Time: 7:00 PM Frank Capra - It Happened One Night (1934)
Seminar Instructor: Tom Blank Former Hollywood Director
Admission: LCC Community Education Registration or, Special Day Pass: $3.00 Purchased at the door.
"It Happened One Night is an 1934 American comedy with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). The plot was based on the story Night Bus by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. It Happened One Night was one of the last film romantic comedies created before the MPAA began enforcing the 1930 production code in 1934. In spite of its title the movie takes place over several nights and none is particularly key to the plot.
The film was the first to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay), a feat that would not be matched until One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and later by The Silence of the Lambs (1991). In 1993, It Happened One Night was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." It was remade as a 1956 musical comedy, You Can't Run Away from It, starring Jack Lemmon and June Allyson." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
This is an LCC class at DIVA that explores the work of the world's award winning directors. If you love great films, and love learning about them, this class is for you. The class will look at the trends and highlights in the history of film while relaxing in a casual screening room environment. Participants are invited to make themselves comfortable, chairs are provided, but some will prefer to bring pillows and sit on the floor. Students are welcome to bring snacks.
Friday
FEBRUARY
05
Young Visionaries Exhibit Opens. On Friday February 5th, 2010, DIVA will unveil a new currated show Young Visionaries, an exhibition that will introduce Eugene to the work of some of the most promising emerging artists from across the country. This interdisciplinary 12 person group show throughout all of our major exhibition spaces.
DIVA is extremely excited about the opportunity that this show will provide for art lovers who want to experience some of the most cutting-edge contemporary art being produced today by the art stars of the future.
The majority of exhibiting artists will be making their Eugene debut from the East Coast, Midwest, Portland, San Francisco, and Canada. Artists include: Kristin Beaver, Joshua Newth, Nicholas Jones, Daniel Sperry, That Evil Mess, Kassie Teng, Drew Iwaniw, Chris Knight, Liam Devowski, and Danny Espinoza.
Saturdays
FEBRUARY
06-13-20-27
Time: 9:00 AM - Noon
Coordinators: Thomas Blank and Neal Miller
Time: 9:00-Noon
Cost: $10 per class session, with a minimum registration for 4 Sessions required
Registration: 344-3482
~~~ The Shaggy Dog Project is a screenwriting and film production project designed to provide aspiring screenwriters and filmmakers with the opportunity to create a series of short creative films. Emphasis will be on humorous stories with surprise or twist endings.
The Shaggy Dog project will select stories from ideas submitted by students and develop them into short screenplays under the guidance of Tom Blank, screenwriting specialist and former television director. From those screenplays that qualify, short (5 to 10 minute) films will be produced under the supervision of professional filmmaker Neal Miller (www.rubicon-films.com). The class will become part of the production team for no additional fee. The goal is to provide the total filmmaking experience, from idea-to-finished-film.Registration is on going with new participants encouraged to join at the beginning of the month. More information available at the Shaggy Dog web page.
Saturday
FEBRUARY
06
Time: 7:30PM Poets Bethany Ides and Joseph Bradshaw Admission: Donation
Bethany Ides is the author of several poetry chapbooks, including Approximate L [Cosa Nostra Editions, 2009] and Indeed, Insist (a mystery). Each of Ides’ pieces whether they arrive via video, book, internet, sound recording, transitional objects/implements, or live performance invoke a constellation between word, body, and site so that each element is called into the activation of "reading."
Joseph Bradshaw currently lives in Portland, where he co-edits FO A RM Magazine and anticipates rejection letters from other magazines daily. He is a member of the Spare Room reading series organizing cabal.
Tuesday
FEBRUARY
09
Time: 7:00 PM Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Seminar Instructor: Tom Blank Former Hollywood Director
Admission: LCC Community Education Registration or, Special Day Pass: $3.00 Purchased at the door.
"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 comedy film directed by Frank Capra, based on the story Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Kelland that appeared in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post. It stars Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role. The screenplay was written by Kelland and Robert Riskin in his fifth collaboration with Capra." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Wednesday
FEBRUARY
10
A UO Jordon Schnitzer Museum of Art and DIVA
Project
PART 1: Experimental and Documentary Films Time: 5:30 PM
Admission: TBA
Location: Schnitzer Cinema - UO Jordon Schnitzer Museum of Art
The Black Maria Film Festival is known for its national public exhibition program, which features a variety of bold contemporary works drawn from the annual collection of 50 or more award winning films and videos.
