)
Tickets: admission is free
Show time: 7:00 pm
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Saturday,
June 16th, 2007
Liquid Blue Aloha and
Rhythm
Featuring John Cruz , Makana
and Todd Hannigan
A place where aloha eclipses the Sea
John Cruz "Grammy Award winning Hawaiian Island rhythms,
drenched in powerful prose and warm embrace."
Makana “Ground Breaking instrumental brilliance”
Todd Hannigan “Soulfull, Majestic Original Liquid rythms”
Show time: 8:00PM
Tickets: $16 Adv, $18 at the door
Tickets available at the Aloha Island Grill (13th and Portola),
Streetlight Records (Pacific Avenue) Capitola Book Café,
(41st Ave) and ONLINE
HERE
www.makanalive.com
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Wednesday,
June 20th, 2007
SIERRA LEONE’S REFUGEE
ALL STARS
A Film by Zach Niles and Banker White
free screening in recognition of World Refugee
Day
This feature length documentary film tells the remarkable and
ultimately life-affirming story of Sierra Leone’s Refugee
All Stars, a group of six Sierra Leonean musicians who come together
to form a band while living as refugees in the Republic of Guinea.
Forced from their homes by a brutal, decade long civil war (1991-2002)
in Sierra Leone, the members of the band represent the thousands
of untold stories that exist amongst the survivors of the civil
war. It took the lives of many of their loved ones and left them
with physical and emotional scars that may never heal.
But it could never take away their music. Through music Sierra
Leone’s Refugee All Stars have found a place of refuge,
a sense of purpose and a source of power. Filmed in a genuine
climate of fear pervading the West African refugee camps on the
Guinea-Sierra Leone border, the film provides a unique and intimate
perspective on war and conflict in the developing world. SIERRA
LE