Richard Herskowitz, curator of Cinema Arts Festival Houston and the director of Eugene's new Cinema Pacific, notes, "The Black Maria Film and Video Festival tour is an amazing collection of the best short films being made today. I’m glad that this joint venture between the Schnitzer Museum and DIVA is allowing us to show, over two weeks, a wide range of documentary, experimental, animation, and narrative award winners."
Program 2 will be shown at the DIVA Center on February 17th
Program 1: Experimental and Documentary Films
Breaking Boundaries: The Art of Alex Masket – 19 min. by Dennis Connors, Montclair, NJ. In this exceptionally gripping and insightful documentary the filmmaker chronicles the story of Alex Masket, an extraordinary, young artist who has created a deep and varied body of work despite his disability which inhibits what most would consider “normal” human interaction. The highly kinetic energy of the film and its subject is complemented by brief Illuminating insights by art experts. The wholly individualistic style of 22 year old Alex Masket brings into sharp focus the notion of what artistic communication and the creative impulse are all about.
Corporate Art Policy – 5. 5 min. by Neil Needleman, Katonah, NY. This ironic send up of fickle corporate taste features a cascade of images found on the walls of the filmmaker’s employer. Copies of works by artists ranging from Kandinsky to the kitschy are satirized by the filmmaker. Neil Needleman is perhaps best known as an experimental filmmaker but also is a crazed humorist whose work is always engaging.
The Book of Salt, Chapter 1: Mary’s Garden - 9 min. (200x) by Andrew Busti, Boulder, CO. The filmmaker states that, “The Book of Salt is a collection of cine memorials. This current chapter is an exploration of childhood, birthdays, marriage and old age. Culled from both family films and found films – the film seeks to find a resting place for these memories.” The filmmaker disrupts the images, making them dream-like through chemical and physical processing which leaves a patina on the surface of the image.
Sitting – 4:15 min. by Leighton Pierce, Iowa City, Iowa. While not departing in its visual style from what has been Pierce’s recent practice, this work is extraordinarily beautiful in a classical painting sort of way. A female nude, portrayed in an Impressionist manner sits bathed in luminous light.
LoopLoop – 5 min. (2008) by Patrick Bergeron, Montreal, Quebec. The 1000 images in this experimental work are based on video shot from a train going to Hanoi, Vietnam and are stitched together in one long panoramic strip that is stacked upon itself. Using digital manipulation of images and sounds, this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind.Details of houses, fences, textures, bicycles, dancing women, become more apparent as the images become magnified. There’s a sense of humor in the juxtapositions of the image strips as they slide and shift across the screen.
Destination Finale - 8:50 min. (2008) by Philip Widmann, Berlin, Germany. A reel of film found in Saigon in 2005 is the seemingly unaltered material of this singular video. Images of Paris (Eiffel Tower), London, Athens, Rome, Berlin are seen in succession. A man neatly dressed in the same black suit throughout and presumably of Vietnamese origin appears in each locale as he travels Europe. Shortly thereafter, American troops enter the ground war in Vietnam. This intriguing work is more than a mere travelogue, it more than freezes a moment in time. It places the viewer in another plane, despite or perhaps because of its simplicity. Its honesty and innocence makes it a window into a time that presages America’s loss of innocence.
Yanqui Walker & the Optical Revolution – 33 min. by Karthryn Ramey, Roslindale, MA. A poetical, experimental documentary about an American Expansionist named William Walker, who through coercion and military force became dictator of Nicaragua in 1856. The stylized strategy of the filmmaker captures the mythology of her allusive subject in this compelling work.
Hourglass (a global warning) - 4 min. (2009/10) by Fern Seiden, Stockholm, Sweden. Rain pours and rubbish soars while light-bulb creatures party up a storm on the edge of the earth. An unexpected photo-collage animation featuring a turn of the century scientist in his chamber and a child who realizes that the state of the planet hangs in the balance. This hourglass sounds an alarm.
When Herons Dream – 10:34 min. by Serge Gregory, Seattle, WA. The film imagines the perspective of a Great Blue Heron as it moves throughout the seasons and Northwest landscape shaped by water. But more than this, “When Herons Dream” is a distilled medative work in black and white shot on real film and utterly beautiful in its simplicity.
Tuesday
FEBRUARY
16
Time: 7:00 PM Frank Capra - You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Seminar Instructor: Tom Blank Former Hollywood Director
Admission: LCC Community Education Registration or, Special Day Pass: $3.00 Purchased at the door.
"You Can't Take It With You (1938) is a comedy film directed by Frank Capra adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.[1] The cast includes James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore and Edward Arnold.
The movie won two Academy Awards from seven nominations: Best Picture and Best Director for Frank Capra. This was Capra's third Oscar for Best Director in just five years, following It Happened One Night in 1934 and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town in 1936. It was also the highest-grossing picture of the year." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Wednesday
FEBRUARY
17
A DIVA and UO Jordon Schnitzer Museum of Art Project
Part 2 - Animation and Narrative Winners
Time: 7:00 PM
Admission: $6.00 Location: DIVA Center Screening Room
The Black Maria Film Festival is known for its national public exhibition program, which features a variety of bold contemporary works drawn from the annual collection of 50 or more award winning films and videos.
Richard Herskowitz, curator of Cinema Arts Festival Houston and the director of Eugene's new Cinema Pacific, notes, "The Black Maria Film and Video Festival tour is an amazing collection of the best short films being made today. I’m glad that this joint venture between the Schnitzer Museum and DIVA is allowing us to show, over two weeks, a wide range of documentary, experimental, animation, and narrative award winners."
Program 1 featuring the festivals experimental and documentary jury award winning films will be shown at the Schnitzer Cinema on February 10th.
Program 2: Animation and Narrative winners
Gordita – 10:43 min. (2009) by Debby Wolfe, Los Angeles, CA (executive producer Kaz Kipp, co-producers Maureen Morrison, Rebecca Hamm). A plus sized Latina regains her lost confidence when she reconnects with her youthful self as a sassy teen. This oftenbold work addresses a cultural/social/personal issue employing an earthy yet sensitive performance by the protaganist.
Missed Aches – 4 min. (2008) by Joanna Priestley, Portland, OR. This outlandishly riotous animation by one of the nation’s iconic animation artists plays with miscued language and malaprops. This is something of a departure for Ms. Preistly and a highly engaging, whimsical work.
The Passenger – 7 min. (2009) by Julie Zammarchi, Marshfields Hills, MA. In this polished animated, dreamscape narrative a woman peers out her window to see an almost Disney-esque rabbit being chased by a cat as a car pulls up which carries her toward her own euthanised death. She applies lipstick as if it’s all quite normal and upon seeing herself in the mirror, visions and memories crowd her consciousness. The film is a ride through the disparate images of her mind's eye and a quest to piece together her life's meaning.
Twist of Fate - 8:40 min. ( 2009) by Karen Aqua, Cambridge, MA. A powerful personal animation dealing with the veteran filmmaker’s cancer. This work combines X-Ray imagery with hand drawn and metaphorical drawings. Pills in silhouette dance and morph into red blood cells or perhaps something sinister. Twist of Fate is not only meaningful but lyrical and free spirited despite the seriousness of its topic.
The Last Day of I.S. Bulkin - 13 min. (2008) by Aleksey Andrianov, Moscow, Russia. In this mind bending fictional work by one of Russia’s more significant emerging filmmakers, the protagonist finds himself in an unlikely scenario in which he learns that his demise is pre-scripted when he’s visited by an ambassador from and would-be escort into the afterlife. This work was an official selection in the Locarno Switzerland Film Festival.
Pickles to Nickles – 8 min. by Danielle Ash, of Brooklyn, New York. A cardboard world where monkeys steal pickles and where buildings metamorphose unexpectedly. This is an offbeat visualization of the city’s rapidly changing neighborhoods, a quirky, sly, and poignant vignette featuring two merchants (cardboard figures) who are neighbors in the lower east side, one, a Jewish pickle vendor and the other the proprietor of an Italian bakeshop.
Off-Line – 8:40 min. (2009) by Tom Gasek, Great Barrington, MA. Highly accomplished digital 3D animation about digital burnout in a microwave oven. A circuit board full of anthropomorphized diodes, fuses, and transistors doing their thing.
End of Code - 15:17 min. by James Duesing, Pittsburgh, PA. This most uncommon work reveals, through digital animation, an underground battle between a cyber-feminist collective and group of gay hackers plotting to gain secret control over a city’s traffic lights. They discover that the entire social structure is imbedded in an unexpected protocol and so, through a series of cultural espionage techniques, they attempt to untangle a world of coded signals. End of Code is as funky and offbeat as anything from the imagination of Tim Burton.
Fuzzy Insides - 5:20 min. (2009) by Michael A. Olsen, Bedford, NH. A figure animation with vaguely voyeuristic tendencies that peeks into the secret nightlife of the suburbs. Four stop motion vignettes portray relationships that barely develop romantically and sexually, with a touch of awkwardness in this madly charming work.
Banana Bread - 9 min. (2009) by Barton Landsman and Clayton Hemmert, New York, NY. Perhaps owing part of it’s sensibility to the work of director Quentin Tarantino, this work is a droll fictional film with a clever plot twist and convincing production values. This witty piece works best for grown-up audiences who can accept the comical nuances behind the unexpected gunplay that is at odds with the outward appearance of normalcy in the life of the protagonist.
Tuesday
FEBRUARY
23
Time: 7:00 PM Frank Capra - Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
Seminar Instructor: Tom Blank Former Hollywood Director
Admission: LCC Community Education Registration or, Special Day Pass: $3.00 Purchased at the door.
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an American 1939 comedy/drama film starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra – his last film for Columbia Pictures, the studio where he made his name – and written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was controversial when it was released, but also successful at the box office, and made Stewart a major movie star. The film features a bevy of well-known supporting actors, among them Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell and Beulah Bondi.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, winning for Best Screenplay. In 1989, the Library of Congress added Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to the United States National Film Registry, for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Saturday
FEBRUARY
27
Success with Your Digital Camera & Creativity
Success with Your Digital Camera & CREATIVITY Time: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Fee: $75 (non refundable)
Register: Call: 541-344-3482 or by PayPal at divacenter.org (Education)
Instructor: Sherrlyn Borkgren.
Get beyond the basics with your camera. Learn how to use ISO, aperture and speed in unison. Push yourself with honest critiques and work alongside other photographers. Today it is essential to protect your images on the Internet with basic copyright. We will briefly cover copyright basics. Session includes: snacks beverages, teaching materials, hands on learning and fun! Limited Enrolment
What to Bring:
A digital Camera with f-Stops (meaning you can set your own f-stops and focusing). All camera brands are welcome but because I am a CANON user I am most familiar with Canon SLR.
Notebook and pen
5 prints without your name on the front
Empty flash drive
Laptop if you have one
About Sherrlyn Borkgren: Professional photojournalist Sherrlyn Borkgren’s clients have included Newsweek, National Geographic, Time, World Magazine and she has been featured in Rangefinder and Professional Photographer’s Magazine. Her work has taken her to Iraq, the Congo and Latin America. She is presently creating a photo/tour workshop to Guatemala. See Borkgren's work at: http://www.Borkgren.com or http://www.BorkgrenPhoto.net.
Sunday
FEBRUARY
28
Time: 7:00 PM - VIDEO SLAM!
Admission: Free
~~~ Have you seen the latest work by emerging regional artists? DIVA's Video Slam, now meeting every third Sunday of the month provides that opportunity. The slam welcomes students, amateurs, and professionals. Everyone is encouraged to bring completed videos, or work in-progress, for screening. We will watch, discuss and choose the best of the slam!
The DIVA Video Slam has become a venue for new and seasoned independent filmmakers to share their work with audiences, most for the first time. Feedback from audiences helps artists hone their work resulting in many of the slam films having gone on to competitive events. Examples at left are from recent screenings.
Time: 7:00 PM
Volker Schlondorff: "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" (1975)
Seminar Instructor: Tom Blank Former Hollywood Director
Admission: LCC Community Education Registration or, Special Day Pass: $3.00 Purchased at the door.
"The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum is a 1975 film adaptation by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta of the novel of the same name by Heinrich Böll. The film stars Angela Winkler as Blum, Mario Adorf as Kommissar Beizmenne, Dieter Laser as Tötges, and Jürgen Prochnow as Ludwig."
"The title character is an innocent housekeeper whose life is ruined by an invasive tabloid reporter and a police investigation when the man with whom she has just fallen in love turns out to be a radical bank robber. The film, unlike the novel, ends with a scene at Tötges' funeral, with his publisher delivering a hypocritical condemnation of the murder as an infringement on the freedom of the press." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
This is an LCC class at DIVA that explores the work of the world's award winning directors. If you love great films, and love learning about them, this class is for you. The class will look at the trends and highlights in the history of film while relaxing in a casual screening room environment. Participants are invited to make themselves comfortable, chairs are provided, but some will prefer to bring pillows and sit on the floor. Students are welcome to bring snacks.
Saturdays
MARCH
06-13-20-27
Time: 9:00 AM - Noon
Coordinators: Thomas Blank and Neal Miller
Time: 9:00-Noon
Cost: $10 per class session, with a minimum registration for 4 Sessions required
Registration: 344-3482
~~~ The Shaggy Dog Project is a screenwriting and film production project designed to provide aspiring screenwriters and filmmakers with the opportunity to create a series of short creative films. Emphasis will be on humorous stories with surprise or twist endings.
The Shaggy Dog project will select stories from ideas submitted by students and develop them into short screenplays under the guidance of Tom Blank, screenwriting specialist and former television director. From those screenplays that qualify, short (5 to 10 minute) films will be produced under the supervision of professional filmmaker Neal Miller (www.rubicon-films.com). The class will become part of the production team for no additional fee. The goal is to provide the total filmmaking experience, from idea-to-finished-film.Registration is on going with new participants encouraged to join at the beginning of the month. More information available at the Shaggy Dog web page.
Saturday
March
06
Time: 7:30PM
Poets Laura Winters, Michael Ogletree, and Rick McMonagle Admission: Donation
Laura Winters is a Professor of English at The College of St. Elizabeth where she teaches Creative Writing, Contemporary Poetry, Modern Literature, and Film. She also teaches Contemporary Poetry at Drew University.
Michael Ogletree is an MFA candidate at the University of Oregon. He is the poetry editor of SUB-LIT, and he co-edits for Warbler: A Word & Song Zine. He is the author of the chapbook "This Is Not a Venn Diagram" (Taiga Press, 2008). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Journal, BlazeVOX, Fourteen Hills, Poetry Midwest, Weave, and elsewhere.
Rick McMonagle studied with Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman at Naropa Institute (University). He is the author of two books of poetry, "Light Tips" and "Moorish Journal". He has been published in Exquisite Corpse, Bombay Gin, Rolling Stock, Friction, Black Mountain Review II, and others. He lives in Eugene.
Kit Robinson is an American poet and translator. An early member of the San Francisco Language poets circle, he has published 17 books of poetry. Awards and honors: Fund for Poetry prize (1995); U.S. State Dept. (USIA) sponsored tour of Stockholm, Helsinki and Leningrad (1990); California Arts Council artist in community fellowship (1982); National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship (1979).
Tuesday
MARCH
09
Time: 7:00 PM
Volker Schlondorff: "Coup de Grace (1976)
Seminar Instructor: Tom Blank Former Hollywood Director
Admission: LCC Community Education Registration or, Special Day Pass: $3.00 Purchased at the door.
Coup de Grâce (German: Der Fangschuß, French: Le Coup de grâce) is a 1976 New German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It was adapted from the novel by the same name by the French author Marguerite Yourcenar. The title comes from the French expression, meaning "finishing blow".
"In 1919 Latvia, a detachment of German soldiers is stationed in a chateau in the town of Kratovice to fight Bolshevik guerrillas. The chateau is the home of the soldier Konrad de Reval and his sister Sophie de Reval. Sophie is attracted to another soldier, a close friend of Konrad's named Erich von Lhomond. However, the reticent Erich rebuffs her advances. In retaliation, Sophie has trysts with other members of the military troop. Erich is noticeably angered by her behavior. Eventually, Sophie learns that Erich and Konrad are lovers. After this discovery, she joins the leftist guerrillas, whom she had been in contact with previously. Erich's soldiers capture her and her comrades. Sophie asks that Erich execute her himself, and he obliges. In a striking single tracking shot, we see Erich casually shoot Sophie in the head before joining in a photo with the other soldiers. As all board a train, the camera pans back to the corpses of the executed." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Tuesday
MARCH
16
Time: 7:00 PM
Volker Schlondorff: "The Tin Drum" (1979)
Seminar Instructor: Tom Blank Former Hollywood Director
Admission: LCC Community Education Registration or, Special Day Pass: $3.00 Purchased at the door.
"The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel) is a 1979 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Günter Grass. It was directed and co-written by Volker Schlöndorff. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and the 1979 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
David Bennent plays Oskar, the young son of a Kashubian family in a rural area of the Free City of Danzig, circa 1925. On his third birthday, Oskar receives a shiny new tin drum. At this point, rather than mature into one of the miserable specimens of grown-up humanity that he sees around him, he vows never to get any bigger. Whenever the world around him becomes too much to bear, the boy begins to hammer on his drum; should anyone try to take the toy away from him, he emits an ear-piercing scream that shatters glass. As Germany evolves towards Nazism and war in the 1930s and 1940s, the unaging Oskar continues savagely beating his drum. Only after the Soviet invasion at the end of the war, when his only surviving family member is killed, does he decide to grow up." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Sunday
MARCH
21
Time: 7:00 PM - VIDEO SLAM!
Admission: Free
~~~ Have you seen the latest work by emerging regional artists? DIVA's Video Slam, now meeting every third Sunday of the month provides that opportunity. The slam welcomes students, amateurs, and professionals. Everyone is encouraged to bring completed videos, or work in-progress, for screening. We will watch, discuss and choose the best of the slam!
The DIVA Video Slam has become a venue for new and seasoned independent filmmakers to share their work with audiences, most for the first time. Feedback from audiences helps artists hone their work resulting in many of the slam films having gone on to competitive events. Examples at left are from recent screenings.
Time: 9:00 AM - Noon
Coordinators: Thomas Blank and Neal Miller
Time: 9:00-Noon
Cost: $10 per class session, with a minimum registration for 4 Sessions required
Registration: 344-3482
~~~ The Shaggy Dog Project is a screenwriting and film production project designed to provide aspiring screenwriters and filmmakers with the opportunity to create a series of short creative films. Emphasis will be on humorous stories with surprise or twist endings.
The Shaggy Dog project will select stories from ideas submitted by students and develop them into short screenplays under the guidance of Tom Blank, screenwriting specialist and former television director. From those screenplays that qualify, short (5 to 10 minute) films will be produced under the supervision of professional filmmaker Neal Miller (www.rubicon-films.com). The class will become part of the production team for no additional fee. The goal is to provide the total filmmaking experience, from idea-to-finished-film.Registration is on going with new participants encouraged to join at the beginning of the month. More information available at the Shaggy Dog web page.
Saturday
April
03
Time: 7:30PM Poets Kit Robinson, Jen Tynes, and Ce Rosenow. Admission: Donation
Kit Robinson is an American poet and translator. An early member of the San Francisco Language poets circle, he has published 17 books of poetry. Awards and honors: Fund for Poetry prize (1995); U.S. State Dept. (USIA) sponsored tour of Stockholm, Helsinki and Leningrad (1990); California Arts Council artist in community fellowship (1982); National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship (1979)
Jen Tynes lives in Denver, Colorado and edits horse less press. She is the author of the following books, chapbooks, and collaborations: Found in Nature (horse less press 2004), The End Of Rude Handles (Red Morning Press 2005), The Ohio System, with Erika Howsare (Octopus Books 2006), See Also Electric Light (Dancing Girl Press 2007), and Heron/Girlfriend (Coconut Books, forthcoming 2008).
Ce Rosenow, a native of the Pacific Northwest, was born in Tacoma, Washington and currently lives in Eugene, Oregon. She has published articles, essay, interviews, poems, reviews, and translations in journals and anthologies across the U.S. and abroad. Along with her new book Pacific (Mountain Gate Press 2009), her books and chapbooks include The Backs of Angels, Even If, North Lake, and A Year Longer. The former co-editor of Northwest Literary Forum and Portlandia Review of Books, for the past two years she has served as Oregon Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America. She also is the publisher of Mountains and Rivers Press.
Sunday
MARCH
18
Time: 7:00 PM - VIDEO SLAM!
Admission: Free
~~~ Have you seen the latest work by emerging regional artists? DIVA's Video Slam, now meeting every third Sunday of the month provides that opportunity. The slam welcomes students, amateurs, and professionals. Everyone is encouraged to bring completed videos, or work in-progress, for screening. We will watch, discuss and choose the best of the slam!
The DIVA Video Slam has become a venue for new and seasoned independent filmmakers to share their work with audiences, most for the first time. Feedback from audiences helps artists hone their work resulting in many of the slam films having gone on to competitive events. Examples at left are from recent screenings.
Success with Your Digital Camera & Creativity 